Michael Ledeen:
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Last week there was a big suicide bombing in Chabahar, on the occasion of the Ashurah religious celebration, when Shi’ite men publicly lash themselves with chains and knives to recall the slaughter of Mohammed’s grandson, Hossein, at the hands of his political enemies. Contrary to the claims of the regime—routinely repeated and accepted by Western news media and political leaders including President Obama (who decried the murder of “innocent civilians”) and Secretary of State Clinton (“terrorists using cowardly methods to inflict pain and fear on innocent civilians”) — the terrorist attack was not aimed against “women and children,” but against the symbols and enforcers of the Shi’ite regime: Revolutionary Guards, Basij, and Quds Force fighters. More than sixty were killed, and a large number wounded.
The regime blamed both the usual suspects — us, the Brits, and the Israelis — plus the Pakistanis (the second time this year that the Iranians have accused the Paks of sponsoring terror attacks), and even the Saudis. This stuff comes from the official Iranian media; perhaps some of the Sy Hersh crowd will wonder if the CIA, or Special Forces, are organizing a replay of the anti-Soviet mujahedin campaign in Afghanistan back in Charlie Wilson’s day, by enlisting the Sunni nations to sponsor an Islamist campaign against a common enemy (the Soviets back when; the Iranians nowadays). I don’t subscribe to such fantasies (I don’t think the Obama Administration is organizing much of anything against the Iranian regime except sanctions), just trying to be helpful to those who do…
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I think Israel has bigger concerns than government officials in Chabahar, and it is hard to see what the US interest would be in these officials when there are so many more worthy targets in Iran among the religious bigots in charge.
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