Iran Military Forum

http://tabnak.ir/fa/pages/?cid=58701

I don't know which is more of a joke: Rigi himself, or the fact that al Arabiya interviewed him...

My favorite:
رهبر گروهک تروریستی جندالله در ادامه ادعا کرد که شیعه و سنی، همه حامی جندالله هستند زیرا مردم ایران و گروهک جندالله هر دو خواهان دموکراسی در این کشورند!

Iranian Sunni rebel confesses U.S. role in terror plots inside Iran  
 
 
www.chinaview.cn  2009-08-26 00:50:15    
 
    ZAHEDAN, Iran, Aug. 25 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian Sunni rebel said on Tuesday the United States had supporting role in launching terror plots inside Iran.

    "After meeting with the U.S. officials in the U.S. embassy in Pakistan four years ago, they (the U.S. officials) promised to help us with everything we needed," Abdolhamid Rigi, the brother of insurgent Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi, told reporters.

    On Tuesday, Iran's government organized a media tour to Zahedan, the capital city of Iran's southeastern province of Sistan-Balouchestan, where the media attended a confession program of Abdolhamid Rigi.

    Some video projection of the crimes that the Rigi group have committed in the province was shown. The media was also taken to the sites where Jundallah group had killed civilians.

    "We were deceived by them (the U.S. officials)...We received monetary and armed supports from the United States...We received orders from them" to carry out the terrors inside Iran, Abdolhamid Rigi said.

    He said he has killed his wife and stabbed his brother-in-law since his brother Abdolmalek told him that they were cooperating with the Iranian government.

    Jundallah, or Peoples Resistant Movement of Iran, is an insurgent Sunni Islamic organization based in Balochistan of Pakistan which claims to fight for the rights of Sunni Muslims in Iran.

    The group was founded by and is currently under the command of Abdolmalek Rigi. It claims to have killed 400 Iranian soldiers and many more civilians.

    The group has been identified as a terrorist organization by Iran and Pakistan and has been behind numerous acts of terror, kidnapping and smuggling narcotics. Many believe it is linked to al-Qaida.

    In May, the group detonated a bomb in a mosque in Zahedan, killing 25 people and wounding many more.

    Thirteen members of the group were hung in July in Zahedan city.
 
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/26/content_11943561.htm

Revolutionary Guard commanders killed in Iran bomb

(AP) – 11 minutes ago

TEHRAN, Iran — A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people Sunday, including five senior commanders of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, in southeastern Iran, the country's official news agency reported.

The IRNA news agency said the dead included the deputy commander of the Guard's ground force, Gen. Noor Ali Shooshtari, as well as the Guard's chief provincial commander, Rajab Ali Mohammadzadeh. Dozens of others were wounded, the report said.

The commanders were inside a car on their way to a meeting in the Pishin region near Iran's border with Pakistan when an attacker with explosives blew himself up, IRNA said.

Iran's parliamentary speaker, Ali Larijani, condemned the assassination of the Guard commanders, saying the bombing was aimed at disrupting security in southeastern Iran.

"We express our condolences for their martyrdom. ... The intention of the terrorists was definitely to disrupt security in Sistan-Baluchistan Province," Larijani told an open session of the parliament broadcast live on state radio.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but suspicion would likely fall on the Sunni militant group Jundallah, or Soldiers of God, which has carried out attacks in southeastern Iran against Shiite targets.

In May, the group took credit for a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque that killed 25 people in Zahedan, the capital of Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province, which has witnessed some of Jundallah's worst attacks. Thirteen members of the faction were convicted in the attack and hanged in July.

Jundallah, comprising Sunnis from the Baluchi ethnic minority, have waged a low-level insurgency in recent years, accusing the mostly Shiite government of persecution.

Jundallah has carried out bombings, kidnappings and other attacks against Iranian soldiers and other forces in recent years, including a car bombing in February 2007 that killed 11 members of the Revolutionary Guard near Zahedan.

Jundallah also claimed responsibility for the December 2006 kidnapping of seven Iranian soldiers in the Zahedan area. It threatened to kill them unless members of the group in Iranian prisons were released. The seven were released a month later, apparently after negotiations through tribal mediators.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gpWpReHv8iWIFgWQQms1aWxfRYmgD9BDCF7G0

damn these people's operations are becoming more deadly by every attack.

Shoushtari was a famous commander in the region.

