Iran accuses Washington and Riyadh of backing Daesh

Iran’s Foreign Minister has accused the US and Saudi Arabia of backing Daesh by providing it with weapons. Mohammad Javad Zarif made his accusation on his Twitter feed.

“No amount of ‘alternative facts’ by Trump & Co’s echo chamber, ‘vision of light’ spin by KSA, or credit-grabbing by the US for defeat of ISIS will change the facts that: 1. It was Iran who helped the people of Iraq & Syria defeat ISIS, and 2. It was the US and KSA who armed it.”

The minister also noted that, “Statements made by the White House at the Davos Economic Forum contradict the facts and do not change anything.”

Zarif’s tweet is a response to statements made by Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir during a discussion held on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland.

“In the Middle East,” said the Saudi minister, “we have two competing visions. Vision of light… and we have a vision of darkness, and the vision of darkness is sectarianism, it’s trying to restore an empire that was destroyed thousands of years ago, it’s using sectarianism and terrorism in order to interfere in the affairs of other countries.” Al-Jubeir added that, “History has shown that light always prevails over darkness.”

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