Iran condemns US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria

Iran's foreign ministry condemned overnight the U.S. retaliatory airstrikes in Iraq and Syria as a "violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity" of the two countries. 

In a statement, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said the attacks were also "a clear violation of the United Nations Charter." 

“In addition to an all-out support of the US for four months of relentless and barbaric attacks by the Zionist regime against the residents of Gaza and the West Bank, and military attacks on Yemen and violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country, last night’s attacks on Syria and Iraq were another adventurous action and another strategic error by the US government which will have no result but to intensify tensions and instability in the region," Kanaani said.

“The attacks merely support the goals of the Zionist regime. Such attacks increasingly involve the US government in the region and overshadow the crimes of the Zionist regime in Gaza," he concluded. 

The U.S. airstrikes came in response to the deaths of three U.S. service members last Sunday on a U.S. base in Jordan.

The American soldiers were killed in a drone strike launched by militant groups supported by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), according to U.S. officials.