Syrian President Bashar al-Assad called the incident of chemical attack in his country as a Western drama.

In the insurgency-controlled regime of Khan Shakhun in the province of Eidbul, a case of chemical attack is a matter of circumstance. In this, allegations of involvement of his army are 100% false.In a video interview given to AFP, he said there was no directive to carry out the attack. He complained that the West invasion of chemical weapons in Syria has created an excuse to launch a missile attack.Bashar al-Assad questions the credibility of the video footage of the chemical attack. He claimed that it was a dramatic drama of westerners. He said, "We saw the first episode of the drama on social media and TV, then propaganda and military attack in the second phase."