TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declares “victory” over the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria as the jihadists cling to just a few remaining scraps of territory.
Iran is one of the main international backers of Syrian President Bashar Assad and has sent military advisers and thousands of “volunteers” to fight IS on the ground in Syria and Iraq.
In a televised speech Rouhani thanks “all the fighters of Islam,” supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the armed forces of Iraq and Syria for “the end of this group that brought nothing but evil, destruction, murder and savagery.”
He congratulates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and its foreign arm the Quds Force for a “great victory” but insists that the “main work was accomplished by the people and armies of Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.”
“We helped them in accordance with our religious and Islamic duties,” he says.
— AFP
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