Alwaght- A senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says ISIS terrorists group is a product of the US, Saudi, Israeli and the UAE spy agencies.
“Intelligence services of the US, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and certain other countries, naming which is not in our interest for now, created ISIS to overthrow the Syrian administration,” General Hossein Salami said.
“We have information that in 2013 and 2014, hundreds of American cargo flights transported ammunition for Takfiri groups in neighboring countries,” the IRGC’s second-in-command said during a live program on IRIB TV Saturday night.
Salami also said the conflicts in Lebanon, Syria, Bahrain and Yemen “are the result of the Saudi regime’s evil and criminal nature, which wants to buy credibility for itself with petrodollars.”
The Saudis were the link between Americans and the Takfiri groups, he said, adding they spared no efforts to topple the Syrian government and split up Iraq.
"However, Iranian forces recognized the aptness of time and place and countered Daesh at the very beginning," he added.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Salami touched on the Saudi regime’s call for help from the Zionist regime to undermine Lebanon's Hezbollah, saying “Saudi rulers view their survival in relying on the US power and secret contacts with Israel.”
The IRGC commander referred to Yemen’s recent missile attack on Saudi Arabia, saying the kingdom has got "stuck in the Yemen quagmire" where Ansarullah fighters and their allies have tipped the balance in their favor.
Salami also rejected the Saudi claim that Iran supplies arms to Yemeni fighters, stressing that Tehran's assistance to the Ansarullah was only "political and moral."
The commander further issued a warning to Europe, stating that Iran would increase the range of its missiles to reach the block if threatened by its members.
Salami said the range of Iranian missiles depends on the scale of threats. The Islamic Republic, he said, will never negotiate over its missile capability, which is an integral part of its power.
