Iran strongly denounces Israel’s repeated attacks on Syria, its expanding occupation of Golan Heights
The Foreign Ministry has strongly denounced the Israeli regime’s repeated attacks on Syria’s infrastructures, and its expanding its occupation of the Arab country’s Golan Heights.
Speaking on Monday, spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said the aggression that had worsened over the past two days, was taking place at a time when the Syrian people were facing the repercussions of the recent ouster of the country’s government, and amounted to “blatant violation of the United Nations Charter.”
He also pointed to the regime’s forces’ moving into a buffer zone on the edge of the occupied Golan in violation of a 1974 disengagement agreement between Tel Aviv and Damascus that set up the area to separate the Israeli-occupied part of the territory from Syrian land.
Baghaei considered occupation of the buffer zone to be in contravention of the UN Security Council’s resolutions, describing Tel Aviv’s enlarging the areas under its occupation as “an indication of the occupying regime’s expansionist and belligerent approach and its contempt for all the rules and norms of the international law.”
He urged deployment of all regional and international capacities towards enabling cessation of the regime’s violations against Syria.
For that to happen, Baghaei called on the Security Council to take “immediate action” towards ending the aggression and holding the regime accountable.
The official also lashed out at the regime’s Western supporters for resorting to silence and inaction in the face of the aggression, saying Tel Aviv construes such Western approach as a source of verification for its violations.
The comments came a day after foreign-backed militants stormed the Syrian capital Damascus after scoring major gains in the Arab country’s north around two weeks following their staging a resurgence there.
Amid the militants’ attempts to stage a comeback in the country, reports would point to their receiving strong support on the part of the Israeli regime, Turkey, and some Western states, which have been acting as the main backers of anti-Damascus outfits since the outbreak of foreign-backed militancy in Syria in 2011.
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