As 5th Anniversary Nears, IRGC Leader Accuses U.S., Israel of Ordering 9/11

Just days before the fifth anniversary, the Supreme Commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps accused the Bush Administration and the Israeli security service Mossad of ordering the September 11 attacks. The primary task of the IRGC is to export the Islamic revolution to Jerusalem via Baghdad.

"The events of September 11 were ordered by U.S. and Mossad so that they could carry out their strategy of pre-emption and warmongering and unipolarisation in order to dominate the Middle East," Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi told military commanders on Tuesday. His comments were reported by the state-run news agency ISNA.

Safavi said that Washington had been defeated in its strategy of "attacking Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon" and creating a new order in the Middle East. "The U.S.'s neo-conservative strategy was to dominate the vast energy resources of the Persian Gulf in order to be able to control Europe, China, and India and drive the world to a unipolar state. Therefore, it planned to change undesirable regimes such as those of Iraq, Sudan, Syria, and Afghanistan."

Among his many other charges against Washington, Tel Aviv and London, Safavi made the following accusations:
Describing Washington and Tel Aviv as two "inter-continental threats" against Tehran. "The U.S. must be livid at Iran because of its disgraceful defeats in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon. Regarding the nuclear dossier, it might try to create circumstances so that slowly but surely economic and political pressure is applied against Iran by the Security Council."

Accusing Washington of plotting a "cultural" attack on Tehran by setting up new radio and television stations broadcasting into Iran, supporting dissident groups, and stepping up intelligence operations. "Therefore, the armed forces must be completely prepared in order to combat any forms of foreign and domestic threats."

Charging that Britain and the U.S. were stirring ethnic and religious divisions in Iran, in particular in the provinces close to the country’s frontiers.

[courtesy of blogger Vital Perspective]


But somehow it sounds less crazy when someone on this side of the world says it...strange...