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Islamist President’s bodyguard killed in ambush

 
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PostPosted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:39 pm    Post subject: Islamist President’s bodyguard killed in ambush Reply with quote



Islamist President’s bodyguard dies in ambush

Sat. 17 Dec 2005

Iran Focus
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4931

Tehran, Iran, Dec. 17 – One of the bodyguards of Islamist’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed and another wounded when an attempt to ambush the presidential motorcade was thwarted in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, according to a semi-official newspaper and local residents.

“At 6:50 pm on Thursday, the lead car in the presidential motorcade confronted armed bandits and trouble-makers on the Zabol-Saravan highway”, the semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported on Saturday.

“In the ensuing armed clash, the driver of the vehicle, who was an indigenous member of the security services, and one of the president’s bodyguards died, while another bodyguard was wounded”, the newspaper, which was founded by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote.

Ahmadinejad traveled to the restive province, where ethnic Baluchis have been fighting for years for autonomy, on Wednesday and returned to Tehran on Friday afternoon. Tehran often refers to anti-government activists and political opponents of the Islamist regime as “bandits” and “trouble-makers”.

The newspaper report made no mention of Ahmadinejad’s whereabouts during the attack on his bodyguards’ vehicle, but Zabol residents reached by telephone said there were rumors in the town that the hard-line president himself was the target of the attack, which took place near Zabol.

“Many people have been rounded up for questioning after the attack and the authorities here were clearly shaken by the incident”, a Zabol resident told Iran Focus.

The Sunni Baluchis have faced years of religious and racial discrimination under Iran’s Shiite clergy-dominated government.

Ahmadinejad called the Holocaust a “myth” on Wednesday, on the first day of his trip to the province.

“They have fabricated a legend under the name 'Massacre of the Jews', and they hold it higher than God himself, religion itself and the prophets themselves”, he told a crowd in Zahedan, the provincial capital of Sistan and Baluchestan.

The presidential office and other government officials have refrained from making any comment on the ambush.

Iran’s state-controlled media have given much prominence to Ahmadinejad’s visit to the impoverished province.


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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 2:58 pm    Post subject: Ahmadinejad's bodyguard killed: Iranian TV Reply with quote

Ahmadinejad's bodyguard killed: Iranian TV



Islamist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
Zahedan, Dec. 14, 2005. (AP/ISNA/Saman Aqvami)

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2005/12/17/1357855-ap.html
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Bandits killed a guard of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hours before the leader visited southeastern Iran this week, Iranian television reported Saturday.

The broadcast said another guard and a driver were wounded in Thursday's assault on a road about 2,000 kilometres southeast of the capital Tehran. The guards were making security checks in the area several hours before Ahmadinejad passed in a motorcade, the report said.

The motive for the attack was unclear. Officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

Ahmadinejad provoked an international stir during the three-day trip to the region when he called the Holocaust a "myth" used as a pretext for carving out a Jewish state in the heart of the Muslim world. Iran's interior minister said Friday western governments had "misunderstood" the comments.

The president ended his tour to the area Friday.

Eastern Iran has been the scene of frequent police clashes with drug-smugglers and bandits. Iran is located on a major drug route between Afghanistan, the world's largest supplier of heroin and opium, and Europe.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 19, 2005 3:00 pm    Post subject: Islamist’s president honours “martyred” bodyguard Reply with quote

Islamist’s president honours “martyred” bodyguard
Monday, 19th December 2005


Iran Focus
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4956

Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 – Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, several of his ministers and senior military and government figures attended a special service at the Presidential Office in Tehran on Monday to honour a top presidential bodyguard, who died in an ambush during Ahmadinejad’s visit to south-eastern parts of the country, the government-owned ISNA news agency reported.

Hojjatollah Garmabdari died in a gunfight with unidentified armed men near the city of Zabol on Thursday. Another bodyguard and the driver of the lead car in the presidential motorcade were seriously wounded. The incident was first reported by the semi-official newspaper, Jomhouri-Islami on Saturday morning. Iran Focus was the first English-language news service to report the attack, which was confirmed by its own sources in Iran.

Although Iran’s state-controlled media downplayed the incident, the presence of Ahmadinejad and senior government figures at the ceremony indicated the importance of Garmabdari in the hierarchy of Ansar Al-Mahdi Corps, a special unit of IRGC responsible for the protection of senior Iranian officials.

The keynote speaker during the memorial service on Monday was Brigadier General Mohammad Hejazi, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).

“Our enemies must know that the Revolutionary Guards will protect the rule of the Islamic Republic of Iran until the last drop of their blood and their last breath”, he said.

Hejazi rejected claims that the personnel of the IRGC, the army and other armed forces had become demoralised and lost the will to fight for the Islamic Republic, but he stressed that the Revolutionary Guards “must not be lured by material existence”.

“All the Revolutionary Guards remain committed to the allegiance that they vowed to the Imam and the Supreme Leader”, Hejazi said.
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