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Iran calls for punishment of ISIL

ISNA - Iranian Students' News Agency

Mon 30 Jun 2014 - 16:03

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian Minister of Defense Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan called for punishment of the terrorist group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its supporters.

'ISIL terrorist group and their supporters should be punished as war criminals,' he said on Monday.

He further added that murder, plunder, rape, sabotage, mass execution and displacement of thousands of civilians in Iraq and Syria are apparent examples of war crimes.

Dehghan added that silence of world powers which claim to be human rights defenders as well as international organizing has severely damaged regional security.

These 'criminal measures' aim to create a secure area for Israel and undermine anti-Zionist resistance front, he said, adding ISIL is the result of 'illegitimate' relationship between the US, Israel and reactionary regional countries.

He also warned that the terrorist group would face a worse end than former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein did.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said on June 18 that the Muslim Iraqi nation will push back terrorists and their supporters, stressing that the Islamic Republic will spare no effort to protect holy shrines in Iraq.

He added that all superpowers, mercenaries and terrorists should know that the great Iranian nation would make every effort to safeguard holy shrines in the Iraqi cities of Karbala, Najaf, Kadhimiya and Samarra.

Since June 10, Iraq has been witnessing a fresh wave of violence fueled by the ISIL Takfiri terrorists. The militants have overrun most of one province and parts of three others north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

Addressing the gathering in Tehran, a member of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations Saeed Jalili pointed to plots by the US and Israeli regime in Iraq and Syria and said unity and solidarity in the Muslim world will render terrorists' plots ineffective.

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