Ayatollah Khamenei: US, UK, French attack on Syria ‘a crime’

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has condemned joint airstrikes by the US, the UK and France on Syria as “crime,” describing the leaders of the three Western states as “criminals.”

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Date: 14 April 2018 - 14:10

Tehran(Defapress)“I clearly declare that the US president, the French president and the UK prime minister are criminals and have committed a crime,” the Leader said on Saturday.

The three countries, Ayatollah Khamenei said, "will achieve nothing and make no benefit, as they have been in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan in the past few years, and committed such crimes but have not profitted from them."

Ayatollah Khamenei was reacting to a coordinated missile attack by the US, Britain and France on Syria in the early hours of Saturday over an alleged chemical attack in the Damascus suburb last week.

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“Those who were overtly and covertly supporting Daesh claim today to be confronting and defeating them [the terrorists]! That’s a lie; that is not the case. They had no role” in efforts to defeat the Takfiri outfit, the Leader said.

The Americans would enter the scene of the battle and help Daesh whenever the terrorists were under a siege and about to suffer a defeat.

The Leader added that the US created the “evil creatures” called Daesh, using the money provided by the Al Saud regime and the likes.

However, Ayatollah Khamenei added, the resistance against the US and its agents saved the Iraqi and Syrian nations.

Ayatollah Khamenei also referred to comments by US President Donald Trump, who said last month that his country spent seven trillion dollars in the Middle East and still “got nothing.”

Trump “is right,” the Leader said. “They achieved nothing, and the US will not achieve anything in the future either no matter how much money it spends.”

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