Iranian President: Warmongers to Sustain More Harm in Syria War

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani expressed the hope that Tehran and other countries’ efforts to prevent war in Syria will yield results, and warned that most damage of such a war will be inflicted on those who support it.
“If any war is imposed on the Syrian people, the warmongers, fighters and their friends will sustain the most losses,” Rouhani said in a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday.

Meantime, he expressed pleasure that the possibility of war on Syria has decreased in recent days, and said the world public opinion is opposed to an invasion of Syria and the parliament of Britain which is Washington’s closest ally has voiced opposition to the attack in a bid to avoid a repetition of the bitter experiences of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Rouhani underlined Iran’s continued efforts to dissuade the advocates of Syria invasion, and said, “The government has used all its power to prevent the war and it has also considered this point that (if it fails to prevent a war and) a war breaks out, the battle ends with the lowest level of damage and the warmongers’ withdrawal.”

In relevant remarks earlier this month, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned the US and its allies that the crisis in Syria will spread to the whole region if any military invasion is waged against the country.

“One of the problems of the region today is that the Americans create turbulence but are not able to control it and if Syria is attacked militarily, the same trend will be repeated in the country,” Larijani said in a forum in the Northern city of Noshahr, Mazandaran province.

He underlined the necessity for a political settlement of the Syrian crisis, and warned, “The problems in Syria will spread by military act.”

The US and other western countries have adopted the rhetoric of war against Syria over allegations that the Syrian government was behind a recent chemical attack near Damascus.

The call for military strike intensified after the militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed on August 21 that hundreds had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar. The Syrian government has strongly denied the claim, accusing the militants of the attack.