Iran Warns NATO against Drowning in Syrian 'Swamp'
Iran on Sunday cautioned NATO against any military intervention in its main regional ally Syria, warning the transatlantic alliance that it “would drown in a swamp from which it would never be able to escape.”
“Syria is the spearhead of resistance in the Middle East and the NATO alliance cannot intimidate this country by waging an attack,” Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said in an interview with the official IRNA news agency.
“Should the West decide to follow the same course it took in Iraq and Afghanistan, it will not be able to achieve the desired result,” Salehi added.
On Saturday, Salehi urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government to listen to the people's demands.
"The government should answer to the demands of its people, be it Syria, Yemen or other countries," the Iranian FM said.
The Syrian regime has sought to crush weeks of protests with brutal force, killing more than 1,600 civilians and arresting at least 12,000 dissenters, rights activists say.
Source: Agence France Presse, Naharnet
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