ByNews Desk- The Cradle
Former US presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama were convicted for their role in helping create ISIS
Those convicted include former US presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Central Command (CENTCOM), its former commander Tommy Franks, the CIA, the Treasury Department, weapons conglomerate Lockheed Martin, and American Airlines Group.
None of the defendants are believed to have any assets under Iranian control that can be seized, and Tehran has no way to enforce the ruling outside of its borders.
The judiciary acknowledged the ruling is a response to numerous orders by US courts that have blamed Iran for “terrorist” attacks and ordered compensation from seized Iranian assets.
“As this marks a violation of the immunity of the Iranian government, Iranian courts have also judged a variety of cases against the US government and officials, and have issued legal decisions and will continue to do so,” the court said.
According to the court, the US officials and entities are held responsible for the attacks on the Iranian Parliament and the Imam Khomeini Mausoleum due to the role Washington had “in organizing and directing terrorist groups, reliable news and information published in US media, as well as US official’s speeches and books about the role of the CIA in creating terrorist groups, including ISIS.”
ISIS, as it exists today, was born in 2006 as an offshoot of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which itself was created by mujahideen fighters who were armed and trained since 1979 by the CIA to oppose the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Their extremist ideology was allowed to fester in the early 2000s at Camp Bucca, a US army detention camp in Iraq where several ISIS leaders were detained, including Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Abu Muslim al-Turkmani, and Abu Mohammad al-Julani.
Once the group spread to Syria following the start of the US-sponsored war, they bolstered their numbers and armament thanks to Operation Timber Sycamore, a classified program run by the CIA that funneled weapons to the Free Syrian Army (FSA). This group functioned mainly as a brand adopted by Salafist militant groups fighting against the Syrian army and which secretly pledged allegiance to ISIS.
The FSA provided a secular facade to the Salafist, and Al-Qaeda dominated insurgency, allowing US and allied countries to publicly justify providing military support to the “Syrian insurgency” while feigning opposition to extremist groups.
In 2017, Newsweek reported that, according to a report by UK-based Conflict Armament Research, ISIS obtained much of their “arsenal as a result of former President Barack Obama’s support for rebels in Syria” and that these weapons “included a powerful anti-tank missile launcher bought from a Bulgarian manufacturer by the U.S. Army and wielded by ISIS only weeks later.”
Al-Jazeera, in July 2013, quoted the ISIS commander for Aleppo governorate at the time as saying, “We are buying weapons from the FSA. We bought 200 anti-aircraft missiles and Koncourse anti-tank weapons. We have good relations with our brothers in the FSA.”
On top of this, for 18 months between 2014 and 2015, US occupation troops in Syria and Iraq sat back and watched the brutal ISIS advance toward Damascus with approval. In a private meeting with members of the Syrian opposition, Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that the US had welcomed the 2015 ISIS advance on Damascus to use it as leverage to force Assad to step down from power.
As Kerry explained, “That is why Russia came in. They didn’t want a Daesh [ISIS] government, and they supported Assad. And we know this was growing. We were watching. We saw that Daesh [ISIS] was growing in strength. And we thought Assad was threatened. We thought we could manage that Assad might then negotiate. Instead of negotiating, he got Putin to support him.”
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