TEHRAN – The spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh has condemned the Zionist regime’s continued acts of aggression against Syria, calling on international organizations to give a decisive response to such Zionist crimes.

Answering questions from journalists,  Khatibzadeh said the international community’s inaction on the continued acts of aggression by the Zionist regime against Syria and the Zionists’ brazen violation of international rules and regulations have encouraged that regime’s officials.

“No doubt the overt and covert supports from the U.S. regime play an important role in increasing the occupying regime’s Israel’s boldness and impudence in such a way that it not only continues to occupy the Golan Heights of Syria, but also launches aerial and missile attacks on the infrastructures of the Syrian government and nation repeatedly,” he deplored.

Denouncing the Zionist regime for acting as the air force of terrorist groups throughout the Syrian crisis in recent years, Khatibzadeh said whenever the Syrian army and its allied forces defeat the terrorist groups, the Zionist warplanes take action immediately and launch strikes on Syria.

The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns the Zionist regime’s acts of aggression on Syria and stresses the need for an appropriate and decisive response, either in the field or at international organizations, he added.

Military sources said on Friday that Zionist surface-to-surface missiles had killed three people near the Syrian capital, Damascus.

The missiles came from the Zionist-occupied Golan Heights and some were intercepted by the Syrian air defenses.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the three people killed were military officers and four other members of an air defense crew were wounded.

On Tuesday, Khatibzadeh, denounced attempts by the Canadian government to scuttle a

friendly match between the national Iranian men’s football team and Canada in preparation for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, stating that the sporting event must not be used as a political plaything.
“The match has been coordinated independently by the football federations of the two countries, within the framework of the usual football training matches, and the Canadian Soccer Association has announced that it is determined to host this purely sporting event by preventing any political abuse by known anti-Iran groups,” Khatibzadeh said.
“Unfortunately, contrary to the theatrical claims, the most athletic things seem to have become a plaything of partisan orientations and political partitioning within Canada. The negative stances and statements of the Prime Minister of Canada and some others indicate the predominance of a purely political and partisan view in all aspects of governance in Canada, and therefore the behavior of the Canadian authorities in public easily becomes a plaything of opposition and Iranophobic groups,” it said.