Iranian Foreign Minister says the resurgence of terrorism in Syria is due to an American-Israeli ploy to undermine security and stability in West Asia.

Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, made the remarks in a phone call with his Syrian counterpart Bassam al-Sabbagh on Friday.

Araghchi described the unwelcome development as “an American-Zionist design” that had ensued the Israeli regime’s defeats at the hands of resistance movements in Lebanon and throughout the Palestinian territories.

The comments echoed those made by the official in a Thursday call with his Lebanese counterpart Abdallah Bou Habib, during which the former had called the phenomenon a US-Israeli scenario aimed at destabilizing West Asia after failures of the Zionist regime in confronting Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement.

Araghchi also underlined that the menace of terrorism had been countered effectively by the Arab country.

Araghchi underlined the Islamic Republic’s continued support for the Syrian government, nation, and army towards fighting terrorism and protecting regional security and stability.

The comments reflected Tehran’s acting as the first country to rush to the Arab nation’s support in 2014, when foreign-backed terrorism and militancy swept large swathes of the country.

Damascus, however, managed to gradually reverse the tide with the help of its allies, regaining the lost territory and vanquishing Daesh, the most brutal of the terrorist outfits, in 2017.

Sabbagh, meanwhile, reported on the situation on the ground in northern Syria following the terrorist attacks emphasizing the resistance of the Syrian state and people against terrorist aggression.

Members of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) Takfiri terrorist group were reported to have overrun many government-controlled areas and killed dozens of Syrian soldiers in the Arab country’s north.

Later, though, Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television network said the Syrian army had thwarted large-scale terrorist operations in the Aleppo Province through a preemptive strike.