“Iran International” website revealed leaked documents confirming Assad regime’s accumulated debts to Iran which is estimated to be about $50 billion.
The website made it clear that $11 billion of the amount was in return for the oil exported to Syria from 2012 to 2021, in addition to amounts sent for the cash and military support.
According to the leaked documents, Bashar al-Assad’s new term is sensitive and could lead to expel the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei because billions of dollars from Iran could be in serious danger if the agreed conditions are finalized.
The documents added that all conditions must be agreed by the two countries to prevent Iran expulsion from Syria under any circumstances as it may happen in the case of Assad regime’s assassination.
Iran’s president Ebrahim Raisi said: “his visit to Syria represented a turning point in improving the security, political, commercial, and economic ties between Iran and Syria.”
Sources loyal to the Assad regime also revealed that no less than 8 long-term” strategic cooperation agreements and several memorandums were signed, most of them in the field of power stations, tourism and joint investment projects.
The Assad regime and Iran issued a joint statement describing the visit as “historic and extraordinary” and holding many meanings and importance.
Iranian influence dominates the joints of the Syrian economy at all levels, in light of the Assad regime’s need for Tehran’s support, as a result of the economic disasters that hit Assad regime-controlled areas, and the Syrian Lira’s collapse to a low level against foreign currencies, which has become a cause of popular discontent that has grown to surface in these areas.
