Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, leader of the Islamic Revolution in a speech has strongly denounced joint airstrikes by the US, the UK and France on Syria as “crime.”
He also describing the leaders of the three Western states as “criminals.”
“I clearly declare that the US president, the French president and the UK prime minister are criminals and have committed a crime,” the leader said on Saturday.
The three countries, Ayatollah Khamenei said, "will achieve nothing and make no benefit, as they have been in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan in the past few years, and committed such crimes but have not profited from them."
The leader was reacting to a coordinated missile attack by the US, Britain and France on Syria in the early hours of Saturday over an alleged chemical attack in the Damascus suburb last week.
Syria came under attack one week after a suspected chemical weapons attack hit the Syrian town of Douma near Damascus.
Western countries blamed the incident on the Syrian government, but Damascus rejected the accusations as “chemical fabrications” made by the terrorists themselves in a bid to halt pro-government forces’ advances.