Earlier this year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad underlined that Tehran would maintain and reinvigorate its alliance with Syria under any kind of condition and would defend Damascus against any possible military aggression by the West.

A senior Iranian lawmaker cautioned the US to take Tehran’s tough warnings against a military intervention in Syria seriously, stressing that the Syrian people will not tolerate foreign interference in their country’s affairs.

“Iran’s warning against intervention in Syria’s affairs is serious and it is in the interest of the Americans to avoid meddling in Islamic states’ affairs,” Vice-Chairman of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Hossein Ebrahimi told FNA on Wednesday.

He added that Muslim states will not allow Washington to turn Syria into another Iraq for the sake of Israel’s interests.

The lawmaker also pointed to the Syrian people’s sensitivity about foreign meddling, and reiterated, “Americans do not know that the Syrian people will not tolerate Americans’ intervention even in the worst conditions.”

He further dismissed some recent claims about an upcoming regime collapse in Syria, stressing that Damascus is fully able to thwart US plots.

On Sunday, the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission reiterated Tehran’s continued and full support for Syria as a main pillar of resistance against the US and Zionist regime’s policies in the region.

Rapporteur of the Commission Kazzem Jalali said that members of his commission discussed the latest developments in connection to Syria, including the Arab League’s decision to suspend Syria from the bloc, during their meeting on Sunday.

Iran and Syria have always enjoyed a strong and strategic alliance ever since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Earlier this year, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad underlined that Tehran would maintain and reinvigorate its alliance with Syria under any kind of condition and would defend Damascus against any possible military aggression by the West.

According to the Lebanese daily Al-Diyar, Ahmadinejad’s decisive remarks were made during a meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, in Tehran late in August.

The report said that Sheikh Hamad was conveying a message from the US to President Ahmadinejad calling on Iran to abandon support for Bashar al-Assad’s government.

The daily said that the meeting by the Qatari Emir has failed to yield his desirable result since President Ahmadinejad strongly emphasized that “any Western aggression against Syria would make every Muslim to stand beside Syria”.

“That would be the action Iran will take,” the daily quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.