Iranian President Hasan Rouhani said on Monday Russia was “in an inch from the confrontation” with the United States following the US missile strike on the Syrian Shairat airbase.
“And if it turns out that the terrorists spread the [poison] gas, what the United States will do? If terrorists find out that the United States will support them every time they spread the gas, what will be with the region? Russian officials said they were an inch from the confrontation [with the United States],” Rouhani said, citing Russian officials, as quoted by the ISNA news agency.
He also said the missile strike damages the negotiating process and underscored the political track as the only solution to the six-year Syrian crisis.
“What the US has done has harmed the negotiation process.”
In this context Rouhani said that the US strike had no legal justification, stressing that “the final solution must be political.”
The Iranian president meanwhile, said the US strike was aimed at easing pressure on terrorists after the losses they had suffered by the Syrian army and its allies in the battlefield.
Source: Sputnik
