ISIL’s Advances in Kobane Shows Lack of Resolve to Fight Terrorism
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s police chief said ISIL terrorist group’s advances in the Syrian border town of Kobane indicates an absence of determination to confront terrorism in region.
“Today, the advances made by terrorists in cities like Kobane despite airstrikes by certain countries demonstrates that there is no serious resolve- or ability- to fight these terrorists,” Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi Moqaddam said Tuesday in a meeting with foreign ambassadors and envoys in Tehran.
Ahmadi Moqaddam criticized the hypocrisy of certain countries in confronting terrorist groups and said those who help to spread terrorism might benefit in the short run but the resulting insecurity in the long run will certainly affect them, too.
His comments come as Takfiri militants belonging to the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have entered the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobane along the border with Turkey, despite a bombing campaign by the US-led anti-ISIL coalition.
The town has been subject to ferocious attacks by ISIL militants over the past two weeks.
ISIL fighters have captured hundreds of Kurdish villages around the border town, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee.