Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani discussed and exchanged views with his Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev on Saturday concerning US cruise missile attacks against Syria over phone, IRNA reported.
Referring to the necessity to establish an independent international fact-finding committee in order to clarify the dimensions of suspicious chemical incident in Idlib, Shamkhani said that considering demolishing of the Syrian chemical weapons in preceding years with Russian Federation's initiative and under the supervision of the United Nations, for sure this act had been taken by the third party in order to create a pretext for military invasion against Syria.
He pointed to the destabilizing consequences of the aggressive and illegal moves by the US in the region, and said that such moves will boost the morale of the terrorist elements and will disrupt the process of fighting terrorism, which is underway with cooperation of Russia, Syria and Iran as well as UN supervision.
Considering noticeable achievements of liberation of Aleppo and weakening and demolishing military ability of terrorists and supporting countries of them, Shamkhani said that this direction should be continued with strategic cooperation between Iran, Syria, Russia and Resistance Front.
Patrushev, for his part, condemned the US military attack against Syria and called it a clear violation of international law, and said that this US move is clear violation against an independent country and it is contrary to the US' declared position in helping terrorists.
Recalling the US' untrue accusations concerning Iraq and allegations pertaining to the existence of mass-destruction weapons in that country, Patrushev said that the existing political atmosphere is a move in direction of creating disruption in the process of Syrian crisis solution and to increase pressures on legal government of President Bashar al-Assad.