Iran:

US Army Supporting Al-Qaeda, ISIL in Yemen, Syria

Rasa - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif strongly condemned the US cruise missile attack on Syria's military base, and said that Washington is backing the terrorist groups in that country and Yemen.

News ID: 428729

Date: 07 April 2017 - 22:08

RNA - "The US is fighting on the same side of Al-Qaeda and the ISIL terrorist groups in Yemen and Syria," Zarif wrote on his Twitter account on Friday.

He reiterated that as the only recent victim of massive use of chemical weapons (by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hossein in the 1980s, Iran condemns use of all weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) by anyone against others.

Zarif reiterated that Washington helped Saddam in its chemical weapons attack against Iran, but the US has twice in the current millennium used "bogus" chemical weapons allegations to use military force, including in the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the current strikes against Syria.

The top Iranian diplomat added that it is high time to stop “hype and cover-ups.”

Dozens of people were killed in a chemical attack in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun in the Northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday.

The United States and its allies were quick to accuse the Syrian government forces of carrying out the attack. The Syrian army said, however, that “it has never used them (chemical weapons), anytime, anywhere, and will not do so in the future.”

The US warships deployed to the Mediterranean Sea carried out an airstrike on an army airbase near Homs by firing some 60 Tomahawk missiles at the Shayrat airfield southeast of Homs early Friday.

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