TEHRAN – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday U.S. intervention in Syria would be “a disaster for the region”.
After supporting Arab uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa in 2011 as examples of what Khamenei called an “Islamic awakening”, Tehran has steadfastly supported the secular President Bashar al-Assad, its main strategic ally in the Middle East, against a two-and-a-half-year-long US backed rebellion.
“The intervention of supra-regional and foreign powers in one country will have no result other than lighting a fire and increase the hatred people have for them,” Khamenei said.
“This lighting of a fire is like a spark in a gunpowder magazine whose dimensions and consequences are unknown.”
Iran is concerned that if Assad were overthrown, he would be replaced by either allies of the West or by radical Islamists tied to Saudi Arabia, both regarded as hostile by Iran. Tehran considers Syria, as part of Axis Of Resistance along with Hezbollah against Israel.
“Any intervention and warmongering will certainly harm those who start this fire,” Khamenei said. “If such an action is taken, the Americans will certainly be harmed just like in their interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.” Agencies
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