List of 34 of the martyrs:

به گزارش خبرنگار مهر اسامی اعلام شده به شرح زیر است:

1- محمد فدایی
2- فرشاد شفیع‌پور
3- مصطفی آسکانی
4- محمدعارف براه
5- هادی محمدسلیمانی
6- هوشنگ کریمی
7- حسین مرادی
8- علی علویان
9- خسرو شمس‌الدینی
10- اصلم موحد
11- شاهین بیر
12- محمد اصلم بیر
13- شهرام خالقی
14- روح‌الله نوزاد
15- گودرزی
16- پنجشنبه بیر
17- ولی‌فتح مرادی
18- محمد میر
19- حمیدرضا ناصری
20- شهکل آسکانی
21- همزه شه‌بخش
22- حسین اسدی
23- مرادبخش چرخ
24- عمران زرنما
25- علی نیک‌پور
26- کمال جنگک
27- عبدالله ترکی
28- رحمت‌الله ترکی
29- شیرمحمد ترکی
30- نورعلی شوشتری
31- علی عربی
32- رجبعلی محمدزاده
33- خدابخش بیر
34- اصلم هود

اسامی شهدای احتمالی دیگر متعاقبا ارسال خواهد شد.

http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=966540

there is more dead, and the name haven't been released yet.

RIP

Sepah,

I was not the person posting election fraud articles, though I do not see the connection here.

As for the title, I will try to modify it accordingly!


catsoo

These people should be dealt with now. Iran should haunt down these criminals like the dogs they are.

thats the problem, Iran doesnt have that much options. Thats why the US has a free hand in there doing w/e they like. that cant do anything from Iraq, if they do their soldiers will ...u know. thats why there is like really few problems in Khuzistan.

but in sistan-baluchistan, they can and Pakistan will get the blame and rightly so Pakistan is in full cooperation with US and their proxy terrorists. However Iran cant really retaliate against US in Pakistan.

Ok I understand the problem. Why can the U.S. attack the Taliban in Pakistan but Iran cannot attack jundullah in Pakistan? If Pakistan cannot stop them than Iran should have the right to rid them. 

Because Iran is not United States.  United States has a huge military force and does not share any borders with Pakistan.  US has tremendous influence with Pakistani government and can use military and economic incentives with the Pakistani government to allow them to use their soil for operations against what may be perceived as "terrorism".  Iran shares a border with a nuclear armed pakistan.  If Iran carries raids in Pakistan it may start a larger Shia - Sunni conflict in the region which may amount to a full scale war.  Pakistani government will not allow Iran to carry out raids in its territory as much as Iran will not allow Turkey to carry out raids against PKK in its territory.  This is the question of national sovergnty.

May all those who have served their nation with courage and honor rest in peace.

I think we will see a lot more Us and British casualties soon in Afghanestan

Iran threatens Britain and U.S. after Guard bombing

By Fredrik Dahl and Hossein Jaseb Fredrik Dahl And Hossein Jaseb
2 hrs 43 mins ago
 
TEHRAN (Reuters) – The head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Monday vowed to "retaliate" against the United States and Britain after accusing them of backing the perpetrators of a suicide bombing that killed six Guards commanders.

Iranian media say the Sunni Muslim insurgent group Jundollah (God's soldiers) has claimed responsibility for Sunday's bombing in Sistan-Baluchestan province, which killed 42 people in all.

The incident threatened to overshadow talks between Iran and global powers in Vienna on Monday intended to tackle a standoff about Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Guards commander-in-chief Mohammad Ali Jafari said Iranian security officials had presented documents indicating "direct ties" from Jundollah to U.S., British and, "unfortunately," Pakistani intelligence organizations, the ISNA news agency said.

"Behind this scene are the American and British intelligence apparatus, and there will have to be retaliatory measures to punish them," Jafari was quoted as saying.

Jundollah, which has been blamed for many attacks since 2005 in the desert province bordering Pakistan, says it is fighting to end discrimination against Sunni Muslims by Iran's dominant Shi'ites. Its leader is Abdolmalek Rigi.

"This person himself and his plans are undoubtedly under the umbrella and the protection of these (U.S., British and Pakistani) organizations," Jafari said.

"TRAINED BY U.S. AND BRITAIN"

Iranian television quoted General Mohammad Pakpour, commander of the Guards' ground forces, whose deputy was killed in the bombing, as saying:

"The base of the terrorists and rebels has not been in Iran. They are trained by America and Britain in some of the neighboring countries."

