[Zagadka]

24 killed in attack on Iranian military parade
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/22/middleea ... index.html

At least 24 people were killed and 53 others injured in an attack on a military parade in Iran's southwestern city of Ahvaz on Saturday, Iran's state news IRNA said.

The dead and wounded were both military personnel and civilians including a journalist who were watching the parade, IRNA added.
"Terrorists began shooting from a long distance while inside the park, at the armed forces as well as civilians watching the parade," Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarch, a spokesman for the Iranian armed forces told MEHR, another Iranian news agency.
Three of the attackers were gunned down during clashes with the security forces and one other arrested, news agencies reported.

The separatist group the Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Ahwaz claimed responsibility for this attack.
The group is supported by "foreign antagonists," including Saudi Arabia, IRNA said.
"The terrorists disguised as Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) and Basiji (volunteer) forces opened fire to the authority and people from behind the stand during the parade," Governor of Khuzestan Gholam-Reza Shariati said, according to IRNA.
IRGC spokesman Ramezan Sharif said the attackers were affiliated with a terrorist group supported by Saudi Arabia, Press TV said. "The individuals who fired at the people and the armed forces during the parade are connected to the al-Ahvaziya group which is fed by Saudi Arabia," Sharif said. Saudi Arabia has yet to respond to the allegations.
The parade was part of nationwide celebrations in Iran to mark the 30th anniversary since the end of the eight-year war with Iraq that started in September 1980 and ended in August 1988.
The attack happened in a province bordering Iraq that has a large ethnic Arab community, many of them Sunni. It was a major battleground during the war that killed half a million soldiers.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also blamed "a foreign regime" backed by the United States for Saturday's attack that killed at least eight troops and several civilians.
"Terrorists recruited, trained, armed & paid by a foreign regime have attacked Ahvaz," Zarif said in a tweet, adding: "Iran holds regional terror sponsors and their US masters accountable for such attacks."
Earlier, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani used the occasion of the military parades to compare US President Donald Trump to the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Press TV reported.
Speaking at a military rally in Tehran, he said Trump will fail in the "economic and psychological war" he's launched against Iran, just as Hussein failed in his 8-year war against the Islamic Republic.
"Iran will neither abandon its defensive weapons nor will reduce its defense capabilities," Rouhani said.
"Rather it will increase its defense power day by day. The fact that they are angry at our missiles shows that these are the most influential weapons Iran has."
The Iraqi border crossing authority said Saturday that the Iranian side was temporarily closing al-Sheeb and al-Shalamcha border crossings between the two countries after the attack.

[Zionist Nationalist]

[Zag Edit: Rule 3]

[skinster]

This has neocon fingerprints all over it, with aid from their client-states in the region (Saudi Arabia and Israel).

[Zionist Nationalist]

Iran is just getting to taste a bit from their own dish

the more the better fuck Iran

[skinster]

What did Iran do to you?

[Zionist Nationalist]

What did Iran do to you?

They are an existential risk to Israel as a state and put at risk its strategy interests in the region

[Red_Army]

So the just deserts from being an "existential threat" is a terrorist attack? That is the reason people talk about pushing you guys into the ocean.

[skinster]

This was cool.

They are an existential risk to Israel as a state and put at risk its strategy interests in the region

How so?

[Oxymandias]

@Zionist Nationalist

>Iran says bad things about Israel that's just propaganda
>"IRAN IS EXSWITNSERTAL THREWAT TO ISRAELL!!! REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Also fuck Israeli interests. Israel does nothing to benefit the Middle East as a whole. They have the potential to, but they would rather waste their time maintaining their own flawed status quo than improve themselves in any way.

[Oxymandias]

@Zagadka

The Iranian government is stupid to think that Trump is behind anything in regards to the terrorists since Trump is too incompetent to do anything. Why are there terrorist attacks in Ahvaz? Oh I don't know, maybe it could because of how the government fucked up everything they possibly could there in regards to the droughts and the protests. But no, it's clearly the guy who would rather spend his free time trying to suck his own cock than think of doing his job.

[Zagadka]

Dunno why you singled me out there, but yea, this has absolutely nothing to do with the US.

