President Bashar Assad met with Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, France24 reported. 

During the meeting, the sides discussed relations that unite the two states and peoples, confirming that these relations were the main factor in the resilience of Syria and Iran against the conspiracies of hostile states that are trying to weaken the two countries and destabilize them.

The leaders "reviewed the fraternal and strong relations between their two peoples, which have been the main factor in maintaining Syria and Iran in the face of plots by enemy countries", the presidency said.

Khamenei told Assad that “Iran considers helping the government and nation of Syria to be helping the resistance movement and is proud of it from the bottom of its heart. The creation of the buffer that the Americans are seeking to create in Syria is an example of these dangerous conspiracies which must be strongly denounced and resisted.”

Assad met with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani as well.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran as before will be alongside the people and government of Syria," Iran government's official website quoted Rouhani as saying.