Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
The Scourge of Hama...
's family an asylum in Iran, but he refused, arguing his family is no different from other Syrian families.
The Syrian president was informed about the offer by Major General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), but Assad "declined the offer", saying his family "is like the rest of Syrian families and they will remain in Damascus," said Alavi in an interview with Lebanese television station al-Mayadeen.
The Iranian minister went on to say that the "plot against Syria" began when Damascus sided with the Leb's resistance movement Hezbollah on the Israeli aggression on Leb in July 2006.
During the 34-day war, known as the July War, Israeli regime waged a full-scale war on the Lebanese soil and killed some 1,300 people of the Arab country, displacing about a million others. The war also severely damaged Lebanese civil infrastructure.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Alavi also said that the ISIS Takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
terrorist group has been hatching "plots and conspiracies" against Iran from the city of Raqqah, its de facto capital in the Syrian soil, among other places, adding that if Iran had not fought terrorism in Syria and Iraq, it would have had to do so in its western provinces.