Interviewed during Iran’s commemoration of the 1980 invasion of Iran by Saddam Hussein, military chief of staff Maj. Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi dismissed suggestions that the ongoing war against ISIS would require the US and Iran to cooperate.
“You must be dreaming,” Maj. Gen. Firouzabadi said, saying “the Americans are the ones who created ISIS” and that the US involvement in the ISIS war has been ineffectual. Admiral Ali Fadavi, a top Revolutionary Guard commander, echoed these sentiments, saying that the two nations may have common interests in the ongoing war, but that the nature of the two nations meant direct cooperation was impossible.
Decades of tension between the US and Iran has left a great deal of mistrust on both sides, with Obama Administration officials similarly spurning talk of cooperation, despite the two sides being aligned squarely against ISIS in the same war.
There are differences, of course. The US and Iran are largely eye-to-eye in Iraq, but the US strategy in Syria is to see the destruction of both ISIS and the Syrian government itself, and the installation of a largely non-existent pro-US faction, while Iran is keen to see the current Syrian government remain in some form.
I"m confused by this article. It claims that Uncle Sam is "aligned squarely against ISIS" although that is clearly not the actual policy. Newcomers to these issues need to know that the stated policies and the actual policies bear little resemblance to each other, and Antiwar.com usually makes this distinction.
Why not in this article as well?
The companion article to this one should be "US dismisses cooperation with Iran in fight against US-created and supported ISIS."
No, there is absolute trust between moral Iran and satanic Empire USA, for Iran always trusts that our Empire will go for wars of expansion, for always does our Empire trust that Iran will oppose our ungodly wars of plunder.