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Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Sacred Defence Week in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Funeral after terror attack on military parade

Father of Mohammad Taha Eghadami, a 4-year-old boy who was killed in Saturday's terror attack on a military parade, mourns over his coffin during a mass funeral ceremony for the victims, in southwestern city of Ahvaz, Iran, Monday, Sept. 24, 2018. (AP / Ebrahim Noroozi)

"America is acting like a bully toward the rest of the world ... and thinks it can act based on brute force."
"But our people will resist and the government is ready to confront America. We will overcome this situation and America will regret choosing the wrong path."
"[It is] absolutely clear to us who has done this, which group it is and to whom they are affiliated."
"One of the countries in the south of the Persian Gulf took care of their financial, weaponry and political needs."
"All these little mercenary countries we see in this region are backed by America. It is the Americans who incite them."
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

"The thing he has to do is look in the mirror. He's got the Iranian people protesting. Every ounce of money goes into his military."
"He has oppressed his people for a long time. I think the Iranian people have had enough."
Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador, United Nations

"There is still time for a determined international response that stops Iran from spreading its malignant influence to every corner of the region."
Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud, Saudi ambassador, United Kingdom

"You are responsible for these actions ['triangle' of Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States]; you will face the repercussions."
"We warn all of those behind the story, we will take revenge."
General Hossein Salami, acting commander, Revolutionary Guard Corps

Iranian authorities 'detained' 22 'suspects' whom they link to the group responsible for the Saturday attack in Ahvas, Iran during the commemoration ceremonies of the anniversary of the Iraq-Iran war when four gunmen wearing military uniforms of the Revolutionary Guard Corps opened fire killing a dozen Revolutionary Guardsmen along with a number of spectators, 25 people in total before the gunmen were themselves shot and killed. Playing with fire with a regime that aspires to nuclear weaponry.

The four dead gunmen are acknowledged as being affiliated with the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahvaz, a separatist group known to carry out night-time attacks in Ahvaz province on oil infrastructure. Tehran is focusing on those the revolutionary committee feels provided the funding, weapons and other support for the infiltration of the nation's Republican Guard, the country's elite security institution. The day following the attack, diplomats from the U.K. the Netherlands and Denmark were summoned and accused of harbouring Iranian opposition groups.

But it is the United States that the regime holds wholly responsible for the unrest and the attacks against its government that has incited Iranians to protest and action against the Islamic revolutionary government. The United Arab Emirates charge d'affaires was rebuked by the Iranian foreign ministry for comments overheard to have been made by an Emirati official relating to the bloody fusillade that violently marred the parade. The U.A.E. is an ally of Saudi Arabia, Shiite Iran's Sunni nemesis.

Infamously, Tehran conveniently overlooks the fact that the Islamic Republic is internationally recognized as the world's greatest supporter of terrorism. Its Shiite militias, its Republican National Guard Corps al Quds division and its surrogate militia, the terrorist Lebanese Hezbollah group are responsible for bloodletting, threats and fear throughout the Middle East. It constantly and repeatedly threatens to make good its threat to destroy the State of Israel. It is partially responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Sunni Syrians and Yemenites.

That it is despised by its own population and deplored by the free world is undeniable. Its actions on the international stage to destabilize and disrupt order is legendary. Deploying its terrorist allies, it is responsible for acts of terror in support of the Shiite version of the religion of peace, balancing the Sunni terrorist groups who do likewise and enjoy support from Saudi Arabia and Turkey. This is Islam at its finest, just ask the Muslim faithful who face slaughter in vicious sectarian conflicts.

And now Tehran can get on with its capital punishment agenda as the country that dispatches more people to death for any number of 'criminal' and 'terrorist' offences against the state.