TEHRAN – A senior international adviser to the Iranian parliament speakerraised the alarm about the United States’ attempts to revive the Daesh(also known as ISIS or ISIL) terrorist group in northern Afghanistan,describing it as yet another strategic mistake of Washington.link>link>link>link>
Speaking at a meeting with the UN special representative for Iraq, JanKubis, in Tehran on Sunday, Hossein Amir Abdollahian hailed the positivemeasures taken by the envoy in Iraq and said despite the UN’s constructiveefforts, the US is transferring the defeated leaders of Daesh from Iraq tonorthern Afghanistan.
The US attempts are aimed at protecting Daesh and terrorism, he said,adding that such moves can seriously endanger the future of Iraq, theregion, and the world.
“The continuation of the US regional game and its use of Daesh inAfghanistan is a new strategic mistake of the White House,” the advisersaid.
The UN diplomat, for his part, expressed his gratitude to the IslamicRepublic for playing a constructive role in the campaign against terrorism.
On November 19, Daesh terrorists were flushed out of their last strongholdin Syria’s Al-Bukamal. The city’s liberation marked an end to the group’sself-proclaimed caliphate it had declared in 2014.
Daesh militants made swift advances in northern and western Iraq over thesummer of 2014, after capturing large areas of Syria.
But the timely support by Iran helped Syria and Iraq fight off Daesh. Inaddition, formation of military units by volunteers in Iraq, known as Hashdal-Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Units, blunted the edge of Daeshoffensive and later made the terror group withdraw from much of theterritories it had occupied.
Back in August, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned againstre-emergence of Daesh in other regions, particularly Central Asia.
“After suffering a complete defeat in Iraq and Syria, terrorists are likelyto try to permeate across the region. Thus, all of us should be wary ofsuch a threat (in the region), as in the Caucasus and Central Asia,”Rouhani said in a meeting with his Armenian counterpart.