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Post by sevenofnine on Jun 7, 2017 10:44:39 GMT -5
This is breaking right now
Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked Iran's parliament and the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran on Wednesday morning, killing at least 12 people in a twin assault at the heart of the Islamic Republic, Iranian officials and media said.
Islamic State claimed responsibility and released a video purporting to show gunmen inside the parliament building and one body, apparently dead, on the floor. The rare attacks were the first claimed by the hard-line Sunni Muslim militant group inside the tightly controlled Shi'ite Muslim country. Islamic State has regularly thre
www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/islamic-state-releases-video-showing-gunman-in-tehran-parliament-attack/ar-BBCd65x?li=BBnbcA1 |
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Post by Daniel on Jun 8, 2017 10:56:58 GMT -5
Iran attackers fought for Islamic State in Syria, Iraq: ministry
By Parisa Hafezi | ANKARA
Jun 8, 2017
Iran said on Thursday that gunmen and bombers who attacked Tehran were Iranian members of Islamic State who had fought in the militants' strongholds in Syria and Iraq - deepening the regional ramifications of the assaults.
The attackers raided Iran's parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini's mausoleum on Wednesday morning, in a rare strike at the heart of the Islamic Republic. Authorities said the death count had risen to 17 and scores were wounded.
Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards have also said regional rival Saudi Arabia was involved, fuelling tensions between Sunni Muslim power Riyadh and Shi'ite power Tehran as they vie for influence in the Gulf. Saudi Arabia dismissed the accusation.
Iran's intelligence ministry said on Thursday five of attackers who died in the assault had been identified as Iranians who had joined the hardline Sunni Muslim militants of Islamic State on their main battlegrounds in Iraq and Syria.
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www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-security-idUSKBN18Z1H2
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Post by fearnot on Jun 9, 2017 10:26:13 GMT -5
Wow! It never ends....well, until the Lord comes.
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Post by Daniel on Jun 13, 2017 17:53:59 GMT -5
Terror in Iran: The Paradox of Jihad
By Ben-Dror Yemini June 13, 2017
...The jihad terror creates paradoxes. After all, the common assumption is that terror targets heretics, in a bid to impose Sharia laws as part of the global caliphate. This assumption is wrong. Because the more Muslim a certain place is, the more religious it is, the more burkas and mosques it has and the more obedience to religious laws—the more it is hit by terror and destruction, produced by jihad.
Sunni terror mostly strikes northern Nigeria, in areas dominated by Sharia laws. It also strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the victims are usually Muslims who identify more with the jihadists who are massacring them than with the opponents of jihad. And terror strikes Turkey as well, although it is becoming more and more Islamic.
Now, terror has also reached the ayatollah regime’s government centers. This time, it appears to make sense: Sunnis versus Shiites. After all, they are engaged in a bloody war in Syria and Iraq. There is a paradox, however, in this case too. Because Iran, the same Iran, is an ally of bodies like the IHH, the Turkish organization which led the Mavi Marmara ship to Gaza, and of Hamas of course. These two bodies are linked both to Iran and to the Islamic State and/or al-Qaeda and/or satellite organizations of these bodies. Hamas is connected to Ansar al-Maqdis, the terror organization which is active in northern Sinai, which has also pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the ISIS leader. The IHH is also connected to the jihad bodies. So Iran is helping those who help a branch of the organization that attacked Tehran on Wednesday.
read full article
www.breakingisraelnews.com/89504/terror-iran-paradox-jihad-opinion/
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