Iranian Speaker:

Worst Method Opted by Washington to Revive Terrorists in Syria

Rasa - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani blasted the recent US missile strike against a Syrian airbase, and said Washington has chosen the worst way to help the terrorists in Syria.

News ID: 428806

Date: 10 April 2017 - 22:38

RNA - "The Americans have launched operations in Syria with dishonesty to create a breathing space for the terrorists," Larijani said, addressing an open session of the parliament in Tehran on Monday.

Warning of enemies' new plots to find a pretext for new adventurism in the region, he said by launching the missile attack against Syria, the Americans have spread terrorism in the region "which will backfire on them".

Larijani underscored that the US missile strike on Syria is against the international rules and a beginning for wrong attitudes in the region.

In relevant remarks on Sunday, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the missile attack on Al-Shayrat Airbase in Syria's Homs province was a strategic mistake typical of the US administrations.

"What Americans did was a strategic mistake, and they are repeating the same mistakes done by their predecessors," the leader said at a meeting with senior Iranian Armed Forces commanders in Tehran.

He further blasted Washington officials for sponsoring terrorism in the region, saying that "former US officials created ISIL or helped it, and present officials are reinvigorating ISIL and similar groups".

Ayatollah Khamenei cautioned the US against an instrumental use of terrorism, saying that the same groups would pose grave dangers to the US in future. "Europe is entangled with the mistake that it committed by strengthening the Takfiris and people are not secure at home and in the streets (in there), and the US is repeating the same mistake."

Elsewhere, he dismissed allegations and analyses that the US attack on Syria was a pulse to other actors in the region, saying that violence, aggression and crime is typical of the White House officials, but Americans do not dare to conduct a similar move in all countries.

"The Islamic Republic has shown that it doesn't back off under the influence of such irrelevant statements and wrong deeds, and the people and officials who hold belief in the revolution do not step back when faced with threats, ....," the Iranian Supreme Leader reiterated.

On Thursday night, the United States launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Syrian military airfield in al-Shayrat, located about 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the city of Homs. US President Donald Trump said the attack was a response to the alleged chemical weapon use in Syria's Idlib on Tuesday, which Washington blames on the Syrian government.

Russia described the attack as an aggression against a sovereign state. Following the US military action, Russia decided to suspend its memorandum of understanding on air safety over Syria with the United States, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Syrian opposition claimed Tuesday forces loyal to President Bashar Assad had used a chemical gas on people in the Northwestern province, killing nearly 80 and injuring 200. Assad argued his government has no chemical weapons after agreeing to have them destroyed in 2013. He also ruled out having used chemicals against own people.

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