{"id":237061,"date":"2021-03-31T10:13:46","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T15:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=237061"},"modified":"2023-02-01T05:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T04:00:42","slug":"iran-has-never-needed-a-martyr-to-justify-terror-plots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/blog\/op-ed\/iran-has-never-needed-a-martyr-to-justify-terror-plots\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Has Never Needed a Martyr To Justify Terror Plots"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By: Alejo Vidal Quadras<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was recently reported that in January the US National Security Agency intercepted communications pointing to an Iranian terror plot that aimed to kill the Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army. The planning had reportedly been undertaken by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps<\/a> and was to rely on one or more operatives inside the United States to detonate explosives at a military base in Washington. Now that it has been exposed, that particular threat has presumably evaporated, but the underlying reality of Iran-backed terrorism is undiminished and will remain that way until all major Western powers see fit to address it in a comprehensive way.<\/p>\n

Some policymakers are sure to downplay that threat by suggesting that the January plot was an outlier and a result of unique circumstances that the international community can address without confronting the Iranian regime directly. The IRGC\u2019s chatter supposedly characterized the plot against Fort McNair and General Joseph Martin as part of an effort to get revenge on the US for the killing, one year earlier, of Qassem Soleimani<\/a>. The commander of the IRGC\u2019s special forces, the Quds Force<\/a>, was one of the Iranian regime\u2019s most brutal figures on account of the role he had played in killings in Syria, Iraq, and the whole Middle East region.<\/p>\n

The terror plots by the Iranian regime are not a new phenomenon, but in recent years the regime had been using its officials to carry them out. One only needs to look back to 2018 to see that extremely provocative terror operations were a familiar feature of the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n

In March of that year, Iranian operatives were discovered plotting to use a truck bomb<\/a> to attack a compound in Albania that is maintained by exiled members of Iran\u2019s leading pro-democracy opposition group, the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI-MEK<\/a>). The incident led to two Iranian diplomats being expelled from the country, but no other consequences were imposed upon the regime or its representatives. Just over three months later, another Iranian diplomat, this one working out of the regime\u2019s embassy in Vienna, was arrested in connection with a bomb plot targeting<\/a> the National Council of Resistance of Iran in France.<\/p>\n

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