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Islamic Republic of Iran’s Supremo: US and UK created al-Qaeda and the Islamic State to fight against Iran

Oct 13, 2014 2:15 pm By Robert Spencer

KhameneiWhat? Not the Zionists? Is Khamenei becoming moderate? “Iran’s Supreme Leader Says US, Britain Created IS Terrorist Group,” RIA Novosti, October 13, 2014:

MOSCOW, October 13 (RIA Novosti) – The Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei claimed Monday that the United States and the United Kingdom were responsible for the creation of the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.

“They [the United States and the United Kingdom] created Al Qaeda and Da’esh [the Arabic acronym for the IS] in order to create divisions and to fight against the Islamic Republic [of Iran], but now, they have turned on them,” Iran’s top cleric said as quoted by Reuters.

Khamenei, Iran’s leader for 25 years, also argued that Washington and its allies are seeking to create divisions among Muslims, rather than trying to eradicate the root causes of terrorism.

Earlier, the Supreme Leader of Iran reportedly turned down a US proposal to coordinate steps in the fight against the IS.

The IS jihadist group, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has proclaimed an Islamic caliphate on conquered territories across Iraq and Syria. Responding to the group’s rapid advance, the United States launched airstrikes against IS insurgents – initially in Iraq in August, and later in Syria.

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  1. Champ says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    Oh please, islam created IS, end of story …

    • ibn Muslim says

      Oct 13, 2014 at 3:41 pm

      Shia islam?

      • Champ says

        Oct 13, 2014 at 3:45 pm

        Question: “I am a Muslim. Why should I consider becoming a Christian?”

        Answer: http://www.gotquestions.org/Muslim-Christian.html

      • Don McKellar says

        Oct 13, 2014 at 4:37 pm

        Hey, Ibn Muslim, what do you think of the shia scholar Ayatollah Khomeini’s literary work (based on the Koran and shia texts) regarding sex with livestock and child sodomization, titled: Tahrir al Wasilah?

        • Jay Boo says

          Oct 14, 2014 at 1:02 am

          Ben Affleck might be staring in the docudrama movie version.
          ‘Pervo’

        • Oliver says

          Oct 14, 2014 at 1:45 pm

          Jay Boo–had to reply up here.

          Would Affleck be the livestock being sexually abused?

          By the way, wasn’t he once (like 15 or so years ago) involved with some Spanish /Hispanic actress? Who then publicly dumped him?

    • Nicu says

      Oct 13, 2014 at 3:52 pm

      They always blame others !

    • last caliph says

      Oct 13, 2014 at 3:53 pm

      all of you guys know nothing from islam or IR.ISIL is a takfiri salafi terorrist & have only one god:MONEY!theyre not muslims.

      • Champ says

        Oct 13, 2014 at 7:23 pm

        Sure, and you’re not a muslim either, right? Right!

        • last caliph says

          Oct 17, 2014 at 11:37 am

          true muslim are rare in this world.of course im not a true one but i try at least!who are you? jesus??mary?!!)

    • Amber says

      Oct 14, 2014 at 9:37 am

      Actually he is right the Obama administration is responsible for the creation of ISIS. We had the leader in jail in the Middle East, but when Obama left the Middle East he let most of the prisoners go. Top military officials warned Obama about letting this guy go saying that he will create a new group worse than Al Qauda, but Obama didn’t listen. So it kinda is the United States fault.

  2. Don McKellar says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 2:26 pm

    Champ points out the blazingly obvious: Islam created ISIS.

    Period.

    Why doesn’t Khamenei discuss more relevant and truthful topics? Like the Islamic Republic of Iran’s founder Ayatollah Khomeini’s scholarly work on sex with livestock and child sodomization, titled: Tahrir al Wasilah.

    • last caliph says

      Oct 13, 2014 at 3:58 pm

      its crap. ayt.khomeini never wrote such book

      • Don McKellar says

        Oct 14, 2014 at 1:14 am

        You mean this one he didn’t write:

        http://www.al-shia.org/html/eng/books/fiqh&usool/islamic-laws/tahrir/01.html

        • last caliph says

          Oct 17, 2014 at 11:43 am

          im in iran man not you!.page didnt show the truth.its fake!

  3. Diane Harvey says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    Whenever I read about these fantastical imaginations of Muslims, I’m always reminded of that scene in Dr. Strangelove when the upper command of the Army sends US Army troops to wrest control of Burpleton Air Force Base from General Ripper. As the troops approach the base some of Ripper’s base armed defenders talk among themselves,

    — You gotta hand it to those Commies.
    — Yeah. Those trucks sure look like the real thing, don’t they? I wonder where they got them from.
    — Probably bought them from the Army as war surplus.
    — Okay, open up at 200 yards.

    Muslim leaders so-called know that low information subjects will buy anything.

  4. Charli Main says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    ” rather than trying to eradicate the root causes of terrorism.”
    Islam is the root cause of Islamic terrorism, so eliminating Islam is the solution to the problem of Islamic terrorism——Simples !!!!!!

