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24 January 2014 - 22:54

A Prominent Iranian legislator lashed out at the US and its allies for supporting Al-Qaeda militants fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and warned that the Muslim country’s crisis would spill over to other parts of the Middle East.

“Washington should be accountable to the international community for practicing such wrong policies that have caused regrettable incidents in the Middle East, particularly Syria, Iraq and Lebanon,” Chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said on Thursday.

Boroujerdi reiterated that if Washington and its Western allies do not strongly condemn the acts of violence committed in Syria and do not stop supplying weapons to the terrorist groups, the US will be responsible for all the human rights violations in Syria.

The conflict in Syria started in March 2011, when sporadic pro-reform protests turned into a massive insurgency following the intervention of western and regional states.

The unrest, which took in terrorist groups from across Europe, the Middle-East and North Africa, has transpired as one of the bloodiest conflicts in recent history.

As the foreign-backed insurgency in Syria continues without an end in sight, the US government has boosted its political and military support to Takfiri extremists.

Washington has remained indifferent to warnings by Russia and other world powers about the consequences of arming militant groups.
 

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