DAMASCUS (Dispatches) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abdollahian said here Monday the occupying regime of Israel will be punished and will receive the necessary response to its criminal act in attacking the Iranian diplomatic site.
The minister met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Syrian counterpart Faisal Mekdad, and discussed development in cooperation between Iran and Syria, with a focus on increasing business interactions, as well as discussions on important regional and international issues.
In a meeting with Mekdad, the Iranian foreign minister thanked his Syrian counterpart’s presence in the office of the Iranian ambassador to Damascus immediately after the terrorist attack.
The strike proved that Israel is not committed to any international regulations and humanitarian law, he said.
“We regard Syria’s security as our own security,” the top Iranian diplomat added.
He emphasized that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration is taking its last breath and the regime’s crimes will fail to guarantee its survival.
“Such incidents will strengthen the will and cohesion of Iran and Syria to improve stability and security in the region and to stop the Zionist regime in the region,” the Iranian foreign minister said.
The Syrian foreign minister, for his part, said Iran and Syria do not recognize Israel and believe that the criminal regime is not committed to any international regulations and principles as well as the UN Charter.
Mekdad added that Israel’s military aggression against Iran’s diplomatic premises and Syria’s infrastructure are not dissociated from the regime’s crimes against the people of Palestine in Gaza.
He criticized hypocritical Western countries for remaining silent vis-à-vis last week’s terrorist attack in Damascus and said they do not respect any international human rights principles.
The top Syrian diplomat emphasized that Israel’s criminal act against Iran will not go unanswered.
Amir-Abdollahian left Oman to visit Syria’s capital Damascus a week after Iran’s consulate there was targeted in the Israeli attack.
Iran has vowed to avenge the martyrdom of seven of military advisors, with a senior adviser to the Leader saying on Sunday that Israeli embassies were no longer safe.
Amir-Abdollahian started a regional tour on Sunday in Muscat, where he met Omani officials and a representative of Yemen’s Ansarullah Muhammad Abdelsalam, who said Yemeni fighters would continue to target Israel-bound ships until a ceasefire is reached in Gaza.
“The attack on Iran’s embassy building in Damascus is a new step in Israel’s warmongering and its attempt to expand war regionally,” Amir-Abdollahian said while in Oman.