{"id":125594,"date":"2018-01-27T15:43:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=125594"},"modified":"2018-01-28T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T10:45:32","slug":"president-al-assad-says-syria-set-on-combating-terrorism-aided-by-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=125594","title":{"rendered":"President al-Assad says Syria set on combating terrorism, aided by friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad affirmed that Syria is bent on pushing ahead with counter-terrorism aided by friendly countries, namely Iran and Russia that sets the stage for a peaceful solution.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s remarks came as he received on Saturday Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister&#8217;s Special Assistant in Political Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari.<\/p>\n<p>Strategic Syrian-Iranian ties and the mutual desire to boost them were high on the agenda, as well as the common counter-terrorism efforts and endeavors for the forthcoming Syrian national dialogue congress in Sochi to work out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/president-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-125596\" src=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/president-2-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President al-Assad and Ansari also discussed the Turkish incessant aggression against Syrian territories and crimes against Syrian citizens, thrashing out visions as to the ways of aborting its goals.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides agreed that the aggression is aimed at grabbing Syrian territories, backing terrorist organizations, and torpedoing peace efforts in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Ansari, for his part, reiterated Iran\u2019s steady support for Syria in the fight against terrorism and in the reconstruction process.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem met with Ansari, with the two sides discussing latest developments in Syria and the region.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Moallem and Ansari emphasized the importance of the Syrian National Dialogue Congress slated to be held in Sochi, hoping it will push for a settlement to the crisis through an intra-Syrian dialogue without foreign interference or pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Manal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad affirmed that Syria is bent on pushing ahead with counter-terrorism aided by friendly countries, namely Iran and Russia that sets the stage for a peaceful solution. The President\u2019s remarks came as he received on Saturday Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister&#8217;s Special Assistant in Political Affairs Hossein Jaberi Ansari. Strategic Syrian-Iranian ties and the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":125595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,6987,429,106,430],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-asia","category-latest-news","category-presidency-of-arabic-syrian-republic","category-syria-and-the-world","category-activities-mr-president"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125594"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/125595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}