{"id":195371,"date":"2019-09-26T06:49:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T06:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195371"},"modified":"2019-09-28T05:54:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T05:54:31","slug":"iranian-president-accuses-us-israel-of-supporting-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=195371","title":{"rendered":"Iranian President Accuses US\/Israel of Supporting Terror"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Fox News \u2013 Sept 25, 2019<\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZMUBCfcmaOU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Iran&#8217;s President Rouhani says Israel is supporting ISIS and &#8216;takes care of their injured fighters and makes weapons available to them&#8217;<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Tim Sticking \u2013 Mail Online Sept 26, 2019<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani has claimed that Israel is supporting <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/isis\/index.html\"><strong>ISIS<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and &#8216;takes care of their injured fighters&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Rouhani, who is in New York for this week&#8217;s UN General Assembly meeting, claimed that &#8216;there is no terrorism throughout the world that matches the activities of Israel&#8217; and insisted that &#8216;<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/iran\/index.html\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Iran<\/span><\/strong><\/a> is a country that has brought peace in the region&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Speaking to <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/rouhani-trump-iran-us-trust-chris-wallace\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fox News<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in an interview which aired last night, he claimed that Israel had treated ISIS jihadists in hospitals and supplied the terror group with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/israel\/index.html\"><strong>Israeli<\/strong><\/a><\/span> weapons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He also took aim at Washington for financing the Saudi-led coalition in the war in Yemen which has killed tens of thousands of people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Israel is the country that takes care of the injured ISIS fighters and they make weapons available to them,&#8217; Rouhani said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Challenged on that claim, he went on:\u00a0&#8216;Certainly, undoubtedly, do you have any doubts? Would you like to see the proof?<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_116306\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Netanyahu-visits-wounded-Syrian-opposition-fighters-in-Golan-hospital.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116306\" class=\"wp-image-116306\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Netanyahu-visits-wounded-Syrian-opposition-fighters-in-Golan-hospital.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Netanyahu-visits-wounded-Syrian-opposition-fighters-in-Golan-hospital.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Netanyahu-visits-wounded-Syrian-opposition-fighters-in-Golan-hospital-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Israeli government has been providing medical assistance to wounded &#8220;Syrian rebels&#8221; for more than a year. In February, Prime In Feb 2014, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited to a military field hospital in the Golan Heights medical facility where wounded &#8220;Syrian rebels&#8221; were being treated. He is pictured here with Defence Minister Ya&#8217;alon. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;You should visit Israeli hospitals and see the injured ISIS war fighters, how they&#8217;re being taken care of.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018You should see the weapons captured from ISIS fighters and see that they are Israeli-made.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;The challenge is that sometimes American media outlets fail to reveal the truth to the American public and they only receive the news from one specific viewpoint or channel if you will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;So that is why the people of America are quite frankly not very well aware of the realities in our region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u2018If the American people knew that so many Yemenis on a daily basis are being innocently killed with their money and their weapons systems, they would not stay silent.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Pressed on his country&#8217;s links to Hamas and Hezbollah, Rouhani said: &#8216;You label people who fight for the country and their lands as terrorism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Those who are the subjects of occupation, what should they do? Be passive and just look?&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;You defend an Israel, the foundation of which is based upon attacking and usurping on the rights of others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;On a daily basis [Israel] has targeted the people of Palestine, Lebanon and most recently even Iraq as well as Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;There is no terrorism throughout the world that matches the activities of Israel.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tensions between Iran and Israel have ratcheted up in recent weeks, with Israel carrying out increasingly public airstrikes against Iran-backed forces in Syria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has taken a hard line in the run-up to his country&#8217;s recent election and Israeli forces have been on high alert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Israel views Iran as its greatest threat, and last year hailed Donald Trump\u2019s decision to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal and re-impose sanctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">However, Netanyahu is facing a battle for his own political survival at home after the election ended in stalemate last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Rouhani also denied American claims that Iran was behind a drone attack on Saudi oil facilities earlier this month which sent tensions spiralling again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Iranian leader is expected to speak at the UN today amid fading hopes of a breakthrough in Tehran&#8217;s nuclear standoff with Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iran has scaled back its commitments under the 2015 pact since Trump re-imposed sanctions last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Rouhani has said he would consider meeting with Trump if sanctions were lifted, but Trump announced an increase in sanctions on Iran last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7502205\/Irans-President-Rouhani-says-Israel-supporting-ISIS.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWherever the U.S. has gone terrorism has expanded\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":195375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=195371"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195377,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195371\/revisions\/195377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/195375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=195371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=195371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=195371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}