Tehran, April 8, IRNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday called for establishment of an international fact-finding mission to make clear the realities behind recent US attack on Syria under the pretext of use of chemical weapons.
He made the remarks in reaction to the Thursday night US attack on a Syrian airfield.
“The fact-finding mission should not include unfair people and the US should not direct it,” the president noted.
He added that the issue of use of chemical weapons in Syria should be surveyed by neutral countries to find the source of these weapons and those behind their transfer to the region.
According to the UN reports, Syria chemical weapons were destroyed two years ago and the claims about existence of these weapons in the region should be surveyed and made clear, the president said.
He criticized the US attack on Syrian airfield and noted, “When the issue is not still clear, Americans who suppose themselves to be the world police, leader and judge, launched a midnight missile attack on a Syrian airfield and killed innocent people.”
“Why shoud a sovereign state be attacked,” Rouhani questioned.
Addressing the US President Donald Trump, he said that the guy who is now governing the US, claimed in his election campaign that he planned to fight terrorists but now terrorists are celebrating the US attack on Syrian Army.