Rouhani Calls for Syria's Vigilance against New US plots

TEHRAN (defapress)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani condemned a new US plan to set up a militant force near Syria’s border with Turkey, and said it constitutes a breach of the international law and a plot against the Arab country's sovereignty.

News ID: 68128

Date: 17 January 2018 - 14:07

"The plot that the Americans have recently hatched for Syria is against international law and a plot against the territorial integrity and security of Syria and the region," President Rouhani said during a meeting with Speaker of People's Council of Syria Hammouda Youssef Sabbagh in Tehran on Tuesday on the sidelines of the 13th Session of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Conference.

The top Syrian lawmaker, for his part, said Damascus opposes the presence of the US forces on its soil and has officially called for their withdrawal.

The US announced on Sunday that it will work, along with a coalition of its allies purportedly fighting the ISIL, with US-backed militants of the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) to set up a new 30,000-strong “border security” force.

The force would operate along the Turkish border with Iraq and within Syria along the Euphrates River.