Tehran, YJC. Commander of Iraq’s Badr Brigade has praised Iran for making country’s battle against the ISIL terrorist group possible.
"We do believe that countering the Islamic State in Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL) is not possible except with the support offered by our
neighbor Iran and the resistance shown by the country’s nation,” Commander of
Iraq’s Badr Brigade Hadi al-Ameri told reporters in Tehran on Monday.
He further noted that Iraqi PM Haidar al-Abadi owes the launch
of his government to support offered by Iran.
Al-Ameri made the remarks on the sidelines of a memorial
service held in the Iranian capital to commemorate country’s military adviser,
General Hamid Taqavi, who was recently martyred in the Iraqi city of Samarrah while
on an advisory mission.
A one-time commander of the 8-year Iraqi war on Iran in the
1980s, Taqavi was killed in Samarrah while performing an advisory mission as
part of Iran's military advice help to Iraq in its fight against ISIL.
The Arab country has been facing the growing threat of Takfiri
terrorism, posed largely by the ISIL
terrorist group.
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants accomplished
swift advances in much of Iraq in the country’s north and west in summer 2014.