File photo: Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami .AFP
Regarding Syria, Iran "was really trying day and night to help in whatever way it could; we have to live with the realities of Syria; we look at them and act based on them," Hossein Salami said, quoted by the official IRNA news agency.
"Strategies must change according to the circumstances; we cannot solve numerous global and regional issues with stagnation and employing the same tactics," he added.
Iran has been a strong ally of the Assad family, whose decades-long rule of Syria ended on the weekend when a whirlwind insurgent offensive took the capital Damascus.
Also on Thursday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps strongly condemned "the abuse of the current instability in Syria by the US and the Zionist regime".
"The Resistance Front will not be passive in confronting any plan or scheme that seeks to disrupt the resistance and weaken the power and authority of the countries in the region," the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement.
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