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Turkey will suffer much detriment, should the Patriot defense missiles be deployed near Turkey’s border with Syria, Brigadier General Yadollah Javani, Senior Advisor to the Supreme Leader's Representative in the IRGC, told Iran’s news agency Mehr in an interview. 

Referring to Turkey's request for NATO to deploy Patriot defense missiles near its common border with Syria, Yadollah Javani said, in part, “By deploying Patriot defense missiles, Turkey prepares a ground for a military intervention in Syria. Ankara, however, should realize that it is making a strategic mistake, and will suffer much detriment.”

Commenting on Turkey's Syria policy, Brigadier General Yadollah Javani stated, “Erdogan’s government not only did not contribute to the resolution of the Syrian conflict, moreover, by supporting terrorists, it betrayed its neighbor. Currently everyone in Syria from ordinary citizens to national minorities (Kurds) has a negative attitude to Turkey.”

We will remind that referring to the recent visits of Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, Mansour Haghighat-Pour, Vice Chairman of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said to Iran's semi-official news agency Fars on Monday, “During his meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Iranian Majlis Speaker tried to make the Turkish officials understand that their policy on Syria is wrong. Besides, Ali Larijani also seriously warned Erdogan against the deployment of the Patriot defense missiles near Turkey’s border with Syria as well as against Ankara’s support for Syrian opposition.”