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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
We’re committed to Syria, says Rouhani
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran will support Syrian President Bashar Assad “all the way to the end,” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was quoted as saying by news agencies in the Islamic Republic.
“The Iranian nation and government will stand by the Syrian nation and government to the end of the crisis,” Rouhani tells Syrian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Jihad al-Laham. “Tehran does not forget its moral commitment to Syria and will continue providing support and assistance on its own terms to the Syrian nation and government,” he says.
Stressing that terrorists could never succeed in their plots against Syria, Rouhani expressed regret that some regional countries suffered from a “huge miscalculation” in thinking they could use terrorists as a tool for their own purposes, the IRNA news agency reports.
The Times of Israel Community.