After the United States occupied Iraq, al-Qaida, the very product of U.S. foreign policy during the Soviet occupation in Afghanistan, organized a series of suicide bombs against the civilian Shiite population. Despite its undisputable capacity, the U.S. intelligence organization did not prevent these terrorist attacks. In addition, the U.S. handed Iraq to Iran on a silver platter. In a similar manner, Iran condoned the worsening state of chaos in Iraq. Mass killings of civilian Sunni and Shiite populations through brutal suicide attacks deepened the social trauma and thus legalized the Shiite government in aggrandizing coercion of Sunnis in Iraq.

Today, Sunni villages in Iraq are occupied by Shiite militias and people are forced to emigrate from their lands. Sunni Iraqis are being oppressed much more tyrannically by the Iraqi army led by the Shiite government and Iranian militias than by the occupying military of the U.S. Any observer of Iraq will easily understand that the proceedings of Shiite militias, who substitute their religious sect for Islam, are no less cruel in their attacks on the Sunni population than those of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) on other peoples. While they act as the Shiite version of ISIS, their crimes against humanity are implemented in cooperation with Iran.

It is a tragic fact of the day that anyone now has the "right" to attack the Sunni population in Iraq and Syria by committing extreme human rights violations with impunity. Just like al-Qaida, ISIS's existence in Iraq and Syria legitimizes any global or regional power to invade Sunni lands.

Regarding the analysis of ISIS, everyone refers to social traumas in Iraq that emerged after the U.S. occupation and the ensuing transformation in the country's demographics. The Iraqi army, which could have not resisted the occupying U.S. forces, has now been turned into a "military genius" that successfully fights against ISIS.

The number of people who analyze ISIS as a direct product of an alliance of various intelligence organizations, including those of Iran, Israel and a number of Western states, is not inconsiderable.

ISIS has come to the historical stage at the very moment when the Baath regime in Syria was on the brink of collapse and directly attacked not only the lands controlled by the opposition Free Syrian Army, but also those governed by Kurds in Northern Iraq and northern Syria. As opposed to all other forms of Islamic organizations, ISIS has never targeted Israel even in discursive terms and instead threatened Hamas. Thus, the question remains to be addressed of how and why ISIS, as a Sunni-origin terrorist organization, take each and every step to exterminate the Sunni population from Iraq and Syria.

During the Soviet-Afghan War, thousands of mujahideen (warriors engaged in jihad) were recruited from various parts of the world to fight Soviet occupation. After those years passed, we now realize that this jihad against the Soviets was a political concept that was developed and implemented by the U.S. Today we face another political concept, a mixed one that seems to have been developed by Iran under the leadership of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for the realization of his project of the Shiite crescent, Israel and a number of Western states. As a monster was created, all the forces of malice, including Russia, are legitimized in the international arena in invading Muslim regions. In a similar vein, Iran is legitimized in occupying Sunni lands as the image of fighting ISIS presents the most suitable cover for the realization of aggressive foreign policy objectives.