President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Ebrahim Raisi has sent separate messages to his Turkish and Syrian counterparts to express condolences on the new deadly earthquake.
Raisi showed sympathy regarding the heartbreaking quake, which left hundreds of people killed and numerous others injured in Turkiye and Syria, expressing readiness to provide both neighboring states with emergency aid.
Early on Monday, a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkiye and northern Syria killing at least 641 people, with the number expected to rise further.
According to the latest updates, 284 people in Turkiye and 427 people in Syria lost their lives, and the number of injured people consists of 639 citizens in Syria and 2323 citizens in Turkiye.
Also Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf has sent separate messages to his Turkish and Syrian counterparts to express condolences on the new deadly earthquake.
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Qalibaf showed sympathy regarding the heartbreaking quake, which left hundreds of people killed and numerous others injured in Turkiye and Syria, expressing readiness to provide both neighboring states with emergency aid.
He also offered condolences to families of the killed people and wished for fast recovery of injured ones.
Early on Monday, a powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake hit southern Turkiye and northern Syria killing at least 641 people, with the number expected to rise further.
According to the latest updates, 284 people in Turkiye and 427 people in Syria lost their lives, and the number of injured people consists of 639 citizens in Syria and 2323 citizens in Turkiye.
Also Iran’s FM, Hossein Amir-ABdollahian made a phone call to his Syrian counterpart to sympathize with Syrians over the deadly earthquake and offer to provide humanitarian aid to the victims.
In a phone call to the top Syrian diplomat Faisal Mekdad, the top Iranian diplomat sympathized with the Syrian people and the government over the Monday powerful earthquake which struck the north of Syria and southern Turkey.
Amir-Abdollahian voiced Iran’s readiness to provide humanitarian aid to Syria.
Faisal Mekdad, for his part, expressed his appreciation to Iran’s President and foreign minister for sympathizing with his country and considered Iran and Syria as two friendly and brotherly nations that are always beside each other in both times of happiness and difficult times.
The phone call from the Iranian minister came hours after he posted a tweet to sympathize with the two friendly, neighboring and Muslim countries of Turkey and Syria.
