TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani on Tuesday blasted the U.S. claims about fighting the terrorist group of Daesh, and said Washington is only seeking to administer the terrorist group to meet its own interests in the region.
"We have repeatedly received documented reports proving that the U.S.-led coalition had been trying to manage Daesh instead of fighting against it and in cases that the terrorist group's suppression was possible, the U.S. has shown no reaction and even helped it to flee the battlefield," Shamkhani told the Arabic-language al-Vefagh newspaper on Tuesday.
He added that the U.S. has today taken the gesture of fight against Daesh to cover its supports for the terrorist group and prevent implementation of Hezbollah agreement to evacuate the families of the terrorists from Syria.
"What we have so far seen from the U.S. and its allies is bombing the residential areas, massacre of women and children, targeting the positions of the Syrian army and Iraqi popular forces and some limited ineffective operations which have covered dispatch of logistical aid to the terrorists," Shamkhani said.