Al-Assad Meets Velayati: Axis of Resistance Firmly Established Beyond Ignoring

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President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday the Axis of Resistance had been firmly established on the international level and could no longer be ignored by any party.

The key point made in favor of this Axis was the recent achievement in the Iranian file, said the President during a meeting with the Advisor of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ali Akbar Velayati, and the accompanying delegation.

In their attempts to respond to this achievement, President al-Assad said, some "client states" had escalated their support to the terrorists in Syria as well as in Iraq and Yemen, which explains the recent rise in terror acts in those countries.

Furthermore, the President hailed Iran's support to the Syrian people, saying it had been a fundamental element in the battle against terrorism.

He, on the other hand, slammed some other countries in the region which continue supporting the terrorists who are committing the ugliest crimes against the Syrians, citing Saudi Arabia and Turkey on top of those countries.

Nonetheless, Velayati, for his part, said the advocates of the international war waged against Syria sought to break the Axis of Resistance in which Syria stood central, saying these efforts had failed thanks to the Syrian people's resilience.

The Syrians' steadfastness, he added, had even made this Axis stronger and firmer, citing the recent "major victory" against the terrorists in Qalamoun area in Damascus Countryside as telling evidence on that.

In a like manner, Velayati promised continued Iranian support for Syria with everything necessary to boost the Syrian people's resistance in defending their homeland and confronting terrorism and its sponsors.

The talks saw a convergence in views as far as Syria and Iran's stances on the region's issues were concerned.

Consequently, there was also stress on the importance of the strategic relationship between Damascus and Tehran, which is a main pillar in the confrontation against the Western plots and in facing the "obsessions with restoring empires" of some regional countries and the Wahhabi extremism and terror forces that had trespassed against the peoples of the region and sought to fragment it.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team