Iran: US-Led Attacks on Syria Destabilizing Region

Rasa - Iranian Ambassador to Britain Hamid Baeedinejad strongly deplored the US, Britain and France for their coordinated attacks on Syria, and said that the entire region has been destabilized.

News ID: 437300

Date: 22 April 2018 - 22:43

RNA - "The three Western countries' attack on Syria shows their willingness to resort to unilateral policies to enforce disarmament obligations despite having an internationally verifiable treaty in place," Baeedinejad said on Saturday.

The Iranian envoy reiterated that unfortunately, the US, the UK and France acted in total disregard of the terms of the CWC and resorted to a unilateral assault on Syria, without authorization from the UN, which is a clear violation of the UN Charter and against international law.

"The fact that a few countries consider themselves above the law, and are prepared to put themselves in the position of prosecutor, inspector and judge, without any legitimate mandate, in order to launch an attack on a UN member is destabilizing to say the least," he added.

Baeedinejad asked why the US and its allies could not postpone their action until the OPCW inspectors could reach Douma and start their inspection activity.

Baeedinejad concluded that the tripartite action on Syria "undermines global and multilateral efforts against the development and the use of weapons of mass destruction; it also endangers global and regional peace and security. Civilization is based on a simple principle that the use of force should be contained by the rule of law, and that the rule of law should be applied to all without exception."

According to Fars News Agancy, after repeated delays, the OPCW experts finally visited the site of the Douma attack on Saturday and collected samples and other items.

Russia had earlier accused foreign-backed terrorists in Syria of preventing the OPCW inspectors from reaching Douma.

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