Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the elimination of the ISIS (also ISIS or ISIL) Takfiri terrorists from Iraq and Syria was a service to all humanity and a blow both to the terrorist group and its creators and supporters, including the US.

Axar.az reports citing Tansim News Agency.

In a reply to an earlier letter written by Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), who congratulated the Leader on the total collapse of the ISIS terrorist group in Iraq and Syria, Ayatollah Khamenei praised the accomplishment of the hard mission of uprooting terrorism in the two countries.

“By disintegrating this cancerous and deadly tumor, you not only provided great service to regional countries and the Muslim world, but also all nations and the humanity,” the Leader stated.

The Leader further said the victory over ISIS Takfiris was a heavy blow to treacherous plots aimed at inciting a civil war in the region, destroying the anti-Israeli resistance front and undermining independent countries.

It also dealt a blow to the current and former US governments and their vassal regimes in the region who created the terrorist group and provided it with full support to expand their dominance in the Middle East and help the occupying Zionist regime dominate the region, Ayatollah Khamenei added.

However, the Leader warned that the enemy’s deceit should not be ignored.

Those who made huge investment to create the ISIS terrorist group would try to re-hatch their evil plots in another part of the region or in other forms, Imam Khamenei warned, and stressed the importance of remaining vigilant and motivated, maintaining unity, removing any dangerous remnants of the terrorist group, conducting cultural activities and staying fully prepared.

General Qassem Soleimani announced on Tuesday that the self-proclaimed caliphate of ISIS (ISIL) terrorist group has formally collapsed in Islamic territories after recapture of its last stronghold in Syria’s Albu Kamal.

Speaking on behalf of all commanders and forces fighting against terrorism, thousands of Iranian, Iraqi, Syrian, Lebanese, Afghan, and Pakistani martyrs and those handicapped in defending the life and dignity of Muslims and their sanctities, the top general congratulated Ayatollah Khamenei, the Iranian nation, the people of Iraq and Syria, and all Muslims on the fall of ISIS.