Iranian Commander: US Still Sending Aid to ISIL

(FNA)- Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Massoud Jazayeri questioned the drive of the US-led anti-ISIL coalition, saying that Washington is still providing the terrorist group with different supports and aids.

Brigadier General Jazayeri made the remarks referring to US recent support for the terrorist group after it was encircled by Iraqi people and army following moving into the Iraqi Northeastern city of Jalula in Diyala Province, some 80 km Northeast of the capital Baghdad.

"In a criminal move, US and the so-called coalition forces have sent fresh arms for the surrounded terrorists of ISIL in Jalula," said the brigadier general noting this was not the first time that US has armed the ISIL terrorists.

Jazayeri went on to say that even in the first days of formation of the so-called coalition, US had sent weapons for the ISIL terrorists.

During the past couple of days, he said, two large cargos consisting of weapons, ammunitions, food stuff and medicines were airdropped by US for the ISIL terrorists in Jalula.

Also in September, Iran's Deputy Defense Minister Brigadier General Amir Hatami underlined that the US-led coalition formed against the ISIL was a political showoff, and said launching airstrikes against the ISIL positions in Iraq was ineffective.

"This coalition is a propaganda job and I doubt its seriousness and on the other hand this coalition is an ineffective measure," Brigadier General Hatami told reporters.

He noted that the West has equipped the ISIL against Syria and Iraq and now they want to confront it.