Iran Tells U.S. to Get Out of Syria As World Powers Turn Against Each Other

• Iran Tells U.S. to Get Out of Syria As World Powers Turn Against Each Other
  by TOM O’CONNOR, http://www.newsweek.com/
  Iran told the U.S. to withdraw its forces from Syria and cease operations there Wednesday because Washington’s presence was deemed illegal by the local government.
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  Ali Akbar Velayati, the top foreign policy adviser to Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, defended his country’s presence in Syria, saying Iran was acting on behalf of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose armed forces have resisted a rebel and jihadi uprising since 2011. Iran has deployed elite forces and supported majority-Shiite Muslim militias fighting alongside the Syrian military with support from Russia, which has also questioned the U.S. role in the war-torn country.
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  “Iran is in Syria legitimately and based on the invitation of the Syrian government. Those who have to leave Syria are the ones who have not been permitted by the Syrian government,” Velayati said on the sidelines of a conference at the Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, according to the semiofficial Mehr News Agency.
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