Reuters: Iran's president declares end of Islamic State
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared the end of Islamic State on Tuesday while a senior military commander thanked the “thousands of martyrs” killed in operations organised by Iran to defeat the militant group in Syria and Iraq.
“Today with God’s guidance and the resistance of people in the region we can say that this evil has either been lifted from the head of the people or has been reduced,” Rouhani said in an address broadcast live on state TV.
“Of course the remnants will continue but the foundation and roots have been destroyed.”
Major General Qassem Soleimani, a senior commander of the elite Revolutionary Guards, also said Islamic State had been defeated, in a message sent on Tuesday to Iran’s supreme leader which was published on the Guards’ news site, Sepah News.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated Soleimani on the defeat of Islamic State and said it was a blow against Israel, America and its allies, an allusion to Saudi Arabia.
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WNU Editor: At the same time that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani declared the defeat of the Islamic State, Major General Qassem Soleimani was saying the same thing .... Iran’s General Soleimani Proclaims Daesh Fall (Tasnim News Agency). Hmmmm .... some interesting dynamics at play here. The Iraqis are also about to make the same announcement .... Iraq to declare final victory over Islamic State after desert campaign (Reuters).
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4 comments:
Please get Baghdadi. Remember when he declared the Islamic state and they zoomed in on that photo and saw he was sporting a Rolex? What a humble religious leader haha. Get him. Kill him. I'm a peaceful guy, I try to even avoid killing mosquitos. But that guy. ...what I'd give to kill him myself. ..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/10949449/Abu-Bakr-al-Baghdadi-ridiculed-for-flashy-wristwatch.html
Not fair! I declared them defeated last week. And, my declaration carries just as much authority as Rouhani's.
Even more so, anon.. Rouhani is just jealous that you called it
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