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Putin, Rouhani Condemn US Syria Strike: Attack Damaged Political Settlement, Provoked Int’l Ties Chaos

Putin, Rouhani Condemn US Syria Strike: Attack Damaged Political Settlement, Provoked Int’l Ties Chaos
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Russia's President Putin and Iran's President Rouhani have condemned US action against Syria in a phone call.

Putin, Rouhani Condemn US Syria Strike: Attack Damaged Political Settlement, Provoked Int’l Ties Chaos

New Western air strikes in Syria would provoke "chaos" in international relations, Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, on Sunday.

Speaking to Rouhani by telephone the day after US-led strikes on suspected chemical weapons facilities, Putin said "if such actions, carried out in violation of the United Nations Charter, are repeated, that would inevitably provoke chaos in international relations," according to a statement from the Kremlin.

The two leaders exchanged their views on the situation in Syria, following the massive missile strike launched by the US, the UK and France that targeted Syria's military and civilian infrastructure. Both presidents denounced the actions of the Western states by calling them an "illegal" act that was deleterious to the Syrian peace process.

Earlier, the Russian president condemned the strikes by saying that Washington launched "an aggression against a sovereign state which is at the forefront of the fight against terrorism." At that time, Putin said that the attack was carried out in violation of the "principles of international law," as it was not authorized by the UN Security Council.

For his part, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the "aggressive" US move to carry out military strikes against Syria reveals that Washington has direct ties with terrorists.

"The Americans showed such a reaction when they felt that the terrorists were dislodged from an important region like Eastern Ghouta," Rouhani said in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, a day after US-led strikes on Syria.

Rouhani told Putin that the joint military strikes against Syria were an "aggressive measure" aimed at boosting the defeated terrorists' morale.

He warned that if aggression and blatant violation of international regulations were to become easy and cost-free, "we would witness new instability in the regional and international system."

"The attack by the US and its allies against Syria showed that we are facing new problems and issues in the way of a final fight against terrorism in Syria and that we must have more consultation and cooperation with each other," the Iranian president told his Russian counterpart.

 

Washington and its allies unleashed the bombardment in the early hours of Saturday morning in retaliation for the alleged chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma, located some 10 kilometers from Damascus.

The Western countries immediately pinned the blame for the incident on the Syrian government and conducted the strike even before a team of investigators from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was able to reach the scene of the alleged attack to determine whether it had indeed taken place.

The US, the UK and France launched 103 cruise missiles during the attack. At least 71 of them were intercepted by Syrian air defense forces, according to the data from the Russian Defense Ministry. Following the attack, Russia called an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss the aggressive actions of the US and its allies.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

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