Iranian authorities terrify the people of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL/ISIS) while they are the ISIS godfather.
"Basiji, IRGC, you are our ISIS," youths chanted during #IranProtests in January 2020. iranfocus.com/en/wpen/terror…
Iranian authorities hosted high-ranking members of al-Qaeda for many years. In August 2020, Abu Muhammad al-Masri, the group's #2 figure, was killed in Tehran.
by @nytimes nytimes.com/2020/11/13/wor…