The comments by the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council came the same day that Israel carried out a series of strikes on alleged Iranian targets in Syria.
In an extensive interview published by the Mehr news agency, Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said that Tehran would continue providing assistance to Syria as long as Damascus needs its help in fighting terror.
The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) tweeted that it had hit purported Iranian military sites, including “facilities of [Iranian elite unit] Quds Force, weapons depots, mainly in the area of the Damascus International Airport, Iranian intelligence centre, Iranian training camp” in Syria, as well as Syrian air defences responding to the Israeli attack.