Iran Has Spent as Much as $30 Billion in Syria, Lawmaker Says
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Iran has spent between $20 billion and $30 billion in Syria to prop up President Bashar al-Assad and fight Islamic State, a lawmaker told the semi-official Etemad newspaper, in a rare estimate by a government insider.