Lavrov: U.S. War on ISIS Is Not Genuine

“To exclude the Syrian army from fighting Islamic State is absurd,” he said. “Syrian armed forces will be the most effective military force on the ground.”

“A year passed and he stopped being legitimate, because the threat is now not chemical weapons or substance but a terror menace,” Lavrov said, describing that as an ideologized approach.

“I hope I would not fail anyone by saying some of our counterparts, members of the coalition, say that they sometimes have information about where, at which positions, are certain IS groups, but the coalition’s commander—in the U.S. naturally— would not agree to deliver a strike,” he said.

“Analysis of the coalition’s aviation causes weird impressions,” he said. “The suspicions are other than the declared goal of fighting the Islamic State—there is something else in that coalition’s goals,” the minister said. “I do not want to make any conclusions—it is not clear what impressions, information of higher ideas the commander may have—but signals of the kind are coming.”