[danholo]

Is ISIS behind this?

So the just deserts from being an "existential threat" is a terrorist attack?

No, he's saying that you reap what you sow. Just as Israel received shit from its own politics, Iran receives it in turn. Islamic hatred towards Jews, both which are very vocal and murderous, make Jews say the same thing. So?

That is the reason people talk about pushing you guys into the ocean.

Is this really the reason? I had no idea ZN was so powerful and influential.

[Zagadka]

Is ISIS behind this?

That is what I heard early after the event. Or at least an ISIS-related group. Dunno if they are still claiming that.

[Zionist Nationalist]

Also fuck Israeli interests. Israel does nothing to benefit the Middle East as a whole.

Israel is a lone wolf it have no interest in benefiting the middle east

we have not interests in "integrating" in the region actually it would be best if Israel was an Island

[Zionist Nationalist]

How so?

Iran does not pose an immediate threat but its a long term threat and their agenda is clear they want to end Israel as a Jewish state and its not something Israel will accept

They support of Hamas,Hezbollah both groups who have made the destruction of Israel part of their agenda, Israel is taking serious such threats and it wont rest until the mullah regime is defeated

[Zagadka]

Iran’s President Condemns Gulf State, and U.S., After Deadly Attack
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/23/worl ... uhani.html

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said on Sunday that a Persian Gulf country allied with the United States was behind the attack on a military parade that killed 25 people and wounded nearly 70 others.

Mr. Rouhani did not identify the country he was blaming for the attack, which was claimed by both the Islamic State and an Arab separatist group. But Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are close military allies of the United States that view Iran as a foe, particularly because of its support for militant groups across the Middle East.

“All of those small mercenary countries that we see in this region are backed by America,” Mr. Rouhani said. “It is Americans who instigate them and provide them with necessary means to commit these crimes.”

The attack on Saturday, in which militants disguised as soldiers opened fire on an annual military parade in Ahvaz, in the oil-rich southwest, was the deadliest in the country in nearly a decade. Women and children scattered among soldiers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps after heavy gunfire rang out, the chaos captured live on state television.

Tehran summoned diplomats from Britain, Denmark and the Netherlands early Sunday, accusing them of having harbored “members of the terrorist group” that launched the attack. Officials then summoned the envoy of the United Arab Emirates what was called the “irresponsible and insulting statements” of an Emirati adviser, according to the semiofficial Iranian Students News Agency.

Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, writing on Twitter on Saturday, had blamed regional countries and their “US masters” for funding and arming the separatists. “Iran will respond swiftly and decisively in defense of Iranian lives,” he wrote.

The parade in Ahvaz was one of many around the country marking the anniversary of the start of Iran’s long war with Iraq in the 1980s, commemorations known as the “Sacred Defense Week.” The attack killed at least 25 people and wounded nearly 70 e, according to the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency, which said the gunmen had worn military uniforms and targeted a stand where military and police commanders were sitting. State TV later reported that all four gunmen had been killed.

At least eight of the dead served in the Revolutionary Guards, an elite paramilitary unit that answers to Iran’s supreme leader, according to the news agency Tasnim. The Revolutionary Guards warned on Sunday that they would seek “deadly and unforgiving revenge in the near future.”

Tensions in Iran have been growing since the Trump administration pulled out of the 2015 nuclear accord this year and began reinstating sanctions that had been eased under the deal. Washington has also been urging Iran to stop what it calls “malign activities” in the region.

The American government strongly denounced the attack on Saturday, saying it “condemns all acts of terrorism and the loss of any innocent lives.”

Initially, the authorities had described the assailants as “takfiri gunmen,” a term previously used to describe militants of the Islamic State. Iran has been deeply involved in fighting the group, also known as ISIS and ISIL, in Iraq, and it has been supporting President Bashar al-Assad of Syria during his country’s long civil war.

But Iranian officials later appeared to believe the claim of responsibility of the region’s Arab separatists, once known for nighttime attacks on unguarded oil pipelines. The Islamic State had initially said that the attack had targeted Mr. Rouhani, but the president was in Tehran at the time, and Islamic State militants have made a string of false claims since their major defeats in Iraq and Syria.

