Leader's top aide downplays US attempts to disintegrate Syria

The Leader's top aide for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati played down the US attempts to separate the Kurdish areas from Syria, stressing that the Resistance front will prevent Syria's disintegration.

"The Americans have set up bases in the eastern parts of the Euphrates and want to pave the ground for the separation of Syria's Kurdish areas from the country but it is a wish that will not come true," Velayati said in a joint press conference with Leader of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council Humam Hamoudi in Tehran on Tuesday.

He said that the experience of war against Syria in the past 7 years has shown that the US will not succeed in implementing its plots, adding, "Syria will remain united and integrated and the Resistance front will support Syria's territorial integrity."

Arab media reports claimed on Monday that Washington is planning 'concrete steps' toward providing a Syrian Democratic Forces-controlled area in northern Syria's eastern Euphrates region three times the size of Lebanon with diplomatic recognition.

Velayati is a senior advisor on the international affairs to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

EA