Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says US strike in Syria based on 'bogus' allegations

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Friday that a US missile strike on a Syrian airbase was based on "bogus" chemical weapons allegations. 

Tehran: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Friday that a US missile strike on a Syrian airbase was based on "bogus" chemical weapons allegations. 

Washington "resorts to military force over bogus CW (chemical weapons) allegations: 1st in 2003 and now in Syria," he tweeted.

He was comparing the strike to the US-led invasion of Iraq, which was premised on allegations that Baghdad had weapons of mass destruction which later turned out to be unfounded. 

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