Iran’s Interior Minister warned of terrorist groups recruitment

Almaty. December 14. Silkroadnews - Iranian Interior Minister warned of the danger of recruitment to the terrorist groups, the Iranian Telegraph Agency (IrTAG) reported referring to Tasnim News Agency.
“Iran’s interior minister, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, called for collective efforts to prevent the Takfiri terrorist groups from recruiting forces in new areas after their defeats in Syria and Iraq,” the report said.
According to the minister, the defeat of Takfiri terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq has forced them to choose new methods and expand the range of their activities in other countries.
“Terrorists are seeking to recruit forces in some new regions and make those areas a hotbed of their activities,” minister warned.
He also stressed the importance of Iran’s efforts in the fight against terrorism, saying that the country participates in regional counterterrorism cooperation with the other states, such as Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Pakistan, Russia and Afghanistan. At the same time, he noted, Iran closely monitors the activities of terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda and IS.
In his turn, Minister of Intelligence Mahmoud Alawi expressed concern with the IS terrorist group’s attempts to create its self-proclaimed caliphate in Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan after the defeat in Iraq and Syria.
The agency says “on November 19, Daesh terrorists were flushed out of their last stronghold in Syria’s Al-Bukamal. The city’s liberation marked an end to the group’s self-proclaimed caliphate it had declared in 2014.”
The IS militants moved rapidly in northern and western Iraq in the summer of 2014, capturing large areas of Syria. But the timely support of Iran helped Syria and Iraq fight back from the IS. In addition, the formation of military units by volunteers in Iraq, known as Hashd al-Shaabi or Popular Mobilization Units, stopped the IS offensive, and then forced the terrorist group to withdraw from most of the territories it occupied.