Iran 'godfather' of IS jihadists: opposition leader
By AFP | AFP – Thu, Apr 30, 2015- AFP/Miguel Medina - Maryam Rajavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, gestures during the annual meeting of the Iranian resistance in Villepinte, near Paris, on June 27, 2014
The
leader of an exiled Iranian opposition group addressed US lawmakers for
the first time Wednesday and warned of the links between Shiite Iran
and the Sunni Muslim Islamic State (IS) militants.
"It was the mullahs' regime who
helped the creation of ISIS... and the killing of Sunnis in Iraq helped
the emergence of ISIS," Maryam Rajavi told House lawmakers, using
another acronym for the IS jihadist group that has captured a swathe of
territory in Iraq and Syria.
Rajavi is the president-elect of
the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political umbrella
coalition of five Iranian opposition groups that includes the once
blacklisted People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK). see more
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