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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Reaction from the international community started to pour in Friday, hours   
   after the U.S. carried out airstrikes on a Syrian airfield in order to prevent   
   more chemical attacks in the region.   
      
   Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement that "In both   
   word and action" Trump "sent a strong and clear message" that "the use and   
   spread of chemical weapons will not be tolerated."   
      
   Israeli President Reuven Rivlin praised the U.S. for its airstrike aimed at an   
   airbase called Shayrat. He  called on the world to bring an end to the   
   atrocities committed by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.   
      
   "In the face of the terrible use of chemical weapons against innocent   
   civilians, the clear and determined steps of the US Administration and   
   Military under the leadership of President Trump, constitute a fitting and   
   appropriate response to such    
   unthinkable brutality,” Rivlin said.   
      
   Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed support for the U.S. missile   
   attack on Friday saying that the country understood and supported the   
   strategy. Abe added that the strikes were "a means to prevent further   
   deterioration of the situation" referring    
   to the suspected chemical attack.   
      
   Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told reporters that the Australian   
   government supported the “swift and just response” of the U.S. airstrikes.   
      
   "This was a calibrated, proportionate and targeted response. It sends a strong   
   message to the Assad regime, and ... has been struck at the very airfield from   
   which the chemical attack was delivered,” Turnbull said.   
      
   Turkey welcomed the airstrike, calling it an “important and meaningful”   
   development, but urged the world to take an even tougher stance on Assad.   
      
   “We see the (airstrikes) as positive, but we believe that this should be   
   completed," Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said. "The Assad regime's   
   barbarism must immediately be stopped."   
      
   The Kremlin said in a statement Friday that the airstrike was an “aggression   
   against a sovereign state in violation of international law.” President   
   Vladimir Putin believes that the U.S. authorized the strieks under a   
   “far-fetched pretext,” the    
   statement said.   
      
   Russian deputy envoy to the U.N., Vladimir Safronkov, said Russia had warned   
   the U.S. to "think about what military actions have led to in Iraq, Libya and   
   other countries," according to the Interfax news agency.   
      
   Iran also condemned the airstrikes. Iran Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram   
   Ghasemi said in a statement that the missile strike the “unilateral action   
   is dangerous, destructive and violates principles of international law.”   
      
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