Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Commander Major General Hossein Salami stressed on Thursday that routes to support Resistance Front are still open and that they are not limited to Syria, noting that the IRGC forces were the last people to leave the country following the downfall of former president Bashar Al-Assad’s government.

Speaking to a gathering of IRGC commanders, Maj.

Gen.

Salami hailed the former Syrian President Bashar Assad for its foreign policy and siding with the Resistance Front.

“Syria had the brightest and most salient record among Arab countries in confronting Zionism, and it was the only country that did not accept any of normalization plans and was always in a state of confrontation, offensive, defensive, and resistance towards the United States and the Israeli regime,” Maj.

Gen.

Salami said in remarks carried by Mehr News Agency.

“After destroying ISIL's control, we had to withdraw our non-necessary forces from Syria,” he continued.

“Over the past 13-year period, we have tried to make Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Palestinian movement largely independent-” the IRGC commander continued.

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Salami went to talk about the last days of Assad government, criticizing the Syrian army for not fighting to defend their country.

“We couldn't engage the entire IRGC and Basij in a place where its army was just bystander.” The IRGC commander further said that Iranian intelligence had warned the Syrian government about the increasing activities of the armed opposition groups.

“Even our brothers (IRGC intel forces) were able to find the axes of their attack using intelligence techniques and conveyed the intellects to the political and military level in Syria, but because the will to change, war, and resistance in its true sense did not exist, unfortunately, we say what happened.” In this context, he affirmed that the routes to support the Resistance Front are still open and that they are not limited to Syria.