Iranian FM meets with Syria’s Assad amid coronavirus pandemic
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif meets with his counterpart Walid Moallem and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as Turkey accuses Syria of breaking the cease-fire in Idlib province.
Iran’s foreign minister met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad today amid a fragile cease-fire in Syria’s embattled northwest and a crippling coronavirus outbreak in his own country.
In his first meeting since April 2019 with Assad and his Syrian counterpart Walid Moallem, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif traveled to Damascus to “discuss bilateral relations, regional developments, as well as the latest political developments in Syria's fight against terrorism,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Iran and Syria use the term “terrorists” to describe the various rebel groups fighting against Assad.
As the closest regional ally of the Syrian regime, Iran and its affiliated militias have helped the Syrian dictator retake swaths of the country seized by rebel fighters during the grinding nine-year war that has plagued the country.
