US seeks to use terrorists as pawn for instability: Analyst

Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan has slammed Washington's lack of seriousness in the fight against the Daesh terrorist group, saying the US has itself nurtured the terrorists and now wants them to remain in the Middle East.

Former US army psychological warfare officer, Scott Bennett, endorsed the remarks by the Iranian minister, adding there is clear evidence that the terrorists have received money and ammunition from the United States and its allies. 

“They have received all sorts of weapons and military strategic advantages provided by the United States as well as the United Nations’ diplomatic cover by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar. So the facts are very clear there. What is waiting is to take these facts to the United Nations and the International Criminal Court (ICC),” and to make public these war crimes, Bennett told Press TV in an interview on Wednesday.

He also called it a betrayal to see the administration of President Barack Obama completely ignoring the fact that the United States was losing its soldiers because terrorists were receiving guns, ammunition and bomb-making materials.  

“|Since September 25, 2012, we have known that terrorists have been financed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, using the money-laundering instruments of Union Bank of Switzerland, the Clinton Foundation. And they have completely ignored it. They have blood on their hands. American troops are dead and they have been betrayed by their own government,” he said.

“This is clearly aiding and abetting terrorists and that is treason,” he reasoned, predicting that President-elect Donald Trump would expose that and prosecute some of the people in the Obama administration.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the analyst opined that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is very clearly trying to distance himself from the United States, due to the shift of power towards Russia, Iran, Syria and China.

Erdogan has recently spoken of “confirmed evidence” that the US-led coalition is supporting Daesh and other terrorist groups in Syria.

Bennett went on to say that Ankara is “very wise” to appeal to Moscow and Tehran to settle some of the instability, because “should these Wahhabi Takfiri elements gain control over Syria, their next target would be Turkey, Iran and Russia.”

The reason why the United States continues to encourage and arm these terrorist forces, he said, is because it can use them as a “pawn for instability.”

“It [the US] did it in the 1980s against the Russians. It has done it throughout the history of the interventions that the United States has waged across the globe. The United States has also used this as a destabilization effort for Europe in order to inspire fear into the European nations to ally with the United States against Russia,” he stated.

However, he said, this is a “gross miscalculation” and it is going to hurt the United States in the long run because nations are clearly moving in the direction of friendship, fellowship and alliance with Iran, Syria and Russia.

In other remarks, Bennett said that the United Nations Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories indicates a change in the ideological inclination of the majority of the world’s nations.

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