Iran Left Battling ISIL Alone as US-Iraq Alliance Disintegrates
SputnikNews.com
25.05.2015
As America holds back from intervention against the Islamic State and the blame game between the US and Iraq escalates, Iran is the only power confronting the militant organization, says a senior Iranian general.
Major General Qassem Soleimani, chief of the elite Quds Force in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, has said the US military and its Allies are failing to take the fight to the Islamic State, with Iran consequently left as the only power with a presence in the region to fight the militants.
“Today, there is nobody in the fight with [the Islamic State group] except the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Soleimani was quoted by Iranian news outlets as saying on Monday, adding that nations next to or supported by Iran are involved in the battle, but that the US “didn’t do a damn thing” to stop the Islamic State’s advance on Ramadi.
The US does not have the will to tackle the militant’s advance, concluded Soleimani, in remarks which come after US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter accused Iraqi troops in turn on Sunday of having “no will to fight” in Ramadi, after the town fell to the Islamic State.
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