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Iranian chief of staff: US planes unloading arms supplies at ISIL-controlled airports

18 Apr 2015 - 13:12


TEHRAN (FNA)- Top commander of the Iranian Armed Forces said the US military planes are making regular flights to and from airports ISIL-controlled cities to supply the terrorist group with weapons, money and foodstuff.

"We have received reports that the US planes visit the ISIL(-controlled) airports," Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Hassan Firouzabadi told reporters on the sidelines of military parades held in Tehran on Saturday morning to mark the Army Day.


"The US shouldn't supply weapons and money to ISIL and then apologizes and says that it has done a mistake. The Americans say that they want to confront the ISIL (but) we haven’t seen any practical measure but reconnaissance and surveillance operations," he added.


Predicting that a cruel wave of terrorism will sweep Europe, the US and all mankind in the near future, Firouzabadi said all the world people, including those in the US and Europe, should try to fight against terrorism in defense of the right of living instead of providing them with weapons and huge sums of money that has made ISIL the best paid militant and armed group in the world.


"If the US is honest in its statements that it has not created the ISIL, it can fight against it easily and we hope that the US and British governments will fight against the ISIL even for the sake of their own nations," he added.


In relevant remarks on Tuesday, Supreme Leader's top adviser for international affairs Ali Akbar Velayati underlined that extremist groups, including the ISIL, were born and nurtured by the US.


"Today, we see extremist groups like ISIL which are the protégés of the Americans and do not see any difference between various Muslim sects and group and massacre everyone. They claim to be supporters of Islam but their behavior and actions are against their words," Velayati said in a meeting with Secretary General of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) Abu Ahmad Fouad in Tehran.


He said the interesting point was that the members of the ISIL terrorist group showed no enmity towards the Zionist regime.


Also in March, Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi said the recent capture of the US military advisers who were aiding the ISIL in Northern Iraq was a compelling proof that Washington had created the Takfiri terrorist group.


"The capture of the American advisers by the Iraqi army leaves no doubt that ISIL has been created by the US," Boroujerdi told reporters.


He underlined that the American people who would never forget the beheading of their journalists by ISIL now blast Washington officials as the main culprits in the crime.


Last month, Iraqi Special Forces declared that they had apprehended several foreign military advisors of ISIL, including American, Israeli and Arab nationals, in an operation in Mosul in the Northern parts of the country.


The Iraqi forces said they had retrieved four foreign passports, including those that belonged to American and Israeli nationals and one that belonged to the national of a Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) member-state, from ISIL's military advisors.


The foreign advisors were arrested in a military operation in Tal Abta desert near Mosul city.


By Fars News Agency




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