Iranian authorities will take strong measures to protect their forces and interests in Syria from the US actions. Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani said this, IRNA reported on Tuesday.
"Iran reserves the inalienable right to defend itself on the basis of international law and to take decisive measures to protect its forces, interests and facilities from any threat or illegal action by the United States or other countries," Iravani said in a letter to the UN secretary-general and chairman of the world organization's Security Council. As Iravani noted, Washington should recognize that the plundering of Syrian resources, the ongoing occupation of Syrian territory and support for separatists "are the main reasons for the Syrian people's opposition to the US Armed Forces."
On the night of March 24, the US launched a series of airstrikes on sites in Syria that are controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, an elite unit of the Iranian Armed Forces). The attack reported the deaths of at least 11 Shiite fighters fighting on the side of Syrian troops. The US operation followed a drone attack on a US base in Rumeilan that killed one US contract soldier and wounded five other US servicemen and one contract soldier.
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Based on materials from TASS