Amid heightened fears that U.S. President Donald Trump’s violation of the Iran nuclear deal and Israel’s airstrikes on “Iranian targets” in Syria this week could lead to “an all-out regional war,” Iran called out world leaders for refusing to denounce the Israeli bombing campaign.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi reportedly told state television: “The international community’s silence encourages Israel’s aggression. Syria has every right to defend itself.”
The Iranian government, Qasemi continued, “firmly condemns the attacks by the Zionist regime on Syrian territory.” The repeated attacks, he said, “were carried out under pretexts that were invented by themselves and are without foundation.”
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The Israeli Defense Minister claimed on Thursday the airstrikes “hit nearly all the Iranian infrastructure in Syria,” and some experts have concluded the campaign, which started Tuesday, was “aimed at provoking a reaction from Iranian forces”—which, along with Russia, have backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in the nation’s ongoing civil war.