The deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Monday that the U.S. is using ISIS to tarnish the image of Islam. Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami believes that the U.S. led coalition against the Islamic State is completely fake. The Daily Caller reports: Salami said at a ceremony in Tehran the existence of ISIS is nothing more than a U.S. attempt to tarnish the reputation of Islam, which the West deems necessary because its own population is converting to Islam en masse, reports FARS News, an Iranian news agency with ties to the government. Salami noted in Britain, about 50,000 people convert to Islam every single year, a trend which has Western powers worried. “The US-led coalition against the IS is fake and the Americans seek to destroy Islam’s attractions through Takfiri and terrorist groups, including the ISIL and al-Nusra Front,” Salami said. In 2015, Iranian Ground Force Commander Brig. Gen. Ahmad Reza Pourdastan delivered similar remarks, alleging the U.S. actually created ISIS and al-Nusra for the purpose of eliminating threats to Israel and ruining the attraction of Islam. “The ISIL, Boko Haram and al-Nusrah have been created in line with the US strategy of religion against religion, [...]