Syria warns Iran not to sow chaos in the country VIDEO

Syria's newly appointed Foreign Minister Assad Hassan al-Sheibani warned Iran not to sow chaos in the country, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.

"Iran must respect the will of the Syrian people, as well as the country's sovereignty and security. "We warn them not to sow chaos in Syria and we hold them responsible for the consequences of their recent statements," Shibani wrote yesterday on the social network "Ex".

On Sunday, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei expressed confidence that young Syrians would oppose the new authorities, ousted by Sunni rebel and Islamist groups that toppled President Bashar al-Assad, who is close to Shiite Iran, earlier this month.

Iran has spent billions of dollars and deployed its elite military units in Syria to prop up Assad's regime during the country's more than 13-year civil war. The fall from power of the long-serving Syrian president is seen as a major blow to the Islamic Republic-led "Axis of Resistance", which is fighting against Israeli and US influence in the Middle East, Reuters notes.