Salihi Warns Zionist entity Not to Play with Fire

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi condemned Israel’s Sunday attack on a research center in the outskirts of Damascus, and said tel aviv is playing with fire.

“Israel is playing with fire,” Salehi warned in a meeting with Turkmen Foreign Minister Rasit Meredow in Tehran on Monday.

His remarks came after Israeli rockets struck a military research center on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Sunday. The blasts occurred a day after an Israeli official said his regime had carried out an air strike targeting a consignment of missiles in Syria a few days earlier. The research Centre hit on Sunday was also targeted by’ Israel” in January.

Also during the Monday meeting, Salehi cautioned about the dangerous consequences of reinvigorating extremist groups in the region, and blasted certain regional and western states for supporting them which, he said, will spread extremism across the region and the world.

Meredow, for his part, warned that extremists have targeted the region, and said, “They aim to undermine regional security; therefore, we should cooperate in fighting this phenomenon.”

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.

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