Iranian President Hassan Rouhani believes that Tehran's continued cooperation with Turkey may help prevent an escalation of tensions in Syria.
The Iranian head of state also denounced last Saturday's US, British and French missile strikes on Syria.
“It is a very ugly precedent in international relations that some powerful and bullying countries attack another country whenever they like,” Rouhani said during a telephone linkup with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Press TV reported.
President Rouhani slammed the Western powers' selective approach to the use of chemical weapons and said that the Islamic Republic has always condemned the use of such weapons by any country.
“When nothing has been proven and inspectors of the Organization for Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have not announced the results of their research and investigations, no country or countries must be allowed to carry out a military action,” he emphasized.
Rouhani added that fighting terrorism, ending the war in Syria and establishing security in the region topped the agenda of the recent meeting of the Iranian, Russian and Turkish presidents in Ankara.
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