A key Khamenei aid on Saturday threatened Turkey to rethink its policies on Syria, the NATO missile shield and promoting Muslim secularism in the Arab world — or face trouble from its own people and neighbours, Reuters reported.
In an interview with the Iranian regime’s state-run Mehr news agency, military adviser Rahim Safavi (former IRGC commander) also backed the Syrian dictator’s brutal crackdown of peaceful demonstrators.
While Tehran has publicly urged its close ally Syria to listen to people’s legitimate demands, Erdogan has predicted Assad will be ousted “sooner or later” and is set to impose sanctions on Damascus despite a veto on U.N. action by Russia and China.
But it is Turkey’s decision to deploy a NATO missile early warning system that has most angered Tehran, which sees this as a U.S. ploy to protect Israel from any counter-attack should the Jewish state target Iran’s nuclear facilities.