Boroujerdi: US Worried about Failure of Terrorists in Syria
A senior Iranian lawmaker says the United States is mainly worried about the strengthening of the resistance movement in Syria and the weakening of terrorist groups.
The chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, added on Sunday that the US has always pursued policies in the Middle East that serve its own interests, according to Press TV.
He pointed to the latest round of Syria talks, which were convened in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Saturday, and said, “At such occasions, the US has always sought to advance its own objectives and pursued its own goals and policies in the region more than being concerned about the resolution of the crisis in Syria”.
The Iranian legislator added that the talks in Lausanne ended without any consensus among the participants of the conference about a common strategy to end the conflict in Syria, now in its sixth year, because Washington is worried about the weakness of the parties, which seeks to topple the legitimate government in the Arab country.
The latest achievements made by the resistance movement in Syria over the recent months have also been a source of concern for US, he noted.
Boroujerdi emphasized that the continuation of US strategies and certain countries’ support for terrorist and the so-called “moderate opposition” groups dash all hopes of success for such conferences.
“The only solution to the crisis in Syria is a political one while the violation of ceasefires in Syria in addition to financial and arms support for terrorist groups will block the resolution of this crisis,” the Iranian lawmaker pointed out.
US root cause of all problems in Middle East
Chief spokesman for Iran’s Armed Forces says the United States is the most important reason behind all the current problems in the Middle East, stressing that Washington must accept its strategic mistakes and leave the region.
“The root cause of all the problems in the West Asia region is the US hegemony,” Deputy Chief of Staff of Iran’s Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said on Sunday.
He added that bloody wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Yemen, the continuation of the Israeli regime’s occupation of Palestine, the Iraqi imposed war on Iran in the 1980s, the Lebanese and Bahraini conflicts and other events that have killed and wounded thousands of people and left behind destruction are only some consequences of measures taken by the evil US government in the region.
“The US presence in the region is [like] a malignant cancerous tumor and the only way to treat it is to remove this infected tumor and kick the US out of the region,” Jazayeri added.
He urged the US to own up to its strategic mistakes and shoulder responsibility for the thousands of criminal acts it has committed and leave the region to relieve the regional nations of the malevolence of the Great Satan.
Jazayeri made the remarks in reaction to recent claims by the US Secretary of State John Kerry, who had questioned Iran’s policies in the region, particularly in Syria and Yemen, and said Iran is “firing missiles that people deem to be threatening.”
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