Rouhani: Further US Strikes on Syria ’Very Dangerous’
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned that further US strikes on Syria as threatened by American and other Western officials could push the region into a "very dangerous" situation.
Rouhani told a news conference in Tehran Monday that a US missile strike against a Syrian airbase last week was "basically wrong" which "benefited terrorism."
"A repeat of such an action could be very dangerous for the region," he said of US tomahawking of the Shayrat airfield near the Syrian city of Homs on Friday.
"America did this once, but will it go unanswered next time? Russians have said that a confrontation was only a few inches away. They are quite right; if the missiles had hit a few hundred meters higher or lower, it could have led to a major confrontation," Rouhani added.
Some 60 US Tomahawk missiles were fired from US warships deployed to the Mediterranean at the Shayrat airfield southeast of the Syrian city of Homs last Friday.
The attack, Rouhani said, was unlike anything the United States had done in the Arab country.
"The Syrian government and people have to answer this on the battlefield and in the face of terrorists," he said, adding that such response should show Washington that such offensives are unavailing.
Washington ordered the assault after accusing Damascus of carrying out a chemical attack against the town of Khan Shaykhun in the northwestern Syria province of Idlib last Tuesday.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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