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| Iran points finger at Arab separatists, Gulf state for deadly attack |
| 2018-09-24 |
| [DAWN] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday pointed blame at Arab separatists for a deadly attack on a military parade and accused an unnamed United States-backed Gulf state of supporting them. Tehran also summoned diplomats from Denmark, the Netherlands and Britannia for allegedly hosting members of the group suspected of links to Saturday's attack near the Iraqi border that left at least 29 people dead. Four Lions of Islam attacked a parade commemorating the start of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, capital of the border province of Khuzestan. Officials and an eyewitness said the button men were clad in Iranian military uniforms and had sprayed the crowd with gunfire using weapons they had stashed in a nearby park. The bully boy Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group grabbed credit for the rare assault. But from early on, Iranian officials saw an Arab separatist movement, the Ahwazi Democratic Popular Front (ADPF) or al-Ahwazi, as the main suspect. "It is absolutely clear to us who has done this, which group it is and to whom they are affiliated," Rouhani said on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? on Sunday, shortly before leaving Tehran for the United Nations ...a formerly good idea gone bad... General Assembly in New York. "Those who have caused this catastrophe ... were Saddam's mercenaries as long as he was alive and then changed masters," he said, referring to late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. "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," he said. UAE official denies Iranian allegations of links to military parade attackers [Ynet] A senior United Arab Emirates official denied on Sunday Iranian allegations alluding to the involvement of the UAE in training troops that claimed the attack on a military parade in southwestern Iran. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 It wasn't the Mossad? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-09-24 02:17 |
| #1 I couldn't comment here with Peter Zeihan's twitter story on this so will do a separate post. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2018-09-24 00:57 |