“The US opinion about its ability to limit a military intervention to Syria is nothing more than an illusion. The reactions will go beyond Syrian borders,” Jafari said on Saturday.
Jafari added that Washington’s failure to create a coalition to wage a new war in the Middle East region has led the US to seek a military intervention limited to Syria.
The Iranian commander advised Washington to learn from its experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Just as US meddling in the Muslim world has led to the spread of extremism, violence and terrorism, attacking Syria will intensify the spread of extremism,” Jafari added.
On August 21, the militants operating inside Syria accused the government of launching a chemical attack on the militants’ stronghold, which claimed 1,300 lives in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar.
A number of Western countries, including the US, France, and the UK, were quick to adopt the rhetoric of war against Syria despite the fact that Damascus has categorically rejected the claim as baseless, announcing later the chemical attack had actually been carried out by militants themselves as a false flag operation.
The UN said earlier that an analysis over the use of chemical weapons in Syria would take time after the inspectors collected samples from the site of the attack.
