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.