Wednesday, December 28

Iran Sends 140 tons of Humanitarian Aid to Aleppo

December 27, 2016
FARS

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) Managing Director Seyed Amir Mohsen Ziyaee announced that his country has sent over 140 tons of humanitarian aid to the people in Aleppo.

"Given the problems that people in Aleppo have been facing, we had sent several cargos of aid to Aleppo before. In addition to that, we sent two 70-ton cargoes on two planes to Aleppo which included medicine, tents and other goods needed by the people," Ziyaee said, addressing a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announced after talks with his Armenian counterpart Serzh Sargsyan in Yerevan earlier this month underlined that Iran and Armenia agree on the necessity for dispatching humanitarian aid to the people in Aleppo.

"We discussed Iraq and Syria as two countries which are facing the problem of terrorism today and we should help these governments to uproot terrorism and we agreed on sending humanitarian aid, specially to the Aleppo people," Rouhani told a joint press conference with Sargsyan.

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Thank you people of Iran for all your sacrifices to defend the people of Syria, and thank you and Iran's Red Crescent Society for the aid. God bless you.   

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