Syria and Iran strengthen already-close ties through new agreement

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus in May 2023 signed the latest version of the MoU. Here after is the translation of an official Iranian documents leaked by an opposition hacker group detailing a host of agreements between Damascus and Tehran. The Second Administration for Western Asia and North Africa Affairs had prepared a 27-page report ahead of President Raisi’s scheduled visit to Damascus in December 2022. However, the visit was postponed twice – in December 2022 and again in January 2023 – due to al-Assad’s refusal to sign anything that would treat Iranians in…