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Iran says US 'Godfather of Daesh' after Kennedy nephew's comments

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  • 21 Apr 2023 14:43
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The Iranian Foreign Ministry slammed the US as the "godfather of Daesh" after the newest participant in the US presidential campaign, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., reaffirmed the fact when announcing his candidacy.

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    Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani holds a press conference in Tehran on July 13,  2022. (AFP)

The Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesperson lambasted the US as the "godfather of Daesh" after the newest participant in the US presidential campaign, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., reaffirmed the fact when launching his candidacy.

There was no doubt the US is the creator of #ISIS, but for those who deliberately closed their eyes to the truth, the statement of Robert F. Kennedy, the nephew of John F. Kennedy saying “WE created ISIS” reaffirms the fact that the American regime is the godfather of Daesh/ISIS. pic.twitter.com/qasod0kXaj

— Nasser Kanaani (@IRIMFA_SPOX) April 21, 2023

Kennedy attacked the US foreign policy and the CIA's involvement in creating it during a campaign event to begin his 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday in Boston. He was alluding to the notorious US espionage organization.

Joe Biden, the 80-year-old US President, and a fellow party member have indicated that he intends to run for office again in 2024, but Kennedy is the first Democrat to formally challenge him.  

"When my uncle came into office, two months later he was fighting his intelligence apparatus and his military," according to Kennedy.

He continued by highlighting the crucial that the CIA played in the invasion of Iraq, adding: "And so the neocons and CIA got to go into Iraq and do regime change. We spent $8 trillion and what did we get for it? Nothing... Iraq is now much worse off than it was when we went in there. We killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did."

The candidate highlighted that the US "created ISIS and drove two million refugees into Europe."

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Kennedy alleged that he had been "censored" for 18 years, and exclaimed he had "a lot to talk about. They shouldn't have shut me up for that long because now I'm really going to let loose on them for the next 18 months. They're going to hear a lot from me!"

He is not the first to acknowledge the US founded and supported Daesh.

In August 2016, Donald Trump called then-US President Barack Obama the founder of ISIS.

"I would say the co-founder would be ‘Crooked’ Hillary Clinton," Trump added, criticizing the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, which according to him, left behind a void for Daesh terrorists to fill.

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 was done so under the false pretense that WMDs were present there. The invasion signaled the beginning of the American military campaign against Iraq and the larger region of West Asia. A few years later, it too entered Syria on the pretext of battling militants affiliated with Daesh.

Read more: Iraq’s Agriculture Reaps the Despoiled Seeds of US Meddling

ISIS, also known as Daesh, started a violent terror campaign in 2014 and quickly took over large portions of Iraq.

In December 2017, Iraq declared victory over the terrorist organization after a three-year military counterterrorism operation in which the PMU (also known as Hashd al-Sha'abi in Arabic) and Iranian military advisers played a significant role.

Nevertheless, Daesh's remnants continue to launch intermittent strikes throughout Iraq and Syria, and they have been more active in Afghanistan over the past two years since the US recklessly withdrew its personnel from the war-torn nation.

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