TEHRAN (Tasnim) � Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces said the US push for the overthrow of Syria�s legitimate President Bashar al-Assad only invigorates the ISIL terrorist group, recommending Washington to put aside such a paradoxical approach if it really wants to fight terrorism.
The Americans should know that if Syria lacks a ruling government and if they oppose and attack Bashar al-Assad, they will only strengthen Daesh, and this is a strategic paradox, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi said on Saturday, using an Arabic acronym for the ISIL terrorist group.

It is unacceptable to stage a war on ISIL and at the same time attack a president who is battling terrorism in Syria, the top officer said of the US approach.

�The Americans should stop their wrong, paradoxical policy so that the fight on terrorists in Syria can go on in favor of the world peace and security,� Major General Firouzabadi added.

Commenting on a Friday resolution passed by the United Nations Security Council on a global fight against ISIL, Firouzabadi said the recent terrorist attacks in Paris finally �awakened the West� and made them aware of Iran�s previous warnings that the scourge of terrorism is not confined to a specific region but it threatens the whole world.

In a unanimously adopted resolution, the 15-member UNSC declared the ISIL�s terrorist attacks abroad �a global and unprecedented threat to international peace and security� following the �horrifying terrorist attacks� it perpetrated recently in Sousse (Tunisia), Ankara (Turkey), over Sinai (Egypt) with the downing of a Russian plane, and in Beirut and Paris.

On November 13, a string of coordinated attacks in and around the French capital left at least 132 people dead and some 200 others injured.

A state of emergency has been declared in the European country shaken by the horrific attacks claimed by ISIL.

By Tasnim News Agency