Iran doesn’t need to have a military base in Syria: army spokesman

Senior spokesman of Iran’s Armed Forces Brigadier General Abulfazl Shekarchi has said Iran is not intervening in Syria and Iraq, it does not need to have a military base in Syria and Iran provides Syria and Iraq with advisory assistance upon their governments’ official request.

He expressed these views in his latest exclusive interview with Iranian official news agency on which he made it clear that Iranian advisory presence is quite legitimate
In response to a question on the cooperation between Iranian and Russian advisors in Syria, , General Shekarchi said both countries are coordinated.
Commenting on the claims by some regional parties, alleging targeting Iran’s positions in Syria, he said ‘We have no independent position in the country.’
They may target Syrian bases in their attacks and harm Iranian advisors as well, the Iranian General said.
All claims that are being made, regarding Iran’s presence in Syria, are based on American excuses and also non-sense allegations leveled by the Zionist regime of Israel. Iraq and Syria insist on Iran advisory presence, Shekarchi said, adding that they are the Syrian and Iraqi armies and people in the two countries that are fighting their enemies and Iran has no direct intervention.