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Iran slams Israeli 'aggression in Syria

Amid high tensions in the region after air strikes, Iranian FM to visit Russia, China for talks to save nuke deal

Agencies
Iran has backed Syria's "right to defend itself after Israel launched strikes on what it said was Iranian military infrastructure inside Syria, reports BBC.
In the first comments by Iran since Thursday's wave of strikes by Israel, the foreign ministry condemned the "blatant violation of Syria's sovereignty".
Foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi was quoted on Iranian state TV as saying: "Iran strongly condemns... [Israel's] attacks on Syria. The international community's silence encourages Israel's aggression. Syria has every right to defend itself."
Ghasemi said Israel "cannot stand peace and stability in the region and sees its own safety in making the region all the more unstable".
He said Israel's "baseless pretexts amount to a blatant violation of Syria's sovereignty and goes against all international conventions".
He did not refer to Iran's military presence inside Syria, the BBC report added.
Ghasemi said the attacks were an attempt by international supporters of rebel groups fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to shore them up after their "many failures" and to try to "tip the scales in their favour".
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will embark on a diplomatic tour to try to salvage the nuclear deal amid high tensions following the US withdrawal and global fears over reports of unprecedented clashes with Israel in Syria, reports AFP.
He will leave later today for visits to Beijing, Moscow and Brussels, a spokesman said yesterday, holding meetings with all five of the remaining parties to the 2015 nuclear deal.
Iran appeared determined not to be drawn into a wider regional conflict with Israel during the sensitive negotiations.
That is despite Israel's claims that it struck dozens of Iranian targets inside Syria early on Thursday as part of "Operation House of Cards".
Israeli Defence Minister Minister Avigdor Lieberman urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to “throw the Iranians out" from his country.
Israel said the strikes were in response to a missile volley fired from southern Syria by Iran's Al-Quds force that struck the occupied Golan Heights without causing casualties.
Iran must tread a delicate line as it
seeks to show resolve against Trump and the Israeli strikes without alienating the European partners it needs to salvage something from the nuclear deal.
Zarif will hold high-pressure talks with the other parties to the deal, first in Beijing and Moscow, and then with his counterparts from Britain, France and Germany in Brussels on Tuesday.
All five have condemned Trump's move to walk out of the deal and reimpose crippling sanctions, but European companies in particular will be highly vulnerable to economic pressure from Washington.
France still hopes for a wider settlement that will cover Iran's activities across the Middle East, and warned Tehran on Thursday "against any temptation for regional dominance". SYRIA QUIET BUT TENSE
Southern Syria was quiet but tense yesterday, with monitors saying that Syrian, Iranian and allied Lebanese forces from
Hezbollah were still on high alert.
The Israeli raids had prompted concern that Iran could activate its powerful ally Hezbollah to retaliate from its positions in southern Lebanon, opening up a deadly new front in the conflict.
Iranian analysts said Israel had struck first on Thursday, and that any retaliation was the work of the Syrian military, not Iran.
"The Israelis want to make this into an Iran-Israel thing, but it isn't. Whatever happens in Syria happens under the command of the Syrians," said analyst Mohammad Marandi, who was part of Iran's negotiation team leading up to the nuclear deal.
Analysts say Israel feels it has a green light from Washington to move more aggressively against Iran's presence in Syria, particularly after Trump's withdrawal from the nuclear deal.
They also see a rare chance for Iran to hold the moral high ground.
"For the first time, Iran has the chance to show the world they are not the rogue nation they are always presented as, that they negotiated in good faith and keep to their commitments," said Karim Emile Bitar, of the Institute for International and Strategic Affairs in Paris.
Russia - which is alone in having close relations with both Iran and Israel - has sought to position itself as a mediator to prevent further escalation.
Its foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said "all issues should be solved through dialogue" and that it had warned Israel to avoid "all actions that could be seen as provocative".
However, one analyst at London's Chatham House, Yossi Mekelberg, told AFP the strikes on Iranian targets "were likely undertaken with tacit Russian approval".
"Russia is not happy with Iran gaining too much power, too much influence there," he said.