"Many facts tend to prove the innocence of the Syrian government, which has been subject to false accusations," al-Jaafari said on Wednesday.

Jaafari also said that such facts approve that "armed groups have used chemical weapons in order to bring about military intervention and aggression against Syria."

The West and Turkey "have enabled terrorist groups to create a laboratory for chemical weapons on Turkish territory with materials provided by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar... and to bring these chemical weapons to Syria for use," he said.

Al-Jaafari’s remarks come after the rhetoric of war against Syria gains momentum.

On August 21, the militants operating inside Syria and the foreign-backed Syrian opposition claimed that 1,300 people had been killed in a government chemical attack on militant strongholds in the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar.

A number of Western countries, including the US, France, and Britain, were quick to adopt the rhetoric of war against Syria despite the fact that Damascus has categorically rejected the baseless claim, and announced later that the chemical attack had actually been carried out by the militants themselves as a false flag operation.

Iran, Russia and China, among other countries, have warned against foreign military intervention in Syria, which has been gripped by deadly unrest since 2011.

The war in Syria started in March 2011, when pro-reform protests turned into a massive insurgency following the intervention of Western and regional states.

More than 100,000 people have died in the foreign-hatched civil war and millions have been displaced.

A very large number of the militants operating inside Syria are reportedly foreign nationals who resort to any act of terror to destabilize Syria which is considered a pillar of anti-Israeli resistance.

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