Syrian President Assad meets Iranian leaders during Tehran visit | | AW

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : He has visited key patrons Russia and Iran and made his first trip to the United Arab Emirates since the conflict earlier this year, the clearest signal yet that the Arab world is willing to re-engage with the once widely shunned president as Arab states seek to blunt the expanding influence of their Shiite foe in Syria.
52% : Tehran has given the Syrian government billions of dollars in aid and sent fighters to battle alongside his forces, assistance that, along with Russian air power, has helped turn the tide in Assad's favour.
52% : Police were out in force at major thoroughfares and intersections in Tehran on Sunday.
48% :Assad's last reported visit to Iran was in February 2019 and that was the first one since the start of the war.
44% : Assad was reported to have left Tehran for Damascus later on Sunday.
41% :Assad, for his part, said that strong relations between Iran and Syria served as a bulwark against American and Israeli influence in the Middle East.
40% : Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left) and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (right) meet Syrian President Bashar Assad, in Tehran, Iran, May 8, 2022.
25% :Syrian President Bashar Assad met Iranian leaders in Tehran on Sunday, Iranian and Syrian media reported, marking his second trip to major wartime ally Iran since Syria's civil war erupted in 2011.
21% :Iran's supreme leader also hit out at Arab nations that normalised relations with Tehran's arch enemy Israel under the US-sponsored Abraham Accords."While leaders of neighbouring countries hang out with those of the Zionist regime and drink coffee with them, the people of these countries (Iran and Syria) take to the streets and chant anti-Zionist slogans on Quds (Jerusalem) Day," Khamenei saidThe relationship between Tehran and Damascus are "vital for both countries and we should not let it weaken," Khamenei said, according to a statement on his website.

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