A top Iranian army commander says the West is using 'Wahhabi terrorism' to sow seeds of discord among Muslims around the world.
Chief-of-Staff of Iran's Joint Armed Forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi, says Wahhabi terrorists are helping arrogant powers achieve their goals in the region.
"Today Wahhabi thought is paving the way to legitimize the presence of US and NATO forces [in the region] but the United States and NATO will be burnt in this plot," Mehr news agency quoted Firouzabadi as saying.
The Iranian commander's comment came two weeks after at least 41 people, including seven senior commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), were killed in a bombing during a unity gathering of Shia and Sunni tribal leaders in the town of Pishin on the Iran-Pakistan border.
The Pakistan-based Jundallah terrorist group claimed responsibility for the deadly attack.
Spearheaded by Abdulmalek Rigi, Jundallah terrorists have staged a tidal wave of bombings and terrorist attacks in Iran, one of which left at least 25 Iranians dead in early June.
Abdulhamid Rigi, the apprehended brother of the Jundallah point man, told Press TV in a recent interview that Abdulmalek had held several "confidential" meetings with FBI and CIA agents in Karachi and Islamabad.
Firouzabadi went on to say that western plans for the region were behind the 'war, bloodshed and terror' in the Middle East.
"The aim of these brutal measures was to create discord among Muslim nations and prevent Muslim unity," he said.
During the past weeks, a series of terrorist attacks hit Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The deadly attacks, were carried out by al-Qaeda and Salafi terrorists, claimed the lives of hundreds of people in the Islamic states.
Only in Iraq, twin car bombings in Baghdad killed more than 160 people and injured over 700 others last week.
And in Pakistan, an explosive laden car ripped through the crowded market in Peshawar and killed more than 105 people.
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Dear Iranian Mullahs, did you think that after decades of promoting terrorism, that terrorism wouldn't be used against you and your regime?
That's one reason the Geneva Accords were written to restrict combat to uniformed soldiers. Once you break that taboo, it's all of the nasty things that came out of Pandora's Box.
Lebanon's envoy to the United Nations has warned of an imminent Israeli attack on his country, condemning the regime's recent artillery attack on the southern village of Houla.
Salaam condemned Israel's artillery fire which struck the village of Houla, saying the attack was a clear violation of Lebanon's sovereignty as well as of UN Resolution 1701. Israeli forces fired eight rockets at southern Lebanon after a Katyusha-type rocket landed east of the town of Kiryat Shmona.
Ambassador Noaf Salaam relayed a message to the United Nations secretary general and to the Security Council on Friday, warning that Israel's repeated threats against Lebanon indicated the regime's plan for an attack on the country, Lebanese daily Al-Hayyat reported.
Salaam condemned Israel's artillery fire which struck the village of Houla, saying the attack was a clear violation of Lebanon's sovereignty as well as of UN Resolution 1701.
The Israeli forces fired eight rockets at southern Lebanon on Tuesday after a Katyusha-type rocket landed in an open ground east of the town of Kiryat Shmona.
Salaam also said the Israeli response to every rocket attack from southern Lebanon hinders investigation into the attacks.
The last such attack occurred in September when two rockets struck northern Israel, prompting return fire.
While there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket fire, Israeli officials said they held the Lebanese government responsible.
The Lebanese government however condemned both the rocket attacks, saying Beirut was committed to implementing UN Security Council resolution 1701 which ended the 33-day Israeli war against Lebanon in summer 2006.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] More than 1,000 Iranians have been arrested over the past seven months in possession of drugs on their way to Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform Ummra, or lesser pilgrimage, according to official Iranian sources.
Last year, 336 pilgrims were arrested carrying around seven kilograms of drugs, but this year the number reached 1,069 people and 14 kilograms, said Hussein Abbadi, chief of Iran's anti-drugs police.
"Saudi authorities also arrested this year 160 Iranians for possession of drugs and they were sent to jail," he told the Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA).
Abbadi added that the percentage of drug trafficking to Saudi has increased by 52 percent and that the Iranian police is intensifying its efforts to eliminate this phenomenon.
In a meeting held by the Iranian Anti-Narcotics Commission, which president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad participated in, Abbadi submitted a report about the latest arrests of pilgrims heading for Saudi.
"A committee was formed of representatives of the Anti-Narcotics Commission, hajj officials, and police officers in order to figure out the best way to combat this phenomenon as well as solve the problem of Iranian detainees in Saudi."
