Brigadier General Rasul Sanayee Rad underlined that the terrorist attacks in
Tehran on June 7, 2017, could be traced back to the United States and Saudi
Arabia. Here is the full text of the analytical piece:
The attacks by two terrorist teams on the mausoleum of the late Imam Khomeini
and the Parliament building [in two different locations] in the Iranian capital,
Tehran, last Wednesday were thwarted by security forces who are out there to
safeguard the Islamic establishment’s might. The terrorists probably planned to
force their way into the Imam Khomeini’s shrine and onto the Parliament floor to
take people and lawmakers hostage. Although the terrorist incidents received
widespread media coverage, they lacked any operational value as the terrorists
failed to achieve their objectives.
Dressed in women’s clothing, the armed terrorists approached the gates and
caused panic by firing their guns and killing people. They wanted to get into
the mausoleum and onto the Parliament floor, but faced resistance by sentries.
Accordingly, the terrorists failed to take any hostages, which made them carry
out a suicide attack at the mausoleum and, in the other location, flee into
parliamentarians’ offices. The terrorists managed to resist for a few hours and
kill a number of our fellow countrymen, but at last they were killed or had to
commit suicide.
The ISIL terrorist-Zionist group claimed the attacks. It was obvious that the
violent and savage raids were of a Takfiri nature and smacked of grudge and
nescience. Moreover, the type of locations chosen and the psychological and
media repercussions of the terrorist attacks were aimed at creating the
impression that security is weak in Iran and that it is possible to trigger
insecurity in the country. Such a scenario could have only come out of the think
tanks affiliated with intelligence services and puppets controlled by the US and
supported by the Al Saud and the like, behind the scenes.
These scenarists picked the Imam Khomeini mausoleum and the Parliament due to
their sensitivity and wanted the incidents to become front-page news in media
outlets. That is to say, the terrorist attacks were of an American nature. They
happened after US President Donald Trump travelled to Riyadh, when a special
operations think tank was formed by US security services, and bin Salman
threatened to spread military operations into Iran. In fact, in the terror
attacks in Tehran, the US used Saudi Arabia’s backing together with ISIS’s
savage operatives while cashing in on modern Jahiliyyah and violent terrorism to
achieve its objectives in the region and justify its looting of Arab nations’
coffers.
On the other hand, back-to-back defeats suffered by Takfiri terrorists in Syria
and Iraq made their sponsors worried about the future of terrorism. That has
made terrorists work out schemes in order to keep them from falling apart and
having to return to their countries, which are mainly America’s regional and
European allies and in some cases the United States itself. Therefore, at a time
when the feeling of humiliation and frustration caused by these defeats is
pushing terrorists towards acts of revenge, they are picking on Iran which, in
the eyes of terrorists and their advocates, is a major contributor to their
consecutive defeats in Syria and Iraq.
June 7th was the day when terrorists attacked two locations in Tehran like wild
bulls, but they couldn’t cause any panic in the society, and citizens felt as
secure as ever, going about their normal lives. Even the MPs’ session was
neither cancelled, nor disrupted. Pilgrims to the Imam Khomeini shrine also kept
visiting the shrine as usual. All these indicate that people trust the Islamic
establishment and guardians of national security.
Although the terrorist incidents left behind several martyrs, they shed more
light on the fact that Iran is right to be cracking down on terrorists in Syria
and Iraq in order to keep them from moving toward Iran and to safeguard Iran’s
strategic significance in the region. The terror attacks also revealed the
significance of Iranian security forces. Iranian police, security and law
enforcement forces have, so far, busted dozens of terrorist teams affiliated
with Takfiri-Zionist currents and, thanks to their intelligence and operational
knowledge, apprehended or killed terrorists before they were able to carry out
an act of terror.
Some of these very devoted forces confronted terrorists on Wednesday and kept
them from entering the shrine and parliament building. They besieged the savage
terrorists, killed or arrested them, and stopped them from taking any hostages
or going on killing sprees, which forced the Takfiris to carry out a suicide
attack.
The United States and Israel pursue obvious objectives: They seek to chip away
at the Muslim world’s might and loot their riches amid fabricated threats. Now,
isn’t it high time that Muslim scholars and intellectuals do something to tackle
the Jahiliyyah which has emanated from the Takfiri ideology and to harness
modern Jahiliyyah?