ISIS: Outcome of a Failed Policy Toward Iran

Heshmat Alavi / Canada Free Press

From summer 2014 onward a widespread international coalition has established against ISIS. However, the fate of this campaign is very much dependent on getting a rooted understanding of the rise of this phenomenon that has now turned into a global crisis.

ISIS is the offspring of unprecedented crimes by the mullahs’ regime ruling Iran, Bashar al-Assad in Syria, and the policies of former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki against Sunnis in Iraq and Syria. Despite Assad’s unbounded savagery, Iran has since 2011 thrown all its military might and its intelligence, financial and diplomatic support behind Damascus to prevent its downfall. Meanwhile, the U.S. government and the West have chosen to continue their inaction, regardless of the fact that Assad crossed their explicit red line of using chemical weapons against innocent civilians.

Following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, the Iranian regime transformed this country into its own backyard and used al-Maliki to expand its influence throughout all organs and entities of this important Shiite-majority neighbor. The Iranian resistance revealed a list containing the names and specifications of 32,000 individuals who were working in the Iraqi government and parliament but were also on the payroll of Iran’s terrorist Quds Force.

Terrorist militants linked to the Iranian regime have been freely roaming and creating carnage in large swathes of Iraq for years, enjoying the cooperation of al-Maliki’s forces during his tenure as premier and those loyal to him now.  Obama not only showed no serious reaction to these crimes perpetrated by Shiite militants in Iraq, in fact through a stark misinterpretation he considers them as partners in the fight against ISIS.

Showing lenience in the face of the most destructive dictatorship of modern history in Iran and its proxies in Iraq is not only of no help in the fight against extremists in Iraq and Syria, in fact it helps the growth and expansion of ISIS and its recruiting efforts in the Middle East and Europe. Through this very wrong policy adopted by the Obama Administration, Shiite militants linked to the Quds Force – much more vicious than ISIS – filled the vacuum wherever ISIS retreated.

What is the main threat and what is the solution to defeat this threat?

The biggest diversion in the war against ISIS is to partner the Iranian regime in this effort. Following the fall,  its ally (al-Maliki) in Iraq, Tehran has focused all its efforts in establishing the “Popular Mobilization Units” in this country and Syria, using the Lebanese Hezbollah as their model for this initiative.

Iran’s objective is to restore its hegemony in these countries under the pretext of fighting against ISIS. By establishing such a force the Iranian regime is actually preparing itself for a confrontation against the U.S. in the Middle East, knowing its defeat is certain if the front lines of this war are retreated from Syria and Iraq to its own borders.

Therefore, to relieve the region from terrorists and Islamic fundamentalism there is a vital need for a set of political, military and cultural tools:

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