iranian. direction. and control over the situation in syria syria became the stage for a radical standoff between the region s two systems of power the sunni saudi monarchy against the shiite islamic republic of iran. i think many people including many american many americans and many europeans underestimated the degree to which syria was a red line for iran and that iran was willing to really take risks and put the resources in to back assad assad. i think the same is true for russia. neither iran nor russia wanted to accept. the notion of regime change that people in the middle east could write don t rise up and get rid of their leader you know russia has a real allergic reaction to that and iran. in september two thousand and fifteen russia began large scale intervention on the iranian side to defend bashar
damascus regime is a question of self interest it must not for as of late two thousand and eleven the islamic republic decided to send military advisors to hezbollah in syria to support bashar al assad s efforts to crush the rebellion. to run had its own outlook on the syrian conflict in its size the civil uprising among part of the population against bashar al assad never took place tehran saw it as a conspiracy engineer by the west and israel. turned on was why i support bashar al assad because he was and is the legitimate president of syria so we are proudly state out loud that military advisors of the islamic republic of iran have helped the syrian military the syrian government and the syrian people in
order to avoid terrorists taking power over this country and replacing the legitimate syrian government. protests around the country behind the terrorist threat in syria is saudi arabia. and in riyadh the saudi leaders have indeed been looking forward to the fall of basher assad since the beginning of the syrian crisis a means for them to oppose the rise in power of iran in the region. the kingdom understood very well and told. the western countries if you look at all of the public statements from saudi officials they identified easy iran as the main supporter of bashar that s it and therefore the kingdom called on all of the countries in the west in europe and in america to oppose the
assad. but meanwhile another protagonist appeared in the middle eastern theater. on june the twelfth two thousand and fourteen islamic state forces took control of iraq s second city mosul a few days later in syria fell into jihad is towns and became the capital of the self-styled islamic caliphate. protests around the advances made by ass and extremist sunni terrorist movement that sees the shia as one of its principal enemies radically change their stakes while continuing to defend the damascus regime the islamic republic was now fighting for its survival as much in syria as in iraq. but the steel. of the shoes your friendship with iraq is precious to us. naturally iraq s security
uprising against a basher in the spring of two thousand and eleven to run has taken the side of the syrian regime a regime that it has always considered to be an historical and strategic ally. to appreciate the importance of this relationship we need to go back to the iran iraq war. in september one nine hundred eighty saddam hussein decided to invade iran just months after the revolution the fledgling islamic republic was threatened with destruction. and the heart of the thought if you are in the iranian collective memory syria was the only country to supporters during the war against iraq. and we ve never forgotten that that hard to the more which was.