Tehran rules out Iranian troops in Iraq
Iran will not dispatch troops to neighboring Iraq, the countryâs chief of staff said on June 18.
âThere is no need for the presence of Iranian soldiers in Iraq, as Iraqi people are capable of solving their own problems,â Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said according to Iranâs state news agency IRNA.
Firouzabadi also ruled out any cooperation between Iran and the U.S., describing it as âmeaningless.â
The possibility of U.S.-Iran cooperation has been making headlines since Monday, when U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington was âopenâ to working with the Iranianâs against the growing tide of Sunni insurgency in Iraq.
Firouzabadi also claimed that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) was a brainchild of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. âISIL is a joint project launched by the U.S. and Israel to create safe frontiers for Zionists in the face of anti-Israeli resistance groups,â he said.
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