On visit to UK,Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says there is no Iranian fighting force ‘as such’ in Syria but advisers are helping Bashar al-Assad’s armyIran has boosted the number of military advisers it has sent to Syria where it is determined to aid defeat “terrorism”, a senior official has confirmed, and while insisting that the future of Bashar al-Assad can be decided only by the Syrian people.
In an interview with the Guardian during a visit to London,Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, and said there was “no [Iranian] fighting force,as such,” on the ground. But he said advisers were helping the Syrian army. Recent reports have described Tehran sending in thousands of troops, or though many are Shia militiamen from Iraq,Afghanistan and elsewhere.
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Source: theguardian.com