Iranian president to visit Syria 'in near future'

MENA

Published: 2023-04-29 10:48

Last Updated: 2024-03-27 22:03


Iranian president to visit Syria 'in near future'
Iranian president to visit Syria 'in near future'

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Damascus "in the near future," Iran's foreign minister said on Friday.

Syria's Al-Watan newspaper reported that Raisi would visit Damascus on Wednesday.

"We have drawn up a program... for a visit" by Raisi to Syria, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told a press conference at the Iranian embassy in Beirut, adding that the trip would be "in the near future."

The planned visit comes in the context of "multidimensional" cooperation between Tehran and Damascus, he added, according to an official Arabic translation, calling ties between the two countries "excellent."