Ali Shamkhani congratulated Seyed Ammar al-Hakim on Iraqi Army and public forces successes in fighting ISIL and taking back the ISIL-occupied regions, believing that unity and solidarity of Sunnis and Shias in political and military levels was a great achievement conducive to Iraqi national power; “unity and integrity of Iraq was the most contributing factor of success in the battle against Takfirists and their supporters, who work to exhaust the capacities of Islamic world in confronting the hegemonic system and attaining development through propagating critical dividing issues,” Shamkhani told Hakim.