Senior Iranian officials visit reporter injured in Syria
A number of high-ranking Iranian officials, including the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), have checked on an Iranian television reporter who was critically injured in Syria earlier in the month.
Mohammad-Hassan Hosseini was visited on Tuesday by Health Minister Seyyed Hassan Hashemi, Intelligence Minister Seyyed Mahmoud Alavi and IRIB chief Mohammad Sarafraz after he was transferred to Tehran’s Farabi Hospital from Syria.
The victim suffered facial injury in a mortar attack by militants in the port city of Latakia in western Syria on August 24.
Sarafraz hailed the sacrifices made by journalists in conflict zones and condemned the atrocities committed by the Takfiri terrorist group Daesh (ISIL) and its agenda to instigate conflict in the region.
“One of the goals of foreign-backed terrorist groups, including Daesh, is to distort the image of Islam and spark civil wars and regional conflicts,” Sarafraz said during the visit.
The Syrian ambassador to Tehran also visited the injured reporter.
Last Tuesday, the Islamic Republic officially condemned the attack, with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, the deputy Iranian foreign minister for Arab and African affairs, saying more support was needed at the international level for the journalists operating in conflict zones like Syria.
A number of correspondents affiliated to Iranian news stations have in the past fallen victim to the conflict in Syria, among them Press TV correspondent Maya Nasser, who was killed in September 2012 after militants attacked Press TV staff in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
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