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: Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Akbar Ahmadian says Iran does not regret spending on the fight against ISIL Takfiri terrorist group in Syria.
Friday 20 December 2024 - 22:00
Story Code : 433029
Source : Mehr News
Iran doesn't regret spending in Syria: Top security official
He was asked about propaganda launched by anti-Iran media over Tehran's military advisory role in Syria over the past years, according to Press TV.
"We do not regret the cost we incurred... because our presence and expenditure were for our own security and we achieved what we expected," he said.
"If ISIL had not been eliminated in Syria and Iraq, today we would have to fight it at home at a cost ten times more."
Ahmadian also noted that the elimination of Daesh completely thwarted the United States' plots and rendered their multi-year investment fruitless.
The Americans built an army or a government against the Islamic Revolution, but Iran disrupted their plan, and this achievement is enough to pay for the country's presence in Syria, he emphasized.
In 2014, ISIL captured large swathes of land in Iraq and Syria in lightning attacks, declaring the areas it controlled as “caliphate.”
However, Iraqi and Syrian forces, with the help of Iran, managed to reverse Daesh’s gains and ultimately liberate their countries from the US-sponsored terror outfit some three years later.
On December 8, the foreign-backed armed groups, led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), announced the fall of Assad’s government following a rapid two-week onslaught.
Elsewhere in his interview, the top security official said Iran eventually managed to strengthen and equip Palestine and Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance group and make them self-reliant.
"Today, Hezbollah is a completely independent and self-reliant group. In Gaza, for example, they (resistance fighters) are producing rockets and missiles for themselves inside tunnels," he added.
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