Rouhani: If not for Iran, Daesh would rule Baghdad and Damascus
If not for Iran, the world would now be facing the Daesh as a terrorist government in charge of Baghdad and Damascus, and not just a terror group, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said.
At a conference on Saturday, Rouhani said that Iran was a “pioneer in fighting against extremism and violence in the world in word and action.”
“If Iran hadn’t help, Daesh would have been materialized practically and today, we would be facing an Daesh terrorist government instead of a terrorist group,” he said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.
Iran came to the aid of Iraq and Syria to stop the rapid advances of the group, in the summer on 2014, and had it done so, Baghdad and Damascus would today be in the hands of the terror group, Rouhani said, according to Iranian media.
The Islamic State (Daesh) seized large swathes of land in both Syria and Iraq in a military blitz in June 2014, killing thousands and taking hundreds of women and children from minority communities as prisoners.
Iran is said to have carried out a series of air strikes, at the request of Iraq, following the fall of Mosul to the terror group and sent ground troops to help stop its advance.
A US-led coalition against the Islamic State began operating in September 2015, mainly through airstrikes.
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Amir
April 24, 2021 at 5:36 pm
President Rouhani, logic and sense would not work for the western side, money and power would make hell of sense to them. Show them cheap natural and human resources,trust me,they flock like falcons who see the food on the ground from way distance.