Islam Times - Syria enemies target resistance axis in region: Syrian speaker

Islam Times - Syrian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Jihad al-Laham says enemies of Syria have targeted the axis of resistance in the region.

During a Tuesday press conference with his Iranian counterpart Ali Larijani in Tehran, Laham said enemies wrongly believe that they can destroy Syria.

The top Syrian official further added that foreign-sponsored extremist groups fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad attack houses, mosques, churches and the Arab state’s infrastructures.

The United States claims to fight against terrorism, while it takes advantage of its allies as instruments to support terrorism, Laham said.

Laham added that the Syrian nation’s resistance and the victories gained by the army in operations against anti-Damascus militants have made enemies seek other pretexts such as the claim that the Syrian government used chemical arms.

Syria has dismissed the allegations made by the US, Israel, and Britain as false and fabricated.

On April 27, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi described the claims as a “barefaced lie,” stressing that Damascus will never use chemical arms “not only because of its adherence to the international law and rules of leading war, but because of humanitarian and moral issues.”

Many people, including a large number of security personnel, have been killed in the deadly violence which broke out in Syria in March 2011.