Syrian president arrives in Tehran (1st Lead)

Tehran - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad arrived Saturday in Tehran for a two-day visit and talks on bilateral and regional issues. Assad is to meet with his Iranian counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Top of the agenda will be Syria's indirect talks, under Turkish auspices, with Iran's arch-foe Israel which has irritated Tehran. Assad is expected to defend the talks in his meetings with Iranian officials. Also on the agenda will be the expansion of bilateral ties and Iran's reassurance that its nuclear projects were only for peaceful purposes. Israel and the US have urged Syria to end its alliance with Tehran and its support for radical Palestinian factions and Lebanon's Hezbollah opposition group. But al-Assad's visit to Iran is a clear message that Damascus is committed to its alliance with Tehran, which was further cemented by a military cooperation agreement signed in 2006.

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