Call for Iran’s Active Presence in Syria’s Reconstruction

Iran should play a more active role in the reconstruction of war-ravaged Syria, as the US and its regional ally Saudi Arabia are attempting to engage in the reconstruction process, a parliamentarian said. 
Mohammad Javad Abtahi criticized the government’s poor economic diplomacy, stressing that Iran should not pass up investment opportunities to countries such as Turkey and Saudi Arabia. 
“[Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad has complained several times to Iranian parliamentary delegations about Iran’s weakness in investing in Syria,” he said in a recent talk to ICANA.