Damascus (IP) - Iran-Syria trade relations have increased by about 90% in the last nine months, Iran's ambassador to Damascus says.

Iran PressMiddle East: "The future of Iran-Syria relations is very clear and the trade relations between the two countries have increased by about 90% in the last nine months," the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mehdi Sobhani, told the Syrian daily Al-Watan in Damascus on Sunday.

The Ambassador stated that the insistence on strengthening these relations at economic, cultural, scientific, educational, and popular levels had promoted the ties between the two countries at the strategic level.

Referring to Iran's full support for Syria's territorial integrity and sovereignty, Sobhani condemned the illegal presence of foreign forces on Syrian soil and stressed the need to return every inch of these lands to the legitimate Syrian government.

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