The foreign ministers of Iran and Russia expressed support for Syria on Saturday amid a major attack by rebel groups, Iranian state media reported.
Iranian Abbas Araqchi told Russian Sergei Lavrov in a phone call that the attacks were part of an Israeli-American plan to destabilize the region, state media reported.
According to a Russian Foreign Ministry statement on the call, both sides “expressed extreme concern about the dangerous escalation of the situation in Syria due to the terrorist offensive by armed groups in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.”
The ministers agreed on the need to intensify joint efforts aimed at stabilizing the situation in Syria.
Earlier on Saturday, Russian Lavrov spoke about the issue with his Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan.
This content was originally published in Heads of diplomacy from Iran and Russia support Syria after rebel advance on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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