Spotlight on Iran (March 17, 2022 – March 31, 2022)
In late March, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hossein-Amir Abdollahian, conducted a visit to Syria and Lebanon and met with senior officials in Damascus and Beirut, including President Assad, the Syrian minister of foreign affairs, the Lebanese president, the prime minister of Lebanon, and the secretary general of Hezbollah. Following the visit of Syrian President Assad to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Iranian website Nour News, which is affiliated with the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, argued that this visit in a manifestation of the change in the Emirates’ position with regards to the Assad regime. A pro-opposition Syrian news website reported that pro-Iranian militias completed the first phase in the establishment of a “camp of tunnels” in the desert east of Homs.
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