Iran Press/Iran news: Major General Baqeri noted Donald Trump’s recent secretive visit to Iraq, adding: “Today, the US president has to visit Iraq in a secretive and humiliating manner, on board a plane with its lights off, while the secretary of Iran's supreme national security council travelled to Afghanistan on the same day and had over 10 meetings that were widely covered by the media.”
According to an Iran Press report, Major General Bagheri added: "It shows the difference between Iran and the US, the truth and falsehood fronts."
Trump has admitted that he had been concerned about making an unannounced visit to American troops in Iraq 26 Dec 2018. Trump said blacked-out windows inside the plane and unspecified concerns for first lady Melania Trump, who made the trip as well, had left him wary.
"Not for myself personally. I had concerns for the first lady, I will tell you. But if you would have seen what we had to go through in the darkened plane with all window closed with no light anywhere. Pitch black,” Trump has said about the way he entered Iraq.
Elsewhere in his comments, Major General Baqeri denounced the US support for Takfiri terrorists in Syria, saying Americans have directly helped the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist group in the Arab country by saving them with choppers and by sending them logistical supplies.
“Americans went to Syria without permission from the Syrian nation and government, and invaded and occupied part of that country’s territory,” the Iranian general added.
He also pointed to the US humiliating pullout from Syria, saying the terrorist-sponsoring countries have now queued up to reopen their embassies in Damascus.
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He referred to the US’ destructive measures in Syria and other parts of the Middle East region, saying “they did all they could to undermine a government whose only fault was to hold enmity for the Zionists and extend friendship to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and now they have been finally forced to leave [Syria].”
The Iranian general then referred to some Arab countries’ move to reopen their embassies in Syria, saying “those Arab countries, which used to say that they’d refuse to be in Syria as long as Bashar Assad is in office, are now begging to go back to Syria.” 103/ 211/209
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