TEHRAN: Chairman for the Committee for Foreign Policy and National Security at Iranian Parliament, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, Saturday reiterated his country’s firm and principled stance in defending Syria, the axis of the resistance in the region.
In a statement before heading to Syria on Saturday, Boroujerdi warned that the war on Syria will ignite the region as the Zionist entity (Israel) and the West will be the main affected sides.
He asserted that the wide-scale media campaign to launch an aggression on Syria is a “psychological warfare and a stupidity” which reflects the US weakness.
Boroujerdi stressed that the message of the Iranian government and people is to stand by Syria in the face of any aggression.
He described the use of chemical weapon as baseless, hailing Syria’s cooperation with the UN investigation mission on the use of chemical weapon.
Meanwhile Commander of Iran’s elite Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) warned that a US attack against Syria would have wider regional consequences.
The US opinion about its ability to limit a military intervention to Syria is nothing more than an illusion. The reactions will go beyond Syrian borders, Iran’s Press TV quoted Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari as saying.
Jafari added that Washington’s failure to create a coalition to wage a new war in the Middle East region has led the US to seek a military intervention limited to Syria.
The Iranian commander advised Washington to learn from its experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Just as US meddling in the Muslim world has led to the spread of extremism, violence and terrorism, attacking Syria will intensify the spread of extremism,” Jafari added.
On August 21, the militants operating inside Syria accused the government of launching a chemical attack on the militants’ stronghold, which claimed 1,300 lives in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar.
A number of Western countries, including the US, France, and the UK, were quick to adopt the rhetoric of war against Syria despite the fact that Damascus has categorically rejected the claim as baseless, announcing later the chemical attack had actually been carried out by militants themselves as a false flag operation.
The UN said earlier that an analysis over the use of chemical weapons in Syria would take time after the inspectors collected samples from the site of the attack.
Any US attack on Syria to engulf entire Middle East: Rafsanjani
Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani meanwhile said a potential US strike on Syria will not be limited to the Arab country and would engulf the entire region.
Rafsanjani on Saturday expressed concern about mounting tensions in Muslim countries, saying the height of these tensions were in Syria.
“It seems that the main objective of US adventurism in the region is not limited to Syria and engulfs the entire region.”
“…a US attack and aggression will probably not be confined to Syria and the outbreak of war in this country and in fact their dangerous warmongering game could engulf the entire region,” he said.
Rafsanjani warned the US and its allies against attacking Syria and said they might start the war of their own will but the end of this war would be out of their control.
He also underlined the strategic significance of Syria in the region and said Damascus was the stronghold of resistance against the Zionist regime.
On Wednesday, the British government, the closest US ally, had announced that its support for military intervention in Syria would require a second vote in the country’s parliament. A first non-binding vote in the British legislature on August 29 rejected British presence in a potential war on Syria.
On Friday, NATO also distanced itself from participating in any military intervention in Syria, with the chief of the Western military coalition, Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, saying he did not “foresee any NATO role” in an international war on Syria.
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