Leader: Anti-ISIL coalition seeking ‘hidden motives’

TEHRAN, Sep. 15 (MNA) – Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran has said anti-ISIL coalition seeks hidden motives in Iraq. Ayatollah Khamenei who was speaking in a brief interview with the press today morning after being released from hospital, said that remarks by the US officials about anti-ISIL coalition with others sounded ‘empty,’ and sought ‘hidden motives.’ The Leader of the Islamic Revolution, who had undergone a prostate operation last week, was released today. Ayatollah Khamenei praised the staff and the management of the hospital for their ‘hard work.’ “The major player in Iraq who crushed the ISIL was Iraqi public and the army rather than the US air strikes, a thing which the US admits themselves,” the Leader added; “they seek pretexts to interfere in Iraq, Syria, just as they did in Pakistan,” he asserted. “Through their Iraqi ambassador, the US suggested that Iran cooperate in fighting ISIL which we opposed, since we knew they are themselves an accomplice in murders in Iraq,” the Leader added. “US Secretary of State John Kerry asked Dr. Zarif in person, which Dr. Zarif rejected cooperation,” he said.