The head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations in a meeting with the UN special representative for Iraq expressed concern about developments in Syria, warning of the spreading insecurity from Syria to Iraq.

According to The Iran Project, Kamal Kharrazi made the remarks in Tehran on Wednesday, in a meeting with Mohamed al-Hassan, the United Nations special representative for Iraq and head of the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI).

“The macro plan consisting of decreasing the regional countries’ capability in the face of the Zionist regime’s violations, including the destruction of Syria as a country that supports the Resistance, has always been on the US and the regime’s agenda,” the Iranian diplomat said, PressTV reported.

Kharrazi cited remarks made by former US president Barack Obama during his tenure, in which he said, “Assad must go” as an example of Washington’s destructive ambitions towards Syria.

The veteran diplomat pointed to the Israeli regime’s having markedly intensified its deadly attacks against Syria, especially targeting its military infrastructure, in the aftermath of the country’s takeover by terrorist groups, who are widely reported to have been receiving extensive military support and cooperation on the part of Tel Aviv and the West since the outbreak of foreign-backed militancy in the country in 2011.