Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday condemned as "flagrant USA aggression on Syria" a US missile strike on a on a Syrian air base this week and criticised Gulf Arab states for supporting it, state television reported.
TEHRAN: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that "terrorists" were applauding his United States counterpart Donald Trump for launching a missile strike on an airbase of his Syrian government ally.
The US launched Friday 59 missiles on a Syrian airbase in retaliation for the suspected chemical weapon attack that killed dozens of civilians, including many children.
Lavrov also said that the U.S.' claims accusing the Syrian regime of launching the chemical weapons attack in the Khan Shaykhun town of Idlib province on April 4 were "inaccurate and inconclusive".
But Russia and Syria's other key ally, Iran, on Saturday vowed to continue fighting in the country after army chiefs General Valery Gerasimov and Major General Mohammad Bagheri spoke by phone.
Once the threat from ISIL has been reduced or eliminated, "I think we can turn our attention directly to stabilising the situation in Syria", Tillerson said in excerpts from an interview on CBS's Face the Nation.
Russian Federation continues to back the Assad regime and denies the Syrian leader gassed his own people.
He also said he would "make sure that we arm and train some of those who fight against Bashar Assad".
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But she quickly zeroed in on her opponents, warning that the NDP's free-spending ways would drive the province into deficit. She called the firm that employs about 65 engineers and scientists an example of "a homegrown B.C. tech success story".
Johnson discussed the move with his United States counterpart last night after the U.S. launched 59 tomahawk cruise missiles at the Shayrat airbase.
"We don't see a peaceful Syria with Assad in there", she said.
In Saudi Arabia, the official Saudi Press Agency reported that U.S. President Donald Trump has spoken by telephone with King Salman about the U.S. missile strike on Syria.
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Rex Tillerson says he's "seen no evidence" that Russian Federation is an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The president said he acted "to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons".
Russian Federation "agreed to be the guarantor of the elimination of the chemical weapons and why Russian Federation has not been able to achieve that is unclear to me", Mr Tillerson said on Sunday.
"Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched".
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