This is a silly and ill-informed article. The notion (untrue of course) that the US created ISIS and the promotion of fake evidence is NOT an Iranian invention. In fact, all those theories and the fake picture of Sen. McCain with Baghdadi all originated in Arab social media and not in Iranian media. Iranian media merely copied them but the Times typically want to pick on Iran but not obviously on Arab countries loyal to US.
PS Now there is at least one element of the conspiracy theory that was not explained: how come Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was release from US jail in Iraq, when youngsters were kept in Guantanamo for years?
PS Now there is at least one element of the conspiracy theory that was not explained: how come Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was release from US jail in Iraq, when youngsters were kept in Guantanamo for years?