Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif (L) during a press conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on February 24, 2015.[/caption]TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif reiterated that the country would continue supporting Iraq to fight ISIL.
�Iran (along with other countries will continue helping Iraq battle ISIL,� he said in a press conference with Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim Al-Jafari.
He also called on the international community to fight the ISIL and terrorism more seriously, and block military and financial support for the terrorist group.
��Iraqi government is the key responsible for the operation (against the ISIL), and every country has to cooperate only with Iraq.�
Ibrahim Al-Jafari, for his part, stressed establishing security across the region, and said, �Turkey, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other countries are located in a region in which any tension is not in favor of them.�
He also said, �We condemn measures of certain countries supporting terrorism in terms of fund, equipment, media and ideology and paved the way for arrival of terrorists in the region.�
The Iraqi foreign minister said that before the formation of the US-led coalition against the ISIL Takfiri group, Iran offered its full support to Iraq �when the ISIL terrorist group invaded the country�s cities.�
Since August, the US and some of its allies have been conducting airstrikes against what they say are ISIL positions in Iraq. Some members of the US-led coalition also started bombarding �ISIL targets� inside Syria in September. However, the raids have so far failed to dislodge the Takfiri group.
By ISNA
