The remarks made by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei can be viewed as seeking to capitalize on the recent attacks in Tehran that left 17 dead and dozens more wounded.

This February 17, 1989 Tehran photo shows Iranian people gathered in front of the Azadi Tower for the 10th anniversary of the plan, marking the Islamic revolution. (AFP)

The ultimate foe
The IRGC also sought to target the main source threatening the very existence of the mullahs’ regime. “This terrorist incident is similar to the crimes committed by the infidels in the 1980s,” the IRGC-affiliated Fars news agency wrote.

 Infidels is the term used in the Iranian regime apparatus for the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

“Now we must decide what actions must be taken to confront the terrorists. The judiciary and security forces must arrest these criminals, prosecute and execute them,” the piece reads, further signaling how the IRGC will seek to justify upcoming crackdown measures against an already restive Iranian society.

“Those who are against our struggles in Iraq and Syria should come to realize how sweet security is, and how bitter is insecurity,” the piece continued.

Questions
Eyewitness have pressed on the suspicious nature of this attack, especially armed assailants being able to enter the parliament building with assault rifles and vests full of explosives.

“They wouldn’t even allow us take a pen inside. They just said we will take your papers and documents upstairs.

 How can armed men come into the legislative building? There were no security guards and no security equipment,” one injured man said to Iran’s Health Minister Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi. Similar conflicting reports were also witnessed in other state and IRGC media outlets.

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ISIS claimed responsibility for the recent attacks in Iran, but it’s important to consider history before offering sympathy to the Iranian regime.

Iran: ISIS Terrorist Attacks and Mullahs’ Crisis

For the first time on June 7th ISIS claimed responsibility for staging an attack in Iran, involving a twin assault on two sites in Tehran, the capital. This terrorist attack left 17 killed and dozens of others wounded in the parliament and the tomb of former Iranian regime leader Ruhollah Khomeini.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, condemned the shedding of innocent people’s blood under any pretext.

 “ISIS’s conduct clearly benefits the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, who wholeheartedly welcomes it as an opportunity to overcome his regime’s regional and international impasse and isolation. The founder and the number one state sponsor of terror is thus trying to switch the place of murderer and the victim and portray the central banker of terrorism as a victim,” Mrs. Rajavi added.

What is known as ISIS was established in 1999 in Iraq under the leadership of Abu Masab al-Zarqawi. After a very mysterious attack on a very famous prison in Iraq, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and many other senior ISIS members were able to flee. 

This took place under the watch of former prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, who himself was under the intense influence of Tehran.

According to Amnesty International, the authorities have begun desecrating the unmarked mass graves of those executed in different cities including in Mashhad northeast Iran and in Ahwaz in the south of the country, fearful of the spread of the call for justice campaign regarding the victims of the 1988 massacre.

According to Amnesty International, the vast majority of the executed were affiliated with the main opposition People’s Mojahehin of Iran

By: Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
Huffington post , Jun 9, 2017-- A resolution was recently introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, condemning an atrocity that most Americans, and indeed most westerners, have never heard of: the 1988 killings of approximately 30,000 political prisoners in Iran.

Lawmakers led by Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Ed Royce (R-CA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Pete Sessions (R-TX), and 42 of their colleagues from both sides of the aisle, 

chose to try to right that wrong, introducing legislation, H. Res. 188, deploring the murder of victims who “included thousands of people,

 including teenagers and pregnant women, imprisoned merely for participating in peaceful street protests and for possessing political reading material, many of whom had already served or were currently serving prison sentences.”

Daesh’s Amaq news agency claimed that “fighters with the Islamic State” carried out the attacks in Iran, a predominately Shiite Muslim country. Nevertheless, the claim has not been verified

Iran, ISIS, and the Twin Attacks: The Latest
06/07/2017 09:23 pm ET-220

A pair of devastating attacks has shocked the capital of Iran. At least 12 people have been killed in twin attacks on the Iranian Parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini’s mausoleum, one of Iran’s most sacred places.

According to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence, a third attack was foiled. Around 42 people have reportedly been injured; six assailants, two at the mausoleum and four at the Parliament, were killed.

