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GOP lawmaker: Wasn't ISIS terror attack in Iran 'a good thing'
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jun 10, 2017 08:12pm |
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| Author | Jacqueline Thomsen |
| News Date | Sunday, June 11, 2017 02:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A Republican congressman said this week that a recent ISIS attack in Iran could be a “good thing” and even suggested that the U.S. government support ISIS for attacking other terrorist groups.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) said during a House hearing on Hezbollah “isn’t a good thing for us to have the United States finally backing up Sunnis who will attack Hezbollah and the Shiite threat to us?”
“Isn’t that a good thing?” he said. “And if so, maybe this is a Trump — maybe it’s a Trump strategy of actually supporting one groups against another, considering that you have two terrorist organizations.
Rohrabacher's comments came after attackers in Tehran stormed the parliament building and a shire of the country’s first Supreme Leader Wednesday, leaving at least 17 dead and dozens injured.
Matthew Levitt, the director of The Washington Institute’s Stein Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, pushed back against Rohrabacher at the hearing, saying that ISIS had claimed credit for the attack. |
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