Saudi Petrodollars Behind Terrorist Acts in Region

 (FNA)- A senior Iranian military commander underlined that Saudi Arabia with its petrodollars finances Takfiri terrorism in the Middle East in coordination with the spy agencies of Israel and the UK.

"Today all the explosions in every part of the region take place with Saudi dollars and management of the intelligence services of Israel and Britain," Deputy Head of the Sustainable Security Department of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Hassan Rastegarpanah said on Sunday.

He noted that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) is the newest version of the heinous Takfiri phenomenon, which has been created in coordination with the spy agencies of Israel, Britain and the US in order to distance threats from the borders of Israel and sow seeds of discord among Muslim sects.

"The phenomenon of Takfirism will divert the path of the Islamic awakening and will portray a violent image of Islam throughout the world," the commander cautioned. 

Earlier this year, the Iraqi 'Afaq TV' broadcast footages of a group of arrested members of ISIL confessing to their direct links with the Saudi Arabia.

The video included confessions about the ISIL relations with the Saudi authorities and their role in terrorist attacks in number of Iraqi provinces, along with transporting weapons and booby-trapped cars into Iraqi cities.

The emir of ISIL special groups in Karbala' and Najaf was among the arrested members.

During the confessions, he said he was working for ‘the Saudi Abu Jassem’, a military man who ordered him to carry out several attacks.

Iraqi Federal Intelligence and Investigations Directorate in Karbala' arrested a large number of terrorists during several operation it made recently.

In January, a well-known Saudi tweeter named 'Mojtahed' had posted tweets about armed groups in which the Kingdom intelligence services had infiltrated.

Mojtahed distinguished between three categories of armed groups, the first was made by Bandar Bin Sultan, the second had been infiltrated partially and planted by agents, and the third had been directed by deception.