Iran official says no permanent base for Russian strikes on Syria
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One day after Moscow announced launching airstrikes on Syria from Iran, the speaker of Iran's parliament stressed on Wednesday that Russia does not have a permanent military base within the country.
The fact that Iran allowed Russian warplanes to take off from its territory to bomb targets in Syria was an unprecedented move, underscoring the deepening cooperation between two powerhouses heavily invested in the Syrian civil war.
In Syria, seven civilians were killed and nine were wounded by rocket rounds fired by armed groups on a government-controlled district of the city of Aleppo, Syria's state-run news agency said. SANA reported that the rockets struck the Salaheddine residential district in the northern city, which has been divided into a rebel-held eastern part and a government-controlled western part since 2012.
