Iran’s top security official said the U.S. is encouraging ISIS to drop bombs on paramilitary fighters along the Iraqi border.
“Recent US action strengthens and expands the activities of the terrorist Daesh (Islamic State) in the region,” Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said during a visit with Iran’s ‘Foreign Affairs, Fuad Hussein.
The airstrikes on Thursday afternoon, the first led by President Biden, were aimed at sites on the Syrian side of the Iraqi-Syrian border, where groups backed by Iran control a major passage of weapons, personnel and goods. . The administration said they intended to deter future attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq.
“The attack on anti-terrorist resistance forces is the beginning of a new round of organized terrorism,” Hussein said, Reuters reported.
Shamkhani said, “We will confront the US plan to revive terrorism in the region,” but he did not delve into it.
Shamkhani also pressured Hussein for Iran to tell the U.S. to withdraw the rest of its troops from the country, according to reports.