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Iran will leave Syria, Iraq only if Baghdad, Damascus want it, aide to Khamenei says

By REUTERS

JULY 13, 2018 12:18

MOSCOW - A top aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Friday that Iran would immediately withdraw its "military advisers" from Syria and Iraq only if their governments wanted it to.

"Iran and Russia's presence in Syria will continue to protect the country against terrorist groups and America's aggression ... We will immediately leave if Iraqi and Syrian governments want it, not because of Israel and America's pressure," said Ali Akbar Velayati in a conference in Moscow.

Iran and Russia back Syrian President Bashar Assad in the country's civil war.

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