The terror attack on a military parade the Iranian oil city of Ahvaz on Saturday, Sept. 22, killing 29 and injuring 90, was a direct hit at the Tehran regime’s elite arm, the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), which took half of the casualties. The Shiite Islamic Republic is under heavy pressure from two minorities, its foreign warfronts and US sanctions:
- Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Ahvaz National Resistance, which has for decades fought the Persian Shiite regime for a Sunni Arab state in the oil-rich Khuzestan province. Four underground groups banded under this heading represent some 2 million Arab Sunni adherents, who account for around 40 percent of the province’s population and make up most of the workforce at the oilfields. Sporadic protests and unrest are brutally beaten down by the IRGC with extreme measures like induced famine. But the shooting attack on Saturday, by four gunmen clad in Iranian army uniforms, was the worst the elite IRGC had faced and appeared to have meticulously planned well in advance. The gunmen zoomed in on motorbikes, a favored vehicle of IRGC goons, and opened fire on the saluting stand and the military parade marching at the time causing chaos and panic.
Tehran customarily accuses three parties for inciting anti-Shiite terror: Saudi and UAE intelligence and the US CIA. This time the Iranian military spokesman added the Israeli Mossad to the roster and charged the Saudis with arming and sending the terrorists. READ MORE
