Alwaght- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US is currently relocating ISIS terrorists to areas outside of the West Asia (Middle East).
Zarif made the remarks during conference on "Patterns of Regional Order in the Post-ISIS Era" at the Tehran University on Saturday.
The US transfer of the ISIS elements from the Syrian cities of Hasakah, Mayadin, and Dayr al-Zawr as well as other areas to outside the region “is a dangerous development that has had a regular pattern,” the top Iranian diplomat said.
Zarif also stressed that although ISIS had been defeated territorially, its ideological and financial resources coming from the region and beyond had yet to be destroyed.
“One of the West’s major mistakes is that they believe that ISIS is over,” he said. “[But] the conditions that created ISIS in the region are still present. ISIS is the birth child of the US invasion of Iraq and, before that, the Israeli oppression against the Palestinian people.”
The top Iranian diplomat also put forward an initiative for security in the region that includes dialog in the Persian Gulf.
ISIS started brutal offensives in Iraq and Syria in 2014, occupying territory in the two Arab countries and establishing a self-proclaimed “caliphate.” Soon, the Iraqi and Syrian armies galvanized to retake ISIS-held territory. Both countries have been receiving advisory military assistance from Iran. The Iraqi army was also backed by Popular Mobilization Forces in its war on ISIS while Syria also obtained assistance from Russia and Hezbollah resistance forces in the war on the Takfiri terrorists group.
The terrorist group was gradually stripped of all the land it had occupied in the two Arab countries.
