Assad told Iran about Turkey's efforts to topple regime before ouster: Report
In the final days leading to his ouster, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad complained to Iran's foreign minister that Turkey was actively supporting Sunni rebels in their offensive to topple him, two Iranian officials told Reuters this week. Iran had backed Assad in Syria's long civil war and his overthrow was widely seen as a major blow to the Iran-led "Axis of Resistance", a political and military alliance that opposes Israeli and US influence in the Middle East. Iran expressed its unhappiness with Turkey's alignment with US and Israeli agendas and conveyed Assad's concerns," a second Iranian official said, referring to Ankara's support for rebels and cooperation with Western and Israeli interests in targeting Iran's allies in the region. Fidan told reporters in Doha on Sunday that the Assad regime had "had precious time" to address Syria's existing problems, but did not, instead allowing "a slow decay and collapse of the regime".
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