Iran’s Deputy Chief of Staff: Terrorist Groups in Region Created by US Spy Agencies

TEHRAN (ST)- A senior Iranian commander warned of the enemies’ plots to spread Islamophobia, and said the terrorist groups in the region have been created by the spy agencies of the US and its allies.

According to FNA, The world public opinion is aware that the phenomena such as the al-Nusrah Front, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups in the region, have been created by the intelligence services of the US and the White House’s allies and have a mission to defame the dear Islam to prevent the people’s conversion to the real Islam and to spread Islamophobia and weaken the regional resistance front,” Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri said on Monday.

He referred to the US attempts to stir chaos in the region and its support for the terrorists, and said, “The vigilant and resistant people in Iraq and Syria should force their enemies, specially the Americans, to understand that they won’t allow the White House to create new poles in their countries through lies and deception.”

Jazayeri expressed confidence that Iraqi people from all walks of life and groups who have experienced the US and Britain’s interference in their country would force out the remnants of the Americans from Iraq.

He said that the Iraqi and Syrian people have also sustained hard blows from the foreign-backed terrorists in the region and they now need to defeat them by using any means possible

After the recent terrorist attacks by the ISIL many Iranian officials have blamed the western powers, specially the US, for the crisis in Iraq.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei took the US and other western powers responsible for the current crisis in Iraq, and voiced opposition to any foreign intervention in the Muslim country.

“In Iraq’s issue, the hegemonic western powers, specially the US, are seeking to misuse the ignorance and bias of a number of elements with no decision-making power,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in a meeting with Iran’s Judiciary Chief Sadeq Amoli Larijani and other high-ranking Judiciary officials in Tehran in June.

Ayatollah Khamenei referred to the US officials’ remarks who are trying to display the conflict in Iraq as a sectarian war, and said, “What has happened in Iraq is not a war between the Shiites and Sunnis and the main elements behind the seditions in Iraq are hostile to the faithful Sunnis and those who believe in Iraq’s independence as much as they are hostile to the Shiites.”

He voiced Iran’s opposition to the foreign intervention in Iraq, and said, “We believe that the Iraqi government and nation and the country’s religious leadership are able to end the sedition and God willing, they will end it.”

M. Wassouf