Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Hassan Qashqavi, condemned Monday the U.S. raid into Syria, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Addressing the correspondents in the weekly press conference, Qashqavi called the U.S. raid unacceptable.
"Iran condemns strongly any form of violation of the territorial integrity of any sovereign state which leads to the death of innocent civilians," the report quoted the official as saying.
Syria is the only Arab state which has allied with Iran over the region's major issues since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
On Sunday, U.S. forces ferried by helicopter crossed five miles into Syria from Iraq and launched a commando raid that left at least eight people dead.
The raid was directed at a network that used to send fighters from North Africa and the Middle East to Syria, where elements of the Syrian military are in league with al-Qaida and other fighters, the U.S. officials claimed.
Source:Xinhua
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