MP warns West about dire consequences of military intervention in Syria

A senior Syrian lawmaker warned against military intervention in his country, and stressed that any war on Damascus will leave devastating impacts on the Middle-East. "If pressures mount on Syria, the Middle-East will move towards a devastating war and that would be a heavy cost," Shahada Kamel told FNA on Tuesday. "In case of a military attack on Syria, resistance groups in the region will not keep silent," Kamel stated, and dismissed the existence of a trans-regional capability to start military intervention in the Arab country. Last week, another Syrian MP warned said that the dire consequences and aftermaths of any military action against Syria would not be confined to the Arab state. "A war on Syria would not be confined to the country's borders and would certainly have (damaging) impacts on the US allies," Mohammad Zahir al-Qonoum told FNA on Saturday. The remarks by the Syrian parliamentarian came after Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague said that military intervention in Syria is "not a remote possibility" as he called on the international community to exert stronger pressure on Bashar al-Assad's government. Meantime, the French authorities ruled out the possibility of military intervention in Syria, citing that the situation in Syria was different from Libya. "The situation in Libya and Syria are not similar. No option of a military nature is considered," Christine Fages, deputy spokeswoman of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said during a regular press briefing.