Quds Force Commander: Iran to Support Syria to The End

Quds Force Commander: Iran to Support Syria to The End

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TEHRAN (FNA)- Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani underlined that Iran will remain beside the Syrian nation until it gains victory against aggressors.

"We will support Syria to the end," Soleimani was quoted as saying by a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts on Wednesday.

"Soleimani, who was addressing an Experts Assembly meeting, further referred to the different means and methods applied by the US for toppling President Bashar al-Assad's government, including political pressures and dispatch of Al-Qaeda forces to Syria, and expressed the confidence that Washington's latest excuse for attacking Syria (i.e. the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Damascus government) would fail to produce any result for Washington," the Experts Assembly member told FNA.

According to the source, General Soleimani said that 95% of those rebels fighting in Syria are foreigners and added that the remaining rebels are the Syrian army defectors and the Salafi Syrians.

"He also pointed to certain regional states' fear of Iran's growing influence in the region, and said for instance Qatar has spent $12bln in the form of aids to the rebel groups in Syria in a bid to reverse the current trend which is moving in the interest of the Syrian government, but it has failed and Iran still enjoys a good position among the regional countries," the Experts Assembly member said.

In a relevant development on Wednesday, the Iranian parliamentarians in a statement supported the resistance front in Syria, and voiced their preparedness to fight alongside the Syrian nation against any aggressor.

"We as the representatives of (the Iranian) people in the Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament) voice our support for the resistance front in Syria and declare in a straightforward manner that we support the positions of the Supreme Leader of the Muslim world and hope of the oppressed nations (i.e. Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei) by all means, and if the Islamic Republic decides, we will be ready to sacrifice our lives beside our Syrian brothers against the (front)line of infidels and oppressors," the statement signed by 170 Iranian lawmakers said.

The Iranian legislators warned the US and the Zionist regime against attacking Syria, and said any invasion of the country will herald the collapse of the arrogant powers' tyrannical and cruel system.

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.