TEHRAN – Major General Qassem Soleimani, senior commander of the IranianRevolutionary Guards’ Quds Force, has provided the country’s ForeignMinistry with documents proving US collaboration with Daesh beyond a shadowof a doubt, Iranian media has reported.
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, special advisor on international affairsto Iran’s speaker of parliament, said he had a meeting with Soleimani andreceived the evidence while he was working at the foreign ministry.
“He gave me documents and told me to slap them in the face of the West andthe UN,” Amir-Abdollahian said, according to Press TVlink>.
Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, an Iranian special forces unitwhich has been battling Daesh in Syria, even asked Iranian Foreign MinisterMohammad Javad Zarif to “put the documents on the table and tell theAmericans ‘this is what you are up to’,” Amir-Abdollahian added.
Soleimani’s documents “contained precise information on the geographicalposition, time and exact details” of US collusion with the terrorists, theofficial stressed.
For instance, Amir-Abdollahian recalled that while Mosul, Iraq was stillunder Daesh occupation, “an American A330 [transport plane] landed in MosulAirport; American generals got off the plane and military equipment wasunloaded.
At the airport’s VIP lounge, the American generals talked with Daeshleaders in Mosul for three hours and 23 minutes and then boarded the planeand returned. What did they bring Daesh? Weapons and equipment it neededand that they had already agreed on.”
Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani, center, attends a meeting withSupreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Revolutionary Guard commanders inTehran, Iran, file photo.
The official also confirmed earlier reports of US helicopters being usedto deliver military equipment to senior Daesh commanders, and evacuatingcaptured leaders. “Later, we found out that the Americans had taken someof those evacuated to northern Afghanistan, some to Libya and othersto southern Yemen,” he said.
Syrian, Russian and Iranian officials have repeatedly accused the USof shady dealings with Syrian jihadist groups in recent months, chargingthe US military with evacuatinglink>Daeshcommanders, and traininglink>ex-jihadistmilitants at the Al Hasakah refugee camp in northeastern Syria.
Last week, Iran’s Foreign Minister chargedlink>theUS of regularly evacuating militants out of Syria and Iraq. These claimshave been echoed by former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who claimedlink>thatDaesh was a “tool” used by Washington in Afghanistan to pursue its broadergoals in the region.