April 19, 2019
The Islamic Republic has gone overboard with its constant claims that the United States supports the Islamic State (Daesh) and is now appealing to the UN to stop the Americans.
A Majlis committee has written the United Nations to take “pre-emptive” measures aimed at blocking the transfer of Daesh terrorists from Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan by the US and a number of other governments, a senior lawmaker said just before Now Ruz.
In a letter to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the chairman of the Majlis Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy, Heshmatollah Fala-hatpisheh, on behalf of his fellow committee members, warned against a change in “the political geography of Salafi terrorism.”
“Based on real and impartial news and information, the government of the United States of America and some West Asian governments, which have traditional links with Salafi terrorism, are transferring terrorists, especially their defeated leaders in Syria and Iraq to Afghanistan,” Falahatpisheh wrote.
It is expected that the United Nations will take “pre-emptive” action and establish a fact-finding committee to shed light on this issue, the letter read.
There are indeed many news reports asserting that the Americans support the Islamic State—which was originally founded about a decade ago to kill American occupation troops in Iraq. The reports have appeared regularly over the last few years in publications, mainly in Iran and Iraq, that are supported by the Islamic Republic.
That Falahatpisheh would go so far as to write a letter asserting that the US is now evacuating the Islamic State forces the US is regularly bombing suggests that the propaganda has been repeated so often that people like Falahatpisheh have begun to believe the nonsense. Ironically, Nazi Germany’s propaganda chief, Josef Goebbels, wrote that a lie that is endlessly repeated will take on a life of its own and eventually be believed.
In a visit to Iraq in March, President Rohani said the fight against terrorism is not over despite the collapse of the Daesh terror group in Iraq and Syria as the United States is now relocating the terrorists from the Arab countries to Afghanistan, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Rohani repeated that the “hegemonic powers” brought Daesh and other terrorists to the region in an attempt to sow discord among neighboring countries, peoples, tribes and religions so the Americans could justify their presence in the region, portray a violent image of Islam and ultimately represent themselves as the “saviors.”
In late January, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenehi said the United States has been relocating the Daesh terror group from the Arab world to Afghanistan to rationalize its military presence in the region. By transferring the Daesh fighters, the US seeks “to justify the continuation of its presence in the region and to create security for the Zionist regime,” Khamenehi said.
Russia has similarly reported on alleged links between the US and a growing Daesh presence in Afghanistan. Last year, the Russian presidential envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said there are indications the US military is allowing Daesh terrorists to enter Afghanistan. The Afghan government has made no such charge.
Kabulov said, “With the US and NATO fully controlling the skies over Afghanistan, there is every reason to believe they had a hand in that, or at least, did not hamper these flights, despite the fact that Washington and Brussels deny that.”
In November 2017, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai told Qatari Al-Jazeera television news network that the US is colluding with Daesh in Afghanistan. Karzai has become avidly anti-American in recent years.