A political commentator says the US and its allies seek to portray the Takfiri violence in Iraq as a sectarian strife among Muslims in an attempt to tarnish the image of Shia Islam, Press TV reports.
In a Sunday interview with Press TV, Randy Short said it would be “impossible” to describe the fresh wave of turmoil in Iraq as a sectarian conflict as all groups of people are already represented in the Baghdad government.
“This is part of a gang-counter-gang strategy that is being used by [Israeli spy agency] Mossad and all of them [US and its allies] to make the different Muslim brothers and sisters fight each other,” said Short, stressing, “This is really an effort to smear Shia and to build up hatred.”
Short also said there are journalists who serve as “covert spies” and seek to mislead the public opinion by providing “a lot of toxic information” regarding the situation in Iraq.
“The manipulation of the media is to make Islam bad, to make Muslims bad, to make Shias sinister, to make Sunnis sinister, instead of looking at the wickedness that is perpetrated by a global system that needs oil, water, and warfare, and drugs to make huge profits,” he added.
Since June 10, Iraq has witnessed a fresh wave of violence fueled by the terrorists from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The militants have overrun most of one province and parts of three others north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Over the past days, Iraqi armed forces have been engaged in fierce clashes with the ISIL terrorists, who have threatened to take their acts of violence to other Iraqi cities, including Baghdad.
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