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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iranians believe IS was invented by America
2014-09-12
[9NEWS.AU]
Many ordinary Iranians believe their leader's rhetoric that the United States invented the terrorist group Islamic State to counter Iran's growing influence in the region.

Last week Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said he believes America created IS as a ploy to re-establish a foothold in Iraq and fight Syrian president Bashir al-Assad, Iran's ally.

"We have evidence now, we know," Ayatollah Khamenei reportedly told a gathering of holy mans.

The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 Tehran bureau chief has since cited numerous examples of ordinary Iranians convinced that America is involved.

And yesterday Iranian state television
... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe?
claimed to show images of US Republican Senator John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution...
meeting with His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...formerly merely the head of ISIL and a veteran of the Bagram jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us...
, the caliph of IS.

Ayatollah Khamenei has previously alleged that al-Qaeda and the Taliban were also devised by the West as a counterweight to Iran.

US President Barack Obama
I inhaled. That was the point...
today announced he will escalate an aerial bombing campaign aimed at destroying IS.

The Abbott government reportedly is expecting a request from Washington within days to provide military support for the US-led assault.
Posted by:Fred

#11  Barry claiming the Arab Spring, Libra, Egypt, McCain's Heroes, and other night's speech would be a very tempting five course meal.

The no-fly aid corridor, promises of logistic stuffs to Team Not-Assad, leaks of trainers and advisors, and trying to sell the public AT and AA equipment to TNA which at the time there were reports of ISJV converting or killing other members of TNA with a prominate assassinations of Free Syria Army leaders yet the US continued to bang the support drum.

I don't know about invented or created, but I think supported and trained a la those CAR rebels France had to go stomp. Kind of makes me curious as to the yarns our two intrepid reporters could have spun. When Al Quada is like, "Hey USA, quit those guys, they are total a@holes we divorced them months ago." We were going to go to war for these guys until Kerry got off script.

It is no stretch to me to see an advisor over there. "This air base is killing us, what is the best way to capture an air base and as much equipment as possible?" Then as soon as the advisor goes to bed, out come the Iraq maps.

Imagine what it would look like if Egypt didn't un-eff itself from the Obama backed Muslim Brotherhood government whose first three major policy points were negate Israeli peace treaties, purge the generals, and want to send troops to Ethiopia. I see a continuous line of various JV squads from east Africa to Baghdad, with MB troops in and around the horn and Sinai, around the time the CAR rebels start popping off.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2014-09-12 17:06  

#10  Russians, Iranians: is there any propaganda they create that their people will not readily swallow?
Posted by: OldSpook   2014-09-12 15:07  

#9  Russians claim the same thing because of US threats to Assad.
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Jinemble5612   2014-09-12 14:02  

#8  "You're just jealous cause they don't speak to you" - M ;)
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-09-12 12:04  

#7  Is this when Mo was dealing with the voices in his head?
Posted by: JohnQC   2014-09-12 11:51  

#6  (c)610 Muhammad
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-09-12 11:35  

#5  They give the Champ too much credit.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2014-09-12 11:21  

#4  ...The Iranians also believe that they've invented stealth helicopters that can go supersonic underwater. You'll pardon me if I'm skeptical.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2014-09-12 10:06  

#3  why not? effective method to get your enemy to climb into the barrel, before you blow that barrel right to m/f kingdom-come
Posted by: The Munsters best goulash   2014-09-12 08:07  

#2  More likely a really lame attempt at co-opting. Sort of like trying to use the Mob to get Fidel in the 60's and 70's, 'we try for a common goal, and then they wake up and decide to be good boys' kind of thinking.
Riiight.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-09-12 07:37  

#1  Invented, maybe not. Created, though?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2014-09-12 06:38  

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