Speaking in an interview with the website of the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, Hassan Hanizadeh said: In fact, the Maghreb summit with an aim of establishing a mechanism to fight ISIS, is a formal meeting which lacks the executive tools to suppress this terrorist group.

According to the expert: Although the Morocco meeting is not the first meeting on the fight against terrorist groups, such meetings, without a practical outcome and formation of an operational mechanism to suppress terrorist groups, are doomed to failure.

Saying that ISIS is considered as a dangerous terrorist-Takfiri movement, Hanizadeh added: This movement first entered the operational scene in 2011 simultaneously with the start of the breathtaking Syrian crisis. According to the expert, ISIS has committed crimes during recent years that have been less observed in the history.

The expert on the Middle East affairs explained: Reports indicate that ISIS terrorist elements have been trained since 2009 under the supervision of the officers of the United States CIA and Israeli Mossad at a barracks in Jordan’s Ar-Ramtha, on the Jordanian-Syrian border.

Hanizadeh also stressed that some Arab countries in the Persian Gulf have paid for the transfer and practical training of ISIS elements in Jordan at the behest of the United States and some European governments.

He explained that the number of members of this terrorist group is estimated at 170,000, who have joined the group from 80 different countries.

Noting that ISIS has gradually entered Iraq, Afghanistan and eventually Africa, Hanizadeh added: Right now, this terrorist movement is carrying out massacres in an organized manner but without a strategic target.

According to the expert, the results of the reports show that the United States, Saudi Arabia, Britain, the United Arab Emirates and the Zionist regime were involved in the formation of this inhumane group, and over the past 12 years, more than 80 billion dollars in financial aid has been provided to this group.

Explaining that how the 170,000 trained terrorist elements have entered Syria from 80 countries, he said: This shows that the great powers in the world have played a role in organizing and transferring those terrorists.

Hanizadeh continued: Although other groups, such as Jaish al-Islam, Liwa al-Tawhid (al-Tawhid Brigade), Jabhat al-Nusra (Al-Nusra Front), al-Bara’a Brigade and Khorasan ISIS, have declared their presence in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, ISIS’s offensive role in killing innocent people is even more prominent.

The expert on the Middle East affairs explained that ISIS was involved in the killing of Shiites, Alawites and other minorities such as Yazidis in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and that the West and the international community did nothing to counter that terrorist movement.

Noting that according to available reports ISIS is now out of date for the United States and the West, he added: But the transfer of that group from West Asia to Africa has raised concerns for African countries.

Hanizadeh continued: It is natural that the existence of the ISIS terrorist group and other terrorist groups can serve the purposes of the United States, the Zionist regime and the West, but in the end this group, like al-Qaeda, will be challenged by the West.

The expert explained: Al-Qaeda, which was established by the United States and Saudi Arabia to confront the Soviet Red Army in Afghanistan, clashed with the United States along the way after defeating the Soviet army, and marked the events of September 11, 2001. Therefore, the Maghreb summit to establish a mechanism to fight ISIS is a formal meeting which lacks executive tools to suppress this group.

Stressing that in order to truly fight terrorist groups such as ISIS, al-Qaeda and Boko Haram, all countries in the world, without exception and regardless of political differences, must join hands, but unfortunately in American and Western political literature, whenever terrorism serves the interests of those countries, terrorism is “good” and when it is against the interests of the West, terrorism is considered as being “bad”.

Hanizadeh concluded by saying: The Islamic Republic of Iran, which has incurred the greatest costs of confronting terrorist groups in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, can become an important center for the fight against terrorism due to its field experience.

He stressed: Therefore, the anti-ISIS meeting in Morocco, although held late and with a long delay, can be considered as a prelude to a serious move by the international community to eradicate all terrorist-Takfiri movements, provided that ISIS yesterday supporters have a real intention to deal with it.