Iran says US 'godfather of Daesh' after Kennedy nephew's comments
Foreign Ministry's Spokesman has slammed the United States as the "godfather of Daesh" after the newest entrant to the US 2024 presidential race, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reconfirmed the fact while announcing his candidacy.
"Those who deliberately closed their eyes to the truth" should listen to what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said about Daesh, Nasser Kan'ani stated on Friday in a post on his Twitter account.
"There was no doubt the US is the creator of #ISIS, but for those who deliberately closed their eyes to the truth, the statement of Robert F. Kennedy, the nephew of John F. Kennedy saying “WE created ISIS” reaffirms the fact that the American regime is the godfather of Daesh/ISIS," Kan'ani wrote.
During a campaign event to launch his 2024 presidential bid in Boston on Wednesday, Kennedy lashed out at the foreign policy of the US and the role of the CIA in shaping it, referring to the infamous American spy agency.
Kennedy is the first candidate from the ruling Democrat Party to challenge fellow party member and 80-year-old US President Joe Biden, who has declared his intent to run again in 2024, although not officially yet.
"When my uncle came into office, two months later he was fighting his intelligence apparatus and his military," he said.
He further pointed to CIA's key role in the military invasion of Iraq, saying: "And so the neocons and CIA got to go into Iraq and do regime-change. We spent $8 trillion and what did we get for it? Nothing... Iraq is now much worse off than it was when we went in there. We killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did."
"We created ISIS. We drove two million refugees up into Europe," he then underlined.
This is not the first time that American politicians admit the Daesh terrorist group was founded and supported by the US.
Back in August 2016, Donald Trump, then-Republican presidential nominee, also stated that Daesh was honoring then-US president Barack Obama as "He’s the founder of ISIS. He's the founder! He founded ISIS."
"I would say the co-founder would be ‘Crooked’ Hillary Clinton," he hastened to add, criticizing the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, which according to him, left behind a void for Daesh terrorists to fill.
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