DUBAI, December 6. /TASS/. Terrorism will spread into Turkey, Jordan, and Iraq if terrorist groups in Syria are not exterminated immediately, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.
"These terrorists will not just stop with Syria. This threat hangs over the entire region and will spread to other countries, such as Jordan, Turkey, Iraq. Terrorism must be nipped in the bud, otherwise it will spread to adjacent territories. If we want to defend our security, we must defend our neighbors from terrorism," his press service quoted him as saying at a joint news conference with his Syrian and Iraqi counterparts in Baghdad.
According to Araghchi, "anyone who ignores the role of the Zionist regime (Israel - TASS) in the Syrian crisis is making a mistake." He said that the current outbreak of terrorist activities in Syria is a result of an "American-Israeli plot" and called for holding any "countries that keep silent or support these terrorist attacks" accountable.
Units of the Jabhat al-Nusra extremist group (outlawed in Russia) staged a large-scale attack on Syria’s northern governorates early on November 27. According to the Syrian government army command, the terrorists attempted to seize a number of neighborhoods and military facilities, attacking the positions of government forces. Later, the Syrian army command said that government forces had to retreat from Aleppo to and prepare for a counterattack.
On December 5, the Syrian army command said that militants had infiltrated sever neighborhoods in the city of Hama, the administrative center of the governorate of the same name in western Syria. According to its statement, government forces were redeployed outside the city.