The trip to Tehran comes after a series of recent military losses for
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
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's regime, which is battling an uprising that began more than four years ago.
During the two-day visit, Freij and his Iranian counterpart will discuss "strengthening coordination and cooperation between the two allied militaries particularly in tackling terrorism and common challenges in the region."
The Syrian government labels all those seeking Assad's overthrow "terrorists".
Tehran has remained a staunch backer of Assad's government, offering military advisors and credit lines to bolster his regime.
Leb's Iranian-backed Hizbullah
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Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as
The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
has also offered support to Assad's forces, sending fighters to help his troops on the battlefield.
But Assad denied in a recent interview that Iran had dispatched any troops to Syria.
"We invited Hizbullah, we didn't invite the Iranians. They're not here, they didn't send any troops," Assad told La Belle France 2 television last week.
"We have regular relations for more than three decades. We have commanders, officers coming and going between the two countries. This is the kind of cooperation that existed for a long time. This is different from fighting."