His comments came after Saudi Arabia said earlier this week it would be willing to send troops as part of a US-led military campaign against Islamic State extremists. The group controls large parts of Syria and Iraq.
Al-Moallem said conventional wisdom and logic would suggest the idea of Saudi troops in Syria is far-fetched, but that "with the crazy Saudi leadership nothing is far-fetched."
"Any ground intervention in Syria, without the consent of the Syrian government, will be considered an aggression that should be resisted by every Syrian citizen," he told a news conference in Damascus. "I regret to say that they will return home in wooden coffins."
The talks broke down in large part because of Syrian government offensives, including on the outskirts of Aleppo, once the country's largest city. The offensive, aimed at encircling rebel strongholds in Aleppo, was backed by intense Russian airstrikes and sent thousands of area residents fleeing toward a closed Turkish border.
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Al-Moallem said the government advances signaled that the five-year-old Syria war is nearing its end. "I can say, from the achievements for our armed forces ... That we are now on track to end the conflict," he said. "Like it or not, our battlefield achievements indicate that we are headed toward the end of the crisis."
Al-Moallem dismissed the representatives of the Saudi-backed opposition in Geneva, suggesting they followed orders from Saudi Arabia and were "not real Syrians."
He alleged the opposition never intended to negotiate seriously. "They did not come to have dialogue, they did not have such orders," he said.
Al-Moallem said the Syrian government was ready to have dialogue with Syrians, but without preconditions.