Speaker's Advisor Warns of US Suspicious Behavior towards Terrorist Groups

Rasa - Senior Advisor to the Iranian Parliament Speaker Hossein Amir Abdollahian warned that Washington is showing a suspicious behavior by supporting the terrorist groups and chanting anti-terrorism slogans.

News ID: 435298

Date: 12 December 2017 - 23:33

RNA - "Unfortunately, the Americans transferred and sheltered a number of terrorist leaders in Syria and Iraq instead of serious fight against the terrorists. The US behavior in fighting terrorism is suspicious," Amir Abdollahian said in a meeting with Algerian Ambassador to Tehran Abdelmoun'am Ahriz on Monday.

Elsewhere, he condemned US President Donald Trump for his recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's capital as against the international laws, stressing that this move has strengthened unity among the Palestinian groups.

Ahriz, for his part, appreciated Iran for its effective efforts to fight terrorism, and underlined the necessity for other countries' support for the oppressed Palestinian nation.

He stressed that al-Quds belongs to Palestine.

Different reports said in the past few years that the US-led forces have several times transferred the ISIL leaders from Iraq and Syria to other regions by heliborne operations.

Local sources reported in July that three military helicopters of the US-led coalition carried out another heliborne operation in Eastern Homs, carrying a number of ISIL terrorists on board.

The Arabic-language al-Hadath news quoted the sources as saying that a group of ISIL terrorists were transferred by a van from the town of Ayash in Eastern Deir Ezzur to a ISIL-held desert region in the Eastern direction of the town of al-Sukhnah in Eastern Homs, where three helicopters of the US-led coalition were hovering over the region.

One of the helicopters landed but the other two continued to fly over the region.

The sources told al-Hadath that the three helicopters flew towards North and entered Raqqa airspace, adding that there is no information about their exact destination.

The sources further said that the ISIL militants taken away by the American choppers could have been one of the spying groups used by Washington via Jeish Maqavir al-Thowrah militant group to materialize its objectives in the region.

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