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Source: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/05/irans-anti-us-conspiracies-117509.html
Iran's Anti-U.S. Conspiracies
(Politico) Michael Crowley - A top Iranian general, Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, the commander of Iran's ground forces, recently claimed that the U.S. staged the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to invade the Muslim world. Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has repeatedly said that the Islamic State was deliberately created by the West to divide Muslims and bomb their countries. Iranian state television recently claimed that Sen. John McCain met personally with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Sunni militant group's caliph. Last September, Khamenei added that the West also created al-Qaeda and the Taliban. During an appearance on state TV last July, Valiollah Naghipourfar, an Iranian cleric and professor at Tehran University, calmly asserted that Israel's intelligence-gathering prowess is fueled by supernatural powers. "The Jew is very practiced in sorcery," he said.