Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast speaks to the media
in Tehran. (file photo)
DUBAI, UAE — Iran called on the region to unite against
Israel after a reported attack on Syria and said it was ready to train the
Damascus government's army.
Israel
carried out its second air strike in days on Syria early on Sunday, targeting
Iranian-supplied missiles headed for Lebanon's Hezbollah, a Western
intelligence source said.
Tehran
on Sunday denied the attack was aimed at "its missiles destined for
Hezbollah resistance fighters in Lebanon," according to the Islamic
state's English-language Press TV.
Iran
has supported its ally Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his efforts to
suppress a rebellion that has raged for more than two years and which Tehran
and Damascus say is being waged by Western-backed "terrorists."
Iranian
Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast urged countries in the region to
stand against the "assault," the Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
Iranian
army ground forces commander Ahmad Reza Pourdastan said on Sunday Iran was
ready to support its ally.
"Syria
has a powerful army and with the structure and experience it has against the
Zionist regime [Israel] it can definitely defend itself and there is no need
for intervention by other countries," Pourdastan said, according to Fars.
"But
if they need training we can help them," he added. Iran has denied
supporting Assad militarily, although Western diplomats have said Iranian
weapons pour into Syria via Iraq, Turkey, and Lebanon.
Ali
Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
said in January Tehran would consider an attack on Syria an attack on itself.
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