The Syrian army is capable of confronting Israel, Syrian President
Bashar Assad said Tuesday in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali
Akbar Salehi in Damascus, according to Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star.
Assad
was responding to alleged Israeli airstrikes on Syria over the weekend,
targeting what Israeli officials have said were Iranian missiles
intended for Lebanese Shi'ite Hezbollah militants.
Assad also reportedly described the strikes as an act of terrorism aimed at Syria.
"The
Syrian people and its army who have made important achievements by
fighting terrorist and Takfiri groups are capable of confronting
Israel's ventures that represent one of the many faces of terrorism
targeting Syria today,” The Daily Star quoted Assad as saying, citing a Syria state TV report.
"The
Israeli aggression on Syria reveals the extent of Israel and other
regional and Western states' involvement in ongoing events in Syria,"
Assad was quoted as saying.
Ahead of the meeting, Salehi told reporters in Jordan
that there would be unforeseeable consequences if Assad was toppled and
only a political settlement to Syria's civil war would avoid a regional
conflagration.
"God forbid, if there is any vacuum in Syria,
these negative consequences will affect all countries ... No one knows
what will happen," he warned
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