Source: ZeroHedge.com
On Saturday as the new jihadist assault on Aleppo was unfolding, the Iranian government announced that “some terrorist elements” attacked the Iranian consulate located in the large northern Syrian city.
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei in a statement said his country “strongly condemned the attack” by “some armed terrorist elements” on the consulate of the Islamic Republic, and noted that all its staff members are safe.
While few other details were given, Baghaei stressed further that Tehran plans to provide a “serious” response to the attack, “both legally and internationally.”
Iran has also branded the new offensive launched out of Al-Qaeda held Idlib as “an American-Zionist” plot. The past ten decades of proxy war in Syria did see Israel team up with the Sunni anti-Assad insurgency, which also had the support of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the US, Turkey, and some European countries….