Iran's Khamenei warns of U.S. loss over intervention in Syria

5 September 2013 10:11 am Views - 1691

Iran's most powerful authority, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the United States was using a chemical attack in Syria as a pretext to interfere in the country and warned it would suffer loss from its intervention, Mehr news agency reported on Thursday.

"In the case of Syria, the chemical attack is a pretext and they say they want to get involved because of humanitarian issues. America has made a mistake in Syria and will certainly suffer loss," Khamenei told a meeting of the Assembly of Experts, a state body.

(Reporting by Marcus George; editing by Mike Collett-White)

(Source : Reuters)