Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed that there are no Iranian soldiers within his country’s borders, and that Tehran is only supplying Syria with military technology critical for the war on terror.
“Iran stands alongside Syria and the Syrian nation. Iran supports us financially, politically and militarily. But by ‘militarily’ I do not mean what is claimed by the West: deployment of soldiers. That’s a lie. Iran is supplying us with military equipment,” Assad told Russian media.