Foreign sponsors attempting to delay defeat of terrorists: Shamkhani

Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Shamkhani on Friday says foreign patrons of Takfiri terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria have turned to politicking to save the outfits from a looming defeat in the Arab countries.

According to Press TV, he said: “Takfiri terrorists are declining toward their defeat in Iraq and Syria and thus their supporters have engaged in attempts to delay their defeat through political gambits."

“After their worn-out plans were exposed, the terrorists’ backers are seeking new approaches to change the course of their recurrent defeats,” Shamkhani said, warning regional states and nations to be watchful of such efforts.

He hailed the back-to-back gains being made by Iraqi and Syrian militaries in the cities of Aleppo in Syria and Mosul in Iraq, saying the Takfiri terrorist group of Daesh faces disintegration as its members have turned on against its self-proclaimed leader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, also known as Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Big rifts have also emerged between Daesh and other Takfiri terrorist groups, “which is a result of their leaders’ opportunism and hunger for power,” he said.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Shamkhani referred to the allegations made by some American officials that Iran has had a hand in the missile attacks recently carried out against US carriers in the Red Sea off the Yemeni coast and said such claims are made as distractions from complicity in the Saudi war crimes in Yemen.

“The US’s allies have been humiliated by the Yemeni people with repeated defeats in Yemen” and are attributing the responsibility for such incidents to Iran in a blame game meant to distract attention away from the “heavy responsibility” they hold for the war crimes in Yemen, he said.

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