You can ignore what you wish.
Got started waaaaaaaaaay before 1979.
Try Germany utilizing imans in a mosque in Munich to spread nationalistic fervor amongst Russia's Central Asian holdings as a means to fracture the USSR on that front, also using them in the Middle East. This ultimately lead to the birth on the Muslim Brotherhood. After WWII ended, US & UK utilized them and Wahabbism as a tool to staunch the spread of Communism and Nasserism throughtout the the Middle East. Propping up ruthless dictators, CIA coups, proxies, terrorism, etc, these were what the West brought there.
Ronald Reagan funding Osama bin Laden & Al Queda and whomever else was as proxies against the 1979 Soviet incursion into Afganistan...
Iran has done quite a bit of our dirty work, officially hated, but arming Muslim Bosnians & Kosovo Albanians against Serbia in the 1990s when our hands were tied to do so, assisting Iraqi Shiite and Kurds against ISIL in Iraq now, then Syria.... But they're also helping the oppressed Houthis in Yemen, and the Saudis don't like that and Netanyahu hates them too, so they remain on our hate list.
Pakistan and Turkey have been more recent, the Taliban funded and sheltered by the former as its proxy army in Afganistan and hoped for in Iran, though the latter failed.
ISIL funded and armed by the Saudis and Turkey. Those weapons they used in Iraq and Syria didn't walk there on their own. But we can't say this too loud because these are our allies.