"We have given help with policy and advice to the Iraq government. We have acted in the same manner to Iraqi Kurdistan," Amir-Abdollahian told the Arabic service of state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
.
Tehran has no military presence in Baghdad, nor in the Shiite shrine city of Samarra to its north nor the Kurdish region of Iraq, he added.
"We have not sent weapons either, but we have given advice and shared our experiences," Amir-Abdollahian said.
Foreign ministry front man Marzieh Afkham said talks were also under way with some European countries.
"Iran has begun discussions with European countries about the danger from terrorism and takfiri
...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who most be killed...
s (extremists) and the increase in their activities," Afkham said in reply to a question about British Prime Minister
David Cameron... has stated that he is
certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is
not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
's statement on cooperation with Iran against Islamic State (IS).
Amir-Abdollahian accused the United States of doing nothing to halt "the flow of capital" to jihadist groups in neighboring Syria, while Washington "monitors the tiniest Iranian petrodollar through the international banking system."
These groups "sell and buy weapons in Syria and with the help of certain countries in the region... sell between $3 and $7 million of petrol every day," the deputy minister alleged.
IS and its Sunni allies have overrun large chunks of Iraq and Syria, and have declared a cross-border caliphate -- a successor state to historic Moslem empires.
Iran, majority Shiite like its neighbor Iraq, was the main supporter of divisive
...politicians call things
divisivewhen when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never
divisive,they're
principled...
former Iraqi premier Nuri al-Maliki before the turmoil led it to distance itself from him.
It has welcomed the appointment of Maliki's successor, Haidar al-Abadi, and has called on all Iraqi parties to unite against the IS offensive.