October 14, 2014 | Quote
Iran’s Message to World: You Need Us to Fight Islamists
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“Once perceived as the mastermind behind terrorist attacks against the U.S. military in Iraq, Suleimani suddenly emerges as an ally in the struggle against ISIL,” said Ali Alfoneh, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who researches Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
The public relations campaign hides “the fact that Suleimani and the regime in Tehran themselves in part were responsible for exclusion of the Sunnis in Iraqi politics that led to emergence of ISIL,” Alfoneh said.
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