Iran dismisses as “baseless” the accusations leveled by the US at the Iranian Armed Forces in a bid to justify its recent illegal airstrikes on Iraq and Syria.

Mohamed Ali al-Houthi, head of the supreme revolutionary committee of Ansarullah, was giving an interview to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry summoned the US diplomat to deliver a formal memorandum of protest over the overnight airstrikes.

The Syrian Defense Ministry has blasted deadly strikes by the US occupation forces against a number of sites in Iraq and Syria, saying Washington’s assault is aimed at reviving the Daesh terrorist group in the two neighboring countries.

Iraq condemns the latest US strikes against the position of anti-terror resistance groups on its territory as a “violation of Iraqi sovereignty”, warning of “disastrous consequences” for the country and beyond.

Iraq’s national security adviser calls on the US to pile pressure on Israel to halt the ongoing onslaught against Gaza than to carry out strikes in Iraq against anti-terror resistance groups.

The spokesman for the commander-in-chief of Iraq’s Armed Forces denounces the recent US strikes against sites and facilities of the Iraqi army and anti-terror groups as “unacceptable” and a “blatant” violation of the Arab country’s sovereignty.