Mahmoud Barakat
03 May 2023•Update: 03 May 2023
ANKARA
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday arrived in the Syrian capital Damascus for the first visit by an Iranian leader to the Arab country in more than a decade.
"Today, Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi arrived at Damascus International Airport on a two-day official visit," the Syrian regime-run SANA news agency reported.
It said the Iranian president is "accompanied by a large political and economic ministerial delegation."
Raisi will hold "extensive political and economic talks with President Bashar al-Assad, followed by the signing of a number of agreements."
