Iran on Friday condemned Israel’s recent attack on Syria as a blatant example of the regime’s hegemonic nature and said the Arab country has the right to “legitimate defense”.
“The Zionist regime’s repeated attacks on Syrian soil under self-proclaimed, baseless pretexts amount to a blatant violation of Syria’s sovereignty and goes against all international conventions,” Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said, Tasnim News Agency reported.
The statement came after Israel attacked dozens of targets inside Syria in what the Tel Aviv regime claimed was its most extensive strike against the Arab country in decades.
Israeli officials said the assault early on Thursday was a response to a barrage of 20 rockets that were fired from Syria at Israeli military outposts in the occupied Golan Heights hours earlier. It also blamed the rocket fire on Iran.
The regime’s attacks against Syrian military positions have become more frequent over the past months, amid Assad forces’ major victories over terrorist groups. Qassemi said the terror groups were in fact “proxies” waging war on behalf of the US, Israel and their regional allies.
“Today, the main supporters of these groups are directly attacking and invading Syrian territory in an attempt to avenge the litany of failures of their self-created terrorists and tip the scales in their favor,” he asserted.
“The Zionist regime cannot tolerate peace and stability in the region and sees its own security in making the region all the more unstable,” he argued, censuring the international community for giving the occupying power the green light by refusing to take action in the face of its continued crimes and lawlessenss.
