Iran’s security chief Ali Akbar Ahmadian says a new group would emerge in Syria to fight Israel following the fall of president Bashar al-Assad, state media reports.
“With the occupation of Syrian territories by the Zionist regime, a new resistance has been born that will manifest itself in the years to come,” says Ahmadian, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, IRNA news agency reports.
In a meeting with Oman’s foreign minister, Ahmadian insists that Iran’s anti-Israel axis of resistance was “not weakened” after the December 8 fall of Assad, a longtime Tehran ally.
Assad fled Syria after rebel forces led by the Sunni Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) seized the capital Damascus after a lightning offensive.
Since his fall, Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian military facilities, saying it aimed to prevent them from falling into hostile hands. It has also moved forces into a buffer zone on the border.
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