Deputy Interior Minister Mohammed Hossein Zolfaghari pointed out on state television that the gunmen were armed with Kalashnikovs and were dressed as women when they stormed the parliament building and opened fire.
At about the same time, nearly 30 km away from the Parliament, the second attack was carried out, with shooting and a suicide bombing targeting Ayatollah Khomeini’s shrine.

Unusual targets and attacks
Daesh’s Amaq news agency claimed that “fighters with the Islamic State” carried out the attacks in Iran, a predominately Shiite Muslim country. Nevertheless, the claim has not been verified

ISIS attack on its godfather in Tehran at Khomeini’s tomb and mullahs’ parliament Cause for Khamenei’s joy at escape from impasse, regional and international isolation Shedding blood of innocent people under any pretext must be condemned;

ISIS practices clearly benefit clerical regime

Following the initiative launching a broad international coalition of Arab and Islamic countries and the United States against the clerical regime’s warmongering and terrorism, ISIS carried out unexpected attacks in Tehran against its own godfather, at Khomeini’s tomb and the regime’s parliament. It is noteworthy that ISIS has never acted against the regime in past years.

The Iranian regime’s President Hassan Rouhani claimed that “the incident was not unexpected” and Khamenei downplayed “these firework displays” as insignificant and ineffective.
The terrorist rivalry between the claimants of a Sunni Caliphate and the so-called Shiite Caliphate dubbed the velayat-e faqih in Iran, even if not tailor-made or staged, is the source of jubilation and elation for mullahs’ Caliph Khamenei.

Maryam Rajavi, condemned the shedding of innocent people’s blood under any pretext. “ISIS’s conduct clearly benefits the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, who wholeheartedly welcomes it as an opportunity to overcome his regime’s regional and international impasse and isolation.

 The founder and the number one state sponsor of terror is thus trying the switch the place of murderer and the victim and portray the central banker of terrorism as a victim,” she added.

The history of the mullahs’ regime also shows their unwavering enmity to the countries in the region.

MARYAM RAJAVI ADDRESSES THE “INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY AGAINST EXTREMISM” GATHERING

Two weeks ago, at the Islamic Arab American Summit in Riyadh it was declared that the clerical regime has deprived the region and the world from tranquility and stability and its activities in the Middle East and throughout the world are destructive. The Saudi and U.S. 

leaders also reiterated that the people of Iran have been the first and longest-suffering victims of the regime.

Fortunately, the Arab world, the world of Islam and the United States have finally touched on the origin of terrorism, belligerence and fundamentalism in the region, which is the theocratic regime in Iran. This is a stance in the right direction and now it must be able to stop the regime’s belligerence and bloodshed.

Long years of experience have proven first, that it is vital for the Velayat-e Faqih regime to seek domination and invade other countries, without which they cannot preserve their rule. Therefore, the regime will not give up this behavior voluntarily.

Second, it has been proven that the regime feels most endangered by the power of the Iranian people and Resistance and views them as a de facto existential threat. Therefore, it tries with all its might to prevent this force from actively coming to the scene.

The history of the mullahs’ regime also shows their unwavering enmity to the countries in the region.

Therefore, I call on all Muslims to unite in solidarity over this principle, over rejection of compulsory religion and religious compulsion.

MARYAM RAJAVI ADDRESSES “INTERFAITH SOLIDARITY AGAINST EXTREMISM”

Maryam Rajavi and a number of prominent personalities from Arab countries and the Muslim community in France took part in a gathering on June 3, 2017, in Auvers-sur-Oise during the holy month of Ramadan. The meeting was entitled “Interfaith Solidarity Against Extremism.”

The participants initially visited a photo exhibition, “Carnage and mass killings, from Iran to Syria.” Photos of martyrs of the Iranian and Syrian resistance, as well as images from popular demonstrations in Syria against the Assad regime were on display.
In her remarks to the gathering, Maryam Rajavi said:

Distinguished guests,
Dear sisters and brothers, from Palestine, Syria, Yemen, and other countries, who have joined this Iftar reception hosted by the Iranian Resistance,And dear sisters and brothers who are attending this ceremony from different parts of France,Happy Ramadan!