Iran security head claims US seeks to resurrect Islamic State - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Al-Monitor Staff

Dec 8, 2021

ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images — Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, speaks during a meeting of the national security secretaries of Afghanistan, China, Iran, India and Russia in the Iranian capital Tehran on Sept. 26, 2018. — ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images

A handout picture provided by the Iranian Army's official website on September 11, 2020, shows an Iranian Simorgh drone carrying a weapon during the second day of a military exercise in the Gulf, near the strategic strait of Hormuz in southern Iran. - The Iranian navy began on September 10 a three-day exercise in the Sea of Oman near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, deploying an array of warships, drones and missiles. One of the exercise's objectives is to devise "tactical offensive and defensive strategies

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