'Iran today demands the régime pay the new bill which has reached nearly twenty-one billion dollars, the price of Iran support to the regime. General Yahya Rahim Safavi (military adviser to Khamenei), has publicly demanded that Assad pay the bill.
“We are serious about defending Syria and its territorial integrity, but the regime has to pay the cost bill,” Safavi said during a seminar at the Institute for Future Studies in the Islamic World, according to the ISNA news agency. “In Syria, there are Gas and phosphate mines, and these natural resources can pay the required bill. “
Safavi offered to establish long-term agreements between Iran and Syria to ensure compensation for what Iran lost there, pointing out that the Syrian mines began exporting phosphate to Iran effectively. “Syria’s neighbours wanted the Assad régime to fall, including Jordan, Israel, the United States and Saudi Arabia, but our alliance has prevented the régime falling, and we expanded our influence in Iraq.”
The mullahs’ government may not have noticed that oil and gas have become under American control for an indefinite period.
Russia, which is still preventing Assad from visiting the city of Aleppo, the largest economic and industrial city in Syria, is not likely to share the spoils with Iran. In fact, during the last visit of the foreign minister to Moscow, the Assad government granted the largest percentage of contracts with the acceptable return to Russia. It has authorized Russia to consider the contracts of other countries with the Syrian government, and any state, which wants to participate in the contracts, should pass through the Russian government for approval before Damascus' approval.'
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