Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has called the resurgence of Takfiri terrorism in northern Syria the outcome of an American-Israeli project, noting that the development followed the Israeli regime’s defeats against resistance in Lebanon and the Palestinian territories.

According to The Iran Project, The top diplomat made the remarks during a telephone conversation with his Syria counterpart Bassam al-Sabbagh on Friday.

Araghchi described the unwelcome development as “an American-Zionist design” that had ensued the Israeli regime’s defeats at the hands of resistance movements in Lebanon and throughout the Palestinian territories.

The comments echoed those made by the official in a Thursday phone call with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib, during which the former had called the phenomenon a US-Israeli scenario aimed at destabilizing West Asia after failures of the Zionist regime in confronting Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement.
Araghchi also underlined that the menace of terrorism had been countered effectively by the Arab country.