23 Apr 2024
Tuesday 7 February 2017 - 17:46
Story Code : 250162

Iranian Official: Turkey takes order from Pentagon

FNA- Secretary of Iran's Expediency Council (EC) Mohsen Rezayee hailed the efforts made by the country's military advisors in Syria to fight against terrorism, and underlined that Turkey which has supported the terrorist groups militarily and financially takes order from the US department of defense.

"Today, our commanders have driven away the enemy from the borders by their presence on the Mediterranean coasts as military advisors and showed their knowledge in an obvious confrontation against the Zionists which have an advanced army and Turkey which takes its military orders from Pentagon," Rezayee said, addressing a forum in Tehran on Tuesday.

Politicians in Turkey say the US is playing a dangerous game in the Middle-East, playing with the Kurds and Ankara to implement its plots to disintegrate Syria and Iraq.

"During a meeting and talks between the Turkish and US military officials, it was decided that the US should pave the ground for Turkey's access to the strategic city of al-Bab in Northern Aleppo and instead, the Kurds will be able to use Turkey's greenlight to capture Raqqa," sources privy to the talks, who asked to remain unnamed, said late last year.

The sources, al-Bab is so important for Ankara that it has accepted to play a part in Washington's game as control over the city and its surrounding region would prevent geographical coordination among Kurdish cantons in Northern Syria; this is while the Kurds and the Syrian government consider al-Bab as a strategic region given its rich oil resources and special geographical situation.

The sources said the US could be playing the same double-cross game in Iraq as Turkey is unlikely to adopt such defiant measures in Iraq without Washington's greenlight.

The sources said the US seems to be after the disintegration of the regions under the Syrian and Iraqi governments' control to use them as a winning card to implement its policies in future negotiations.
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