There is a high probability that the US military forces are cooperating with Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) on the ground in Syria and Iraq, former Iranian diplomat and political analyst Seyyed Hadi Afghahi told Sputnik.
"The documents and videos available on the Internet, as well as the actions of American helicopters aimed at evacuating injured [terrorists] and the relocation of Daesh commanders, prove [this collaboration]," Afghahi told Sputnik Persian. "The US has even gone further and instructs other countries how to act in order not to harm Daesh: Otherwise, they themselves may become the target of American aircraft."
In mid-September, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh reported that having infiltrated American military command and control centers the IRGC obtained evidence of the US support for Daesh terrorist group: "We have documents showing the behavior of the Americans in Iraq and Syria; we know what the Americans did there; what they neglected and how they supported Daesh."
On Wednesday, a commander of the IRGC's Ground Force, Brigadier General Abdullah Araqi, told journalists that "the US had provided logistic support to Daesh in the Syrian province of Dayr al-Zawr as well as in the Iraqi provinces of Diyala, Nineveh and Salahuddin," as Press TV reported.
"There is undeniable evidence of support for terrorist organizations on the part of Western and some Arab states," Afghahi emphasized.
The analyst said that many times when Daesh militants were encircled unmarked US-made aircraft dropped weapons, medicines and food for the terrorists, while Israeli ambulances evacuated injured Daesh fighters from Syria and drove them to hospitals.
Second, new information revealing Gulf nations' potential collusion with Daesh has emerged amid the current political standoff between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, he noted, adding that both countries are now busy publishing compromising documents which shed light on collusion with terrorists on the part of different countries and entities.
"For example, Al Jazeera's channel published an interview with a commander of Kurdish paramilitary groups (Peshmerga), who, when asked why they did not shell at Daesh caravans, responded that if they tried to do this, the Americans would have destroyed them," Afghahi remarked.
Third, in recent weeks the Americans conducted several operations to support Daesh in the Syrian regions of Al Badia, al-Sham and Deir ez-Zor, the political analyst continued, stressing that US and Israeli aircraft had repeatedly hit positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Hezbollah there.
A fourth argument cited by the Iranian analyst is the location of Daesh commanders during the battle for Tal-Afar, a city in the Nineveh Governorate of northwestern Iraq. Referring to reports by Arab politicians and military commanders, Afghahi said that US choppers had transferred Daesh high-ranking fighters from Tal-Afar to Iraqi Kurdistan. The analyst dropped the hint that the Iraqi Kurdish government headed by Masoud Barzani and the US could have assisted the retreating extremists.
"All these documents and facts indicate that Western intelligence agencies, including the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] have been covertly facilitating Daesh [actions]," Afghahi believes.
