"While the Syrian government has been fighting against terrorism and terrorist groups with all its power and resources for 6 years now and has paid a heavy price to this end, raising such unfounded allegations and adopting measures which will yield no result but strengthening the terrorist groups' status and situation and further complicating the fight and confrontation against these groups is highly questionable and suspicious," Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said on Wednesday in reaction to the recent US threats against Syria.
He reminded the US illegal aggression against Syria's al-Shayrat airbase under the pretext of an alleged chemical weapons use by Damascus, and said Iran and Russia had called for sending an international fact-finding delegation to study Washington's allegations but the US blocked the move.
Qassemi called on the international community to show proper and deterrent reaction against such unilateral and illegal moves.
The remarks came after the press service ofthe White House claimed that Syrian President Bashar Assad is allegedly preparing a new chemical attack, and promised that if it is implemented, the Syrian authorities will "pay a heavy price".
Earlier today, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani also warned the US to avoid unilateral moves against international laws and Syria's national sovereignty, and said Washington is playing with fire.
"Raising unfounded allegations against Syria again shows that the US continues its scenario to cover up the terrorist front's repeated failures and confront the Syrian army's decisive advances," Shamkhani said in reaction to the recent US threats against Syria.
Stressing the need for the Organization forthe Prevention ofChemical Weapons to scrutinize the US allegations against Syria, he called on Washington to provide the OPCW inspectors with information to be verified impartially.
Shamkhani reminded the US illegal aggression against Syria's al-Shayrat airbase under the pretext of the Damascus use of chemical weapons, and said Iran and Russia had called for sending an international fact-finding delegation to study Washington's allegations but the US blocked the move.
He warned of the US unilateral moves against the international laws and Syria's national sovereignty, saying that "the US unwise and adventuresome behavior in Syria is an instance of playing with fire" and the military scene in the country will make the US stop its continued unilateral aggression against Syria after receiving the reaction.