State news outlets and government officials later seemed to agree that Arab separatists had been behind the attacks. The separatists accuse Iran’s Persian-dominated government of discriminating against the country’s ethnic-Arab minority.

Iran has blamed its Mideast archrival, the Sunni kingdom of Saudi Arabia, for funding Arab separatists. The state news media in Saudi Arabia did not immediately report on the attack, though a Saudi-linked, Farsi-language satellite channel based in the United Kingdom immediately broadcast an interview with an Ahvazi activist claiming responsibility.

In a Twitter post, Hamid Baeidinejad, Iran’s ambassador to Britain, called the channel’s decision a “heinous act,” said his country would file a complaint with the British authorities. Early Sunday, a Foreign Ministry statement similarly criticized Britain and said that Tehran had “already warned” Danish and Dutch diplomats against their governments harboring Arab separatists.

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Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen of Denmark condemned the attack in Iran and emphasized that there would be “consequences” if those responsible had any connections to Denmark.

Yacoub Hor al-Tostari, a spokesman for the Arab Struggle Movement to Liberate Ahvaz, told The Associated Press that members of an umbrella group of Ahvazi activists had carried out the attack. The attack undermined the Iranian government “on the day it wants to give a message to the world that it is powerful and in control,” Mr. Tostari said.

Sounds more like they are targeting the "Arab state" allied with and supplied by America, not an American action itself.

[Zionist Nationalist]

Iran is financing terrorism they deserve every terrorist attack they get

I feel bad for the civilians but military personnel especially the revolutionary guards are a legitimate target and I hope more attacks against those dogs will come along

[Oxymandias]

@Zionist Nationalist

Israel is a parasite it have no interest in benefiting the middle east

Fixed it for you

we have not interests in "integrating" in the region actually it would be best if Israel was an Island

But it isn't so you integrate. Also Israel is already integrating given the huge amount of Arab culture it has already adopted (although it has done so by claiming it as theirs).

Iran is financing terrorism they deserve every terrorist attack they get

They are financing the Hezbollah (who by this point aren't even a terrorist group) and within the Hezbollah, fringe groups associated with them commit terrorism. It's such a long line of relationships that, to say Iran directly finances terrorism, is erroneous. That's like saying, since Israel indirectly created the Hamas, they deserve every terrorist attack they get.

Speaking of the Hamas, I don't see why you have issues with funding an Israeli created group. Isn't that supporting Israel?

I feel bad for the civilians but military personnel especially the revolutionary guards are a legitimate target and I hope more attacks against those dogs will come along

You realize that'll just lead to more civilians dying right? If the situations were switched you'd be screaming bloody murder, talking about migration, low IQs, bullshit, etc. simply if some civilians died. But now you're perfectly fine with more innocents dying.

[Zagadka]

Because of course this is going to turn into an Israel thread.

[Zionist Nationalist]

ou realize that'll just lead to more civilians dying right? If the situations were switched you'd be screaming bloody murder, talking about migration, low IQs, bullshit, etc. simply if some civilians died. But now you're perfectly fine with more innocents dying.

I dont support attack against Iranian civilians only against military personnel

They are financing the Hezbollah (who by this point aren't even a terrorist group) and within the Hezbollah, fringe groups associated with them commit terrorism. It's such a long line of relationships that, to say Iran directly finances terrorism, is erroneous. That's like saying, since Israel indirectly created the Hamas, they deserve every terrorist attack they get.

Hezbollah are a terrorist group. they intentially hit civilian areas with rockets bombed Israeli tourist bus in Bulgaria and bombed an Israeli embassy in Argentina

They are terrorists and nothing will change my mind about them since I experienced their terrorism at first hand in 2006

But it isn't so you integrate. Also Israel is already integrating given the huge amount of Arab culture it has already adopted (although it has done so by claiming it as theirs).

Israel culturally is somewhat close to the Arabs but it will never be part of the region, it will never join the Arab league or play in sport competition with the neighboring states. thus it have no interests in benefiting the region unless the Arabs will finally drop the Palestinian issue