Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ahmad Khatami underlined that the US and Israel have created and supported the terrorist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) to sow discord among Muslims.
Addressing a large and fervent congregation of the people on Tehran University campus on Friday, Ayatollah Khatami said, "The US and Israel are supporting the ISIL with the purpose of disintegrating Iraq and create differences among Muslims."
He reiterated that what is currently going on in Iraq is not a fight between the Shiites and Sunnis because the Shiite and Sunni religious authorities have on several occasions condemned the ISIL and its crimes.
The provisional Friday prayers leader said the US and the Zionist regime are plotting to introduce Islam as a tough religion in a bid to allow Israel continue its crime against Muslims.
Addressing tens of thousands of Friday Prayer participants at Tehran University grounds, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami further questioned the UN’s sincerity in battling terrorism.
“…Two weeks after so many savageries in Iraq, the UN Security Council (UNSC) refuses to react and it has not even called an emergency session. Either they (council members) are fearful of the United States or they are in cahoots with them (ISIL terrorists),” said Khatami.
“They (UNSC members) are lying about combating terrorism,” he emphasized.
Khatami also reiterated that what is currently under way in Iraq is by no means a sectarian strife, as claimed by the West and their regional Arab allies, since the ISIL “Takfiris are killing both Shias and Sunnis” across the Arab nation.
“They (ISIL elements) are dishonoring Islam and they portray Islam as a violent and murderous religion.”
In similar remarks last week, another provisional Friday Prayers Leader of Tehran, Hojjatoleslam Kazzem Seddiqi said the recent attacks by the ISIL in Iraq are a new plot by the West, specially US, to distract the international community's attention from Israel's atrocities in the Middle East.
"The enemy wants to deprive the Muslim World of unity in a bid to make them forget Israel's dangers," Hojjatoleslam Seddiqi said.
He pointed to the ISIL's crimes in Iraq and Syria, and said, "Nothing is better for the enemies of Islam to distort the image of Islam by a group who call themselves Muslim, but their deed is totally different."
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