The United States, Pakistan and Britain have all condemned the bombing, the bloodiest attack in Iran since the 1980-88 war with Iraq, and denied involvement.

"We reject in the strongest terms any assertion that this attack has anything to do with Britain," said a spokeswoman at Britain's Foreign Office. "Terrorism is abhorrent wherever it occurs."

The bombing of a mosque in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan, reportedly also claimed by Jundollah, killed 25 people in May.

The underdeveloped desert province, mostly populated by Sunni Muslims, borders both Pakistan and Afghanistan and has frequently been the scene of clashes between security forces, ethnic Baluch Sunni insurgents and heavily-armed drug smugglers.

The victims of the bombing in the city of Sarbaz included two employees of the state broadcaster IRIB, the company said, and number of tribal chiefs who were due to hold a meeting with the Guards to promote Shi'ite-Sunni unity. The Guards said the attack was aimed at fomenting sectarian strife.

VIENNA TALKS

The incident raised tension between Iran and major powers ahead of nuclear talks at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna.

On the agenda was a proposal that Iran send low enriched uranium abroad for further enrichment, to be used in a reactor where it produces medical isotopes.

Ali Shirzadian, spokesman for Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said on Monday that Tehran would carry out the supplementary enrichment itself if there was no agreement in its talks with Russia, France and the United States.

Analysts say Iran's governing hardliners may use the bombing incident as an excuse to further clamp down on moderate opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose disputed re-election in June sparked huge opposition protests.

The Guards force, whose influence has increased since Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005, played a key role in suppressing the street protests after the election.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev offered Moscow's cooperation in fighting terrorism and extremism in a letter to Ahmadinejad, Medvedev's press service said.

"We are ready to cooperate with Iran in countering these threats," he wrote.

Ahmadinejad urged Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in a telephone call to help find the perpetrators of the attack, Iran's IRNA news agency reported.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told the Daily Times newspaper: "Pakistan is not involved in terrorist activities ... we are striving to eradicate this menace."

Pakistan has backed armed Sunni Muslim groups in the past, particularly in Afghanistan.

Relations between Iran and Pakistan have been generally good in recent years and the neighbors are cooperating on plans to build a natural gas pipeline link. But Iran has in the past said Jundollah members have been operating out of Pakistan.

Some analysts believe Jundollah has evolved through shifting alliances with parties including the Taliban and Pakistan's ISI intelligence service, who saw it as a tool to use against Iran.

(Additional Reporting by Parisa Hafezi and Hashem Kalantari in Tehran and Augustine Anthony in Islamabad; Editing by Kevin Liffey).

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091019/ts_nm/us_iran_guards_attack/print

Leader: Terrorist attack not to cause disunity
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution has extended condolences for the death of dozens of people in a Sunday terrorist attack in southeastern Iran.

At least 42 people, including senior commanders from the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Nour-Ali Shoushtari and Rajab-Ali Mohammadzadeh, were killed in a Sunday morning bombing during a gathering of Shia and Sunni tribal leaders in the borderline region of Pishin.

In a Monday statement, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei offered his condolences to the families of those killed in the attack and said, “The enemies should know that such animosities … can not stain the unity of religions and tribes.”

“Those who violate the lives and security of the people will be punished for their treacherous deeds,” the Leader said.

The Sunday attack was carried out by the Pakistan-based Jundullah separatist group, which is led by Abdolmalik Rigi.

The head of the IRGC said on Monday that an Iranian delegation would head for Pakistan to present 'proof' of US, Britain and Pakistan's involvement in the attack.

“Our security bodies have found evidence that proves the Rigi group is supported by American and British intelligence services and unfortunately the Pakistani intelligence service,” said General Mohammad-Ali Jafari.

“He [Rigi] undoubtedly acts under their orders,” he said, adding that the Iranian delegation would ask for Rigi to be handed over.

Britain, Pakistan and the US have all condemned the terrorist attack and denied any involvement in the bombing in which dozens were also injured.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a telephone conversation with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari, said the presence of terrorist elements in Pakistan was 'unjustifiable' and urged Islamabad to 'quickly confront' Jundullah terrorists.

The ring is behind a torrent of bombings and terrorist attacks in Iran.

AKM/HGH
http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=109076&sectionid=351020101

How much more proof is needed?

