Iran says US 'godfather of Daesh' after Kennedy nephew's comments

Iranian Foreign Ministry's spokesman has slammed the United States as the "godfather of Daesh" after the newest entrant to the US 2024 presidential race, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. reconfirmed the fact while announcing his candidacy.

"Those who deliberately closed their eyes to the truth" should listen to what Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said about Daesh, Nasser Kan'ani stated on Friday in a post on his Twitter account.

"There was no doubt the US is the creator of #ISIS, but for those who deliberately closed their eyes to the truth, the statement of Robert F. Kennedy, the nephew of John F. Kennedy saying “WE created ISIS” reaffirms the fact that the American regime is the godfather of Daesh/ISIS," Kan'ani wrote.

During a campaign event to launch his 2024 presidential bid in Boston on Wednesday, Kennedy lashed out at the foreign policy of the US and the role of the CIA in shaping it, referring to the infamous American spy agency.

Kennedy is the first candidate from the ruling Democrat Party to challenge fellow party member and 80-year-old US President Joe Biden, who has declared his intent to run again in 2024, although not officially yet.  

"When my uncle came into office, two months later he was fighting his intelligence apparatus and his military," he said.

He further pointed to CIA's key role in the military invasion of Iraq, saying: "And so the neocons and CIA got to go into Iraq and do regime-change. We spent $8 trillion and what did we get for it? Nothing... Iraq is now much worse off than it was when we went in there. We killed more Iraqis than Saddam Hussein ever did."

"We created ISIS. We drove two million refugees up into Europe," he then underlined.

US ‘created’ Daesh terrorist group, 2024 presidential hopeful confirms

Newest US 2024 presidential hopeful Robert F. Kennedy Jr. insists that Washington "created" the Daesh terrorist group.

Saying that he had been “censored” for 18 years, Kennedy added: “I got a lot to talk about. They shouldn't have shut me up for that long because now I'm really going to let loose on them for the next 18 months. They're going to hear a lot from me!"

This is not the first time that American politicians admit the Daesh terrorist group was founded and supported by the US.

Back in August 2016, Donald Trump, then-Republican presidential nominee, also stated that Daesh was honoring then-US president Barack Obama as "He’s the founder of ISIS. He's the founder! He founded ISIS."

"I would say the co-founder would be ‘Crooked’ Hillary Clinton," he hastened to add, criticizing the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq, which according to him, left behind a void for Daesh terrorists to fill.

US created Daesh, allowed regional states to fund terror group: Nasrallah

The chief of the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance movement made the remarks after the liberation of Mosul from the hands of Daesh terrorist group.

The US invaded Iraq in 2003 under the false pretext that the country possesses Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). The invasion marked the start of the American war machine on Iraq and the wider West Asia region. A few years later, it also invaded Syria with the excuse of fighting Daesh terrorists.

Daesh – also referred to as ISIS -- began a brutal terror campaign in 2014, overrunning vast swathes of Iraq in lightning attacks.

Iraq declared victory over the terrorist group in December 2017 following a three-year counter-terrorism military campaign in which the PMU (known in Arabic as Hashd al-Sha’abi) – assisted by Iranian military advisers -- played a major role.

Still, Daesh’s remnants keep staging sporadic attacks across Iraq and Syria while they have been increasingly active in Afghanistan in the past two years, since the US's irresponsible withdrawal of forces from the war-torn country.

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