Chemical weapons claim 'pretext' to hit Syria: Iran leader

Tehran: Allegations the Syrian regime used chemical weapons last month are a "pretext" by the West to attack the country, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday.

Iran is Syria's main regional ally and has warned Western powers against intervening in the country's civil war, as the United States edges towards launching strikes against the Damascus regime.

Washington and its allies "are using the chemical weapon (allegation) as a pretext," and "are saying that they want to intervene for humanitarian reasons," said Khamenei.



"The United States is wrong about Syria, and it is certain they will suffer... Just like in Iraq and Afghanistan," Khamenei told members of the Assembly of Experts, the body that supervises his work.

Separately, the chief of Iran's elite Quds Force unit, Qassem Soleimani, said Tehran will back Syria "until the end" in the face of possible US-led military strikes.

Some analysts believe a wider goal of US President Barack Obama's determination to launch strikes is to blunt Tehran's growing regional influence and any consequent threat to Washington ally Israel.

"The aim of the United States is not to protect human rights... But to destroy the front of resistance (against Israel)," the Quds Force commander was quoted as saying by the media on Thursday.

"We will support Syria to the end," Soleimani added in his speech to the Assembly of Experts.

He did not elaborate on the nature of the support and Iran has constantly denied allegations by Western powers that it has sent military forces to prop up President Bashar al-Assad's embattled regime.

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