President Donald Trump said 'nobody's done more than I've done' to battle ISIS in the Middle East, 'but at the same time, Russia should do it, Iran should do it, Iraq should do it, Syria should do it.'
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that it is time for the United States to pass the fight against the Islamic State militant group on to Russia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, and to instead focus on maintaining control of oil resources in the region.
Trump's comments soon caught the attention of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who considered them an admission of"what we all knew: US troops in Syria to 'have the oil'" and"that Russia, Syria, & Iran can fight ISIS, confessing,"Iran hates ISIS.'" The U.S. had initially supported the 2011 rebel and jihadi uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad but shifted but in 2015 teamed up with the majority-Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces seeking to defeat ISIS. Around this same time, Russia intervened in favor of the Syrian government and its allies against opposition and militant groups.
Russia, Syria and Iran have all called on the Trump administration to pull troops out of Syria, and confrontations between the U.S. on one side and Russian soldiers and pro-government fighters on the other have at times turned violent. Trump had initially signaled in October that he was pulling out of Syria altogether but his administration has since neglected to provide a timeline for any such withdrawal.."Russia hates ISIS as much as the United States does, Iran hates ISIS.
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