Iran Press/ Middle East: In an interview with Russia Today on Saturday night Faisal Mekdad slammed US sanctions on Syria. “If the Western countries are really careful about Syrian citizens, they should lift their sanctions…,” he said, adding that they “aren’t allowing us to even import medical instruments, not to mention foods and other necessary materials.
The “unilateral coercive measures” by the US and other Western countries “are killing the Syrian people” and some 95% of the population are affected by them, Mekdad added.
Syria’s top diplomat reiterated the demand by Damascus for some 900 American troops to finally withdraw from the country.
“[The US] have to stop their infringement on the territorial integrity of Syria because they are illegally entering into Syria…they have to stop stealing Syrian oil, and Syrian wheat, and other Syrian property,” Mekdad continued, adding that without American support, “Daesh (ISIS) would have been eliminated a long time ago.”
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