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Coordination between Tehran, Moscow, Damascus helps defeat terrorists - Iranian top brass

"We have achieved good results protecting Syria’s sovereignty" , Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri said

TASS, March 18. /TASS/. Coordination between Tehran, Moscow and Damascus has made it possible to achieve important victories over terrorists, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri said, as cited by the Al-Alam TV channel.

"We have achieved good results protecting Syria’s sovereignty, and now the task is to clear the country of the remaining illegal armed units," the Iranian general said.

Bagheri arrived in Damascus to participate in a trilateral meeting with his Syrian and Iraqi counterparts and discuss coordination of steps in the war against terrorism. "The presence of foreign troops in the Idlib province and areas east of the Euphrates River - unauthorized by the Syrian government - is illegal and must end in the near future," he pointed out.

Bagheri also said that apart holding from talks on trilateral defense cooperation, he would visit Iranian troops deployed to Eastern Ghouta and Deir ez-Zor.

The Iranian chief of staff also condemned the recent attacks on mosques in New Zealand’s Christchurch, which had killed 50. According to him, the attacks, reminiscent of those carried out by the Islamic State terror group (outlawed in Russia), are a result of Islamophobia stemming from US propaganda.