Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Damascus last week was a signal that Syria will not end its alliance with the Islamic Republic, a senior Israeli diplomatic official told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday.

During his visit, Ahmadinejad warned that "if the Zionist regime wants to repeat its past mistakes, this will constitute its demise and annihilation," and promised that "the Zionist regime" would soon come to an end.