Hillary Clinton has “confessed” to supporting “terrorist groups” in the region and suggested that admission is a “pretext” for some new invasion.
In a November 7 interview with ABC News, Clinton said the United States had created some of the Afghan mujahedeen groups that battled Soviet forces in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Larijani said Sunday, “The US secretary of state has confessed that the terrorist groups in the region have been created with the help of the United States. The US, in cooperation with certain regional countries, created and helped terrorist groups against the former Soviet Union … and now the question is: Why did you inflict such severe damage on the region?… Why should the nations of the region make up for the dirty wishes of the United States?”
Larijani did not mention that the Islamic Republic also aided and supported a number of the many mujahedeen groups operating in Afghanistan against the Soviet occupation.
Larijani said, “You [Americans] have waged wars and caused devastation and now confess that you have created terrorist groups. Aren’t such remarks a pretext for a new adven-turism?” He didn’t explain how he reasoned that a mention of past activity foretold future activity.
Clinton mentioned US support for the mujahedeen only in passing in the interview, stating what has been on the public record for many years. She said, “Part of what we are fighting against right now, the United States created. We created the mujahedeen force against the Soviet Union. We trained them, we equipped them, we funded them, including somebody named Osama bin Laden. And then when we finally saw the end of the Soviet army crossing back out of Afghanistan, we all breathed a sign of relief and said, ‘Okay, fine, we’re out of here,’ and it didn’t work out so well for us.”
The funding and backing for Afghan groups battling the Soviet occupation came chiefly from Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United States and Iran.
