Secretary of Defense:

number of countries seek to protect ISIL leaders / terrorists have no ability to re-energize their country.

The secretary said the ISIL terrorist group in Afghanistan would not have any success, because the people of this country would never accept the ideology of the group.

News ID: 69636

Date: 09 April 2018 - 17:11

According to Defapress defensive and security reporter: Amir Hatami, the minister of defense and support of the armed forces, in a conversation with Rashatoodi, stated: "Despite the fact that ISIS has created security threats in Afghanistan, Iran, like some other countries, including Russia, does not think that Afghanistan will turn to ISIL's new base. To be

He added: "There is no doubt that ISIL terrorists have gone to Afghanistan, but there are disagreements over their numbers. Some say up to 10,000 terrorists, while the Afghan government says they are fewer, but they are undoubtedly operating in Afghanistan.

Amir Hatami continued, "Some governments facilitate the withdrawal of terrorists from Syria and Iraq and try to maintain the leaders of the terrorists.

He also said: "ISIL leaders may have smuggled to Afghanistan", according to the country's intelligence.
Amir Hatami added: "Afghanistan's neighbors will block ISIL's borders and cut off their source appearances, and the Afghan people will not accept their ideology also. Though, ISIL must not allow development in other zones.

Our country's defense secretary added, "Tehran does not believe that ISIL will restore its power in Afghanistan.

he said :"Afghanistan is completely different with Iraq and Syria, and ISIL will not be able to rise in Afghanistan like these, but its supporters allocate too much resources to this aim".

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