{"id":213401,"date":"2020-01-01T23:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T23:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=213401"},"modified":"2023-01-22T09:31:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T08:31:56","slug":"attack-against-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-and-iran-regimes-direct-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/attack-against-u-s-embassy-in-iraq-and-iran-regimes-direct-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack Against U.S. Embassy in Iraq and Iran Regime\u2019s Direct Role"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The attackers at the US Embassy in Baghdad were not protesters, but proxy terrorist groups of the Iranian regime who attacked the embassy with their leaders.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Tuesday, Iran-backed militias in Iraq attacked the United States Embassy in Baghdad. U.S. President Donald Trump immediately confirmed the Iranian regime\u2019s direct role in this attack.<\/p>\n

The attack on the U.S. embassy in Iraq follows the same pattern of the Iran hostage crisis in November 1979, when the United States embassy in Tehran was taken over by a group of people calling themselves \u201cStudent followers of the line of the Imam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Years later, the hostage-takers went on to become the most senior officials of Iran’s regime, including Masoumeh (Mary) Ebtekar, the Vice President of the regime. Many of the hostage-takers still\u00a0hold key positions<\/a>\u00a0in the regime, which confirms the regime\u2019s institutionalized terrorism.<\/p>\n

The question is why the regime resorted to such an action?<\/p>\n

The 1979\u00a0U.S. embassy takeover<\/a>\u00a0had the goal of eliminating Iran\u2019s democratic forces, specifically\u00a0the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e-Khalq or MEK)<\/a>\u00a0from the political scene.<\/p>\n

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#US<\/a>. Embassy Hostage Takers Now Hold Top Positions in #Iran<\/a> Government https:\/\/t.co\/d0whV3ubZ3<\/a>#IRGCOutOfIraq<\/a> #IRGCTerrorists<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) November 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The recent nationwide uprising in Iraq starting last October, which was directed against the regime\u2019s meddling in Iraq, shook one of the Iranian regime\u2019s pillars of existence, the export of terrorism, that it has been successfully continuing in and through Iraq, mostly because of the western policy of appeasement. Therefore, by attacking the U.S. embassy through its Iraqi agents, the regime aimed to divert the focus of the Iraqi people’s protest from Iranian meddling in their country to the presence of US forces in Iraq. It also sought in vain to get a US position against the Iraqi protesters.<\/p>\n

On October 30, 2019, Hossein Shariatmadari, the representative of Ali Khamenei, regime\u2019s Supreme Leader in the state-run Keyhan daily, known as the government\u2019s mouthpiece\u00a0called for the\u00a0takeover of the US Embassy in Baghdad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Editor Hossein Shariatmadari wrote:\u00a0\u201cin previous note, by mentioning the takeover of US embassy in Iran, which Imam called it the \u201csecond revolution\u201d, the issue was raised in the context of a question that why the Iraqi revolutionary youths \u2026 are not ending the presence of US embassy in Baghdad, which is the epicenter of conspiracy and espionage against the innocent people of Iraq!? And why are you not eliminating and throwing out this infected wound from your holy land? A takeover of US espionage center in Islamic Iran and eliminating that epicenter of conspiracy had many benefits for us, and then why the revolutionary youths of Iraq deprive their holy land of these benefits?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Representative of Iran Regime\u2019s Supreme Leader Calls for Takeover of US Embassy in Iraq.https:\/\/t.co\/N3wdqqWsib<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/xG5QVXhr6K<\/a><\/p>\n

— Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) October 31, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n