Iran is ready to help rebuild Syria, the Islamic republic’s top diplomat said Tuesday as he hosted his Syrian counterpart in Tehran.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, whose country has been a staunch ally to Damascus throughout Syria’s devastating war, met Walid Moallem for closed-door talks at the Islamic republic’s foreign ministry.

Zarif confirmed “the readiness of Iranian companies to cooperate economically with Syria during the reconstruction period,” the ministry said in a statement.

Damascus and Tehran signed a string of deals late last month, including a long-term economic cooperation agreement.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the deals were meant to “help consolidate Syrian and Iranian resilience against the economic war waged against them by some Western states”.

Source: AFP