"Apart from anything else, we believe it is only the regime that has the capability to take such an attack and make such an attack".
"Definitely, 100 percent for us, it's fabrication", he said during Wednesday's interview.
"Our impression is that the West, mainly the United States, is hand-in-glove with the terrorists".
Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov insisted Friday that inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons should visit both the Syrian air base, which the US said had served as a platform for the attack, and the area of the attack as soon as possible.
Russia, one of the Assad regime's most important allies, has aired doubts that chemical weapons were used at the site.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who hosted his Iranian and Syrian counterparts at a trilateral meeting in Moscow, denounced last week's US attack on Syria as a "flagrant violation" of worldwide law and warned that any further such action would entail "grave consequences not only for regional but global security".
Asked by AFP TV who was responsible for the claimed attack, he said: "It's not clear whether it happened or not, because how can you verify a video?" White House officials say they drew on reports from aid agencies, video evidence, laboratory analysis of samples from victims and classified intelligence to draw that conclusion.
On April 6, the United States had launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Syrian military airfield in Ash Sha'irat in response to the alleged chemical weapon use in Idlib province.
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Directly following Assad's comments, the US-led coalition to defeat ISIS denied the regime's allegations and asserted that it did not launch any strike on Deir Ezzor at that mentioned time. He insisted that his government would never use banned weapons.
Regime ally Russian Federation on Wednesday vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution demanding Syria cooperate with an worldwide investigation of the attack.
It was the Syrian government's second version of events in the space of nine days.
"We will keep monitoring the issue, since the only possible reason for using military force on the territory of Syria is to fight terrorism", Lavrov said.
"He stressed that Russian Federation is in a position to use its influence over the Assad regime to ensure it is never again necessary for the U.S.to act", Toner said.
According to data of the Russian Defense Ministry, Syrian warplanes delivered an airstrike on April 4 that hit workshops where terrorists were producing munitions with chemical agents supplied to Iraq and used in Aleppo.
More than 300,000 people have lost their lives and millions of people have been displaced since a peaceful uprising against Mr Assad six years ago turned into a full-scale civil war.
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