Former Pakistan General: U.S. Supports Jundullah Terrorists in Iran

July 10, 2008

According to Pakistan’s former Army Chief, retired General Mirza Aslam Baig, the U.S. supports the Jundullah terrorist group and uses it to destabilize Iran. Baig knows what he is talking about, as he was on the inside track when the CIA and Pakistan’s ISI created al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Both Baig and former ISI chief Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul were part of the Darul Uloom Haqqania Islamic conference held near Peshawar on January 9, 2001, significant because the conference was hosted by CIA asset Osama bin Laden. Baig rubs elbows with Pakistan’s ruling oligarchs, so he knows something about what goes down in South and Central Asia and the Greater Middle East.
 
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, supposedly the al-Qaeda operational commander of the September 11 terrorist attacks, headed up the CIA sponsored terrorist group Jundullah.  
  
“He said that the US is providing training facilities to Jundullah fighters–located in eastern areas of Iran–to create unrest in the area and affect the cordial ties between Iran and its neighbor Pakistan,” reports Iran’s Press TV. “The intelligence agencies of the coalitional forces are very active in Afghanistan and work against the interests of Iran, Pakistan, China and Russia in the region, he said as quoted by Pakistan Daily newspaper.”

In other words, the neocons are busy at work on their plan, active now for well over a decade, to foment chaos in the region and ultimately reduce it to a smoldering ruin. Iran has long figured prominently on the neocon hit list.

“Jundullah is a terrorist group, headed by Abdolmalek Rigi, which operates in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan and Pakistan’s Baluchistan,” notes Press TV. In fact, the Sunni terrorist group is a creature of the CIA, a fact confirmed last May when the Sunday Telegraph reported that the CIA was “supplying money and weapons” to Jundullah as part of Bush’s not so covert black op designed to “achieve regime change in Iran,” that is to say reduce the country to a smoldering ruin on par with Iraq and install a brutal dictatorship, more than likely a return of the the dreaded Pahlavi monarchy, long favored by neocons. Rigi fought with another CIA-ISI spawned group, the Taliban, in Afghanistan.

“Jundullah has close ties with Al-Qaeda,” Tariq Jamil, chief of the Karachi police, told Newsline in 2004. In 2005, according to ABC News, U.S. officials began encouraging and advising Jundullah and in February, 2007, Dick Cheney flew to Pakistan to parlay with dictator Pervez Musharraf on Jundullah operations against Iran. It is said that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, supposedly the al-Qaeda operational commander of the September 11 terrorist attacks, headed up the group at one point.

In short, the U.S. is using al-Qaeda to attack and destabilize Iran. However, according to Bush and the neocons, Iran is supporting al-Qaeda. “President Bush yesterday accused Iran of harboring and aiding top al Qaeda terrorists, but he stopped short of charging that Tehran was directly involved in the September 11 attacks,” the Washington Times reported on July 20, 2004. Prior to this, the 9/11 whitewash commission accused al-Qaeda and Iran of collusion by way of Hezbollah, never mind that Hezbollah is a Shi’ite group and al-Qaeda Sunni, thus enemies.
 
Of course, none of this matters, as even candidates running for president are apparently unable to tell the difference. Recall John McCain in Amman, Jordan, back in March expressing concern about Iranians “taking al Qaeda into Iran, training them and sending them back” to Iraq. “But Iran and al Qaeda are associated with different branches of Islam. Iran is a mostly Shiite country and al Qaeda is primarily a Sunni militant group; Iran has been reported to help Shiite extremists in Iraq, but not their Sunni counterparts,” noted the Wall Street Journal.

Not that it matters. Because most Americans are similarly unable to tell the difference and such lies are accepted as fact. General Mirza Aslam Baig’s revelation is of little importance because the corporate media plays by the neocon script and the American people are by and large completely ignorant of the fact the U.S. sponsors an al-Qaeda off-shoot in Iran.

In Bushzarro world, black is white, up is down, and on the day the U.S. and Israel attack Iran — promised before Bush leaves office – the ignorant mob will cheer mass murder, wave their little plastic flags made by slaves in China, and believe whatever patently absurd nonsense the neocons offer up, same as they believed — and many still believe to this day — the lies contrived in preparation for the neocon mass murder campaign in Iraq.

http://www.infowars.com/former-pakistan-general-us-supports-jundullah-terrorists-in-iran/