World Must React to ISIL Atrocities in Iraq: Iranian Official
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior Iranian official underlined the need for the international community to stand up against the atrocities committed by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
“The ISIL has committed genocide against Yazidis (in Iraq) and the whole world must react to it,” Ali Yunesi, special assistant to Iran’s president in ethnic and religious minorities’ affairs said on Thursday.
He described the extremist group’s genocide in Iraq as regrettable.
The ISIL terrorists have killed hundreds of members of Iraq’s Kurdish Yazidi minority.
Meanwhile, according to media reports, thousands of Yazidis escaping the ISIL militants remain abandoned on top of Sinjar Mountain.
Since early this year, Iraq has been facing a growing militancy by the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group and its allied militants, who have taken over areas in the country’s west and north. The crisis has deteriorated since June, when the ISIL declared a so-called caliphate in the territories they have seized.
The ISIL terrorists have also threatened other communities, including Shiites, Sunnis, Kurds, Christians, and others, in Iraq.
They have been committing heinous crimes in the areas they have taken, including the mass execution of civilians as well as Iraqi army troops and officers.
