Some Mideast states serving Israel, US agenda: Iran MP

A senior Iranian lawmaker has slammed certain Middle Eastern states for supporting the terror groups operating in Syria, saying these countries serve as a “tool” to pursue the Israeli and American agenda in the troubled region.

“Some regional countries have turned into a tool for the implementation of the policies of the United States and the Zionist regime [of Israel],” IRIB quoted Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee at the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Alaeddin Boroujerdi as saying during a Thursday press conference at the Iranian Embassy in the Syrian capital, Damascus.

He also referred to the role of Tel Aviv in the Syria crisis, saying the treatment of anti-Syria terrorists in Israeli hospitals bears proof of the regime’s support for such Takfiri extremists.

Boroujerdi made the comments after the Israeli military released new footage last week, showing its medics treating a wounded Takfiri militant.

The Iranian official also hailed the recent victories of the Syrian army and the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah against foreign-backed Takfiri groups in the strategic region of al-Qalamoun in southern Syria.

Syrian soldiers and Hezbollah resistance fighters have launched a joint operation near the Lebanese border, inflicting heavy losses on the Takfiri militants operating in the mountainous region.

Syria has been struggling with a deadly crisis since March 2011. The violence fueled by Takfiri groups has so far claimed the lives of over 222,000 people, according to reports.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) says over 7.2 million people have also been internally displaced while more than three million others have fled Syria due to the crisis in the Arab country.

Boroujerdi also touched upon Riyadh’s deadly military campaign against the Yemeni people and denounced the Saudi regime as “the axis of aggression.”

The senior Iranian parliamentarian also emphasized the need for a political solution to the crisis in Yemen.

Saudi Arabia started its military aggression against Yemen on March 26 - without a UN mandate - in a bid to undermine the Houthi Ansarullah movement, which currently controls the capital, Sana’a, and other major provinces, and to restore power to fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is a staunch ally of Riyadh.

According to the latest UN figures, the Saudi military campaign has so far claimed the lives of over 1,400 people and injured close to 6,000 others, roughly half of whom have been civilians.

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