President Assad: Chemical file West's lie for raiding Syria

Damascus, March 5, IRNA – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad described the 'chemical file' as a term of the Western lie idioms, used as a pretext for attacking Syrian forces. Speaking to reporters on Sunday on the fabrications against the Syrian government of using chemical materials against civilians, President Assad said that the chemical file has become a term of the Western lie idioms; and it is not the first time we hear it, I believe that we all heard this idiom for the first time in 2012. “In addition, we abandoned the chemical weapons in 2013 and there is an organization concerned in inquiring this issue, and if there was any evidence, it would announce this thing, so I repeat, it is a mere blackmail which is used as a pretext to direct strikes against the Syrian army,' SANA quoted President al-Assad as saying. “We meet with Iranian and Russian delegations in order to tackle the current situation, at the same time, in order to continue the outcomes of Sochi congress and during the coming days, there will be a Russian, Iranian and Turkish tripartite meeting to discuss the situation in Syria,” he said on his meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister’s Special Assistant for Political Affairs, Hussein Jabeeri Ansari. As for the UN Security Council resolution No. 2401, President al-Assad affirmed that the Syrian Arab army doesn’t launch aggression to stop the aggression, but the army is returning stability and defending the people, the mentioned resolution came in its first formula in order to protect terrorists in the face of the Syrian army, but when the resolution came in the current formula, which is relatively good, instructions were given to the terrorists to continue shelling Damascus city. “We have not started from Ghouta; we have started since the first day in combating terrorism in every place, we have started in Aleppo, Homs and Deir Ezzor; the operation in Ghouta is a continuation of combating terrorism in different places,” President al-Assad said, according to SANA. As for the UN resolution and humanitarian file, the Syrian president added that the talk about humanity in the Western logic means one thing, which is translated in Syria, that is; the Syrian Army is advancing. The Syrian president wondered what the Western coalition is doing every day in Deir Ezzor, Raqqa and Hasaka, daily massacres, in February alone, there were more than four massacres against civilians. On the truce in Eastern Ghouta and the evacuation of civilians, President al-Assad stressed that the majority of citizens in Eastern Ghouta want to get out of the terrorists’ shadow into the lap of the State, so, the operation against terrorism will continue in parallel with the opening the way for the civilians to get out into the State’s regions. As for the massacres perpetrated by the US-led coalition against civilians in Deir Ezzor and Raqqa, President al-Assad stressed that the Western coalition is simply Daesh’s air force, regardless of naming, adding that this coalition supports Jabhat al-Nusra, Daesh and other similar terrorist organizations without any shame. “The entry of popular forces to Afrin is a normal thing; when there is an external aggression, it is natural that the social spectrum unify when the Syrian Arab army is engaged in the fight against terrorists in other places,” President al-Assad said regarding the Turkish regime’s attempts to enter Afrin. 1378/IRNA