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Iran’s Khamenei: US intervention in Syria would be ‘disaster’ for Mideast | JPost | Israel News.

DUBAI – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that US intervention in Syria would be “a disaster for the region”, the ISNA state news agency reported.

“The intervention of America will be a disaster for the region. The region is like a gunpowder store and the future cannot be predicted,” the agency quoted him as saying.

As the United States mulls response to the escalating situation in Syria, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi warned Washington of launching military action against his country on Sunday.

“The basic repercussion would be a ball of fire that would burn not only Syria but the whole Middle East,” Zoubi told Lebanon-based Al-Mayadeen TV.

“An attack on Syria would be no easy trip,” he added.

Similar warnings also came from Iran, one of President Bashar Assad’s main allies.

Massoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces, warned the United States on Sunday against crossing the “red line” on Syria, saying it would have “severe consequences”, according to the Fars news agency.

“America knows the limitation of the red line of the Syrian front and any crossing of Syria’s red line will have severe consequences for the White House,” Jazayeri said, reacting to statements by Western officials regarding the possibility of military intervention in Syria, according to Fars.

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