Press TV- President Hassan Rouhani has 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 strikes against a Syrian airbase last week wasbasically 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 onlya 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 anythingthe 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.
In the name of what?
The pretext under which the Americans carried out the attack is neither documented nor clear, said the Iranian president.
[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="555"]
President Rouhani addresses Iranian and foreign reporters during a news conference in Tehran, April 10, 2017. (Photo by IRNA)[/caption]Russia, which has been helping Syria against terrorism since last September, says the reportedly dozens of fatalities caused by the Idlib incident were caused after chemical agents were diffused from a militant warehouse.
Iran has proposed formation of an international fact-finding committee to investigate the matter, Rouhani said, and reminded that both him and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin had stated that it will be easy to find out about the circumstances surrounding the incident.
What if this committee goes there and finds out this has been done by the terrorists? What will the US answer then? Rouhani asked. What will become of Syria and the regions situation if terrorists are to find out that the US will support them whenever they spread some gas?
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The American actions in Syria contradict the international law, logic, and other countries interests, he asserted, and said that those states, which cheer Washington for its involvement in the Arab country do so as it reinforces the terrorists.
Syria needs reforms
Rouhani, meanwhile, reminded that there was a need for implementation of some reforms in Syrias ruling system.
Iran was, from the beginning, of the opinion that the only way out of Syrias problem is the ballot box.
