Senior MP: Russian Warships in Offensive Arrangement
TEHRAN – Russian warships in the Mediterranean are on the offensive waiting for the slightest aggressive move by the US against Syria, a senior Iranian legislator said.
“Practically, the Russians have lost their bases in the region and the only point that they have kept in the Middle-East is Syria. Therefore, Russians will not repeat their previous mistakes and will not allow the Americans to take control of their allies in the region,” Chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said in an interview with Iran-based Arabic-language al-Alam news channel Sunday night,according to FNA.
“The Russian warships have taken offensive arrangement to take action to defend their defined interests in the Middle-East,” he added.
Boroujerdi warned about the unpredictable consequences of war against Syria, and said if the US attacks Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin will enter the scene and Syrians will attack “Israel”; and then the US congress may show reaction and impeach Obama.
In relevant remarks earlier this month, another prominent Iranian lawmaker said that Barack Obama is trying to distance himself from the expenses of a military strike on Damascus by asking the Congress to make the relevant decision.
“The US is now facing the problem of the expenses it has to pay in case of attacking Syria …, hence it seems that Obama is looking for a decent way to escape this attack,” member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Ebrahim Aqamohammadi said, pointing to the US president’s asking the Congress to make a decision in this regard.
He underlined that the US Republicans are warmongers and they want Obama’s annihilation, hence they persuade the US president to attack Syria in order to make him pay for the expenses of such attack.
“The US intended to intervene in Syria in a blatant and bullying manner as it did in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya … but the world’s situation has changed now,” Aqamohammadi said.
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