The secretary general of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement has said: "United States knew the use of chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta was a lie, so it has attacked Syria before the OPCW inspection team arrived there".

Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah added:  "Syria will not change for the benefit of the United States or the Zionist regime".

He also said:  "Everyone who thinks that the situation in Syria is changing in favor of the occupying regime of Israel, America or any other country in the region [Saudi Arabia, Turkey or Qatar] is in delusion.  The Syrian air defenses tackled most of the missiles of this aggression and it is  a major and very important military achievement".

 Nasrallah added:  "If a significant achievement occurs in Syria in the future ,the chemical scenario may be repeated.   The United States knew the use of chemical weapons in Eastern Ghouta was a lie, so it attacked Syria before Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons team of inspectors arrived there".