Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami said on Sunday that the US is as weak as ever and its authority has faltered.
Any anti-Syria move will backfire on Washington, Tel Aviv as well as Europe, he pointed out.
Syria has been experiencing unrest since mid-March 2011.
While the West and the Syrian opposition accuse the government of the killings, Damascus blames ”outlaws, saboteurs and armed terrorist groups” for the unrest, insisting that it is being orchestrated from abroad.
On Saturday, Syrian security forces stormed a “den of an armed terrorist group” in a Damascus suburb and killed al-Qaeda-linked terrorist ring leader Walid Ahmad al-Ayesh following heavy exchange of fire.
According to the report published by SANA news agency, al-Ayesh — nicknamed Yasser — had supervised all the recent car bombings that killed and injured hundreds of people in Damascus.
An unknown number of weapons and ammunition were reportedly seized by Syrian authorities during the operation.
The SANA report described al-Ayesh as “the right hand” man of al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra front, which is reportedly involved in the foreign-sponsored terror campaign against Syrian forces as well as ordinary citizens.
The first major car-bomb blasts were carried out against two Syrian security centers in Damascus on December 22, 2011, using two explosives-laden vehicles.
Damascus was also the target of a major terrorist assault on May 10, when the state TV said 55 people were killed and nearly 400 others injured in two bomb attacks on a main freeway south of the capital.
The latest car bombing in Damascus took place last Thursday near the holy shrine of Sayyida Zeinab (PBUH), the granddaughter of the Prophet of Islam, injuring 14 bystanders.
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