Damascus and Tehran have begun mobilizing tribes and Kurds against the US-led international coalition in northeast Syria, in parallel with letters sent by Damascus to the Security Council against the alliance. Russia Today quoted on Wednesday Iran’s Adviser for International Affairs Ali Akbar Velayati as saying that the Syrian Kurdish tribes were fighting the United States and would expel it from the area east of the Euphrates in northeast Syria. “Tehran is confident that if the Americans did not come to their senses and leave Syria, the Kurds will expel them,” he added. Velayati’s comments came during his talks with representatives of Syrian tribal sheikhs in Tehran. This coincided with a meeting between Chairman of the Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy in the Iranian Shura Council Alaeddin Boroujerdi and the head of the Syrian regime Bashar Assad. “We will respond (to Israel) in the right place and time,” Boroujerdi said at a press conference at the end of a visit to Damascus. “Iran’s military presence in Syria was based on a request from the Syrian government,” he stressed. On Sunday night, military bases were attacked in the cities of Hama and Aleppo, regime media said, without specifying the source of the missiles. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that Israel could be responsible for the strikes, pointing out that weapons were stored at the targeted bases that were manned by Iranian forces. The strikes killed 26 pro-Damascus gunmen, most of them Iranians, according to the Observatory. Meanwhile, regime media also reported that the Foreign Ministry addressed a letter to the UN Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council, saying the US-led international coalition “has committed a new massacre against innocent Syrians.” “We call for ending the illegal presence of the US and other foreign forces on Syrian territory and preventing the United States from implementing its plans aimed at dividing Syria,” the ministry said.