Iran warns of consequences of US-led "aggression"

Iran has denounced the "tripartite aggression" against its staunch ally, the Syrian government, and warned of "regional consequences", Hezbollah's al-Manar TV reports.

AFP news agency quoted foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi as saying on his Telegram channel: "The United States and its allies have no proof and, without even waiting for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to take a position, have carried out this military attack... and are responsible for the regional consequences."

Iran is believed to have deployed hundreds of troops and spent billions of dollars to help Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during the civil war.

Thousands of Shia Muslim militiamen armed, trained and financed by Iran - mostly from Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, but also Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen - have also fought alongside the Syrian army.

SOURCE: BBC News
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