Rohani Will Continue Iran’s Help for Assad, Says Lawmaker
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Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rohani will not change the country’s policy of supporting Bashar al-Assad in Syria’s civil war, according to a member of the Iranian parliament.
“The tactics may change but the strategic aims will not change,” said Ahmad Bakhshayesh, a member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, in a telephone interview from Tehran, describing Syria, Iran and Lebanon’s Shiite militia Hezbollah as part of a “resistance front” opposing Israel. “We don’t want Syria to leave the resistance front.”