  5. zulu says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 2:55 pm

    OT

    Aussie ‘emir’ preached jihad

    A CACHE of lectures recorded by the “emir” of Melbourne’s al-­Furqan Islamic Centre has revealed a fervent belief in the shared obligation and “dream” of fighting for the mujahideen, along with warnings that parents are using “Satan-inspired tricks” to turn away young members.

    In the recordings — dating back to 2011 and obtained by The Australian — Harun Mehicivic promotes fighting to ­establish an Islamic state and warns his followers against discussing certain issues openly.
    http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/aussie-emir-preached-jihad/story-fn59niix-1227089425359?nk=8d2399b81cb056d36df20194d9bd00f4

    —–

    Thousands of Yazidi women sold as sex slaves ‘for theological reasons’, says Isil
    Article in Islamic State’s English-language online magazine Dabiq not only admits selling Yazidi women into sex slavery but justifies it according to the theological rulings of early Islam
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/islamic-state/11158797/Thousands-of-Yazidi-women-sold-as-sex-slaves-for-theological-reasons-says-Isil.html

  6. Rob says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 3:47 pm

    Bet the Ayatollah is getting a peevish email from Mr Bassill the Lebanese FM who is sure ISIS is organised by Israel.
    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/10/lebanese-foreign-minister-islamic-state-is-the-best-israeli-tool-to-create-divisions-in-the-region
    So guys, straighten out your stories and get back to us okay?

  7. TH says

    Oct 13, 2014 at 5:08 pm

    There are all sorts of such ridiculous statements such as one I saw on Youtube stating that Vatican had invented Islam. This ayotollah must have no brain left after spending his life following the mad doctrines of Mahommed.

  8. Amber says

    Oct 14, 2014 at 9:43 am

    You realize that saying destroy Islam would solve Islamic terrorism makes you all sound incredibly stupid. The Islamic extremists only make up than than 6% of all Muslims. That’s like saying you have to destroy Christianity because of some of the extremist things Christian groups have done.

    • susanp says

      Oct 15, 2014 at 12:59 am

      Oh Amber, the people here are certainly not ‘stupid’ and the day is fast approaching when the oh-so-civilized people of the West will have their fill of muslims and islam and the unwashed masses will do what the elitist multiculturalists refuse to do. The ‘people’ will clean up the horrendous mess created by their social engineering governments. Refresh my memory: when was the last time a radical Christian group massacred thousands of muslims; beheaded innocent men, women, and children; and declared its intention to conquer Mecca?

      Save your righteous indignation and compassion for somebody deserving of it; muslims are not. Despite the obvious fact that all muslims are not terrorists, 95% of them support their beloved holy warrior brothers. Anyone calling himself a muslim is guilty by association because islam is an abomination. It will eventually have to be exterminated, eliminated, extinguished, erased from existence if the rest of the world is to have any peace. It probably won’t happen in our lifetimes but it will happen. Ebola is a scourge and so is islam, but islam is more lethal.

      • Amber says

        Oct 16, 2014 at 12:09 am

        You realize Islam and Christianity are practically the same religion right. They just vary in small details. They are both abrahamic, both believe in the same god, both believe in the same prophets except Mohammad, ect.

  9. Oliver says

    Oct 14, 2014 at 1:52 pm

    Is El Supremo saying that such GREAT INTELLECTUALS AS:

    JIMMY CARTER
    FIDEL CASTRO
    AND MR. ABBAS (LEADER OF THE “PALESTINIAN” STATE, ON THE WEST BANK, ARE WRONG>?

    All three have said that Israel ( and, I guess, by implication, the Mossad and possibly the Shin Bet, Prime Minister Bibi) created the ISIS.

    One weird Christian; one fallen Catholic now atheist; one Muslim. Definely diversity in agreeing.

  10. Anushirvan says

    Oct 14, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    ““They [the United States and the United Kingdom] created Al Qaeda and Da’esh [the Arabic acronym for the IS] in order to create divisions and to fight against the Islamic Republic [of Iran], but now, they have turned on them”

    Hmm. Have a closer look at what’s going on right on your doorstep, Khamenei. “They” are probably more akin to the likes of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Qatar. This close relationship between Wahhabism on the one hand and cross-border anti-Shia scheming is also what made the Pakistani ISI decide to fund and organize a myriad of terrorist groups, like Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and People’s Resistance Movement of Iran (aka Jundallah).

    We already know by now that PC denialism is able to kill lots of people in the West, turning us into sitting ducks. Maybe Khamenei will be realizing who the real enemies are in due course, but then again he could leave it a bit too late: until IS starts crossing the Shatt al Arab, for instance !

    Regurgitating the “no ill will among Muslims” ruse is not going to save his mullahcracy ! Be prepared ! Happy in-fighting to you, Khamenei !

    Muhahahaha !

  11. Oliver says

    Oct 15, 2014 at 10:30 pm

    On Yahoo/AP news this morning (Wed. Oct 15, 2014)– (I did NOT bother to read the story) it said that Kohlmani said it was the US & Israel (the UK left out) that created ISIS.

    The purpose was to divide Muslims, so they will kill one another .. (Amen and Amen-may they- and leave the rest of us alone- and do it in great numbers. The numbers in the Iran-Iraq War were too low). Just my views.

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