Iran has denied that it has deployed troops in Syria to defend Damascus and government forces, AFP reported Wednesday, after reports that thousands of foreign troops had been flown to the war-torn country's capital.
Reports that foreign military "friendly" to the Assad regime had been flown in are "unfounded," Marzieh Afkham said.
"The Syrian government and people have the capacity to resist and will continue to do so," Afkham said in a press briefing.
Iran has provided the Syrian government support both politically and financially, as well as military advisers for its army.
AFP reported June 3 that a Syrian security source had said thousands of foreign troops, most of them Iraqi but many Iranian, had been sent to Damascus to support regime forces.
The anonymous source told AFP 7,000 troops had already been deployed with the goal of reaching 10,000.
