[FREE IRAN Project] In The Spirit Of Cyrus The Great

[Rasker]

April 26, 2005

As the ideals of freedom and democracy are driving Iranians into daily confrontations with the ruling regime, Tehran rulers are intensifying a campaign of terror at home and abroad. From labor and student unrests to women challenging the misogynous mullahs, the regime is increasingly becoming encircled.

Last week, residents of the oil-rich southwestern city of Ahwaz and neighboring towns clashed with mullahs’ security forces for more than six days. The intensity of the public’s rage and the scale of the uprising forced the authorities to declare a de facto martial law in the province. According to eyewitness accounts, the state security forces shot and killed over sixty protesters, executing a number of young men in the streets.

Meanwhile, some 400 suicide volunteered declared readiness to conduct attacks on Americans in Iraq and targets in Israel. They were inspired by a fatwa from a senior cleric who sanctioned suicide missions. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri-Hamedani, issued a religious decree in which he stressed "martyrdom operations" were permissible in the "occupied Islamic countries" as a weapon of war against modern armies.

The show of force was the latest by the Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign (CCMGIC), which boasts to have enrolled 35,000 volunteers nationwide for possible attacks Against Western targets.

Mohammad Samadi, the organizer of the CCMGIC’s event for recruiting suicide volunteers told Reuters that "America is definitely considered an enemy" and he encouraged volunteers to carry out suicide attacks against the enemies of “Islam”. "We will not dispatch them anywhere ... they will locate the targets themselves," he added.

According to the Associated Press, Samadi acknowledged that his group had already carried out suicide attacks inside Israel against military targets.

A senior Revolutionary Guards official Hassan Abbasi told a gathering in Tehran last year that, “Our main weapon is jihad… and through it, we are shaking the foundations of the infidels.”

He added, “Reconnaissance has been done on 29 weak points in America and the West to prepare attacks on them. Our plans aim at 6,000 nuclear warheads in America, so that they would be blown up. By doing reconnaissance on their weaknesses, we will pass on the information to guerrilla groups and take action through them.”

Subsequently, a major campaign in Iran was conducted in mid-2004 to dispatch “Battalions of Suicide Bombers” to Iraq and it was reported that “tens of students from the University of Science and Technology in Iran” were sent to Karbala.”

There have been ample reports about the increase in the number of Tehran-linked terrorist attacks in Iraq since last year. Iraqi officials have gone on the record to voice concern over Iran’s destabilizing interference in Iraq, including the dispatch of terrorists, money, arms, and ammunition. More recently, the Iraqi daily, Al-Mada, reported, “The Police in Diyala Province arrested a network of terrorists funded by Iran and responsible for sabotage operations against government agencies, army officers, Iraqi police and government officials.”

American and Coalition forces, Iraqi police and officials are not the only targets of Tehran’s terrorists. The regime has also targeted the members of the Iran’s main opposition group, the Iranian Mujahedeen (MEK) in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

According to the USA Today, “Army Maj. Kreg Schnell, an intelligence officer in the Iraqi province that includes Camp Ashraf, said the CIA last year detained and questioned a man who appeared to be working for the Iranians and trying to apprehend MEK members. He was looking to see if it were possible "to snatch some of them (MEK) back as an example" to others, Schnell said. Last August, Schnell said, an Iraqi army patrol was approached by two Iraqis who said they were bounty hunting for members, offering $400 a head.

Without question, Tehran has declared war on its own citizens and on peace and stability in the region. Daily public executions and brutal crackdown on the restive populace across the country are equally matched by the escalation in Tehran’s terrorist campaign against Iraqis and Americans in Iraq.

Direct link between domestic suppression and use of terror abroad, once again makes the case for a US policy, which should recognize that only a free and democratic regime in Iran, brought about by the Iranian people and the organized opposition, could put an end the mullahs’ reign of terror both at home and abroad. (USADI)



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