‘Unbridled expansionism’: Iran raps Israel’s termination of 1974 truce deal with Syria
The Iranian Embassy in Lebanon has strongly condemned Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement that the decades-old agreement with Syria in the strategic Golan Heights had collapsed, stating that the measure testifies to the expansionist intentions of the Tel Aviv regime.
“Netanyahu’s declaration of the collapse of the 1974 disengagement agreement, and his occupation of new territories in the Syrian Golan serve as a clear testimony to his entity’s expansionist ambitions that know no bounds,” the diplomatic mission wore in an Arabic post published on its official X account on Monday.
The embassy added that the move also attests to Israel’s utter disregard for any ceasefire agreement, international law and treaties.
The mission concluded by stating that the Zionist regime is familiar only with the language of force, and must be stopped.
Netanyahu said on Sunday that the decades-old agreement with Syria had collapsed, and he ordered Israeli forces to grab a buffer zone in the Golan Heights after Syrian soldiers abandoned their positions.
The Israeli military also issued a warning, calling on residents of five towns in southern Syria to stay in their homes until further notice as it carried out dozens of air strikes against Syrian military bases, facilities and weapon depots.
These towns are Ofania, Quneitra, al-Hamidiyah, Western al-Samadaniyah, and al-Qahtaniyah.
Also on Sunday, Israeli warplanes carried out multiple strikes against the former Syrian government’s military and security sites in and around the capital Damascus, as well as Syria’s southwestern province of Quneitra.
Militant groups, led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), announced on Sunday that they had fully captured the Syrian capital and confirmed reports of the fall of the Assad government.
Assad’s fall came less than two weeks after the HTS-led militants waged a surprise two-pronged attack on Syria’s Aleppo and the countryside around Idlib before taking control of a number of cities, including Damascus.
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