"Aleppo liberation prelude to greater victories"

The Leader's top aide Ali Akbar Velayati underlined that the Syrian army and its allies' victory against the terrorists in Aleppo was the most important achievement during the past 5 years, and said it can pave the ground for bigger triumphs.

"It was the most important victory during the past five years that Syria has been entangled in the war on terrorism and a prelude to future victories, including the liberation of Mosul," Velayati said in an interview with the Arabic-language al-Ahd news website on Sunday.

Noting that the terrorists had come from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, the US and Europe to continue their masters' occupation policies in Syria, but failed in their plots, he said, "The terrorists will experience repeated defeats and Aleppo's freedom will be a prelude to the future victories of the Syrian army and its allies."
Velayati is a top advisor on international affairs to Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

The evacuation of the militants from Aleppo was suspended after the terrorist groups violated the ceasefire and started firing at civilians who were being evacuated through al-Ramouseh corridor.

"Resuming the evacuation of the terrorists from eastern Aleppo now depends on the exit of the injured people from Kafraya and Fua'a towns," a source close to the Syrian government said.

According to the agreements between the Syrian authorities and the terrorist groups, the terrorists had agreed to allow a group of residents of Fua'a and Kafraya who are in emergency conditions to leave the two towns, but terrorists have not allowed the buses and ambulances to get out of either of the towns.

Tens of buses and ambulances have been dispatched to the two towns but al-Nusra Front (recently changed its name to Fatah al-Sham Front) terrorists prevented the buses from entering the two towns and did not allow the civilians to get out of there.

The Syrian authorities and terrorist groups stationed in the Eastern parts of Aleppo reached an agreement on December 15 to evacuate militants from the region in return for relocating thousands of besieged civilians from Fua'a and Kafraya in Idlib to government-ruled territories.

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