A senior Iranian official said on Monday his country was ready to help confront Islamic State militants who have seized the Iraqi city of Ramadi, and that he was certain the city would be “liberated.”
“If the Iraqi government officially asks the Islamic Republic of Iran … to carry out any step that helps Iraq to confront (them)… then the Islamic Republic of Iran will meet this call,” Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, told Reuters Television.