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US claims of destroying ISIL, baseless: Analyst

Iraqi volunteer fighters fire their guns against ISIL militants on the outskirts of Baiji refinery north of Tikrit, in the Salahuddin province, on May 25, 2015. (©AFP)

Press TV has conducted an interview with Kevork Almassian, a political commentator in Beirut, about Iraq announcing the launch of massive operations to drive ISIL Takfiri terrorists out of Salahuddin and Anbar provinces.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

 

Press TV: The Iraqi forces backed by the volunteer forces - the Shia and Sunni volunteer forces and local tribes - are very well on the cusp of retaking Salahuddin and Anbar provinces from the ISIL terrorists.

Tell us how significant it would be for the Iraq army to regain control of these two provinces and how big of a blow would it be to the ISIL Takfiri terrorists?

Almassian: Actually, there is an unprecedented unity among all segments of the Iraqi society after the recent advances of the ISIL terrorists in Ramadi and in other areas. Obviously, the civilians, the Sunnis, the Shias and the Christians have no faith whatsoever that these ISIL terrorists would give them any kind of interests or any kind of positive impact in their lives. Some people lived under the mercy of ISIL and they are aware that these people are against humanity, these people are against civilization. Therefore, after any occupation of ISIL, these people are moving to the government held-areas.

Now this unity of the people with the Iraqi army and the popular forces which consists of the Sunnis and the Shias, have the will and the plan to liberate Ramadi and other areas which are occupied by ISIL. The liberation of these areas is very important for both the morale of the people of Iraq and also for the strategic interests of the Iraqi government.

We all know that ISIL is the creation of the United States. The recent document revealed by the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency of the United States revealed the role of the United States in creating ISIL in order to destabilize Syria and Iraq. Therefore, ISIL’s presence in Iraq and Syria is to divide these both countries on sectarian basis. Therefore if we unite - the Sunnis, the Shias and the Christians - against the ISIL and we liberate these areas from their control, we will boost the national unity of the Syrians and the Iraqis. We will unite against these terrorists and prevent the American plan to divide both Syria and Iraq.

There is a very important point we should mention to our audience that ISIL was not able to see a birth and to continue and to expand and recently in Ramadi and also in Palmyra in Syria without a blind eye of the United States. We all know that the United States has full surveillance and full control of the aerial space of Iraq and Syria.

Therefore, all this talk about the American plan to chase and destroy ISIL is baseless. The Americans strategy is to keep this ISIL in Syria and in Iraq and to use them as a geopolitical tool in order to divide both Syria and Iraq.   

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