(6 Dec 2024)
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++AUDIO AS INCOMING++
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Baghdad, Iraq – 06 December 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister:
"The Islamic Republic of Iran has always supported Syria and will continue to do so with all our might and with whatever is necessary and requested by the Syrian government."
++BLACK FRAMES++
2. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister:
"If Syria turns into a safe haven for terrorists, the return of ISIS and other terrorist groups will create a huge threat against the region, and that threat will definitely not remain limited to Syria, and will spread into Syria’s neighbors like Iraq, Jordan and Turkey."
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister:
"The (Hayat) Tahrir al-Sham, the Nusra Front and the others that are fighting the Syrian government have been designated by the United Nations as terrorists. Therefore it’s an international obligation to fight terrorism in Syria. The international coalition against terrorism should not discriminate between terrorists."
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STORYLINE:
Iran’s foreign minister reiterated Tehran’s full support for the Syrian government on Friday, as insurgents seized two towns on the outskirts of Homs.
"The Islamic republic of Iran has always supported Syria and will continue to do so with all our might and with whatever is necessary and requested by the Syrian government," said Abbas Araghchi.
He made the comments in Baghdad after a meeting with his Syrian and Iraqi counterparts on the rapidly changing war.
The insurgents, led by the jihadi Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, or HTS, have vowed to march to Homs and the capital, Damascus, President Bashar Assad’s seat of power.
Videos circulating online showed a highway jammed with cars full of people fleeing Homs, a city with a large population belonging to Assad’s Alawite sect, seen as his core supporters.
Araghchi said the group and others fighting in Syria have been designated terrorists by the United Nations, calling it "an international obligation" to counter them.
For the past week, Syrian government troops have repeatedly fallen back in the face of the sudden opposition offensive, which flipped the tables on a long-entrenched stalemate in Syria’s nearly 14-year-old civil war.
AP Video shot by Ali Jabar
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