Iranian MP: ISIL Acts of Terror, Part of US Israeli Plot
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A prominent Iranian lawmaker said the terrorist acts by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Syria and Iraq are part of an American-Israeli plot against the Muslim world.
“The US and its allies are plotting against the Muslim world and for the reason, they have taken some measures in Afghanistan and Palestine,” Seyed Baqer Hosseini, member of the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy commission, told the Tasnim News Agency on Monday.
“The US and some other Western countries have also taken serious measures in Syria and hatched a plot against the country which has been thwarted through the resistance of the Syrian people and their leaders and insistence on their demands,” the lawmaker noted.
Thos countries were defeated in Syria and went to Iraq to compensate for their failures, he added.
Commenting on the terrorist acts by the ISIL group in Iraq, Hosseini described the group as an “anti-human” one and cannot call itself a Muslim group.
Earlier on Sunday, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei had said that Iran is implacably opposed to the acts of interference by the US or others in Iraq’s internal affairs.
Elaborating on the hostile plots hatched by the outsiders in Iraq, the Leader stated that “the Western hegemonic powers, specifically the United States of America regime” are seeking to take the advantage of a number of proxies’ “ignorance and bigotry” to carry out their plots in Iraq.
The main objective behind the recent incidents in Iraq, Ayatollah Khamenei explained, is to deprive the Iraqis of the whole things they have achieved in spite of the US presence and interference in their country, the most important of which has been democracy.
“The US is not satisfied with the ongoing process in Iraq, namely the holding of (parliamentary) election with a good turnout of people and the election of candidates whom the people trust,” the Leader stressed, noting that the US wants to maintain dominance in Iraq and see obedient leaders' rule in the Arab country.
As regards the violent incidents in Iraq, Ayatollah Khamenei made it clear that the unrest in that country, unlike what Americans say, is by no means a Shiite-Sunni sectarian war.
In early June, following its large-scale offensives in Iraq, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) seized control of most parts of Mosul, the second most populous city in Iraq and its surrounding Nineveh province.
The terrorists’ attacks have reportedly forced more than half a million people in Nineveh Province to flee their homes.
Following Iraqi top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s religious decree (Fatwa) which called on Iraqis to take up arms against terrorists, nearly 1.5 million Iraqis have volunteered to join battles against the al-Qaeda-linked militants. The volunteers consist of people from all walks of life including retired officers.
