Religious Sunni scholars of Hormozgan Province, Sheikh Seyyed Abdorrahim Qetali, Sheikh Kuhammad Aqil Shihak Zehi, Sheikh Hussein Bazmandegan, Sheikh Masoud Rahbar and Sheikh Yaqoub Shams in separate remarks slammed recent violence and vandelism in Iraq, spurring on Muslims to stop enemies in spilling innocent Iraqi nations' blood.
To them the current Stuff of nightmare in Iraq is a new plot hatched by enemies to prevent the strong presence of the Muslim world in the arena of regional and international progress.
In their lines, Islamic countries must be vigilant and have a strategic view on the developments, noting that they should not allow enemies to sow seeds of discord among them.
To many religious clerics and analysts, the United States and Saudi Arabia are the main supporters of the terrorists belonging to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
Touching their remarks, the presence of the ISIL Takfiri militants in Iraq is another attempt by the US and its allies to avenge their defeat in Syria.
The religious clerics announced that they are strongly against the interference of the US and others in Iraq’s internal affairs and do not approve of it, because we believe that the Iraqi government, nation and religious authorities are capable of ending this sedition and will end it, God willing.
On June 10, the ISIL militants took control of the Nineveh provincial capital Mosul, in a lightning advance, which was followed by the fall of Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (87 miles) northwest of the capital Baghdad.
Iraqi armed forces are preparing to stage a massive offensive from several fronts to push militants out of the cities of Tikrit and Mosul.
Over the past days, Iraqi armed forces have been engaged in fierce clashes with the terrorists, who have threatened to take their acts of violence to other Iraqi cities, including Baghdad.
However, their advance has been slowed down as Iraqi military forces and volunteer fighters have begun engaging them on different fronts, pushing the militants out of several areas they had earlier overrun.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has lashed out at Saudi Arabia for supporting the ISIL terrorists.
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