Alwaght- Syrian President rejected an asylum offer from Iran for his family, arguing his family is no different from other Syrian families.
The Syrian president was informed about the offer by Major General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), but Mr. Assad “declined the offer”, Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi said in an interview with Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV.
Iranian Minister also quoted President Assad as saying his family “is like the rest of Syrian families and they will remain in Damascus".
Touching on reasons behind Syrian crisis, Mahmoud Alavi argued that the “plot against Syria” began when Damascus sided with the Lebanon's resistance movement Hezbollah on the Israeli aggression on Lebanon in July 2006.
Iranian Minister also revealed that the ISIS terrorist group has been hatching “plots and conspiracies” against Iran from the city of Raqqah, its de facto capital in the Syrian soil, among other places, adding that if Iran had not fought terrorism in Syria and Iraq, it would have had to do so in its western provinces.
"Daesh [Arabic acronym for ISIS] has attempted, several times, to send terrorist teams inside Iran,” Alavi further said, adding that the attempts were foiled and “all those terrorists were either annihilated or arrested during the past months".
Commenting on Tehran's relations with its allies, Alavi stressed that his country “does not weaken the protection of its allies,” and that they “are stronger than ever today and achieve victories day after day."
Iran has sent military advisers to Syria to contribute to the Arab country’s fight against terrorists wreaking havoc there.
The Syrian five-year-old crisis has killed over 470,000 people, injured 1.9 million others, and displaced nearly half of the pre-war population of about 23 million within or beyond Syria’s borders, according to a February report by the Syrian Center for Policy Research.
