Iran’s President: US Weaker Than Ever
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi highlighted the “upper hand” that the axis of resistance and Hezbollah forces have gained in the region, saying the US, whose power is on the wane, has transferred Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) terrorists from Syria to Afghanistan.
In a meeting with the families of Iranian martyrs, held in the city of Qom on Thursday night, Raisi said the American forces have been evicted from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
“Today, the Americans are weaker than ever. In the region, the Hezbollah forces and the (resistance axis) combatants, including Palestinians, have the upper hand and the initiative,” he noted.
Paying tribute to late Iranian commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani and other martyrs for devoting their lives to security of the region, the president said the enemy has not backed off and has transferred Daesh terrorists from Syria to Afghanistan.
Denouncing Daesh as a group created by the US with the purpose of destabilizing the entire region, the president said such a group still poses a great threat to Afghanistan.
What guaranteed security in the region was the fortitude that the young, Muslim and firm believers displayed in the face of Daesh, he stated.
Pointing to the interrelation of security in Afghanistan and Iran, Raisi said the two neighbors have historical ties and their fates are interconnected.
He renewed Iran’s call for the establishment of a government in Afghanistan that would belong to all Afghan groups and ethnicities and would ensure clam for the Afghan people.
He also warned against attempts to upset peace and calm in Afghanistan, saying the attacks on mosques and killing of Muslims resemble the measures by Zionists.
In comments in October, the Iranian president condemned the terrorist attacks in Afghanistan as a plot to incite religious division and wars, saying Daesh terrorists are seeking to accomplish the failed mission of the Western occupiers in that country.
More than 60 people were killed in three back-to-back explosions that hit the Bibi Fatima mosque during Friday prayers on October 15, one of the biggest blasts in Kandahar. It came just a week after a bomb attack killed more than 150 people and left scores of others injured at a Shia mosque in the northeastern city of Kunduz.
Both tragedies were claimed by a local affiliate of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, which has a long history of attacking Afghanistan’s Shiite minority.
