Iran attack report 9/23/18

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https://www.juancole.com/2018/09/khamenei-blames-arabia.html

" An attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz in Iranian Khuzestan has left over 2 dozen dead and dozens wounded.
The attackers wore military uniforms. All four were killed at the scene (one of the downsides of assaulting a military parade is that there are lots of sharpshooters on duty).
The aim was clearly to spread terror among the civilian population. The target was not, as some Western outlets are saying, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps. It was much more general than that and a lot of civilians were hurt."

"Although ISIL and another group claimed they carried out the attack, Iran is looking at Arab separatist networks in Khuzestan (though convinced that these have regional Arab backing).
The really dangerous thing is that Iran believes Trump had a hand in this terrorist attack, which shocked the Iranian nation.
That doesn’t bode well for the future, since you have these wild men on the American side like John Bolton and Mike Pompeo making policy."


https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/23/iran-says-response-to-terrorist-attack-on-military-parade-will-be-crushing-ahvaz

"“Those who keep repeating their bogus stance on advocating human rights must be held accountable; all those small mercenary countries in the region which the US backs and provokes,” added Rouhani.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Saturday that “this crime is a continuation of the plots of the regional states that are puppets of the United States, and their goal is to create insecurity in our dear country,” according to a statement posted on his official website.
The attack was immediately claimed by an Arab nationalist separatist group called the Patriotic Arab Democratic Movement in Ahvaz. Its spokesperson told the London-based exiled TV network Iran International that the attack was aimed at “the Revolutionary Guards and the armed forces of the Islamic Republic”. Iran’s state news agency said the group was “Saudi-affiliated”. Later on Saturday, Islamic State (Isis), also claimed responsibility."