Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif[/caption]Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the use of force against Syria is against international law, urging the United States to stop its warmongering policy against the Arab state, Press TV reports.
The use of chemical weapons is a crime. We believe that it is a crime against humanity and we also believe that the use of force, [and] the threat of use of force, is also a criminal offense in international law, Zarif said in an exclusive interview with Press TV on Wednesday.
He warned US President Barack Obama that a number of groups and people inside the United States and others from outside the country want to push the president, who might be reluctant to start a war, into a trap, which he had unfortunately laid down for himself.
They seek to get the US president involved in a war in order to address the hypothetical issue of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, the top Iranian diplomat added.
I said a hypothetical issue because there was and still is no proof that the use of chemical weapons was perpetrated by the government [of Syria], Zarif stated.
The minister added that as a victim of chemical weapons, Iran condemns the use of such weapons regardless of the victims or culprits.
We believe that nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands; that is, the United States does not have any legal claim to act at the same time as a prosecutor, a judge and, unfortunately, the executor in dealing with issues, Zarif said.
By Press TV
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