In connection with the bombing of the US military base on the 25th (local time), the Iranian government issued an “immediate retaliatory strike” against any attack on any Iranian military bases stationed for the “war on terror” in Syria at the request of the Syrian government in the future. said in a spokesperson statement.
Iran’s Supreme Security Council spokesman Kayban Khosrabi said that Iran had labeled US bases in Syria “illegal” in response to allegations by US officials of Iran’s involvement in attacks on US bases in Syria, Iran’s IRNA news agency reported. He emphasized that he was watching.
He accused the US side of using false claims to avoid responsibility for the US military’s “illegal occupation” of parts of Syria’s territory.
“The U.S. government will not be able to blame third countries for spreading lies about illegally occupied U.S. military bases facing resistance,” Kosravi said.
He said Iran is fighting terrorism for Syria’s security at great cost and opposes any attack that threatens Syria’s security and stability in the future.
Iran’s government has maintained that its forces in Syria are acting only as advisors and are present at the Syrian government’s request.
But on the afternoon of the 23rd, the US military carried out airstrikes on Iranian military installations in northeastern Syria, hours after a drone bombed a US military base in Syria, killing a US contractor and wounding another and five US soldiers. poured out
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement released shortly after that that U.S. forces had “accurately bombed” Iranian military-related facilities in eastern Syria.
In retaliation for the US airstrikes, on the night of the 24th, “Islamic Resistance Forces” carried out a surprise operation using 60 rockets and unmanned self-destroyers at two US bases in eastern Syria, IRNA reported.
A U.S. military officer admitted in an interview with CBS that an American soldier from a U.S. military base in Syria was wounded in an airstrike on the 24th.
Source: Donga
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