DUBAI Sat Dec 22, 2012 2:46am EST
DUBAI (Reuters) - The setting up involving Patriot anti-missile batteries provided by way of NATO customers in order to beef up Turkey's defenses next to a doable missile attack from Syria will probably only damage Turkey's security, Iran's protection minister had been quoted seeing that telling upon Saturday.
NATO sanctioned Turkey's demand with the air conditioning defense technique earlier this kind of month, within a switch supposed to relax Ankara's fears of staying click by Syrian missiles.
Iran provides passionately supported its Arab ally President Bashar al-Assad regarding Syria seeing that he attempts in order to control a 21-month-old uprising versus his rule. Tehran opposes the particular installation involving NATO missiles as Western disturbance while in the spot and possesses mentioned that could bring on a new "world war.
"The set up regarding Patriot missiles in Turkey performs very little factor throughout establishing Turkey's security and also this harms belgium regarding Turkey," Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said upon Saturday, according towards the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA). "The West has usually pursued it is views and also passions and most of us differ when using the existence regarding Western international locations around regional interactions."
Vahidi additionally denied that Iran is definitely exercising Syrian makes for you to fight the rebels, ISNA reported. Iran thinks itself, Syria's rulers as well as Lebanese Shi'ite militant class Hezbollah as part of a great "axis associated with resistance" against U.S. and Israeli electrical power with the actual Middle East, however includes waived accusations so it serving Assad militarily.
"Syria offers simply no dependence on the coaching regarding its allows because of the Islamic Republic with Iran, because Syria incorporates a powerful government which has well prepared by itself for participation along with your Zionist plan (Israel)," Vahidi said.
(Reporting by way of Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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