Iran Press/ Middle East: The stern warning was delivered by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem on Thursday during a joint presser with his Venezuelan counterpart, Jorge Arreaza, in the capital, Damascus, the official SANA news agency reported.
Syria, Muallem said, is strongly determined to protect its sovereignty and liberate every inch of the country, which has been, since 2011, the scene of a crisis fueled by the US, Israel and their allies with the aim of toppling the Damascus government, Iran Press reported.
The top diplomat further blasted the US for becoming the sole country in the world to recognize Syria's Golan Heights as Israeli territory last month, in a move that marked a break from decades of US foreign policy on the occupied Syrian land and flew in the face of UN resolutions.
Muallem, however, downplayed the impact of Washington's dramatic policy shift on Golan and said "it would only produce a single effect, which is further isolation for the US."
He further emphasized the Syrian nation's right to its land and said "every inch of the occupied Syrian territories will be liberated.”
“Syria will liberate the occupied Golan by all means, and all choices are on the table,” Muallem stressed. "Israel’ mustn’t go [too] far...We have the will and determination."
Muallem further criticized the Arab League from failing to adopt a firm stance on Washington's contentious U-turn on Golan at its recent summit in Tunisia.
“Is it possible that the Arab Summit issues a statement on the occupied Syrian Golan which is weaker than Britain’s stance?”
Elsewhere, Muallem said, despite the many gains the Syrian army -- backed by Iran and Russia -- has made on the battlefield against terrorists, “Our war on terrorism hasn’t stopped and the conspiracy against us is continued through the military assault and the economic siege with the aim of prolonging the crisis in Syria in the interest of ‘Israel’.”
He further dismissed as mere lies President Donald Trump's claims that the US would withdraw its military forces from Syria in the coming months.
“The US administration lies with regard to pulling out its troops, which are illegitimately deployed in Syria, and it isn’t our duty to teach them to be honest,” Muallem said.
Trump signed a decree recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan at the start of a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington on Monday.
Since then, the US has become the subject of a new round of furor by world countries over Trump’s controversial decision. 105
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