There are more than 60,00 Iranians fighting alongside forces loyal to Syria’s authoritarian president Bashar al-Assad, the leader of the country’s main opposition alliance claimed on Tuesday.
‘’In Syria, there are over 60,000 fighters from Iran,” said Ahmad Jarba.
For this reason Iran should not attend Syrian peace talks dubbed Geneva II scheduled to take place next month, Jarba said.
“Iran cannot take part in ‘Geneva II’ while it is killing the Syrian population,” he told Arab and western foreign ministers gathered in London to meet Syrian opposition officials.
“Assad’s regime would already have fallen were it not for the Iranian presence in Syria,” Jarba claimed.