US can't gloss over role in proliferating Takfiri terror by killing Daesh leader: Iran
Tehran (KNA) - The death of Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi at the hands of American military forces should bring to end US interventionism in the Middle East, says Iran's government spokesman, noting that Washington's policies are the main reason for the proliferation of Daesh and other Takfiri terror outfits.
Ali Rabiei wrote in an opinion piece on Sunday that Baghdadi's death, while symbolic, doesn't mean the fight against Daesh is completed, just as killing former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden didn't bring terrorism to an end.
"Baghdadi's death is the end of a symbol of injective-destructive terrorism: injecting a lethal ideology into the hearts of human societies and destroying the image of Islam in the eyes of the public," he said.
"However, just as bin Laden' death didn't root out terror, Baghdadi's death won't be the end of Daeshism either," he added.
The main reason for this, Raebiei argued, was the fact that Washington was not going to stop undertaking policies that nurture the same kind of extremist ideologies that Baghdadi represented.
"Deaths of bin Laden and Baghdadi only ended a chapter in the fight against the Daeshi brand of terrorism," he said, adding however that the concept is still thriving "through American policies and regional petrodollars."
Source: PressTV