Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Syria on Wednesday and discuss a "new plan" by the Islamic Republic to help resolve the conflict there, his spokeswoman said Tuesday, according to AFP.
Iran is President Bashar Al-Assad's main regional ally, providing him with both financial and military support. In fact, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad personally sanctioned the dispatch of officers from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to fight alongside Assad’s troops.
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