{"id":1270,"date":"2006-04-08T03:35:21","date_gmt":"2006-04-08T02:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/statements\/iran-resistance\/1270-terrorism-remains-irans-weapon-of-choice"},"modified":"2023-01-12T14:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:11:04","slug":"terrorism-remains-irans-weapon-of-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/terrorism-remains-irans-weapon-of-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrorism Remains Iran’s Weapon of Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TerrorismThe following is a commentary by the US Alliance for Democratic Iran<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Far from being a show of “force”, Iran’s recent week-long third-rate military maneuver in the Persian Gulf, and its laughable claim to “technological advancement”, were just a display of the clerical regime’s belligerence. <\/p>\n

Boasting about flying boats, radar-evading torpedoes and array of funny sounding missiles, fully fit the pattern of Tehran’s hype and exaggerated claims to military prowess. It serves, among other things, to invigorate the regime’s increasingly shrinking loyal base. Military experts have disputed claims of the indigenousness and sophistication of these technologies and their impact on the balance of power in the Gulf. <\/p>\n

While Iran’s belligerent use of conventional arms to foment instability in the Persian Gulf must not be overlooked, there are more pressing security challenges posed by the mullahs’ regime. <\/p>\n

Let’s make no mistake; it is the non-conventional arsenal, particularly the nuclear weapons, as well as the use of terrorism which constitute the main pillars of Iran’s military doctrine based on an “asymmetric warfare.” <\/p>\n

Last month, the local chapter of the government-sponsored ‘People’s Headquarters in Continuation of the Path of the Martyrs’ in Iran’s western province of Lorestan began enlisting “martyrdom-seeking volunteers” to carry out suicide attacks against the United States. This terror outfit, set up by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in 2004, said that it was waiting for its orders from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to “carry out its real duties”.<\/p>\n

Also last month, Hassan Abbasi, the director of Iran’s "National Security Doctrine Centre", one of IRGC’s affiliate organizations, boasted about Tehran’s potential to “endanger American security and economic interests worldwide." Abbasi, an IRGC senior commander, is reported to be the “brain” behind the IRGC’s terrorist strategies. In 2004, he talked about "a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization." He explained that “there are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them."<\/p>\n

Another terror outfit dedicated to this recruitment drive is the “Headquarters for Commemoration of Martyrs of Global Islamic Movement”, established in 1982. It grabbed the headlines in spring of 2004 when it was introduced as an NGO in charge of recruiting “suicide volunteers” to combat “World arrogance.” As Tehran’s Mayor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took this organization under his wings and facilitated its activities by placing the capital’s resources at its disposal.<\/p>\n

Since 2004, the Headquarters has actively recruited Iranians and foreign nationals for terror operations. Boasting of its success, the group’s spokesman Samadi told Mehr News Agency last year that “40,000 have already signed up for martyrdom-seeking operations and are organized into three battalions of volunteers with more to follow in due course”.<\/p>\n

As with other aspects of Tehran’s terror machine, the IRGC and its affiliate “NGOs” are behind the recruitment and training of would-be suicide bombers. Last summer, Mohammad-Reza Jafari, a senior officer in the IRGC, told the hard-line weekly Parto Sokhan that the garrison under his command was inaugurated to recruit and train volunteers for “martyrdom-seeking operations”. Last fall, another senior IRGC commander Brig. Gen. Mohammad Kossari, who heads the Security Bureau of Iran’s Armed Forces, threatened the United States. “We know all of the enemies’ weak points and what to do against them. Today, we have martyrdom-seeking individuals who are ready to strike at these sensitive points,” he boasted.<\/p>\n

In a recent hearing, Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, correctly noted that “Iranian leaders consider extremism and terror to be legitimate tools of propagating their influence domestically and regionally.” Indeed, in the last two decades, Iran’s primary instrument of advancing its foreign policy objectives has been terrorism or the mere threat of using it. When all else fails, dispatch of the suicide bombers and hostage-takers ranks first in Tehran’s foreign policy agenda. With the mullahs’ diplomatic machinery hitting rock bottom and in disarray these days, there’s an even greater need to revert to terrorism. <\/p>\n

Ambassador Burns also explained that the administration’s policy is “to stop Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons, its support for terrorism, its harmful meddling in the affairs of the region, and end its repression of its own citizenry.” This multi-pronged diplomatic campaign must go forward full speed and in partnership with Iran’s democratic opposition which for the past quarter of century has taken on the mullahs’ regime in all four areas above. <\/p>\n

It would be dangerously na\u00c3\u0083\u00c2\u00afve to take Tehran’s terrorist activities as mere saber-rattling and hollow rhetoric. However, the worst thing we could do in the face of Iran’s rogue rising is to get intimidated or get sucked into Tehran’s desperate calls for talks. After almost three years of EU’s futile and counter-productive talks with the mullahs, determined and firm measures against Tehran are needed not more conversations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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