Leader's top aide: Disintegration of Syria prevented by Iran's timely assistance

The Leader's top adviser for international affairs, Ali Akbar Velayati, underlined that Syria would have been disintegrated if Tehran had not taken action in support of the Arab country's fight against the terrorist groups.

"The western states, headed by the US, created turmoil in Syria since the beginning to overthrow the Syrian government which is Iran's strategic partner so that a government will be empowered that would receive money from certain regional states, implement the US-dictated policies and would not have any problem with Israel," Velayati said on Tuesday.

"This policy is against our strategic interests and therefore, we stood against it. Had Iran not supported the Damascus government, it would have collapsed within some weeks or Syria would be disintegrated, which was more probable," he added.

"Therefore, under such conditions, Iran supports the Syrian government with all its power. If we don’t have relations with Syria, our ties with Hezbollah will not remain in place either," the senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, said.

EA