{"id":232618,"date":"2021-01-05T06:13:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T11:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=232618"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:26:10","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:26:10","slug":"irans-chief-apologist-zarif-confirms-his-ties-with-qassem-soleimani-and-his-role-in-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/irans-chief-apologist-zarif-confirms-his-ties-with-qassem-soleimani-and-his-role-in-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Chief Apologist Zarif Confirms His Ties With Qassem Soleimani and His Role in Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iran-IRGC-Soleimani-Zarif-05012021\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-232620\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-IRGC-Soleimani-Zarif-05012021.jpg\" alt=\"Iran-IRGC-Soleimani-Zarif-05012021\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-IRGC-Soleimani-Zarif-05012021.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-IRGC-Soleimani-Zarif-05012021-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-IRGC-Soleimani-Zarif-05012021-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-IRGC-Soleimani-Zarif-05012021-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Iran-IRGC-Soleimani-Zarif-05012021-696x392.jpg 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Iranian regmie\u2019s Foreign Minister, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-world\/26715-a-look-at-the-record-of-iran-regime-foreign-minister-javad-zarif\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohammad Javad Zarif<\/a>, once again acknowledged his role in terrorism, whitewashing the regime\u2019s terrorism, and his close ties with <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-fundamentalism\/27175-who-was-the-vicious-criminal-qassem-soleimani\" rel=\"noopener\">Qassem Soleimani<\/a>, Iran\u2019s eliminated terror-mastermind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cI knew Haj Qassem many years before I become a Minister, or an ambassador. We had closely consulted each other in different periods. [Before I become Foreign Affairs Minister] Haj Qassem invited me to share thoughts on Syria a couple of times,\u201d Zarif said in an interview with state television on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWhen I became a minister, I decided that we had to coordinate our works together. He was a commander who was the soldier of the Supreme Leader acting on his orders. Whenever I met Haj Qassem we spoke about regional issues,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cFor example, we talked about how we persuaded the Russians to enter [the Syrian war]. Haj Qassem and I spoke over what should I say in political meetings, follow what policies in negotiations with Russians or regional countries,\u201d Zarif said confirming the regime\u2019s so-called \u201cdiplomacy\u201d is the flip-side of its \u201cterrorism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Qassem Soleimani was the commander of the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/publications\/special-reports\/the-iranian-regimes-irgc-quds-force-1980s-present\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Quds Force<\/a> and oversaw the regime\u2019s terrorist activities. Soleimani implemented mandates by the regime\u2019s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, to spread chaos and terrorism across the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He played a key role in holding Bashar-al Assad\u2019s dictatorship in power in Syria, by creating and mobilizing proxy groups and foreign fighters, and using ruthless strategies, such as blind bombings of Syrian cities, killing countless innocent civilians.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper\" title=\"Iran FM Javad Zarif, and Chieftain terrorist Qassem Soleimani, two side of the same coin\" style=\"width:853px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_1qZfrIgOmxo\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F1qZfrIgOmxo%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1qZfrIgOmxo\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M20S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2020-02-11T21:44:10Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_1qZfrIgOmxo\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F1qZfrIgOmxo%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Iran FM Javad Zarif, and Chieftain terrorist Qassem Soleimani, two side of the same coin<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1qZfrIgOmxo\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F1qZfrIgOmxo%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Iran FM Javad Zarif, and Chieftain terrorist Qassem Soleimani, two side of the same coin\" width=\"853\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The Iranian regime&#039;s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and the now-dead head of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force, are two sides of the same coin.\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:853px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Soleimani also played a significant role in financing terrorist groups across the Middle East. Mahmoud al-Zahar, a senior member of Hamas\u2019 leadership, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/pW2dP0_2JiY\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Al-Alam, the Arabic-language network of Iran\u2019s state-run television, on December 27, that during a 2006 meeting with Qassem Soleimani in Tehran he explained \u201cthe fundamental problem of staff and social services of the people of Gaza\u201d to Soleimani. \u201cHaj Qassem immediately responded to our request, so that the next day, when the trip was over, I saw $22 million in our luggage in the airport.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Soleimani was also behind <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/terrorism-a-fundamentalism\/iran-regimes-official-acknowledges-qassem-soleimanis-role-in-killing-coalition-forces-in-iraq\/\" rel=\"noopener\">killing coalition and American forces<\/a> in Iraq following the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWho made so much trouble for them [American troops]? It was the same commander of shadows. Who trained [the regime\u2019s terrorist proxy groups] and used the tactic of using roadside bombs, that were like stones? The Americans called these bombs IEDs. I remember how disturbed they were, how the U.S. media reflected this disturbance in 2003, after the U.S. occupied Iraq. Who disturbed them?\u201d said Nader Talebzadeh, head of the \u201cNew Horizon\u201d organization, a front organization of the IRGC and its Quds Force, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Despite Soleimani\u2019s criminal record, Zarif, as the regime\u2019s \u201cchief apologist,\u201d has been trying to whitewash his crimes, and portray him as a hero following his elimination in a U.S. drone attack on January 3, 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In his interview on Sunday, Zarif underlined that when Soleimani was eliminated, \u201cThe first aim of my colleagues and I in the Foreign Ministry was to take the propaganda in hand and portray Haj Qassem as a hero of combatting terrorism and promoting peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The regime\u2019s chief demagogue has not only tried to whitewash crimes by the criminal Soleimani and coordinated his actions with Soleimani, but has played an active role in spreading terrorism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stats.sender.net\/forms\/dGYVLa\/view\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-219239 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1.png\" alt=\"Weekly-Signe-up-logo-1\" width=\"250\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Recently, a court in Belgium tried <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/ncri-statements\/iranian-diplomat-and-three-accomplices-on-trial-for-planned-bombing-of-a-massive-rally-in-paris\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Assadollah Assadi<\/a>, Zarif\u2019s incarcerated diplomat-terrorist, and his three co-conspirators, for their attempted bombing of the opposition rally in 2018 in France.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">According to the prosecutor and based on evidence, Assadi misused his diplomatic privileges to transfer explosives from Iran to the European Union, using a commercial airliner, then handing the bomb over to two other terrorists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As Assadi\u2019s superior official in the Ministry, Zarif facilitated and was fully aware of this terrorist attack in the heart of Europe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Since his arrest, Assadi claims he has so-called \u201cdiplomatic immunity.\u201d While caught red-handed, Assadi speaks of diplomatic immunity, counting on the longtime appeasement policy of the EU, and the fact that EU leaders continue to negotiate with his boss, Zarif.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The recent remarks by Zarif and his role in facilitating terrorism, then whitewashing it, once again show there is no difference between officials of Iran\u2019s terrorist regime.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The EU should stop its contradictory approach in dealing with terrorism. Zarif should be sanctioned and prosecuted for his role in terrorism. The EU should shut down the regime\u2019s embassies and expel its agents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The EU\u2019s failure to take these measures thus far has only emboldened the regime, thus, jeopardizing the lives of Iranians abroad as well as EU citizens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Iranian regmie&rsquo;s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, once again acknowledged his role in terrorism, whitewashing the regime&rsquo;s terrorism, and his close ties with Qassem Soleimani, Iran&rsquo;s eliminated terror-mastermind. &ldquo;I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":232620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,19],"tags":[129,205,211,213,287],"class_list":{"0":"post-232618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-terrorism-a-fundamentalism","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-irgc","11":"tag-quds-force","12":"tag-qassem-soleimani","13":"tag-iran-terrorism"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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