Last year, the number of Iranian pilgrims reached 780,000, 223 of which were arrested by the Saudi authorities. 160 Iranians were charged with drug possession while the rest were arrested for other charges like fighting with other pilgrims, theft, and smoking in the Mecca shrine.
According to official Iranian sources, Iran is the biggest consumer of opium all over the world and having common borders with Afghanistan makes the availability of drugs much easier.
Iran has 1,200,000 drug addicts, of which 12,000 are dangerous addicts, according to the Anti-Narcotics Commission.
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According to official Iranian sources, Iran is the biggest consumer of opium all over the world.
Just when I was convinced we needed to go all-out in Afghanistan and napalm the poppies, I'mma rethinking the strategy. With Russia being a major destination of the heroin, and Iran, Pakistan, and China both having a vested interest in this fight, maybe we should pull out and let them fight the turf battles, hopefully down to the last man standing.
Huge demonstration will defy Ahmadinejad on 30th anniversary of US embassy takeover
Students across Iran are planning to lead a huge day of protest this week against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime, in a defiant commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the US embassy takeover by radical students in Tehran.
Thousands of green flyers and posters, drawn by anonymous artists, are circulating on the internet, inviting ordinary Iranians to join the student protests, planned for Wednesday.
Organisers have condemned the repressive measures taken by Ahmadinejad's government since the disputed election results of the summer, which gave the Iranian president a second term and led to unprecedented demonstrations on the streets of Tehran and elsewhere. Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi appeared to back the protests yesterday, posting a statement on a reformist website. Mousavi said he would press ahead with his efforts for political change.
Referring to the Iranian date of the seizing of the US embassy in 1979, Mousavi said: "The 13th of Aban is a... rendezvous so we would remember anew that among us it is the people who are the leaders."
Iran's police chief, Ismail Ahmadi-Moghadam, has warned demonstrators to stay off the streets, but activists predict one of the biggest days of protest since the height of the green marches.
A student of civil engineering at Amir Kabir University in Tehran, who wished to remain anonymous, said: "The officials are very afraid of the student movement, that's why they are preparing to crack down on 4 November. The protests in Iran have not cooled off, they're just beginning."
Iran's students were on vacation during the failed "Green Revolution" of June, when hundreds of thousands of protesters attempted to overturn the official election result, which gave Ahmadinejad a crushing victory over Mousavi.
But in recent months, despite the high-profile presence on campuses of security police, universities have become centres of underground protest and organisation. Dissent has also been expressed in schools. One teacher in a Tehran school told the Observer that such gestures of rebellion were widespread.
"It is amazing," he said, asking not to be named. "In the school where I'm teaching, students show their opposition in any way that they can find, whether it's by wearing a green wristband, green shirt, doing homework in green pen or writing slogans in toilets, on their desk or on the blackboard."
In an interview published on the Amir Kabir University student news website, Morteza Simiari, a leader of Iran's Student Organisation, Tahkim Vahdat, said: "The students who are protesting in universities today are the people who were out there in the streets in June and July and were mistreated. Universities are part of society and what is happening now shows that people do not believe the results in the election."
Authorities have closed 235 schools in Kashan, in the province of Isfahan, until Saturday, ostensibly as the result of a swine flu scare, although no cases of the virus have been reported.
Since the beginning of the academic year in Iran, students in Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Karaj, Qazvin and other provincial cities have all held protests against the election results. Hundreds of students have as a result been summoned before disciplinary boards, some have been imprisoned and at least 20 expelled.
Government officials visiting universities have received stormy receptions. On 4 October, Mohammad Javad Larijani, a close ally of Ahmadinejad, visited Sharif University, where he was confronted by students shouting "Death to the dictator" and chanting in favour of Mousavi.
In Tehran, the private Azad University has been a hotbed of unrest, according to students. "Azad university protests were huge, so they [the authorities] used tear gas and wielded batons to calm down the situation," said one of the Azad protesters. "They bussed in militia from other universities. Recently 14 of us have been banned from class."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] More than 1,000 Iranians have been arrested over the past seven months in possession of drugs on their way to Mecca in Saudi Arabia to perform Ummra, or lesser pilgrimage, according to official Iranian sources.
Huge demonstration will defy Ahmadinejad on 30th anniversary of US embassy takeover
