To Prevent the Rebirth of Islamic State, the U.S. Must Constrain Iran
Don’t hire the arsonist to put out the fire.
November 22, 2019
To Prevent the Rebirth of Islamic State, the U.S. Must Constrain Iran
Don’t hire the arsonist to put out the fire.
In a speech given the day after the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi—the “caliph” of Islamic State (IS)—President Trump stated that Iran had been “right there” in fighting the Sunni terrorist group, along with its allies Syria and Russia. The comment echoed a common refrain of the Obama administration; in fact, the former president proposed in his 2014 letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Washington and Tehran join forces against IS, their common enemy. While Iranian troops and proxy militias did occasionally fight IS, writes Tzvi Kahn, partnering with Iran would have been the equivalent of “hiring the arsonist to put out the fire.”
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