INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN- Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Saeed Khatibzadeh, said on Saturday that Tehran rejects military action against regional
nations, emphasizing that the best way to allay Turkey's security worries is via dialogue rather than another foray into Syria.The
statements were made following Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's vow to begin a fresh military operation in Syria with the
tensions, and result in humanitarian disasters in the region.While the Islamic Republic recognizes Turkey's security concerns, he said the
best way to address them is via dialogue and respect for bilateral agreements with neighbors, as well as agreements established within the
will soon take new steps regarding the incomplete portions of the project we started on the 30-km deep safe zone we established along our
country.In October 2019, Ankara-backed militants were sent to northeastern Syria as Turkish armed troops started a long-threatened
cross-border incursion in a declared attempt to drive militants from the People's Protection Units (YPG) out of border regions.Ankara sees
the YPG as a terrorist group linked to Turkey's own Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has been fighting for an autonomous Kurdish
territory since 1984.Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and other top officials have stated that Damascus will respond to Turkish forces'
ongoing ground attack in Syria's northern provinces using all lawful methods at their disposal.Damascus has also emphatically rejected
Erdogan's plan for the creation of a "safe zone" in the occupied northern portion of the Arab country, calling it an "aggressive, colonial
act."The Syrian Foreign Ministry asserted in recent letters to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and UN Security Council rotating
president Linda Thomas-Greenfield that Ankara wants to establish a volatile region within Syria and continue to support, arm, and command
terror groups against the Syrian country.Turkey's actions on Syrian territory, according to the statement, are unlawful and have no legal
