Iran to maintain in Iraq, Syria: chief commander
Iran
will keep military advisers in Iraq and Syria as long as those countries
demand, Major General Mohammad Baqeri, chief of staff of the Iranian Armed
Forces, said here on Sunday.
Amid terrorist threats, Iran has offered advisory assistance to
Syria and Iraq and then attended those countries at their demand, Baqeri was
quoted as saying by IRNA.
"We will keep our advisory presence in these countries as
long as they want and will leave there whenever they do not want," he
said.
Despite the US military which stay in the regional countries
contrary to their wills, Iran's presence is with their consent, he added.
Iran has emerged as the main regional ally to the Syrian and
Iraqi governments when terrorism ravaged these two countries several years ago.