Iran’s top diplomat Abbas Araghchi says he will leave Tehran for Damascus to deliver a message of support for Syria’s government and armed forces, state media said, after a lighting advance by rebels.
“I am going to Damascus to convey the message of the Islamic Republic to the Syrian government,” Araghchi said, emphasizing Tehran will “firmly support the Syrian government and army,” the IRNA state news agency reports.
The Syrian army said yesterday dozens of its soldiers had been killed in a major attack led by Islamist Hayat Tahrir al-Sham rebels who swept into the city of Aleppo.
The rebels’ assault, the boldest for years in a civil war where the front lines had largely been frozen since 2020, forced the army to redeploy in the biggest challenge to President Bashar Assad in years.
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, once known as the Nusra Front, is designated a terrorist group by the US, Russia, Turkey and other states.
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