In a letter to the Security Council, America called the aggression against Syria legal and self-defense
On August 26, Linda Thomas Greenfield, the ambassador and permanent representative of the United States to the United Nations, sent this letter to the Security Council and claimed that her country’s recent attacks on what she called the positions of Iran’s support forces were legal measures within the framework of self-defense under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. Is.
According to the claim of this American official, on August 15, these groups attacked some positions of the American forces in Syria and endangered their lives.
The American ambassador has claimed that after these attacks, the United States, in the framework of self-defense and supporting its forces and facilities, bombed a facility in the suburbs of the Syrian city of Deir Ezzor to prevent further attacks on its positions in Syria.
In a letter, the President of the United States informed the speaker of the US House of Representatives and the Acting President of the Senate of his country’s aggressive attacks on eastern Syria and said that these attacks were carried out on his orders.
According to the White House, the letter states: On August 23, 2022, on my order, the United States forces carried out pinpoint attacks on facilities in eastern Syria.
Biden claimed that these facilities were used by Iran-backed groups and attacked American forces and facilities in Syria with drones, rockets and mortars.
The President of the United States has also claimed that he ordered this attack in order to protect and defend the security of American forces.
Biden has also claimed that the US is ready to take more measures if necessary to deal with further threats and attacks.
Previously, John Kirby, the strategic communications coordinator of the National Security Council of the White House, on Wednesday evening local time, in justifying his country’s aggression against Syria, claimed that the targets of the recent attacks were ammunition depots and military infrastructure.
In a conversation with reporters in Washington, at the same time, he claimed: As in the past, America does not seek to escalate tensions.
With the defeat of the terrorist group “ISIS” as the military arm of the United States in Syria in December 2016, the American forces directly replaced this group and from that time they began extracting and stealing Syrian oil instead of ISIS and continue killing the people of this country. .
During the recent years, America in the West Asian region, especially in Syria, has become a scourge of people’s lives and stolen their oil resources, an action that was carried out by the ISIS terrorist group before this.
The areas under the occupation of the American forces and the “QSD” militias supported by them in al-Hasakah and other northern areas of Syria have always witnessed the protests of Syrian citizens against the presence of terrorist actions by the occupiers and militias against the residents of these areas.