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Saturday, 08 April 2006
Terrorism Remains Irans Weapon of Choice
<http://www.ncr-iran.org/images/stories/logos/terrorism_iran.jpg> The
following is a commentary by the US Alliance for Democratic Iran
http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/1270/1/
Far from being a show of force, Irans recent week-long third-rate
military maneuver in the Persian Gulf, and its laughable claim to
technological advancement, were just a display of the clerical regimes
belligerence.
Boasting about flying boats, radar-evading torpedoes and array of funny
sounding missiles, fully fit the pattern of Tehrans hype and exaggerated
claims to military prowess. It serves, among other things, to invigorate the
regimes increasingly shrinking loyal base. Military experts have disputed
claims of the indigenousness and sophistication of these technologies and
their impact on the balance of power in the Gulf.
While Irans belligerent use of conventional arms to foment instability in
the Persian Gulf must not be overlooked, there are more pressing security
challenges posed by the mullahs regime.
Lets make no mistake; it is the non-conventional arsenal, particularly the
nuclear weapons, as well as the use of terrorism which constitute the main
pillars of Irans military doctrine based on an asymmetric warfare.
Last month, the local chapter of the government-sponsored Peoples
Headquarters in Continuation of the Path of the Martyrs in Irans western
province of Lorestan began enlisting martyrdom-seeking volunteers to carry
out suicide attacks against the United States. This terror outfit, set up by
Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) in 2004, said that it was
waiting for its orders from Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to
carry out its real duties.
Also last month, Hassan Abbasi, the director of Irans "National Security
Doctrine Centre", one of IRGCs affiliate organizations, boasted about
Tehrans potential to endanger American security and economic interests
worldwide." Abbasi, an IRGC senior commander, is reported to be the brain
behind the IRGCs terrorist strategies. In 2004, he talked about "a strategy
drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization." He explained that
there are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already
spied on these sites and we know how we are going to attack them."
Another terror outfit dedicated to this recruitment drive is the
Headquarters for Commemoration of Martyrs of Global Islamic Movement,
established in 1982. It grabbed the headlines in spring of 2004 when it was
introduced as an NGO in charge of recruiting suicide volunteers to combat
World arrogance. As Tehrans Mayor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took this
organization under his wings and facilitated its activities by placing the
capital's resources at its disposal.
Since 2004, the Headquarters has actively recruited Iranians and foreign
nationals for terror operations. Boasting of its success, the groups
spokesman Samadi told Mehr News Agency last year that 40,000 have already
signed up for martyrdom-seeking operations and are organized into three
battalions of volunteers with more to follow in due course.
As with other aspects of Tehrans terror machine, the IRGC and its affiliate
NGOs are behind the recruitment and training of would-be suicide bombers.
Last summer, Mohammad-Reza Jafari, a senior officer in the IRGC, told the
hard-line weekly Parto Sokhan that the garrison under his command was
inaugurated to recruit and train volunteers for martyrdom-seeking
operations. Last fall, another senior IRGC commander Brig. Gen. Mohammad
Kossari, who heads the Security Bureau of Irans Armed Forces, threatened
the United States. We know all of the enemies weak points and what to do
against them. Today, we have martyrdom-seeking individuals who are ready to
strike at these sensitive points, he boasted.
In a recent hearing, Ambassador Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for
Political Affairs, correctly noted that Iranian leaders consider extremism
and terror to be legitimate tools of propagating their influence
domestically and regionally. Indeed, in the last two decades, Irans
primary instrument of advancing its foreign policy objectives has been
terrorism or the mere threat of using it. When all else fails, dispatch of
the suicide bombers and hostage-takers ranks first in Tehran's foreign
policy agenda. With the mullahs' diplomatic machinery hitting rock bottom
and in disarray these days, there's an even greater need to revert to
terrorism.
Ambassador Burns also explained that the administrations policy is to stop
Irans pursuit of nuclear weapons, its support for terrorism, its harmful
meddling in the affairs of the region, and end its repression of its own
citizenry. This multi-pronged diplomatic campaign must go forward full
speed and in partnership with Iran's democratic opposition which for the
past quarter of century has taken on the mullahs' regime in all four areas
above.
It would be dangerously naïve to take Tehran's terrorist activities as mere
saber-rattling and hollow rhetoric. However, the worst thing we could do in
the face of Irans rogue rising is to get intimidated or get sucked into
Tehrans desperate calls for talks. After almost three years of EUs futile
and counter-productive talks with the mullahs, determined and firm measures
against Tehran are needed not more conversations.
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