What could be behind Iran’s current defiance of

the west is a desperate theocratic State that is

withering away seeking to divert its frustrated
remnants’ fury at failure into a wave of anti-
western strikes?
Only this time it could assume the form of ‘dirty
bombs’ and there are enough inputs to suggest
the lines in which the Jihadi elements are
deveolping this theme.
We will continue this study series on War on
Terror, beginning with this revision of the info we
can gleam from Iran’s most secular Opposition
Party.

The September 11th incident demonstrated

that in today’s world, by creating small (!)
tactical incidents it is possible to attain strategic
results. - -
“Martyrdom Operations …are the greatest
advantage of Muslims over the superior
technology of the global arrogance (the West)”.
General Salami, deputy chief of operations, joint
headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards Corps,
at the Gathering of Seekers of Martyrdom,
Tehran, June 2nd 2004.
“If it is possible to cast terror into the hearts and
lives of infidels (those not believing in Allah,
Muhammad and foundations of Islam) and the
enemies of Islam, which is in fact possible, then
this terror is holy terror…Until we destroy Liberal
Democracy, there will be no possibility for the
Appearance (of the 12th Shiite Imam)”
Hassan Abbassi, President of the “Center for
Security Without Borders” and Chief of External
National Security Planning for the Revolutionary
Guards Corps At the Gathering of Seekers of
Martyrdom, Tehran, June 2nd 2004
“In order to eliminate the evil of modern
infidelity, the evil of Liberal Democracy, and the
evil of Human Rights, we must fight them and
wipe them off the face of the earth”
‘Ya Lessarat Al Hussein’ Islamic publication, June
16th 2004, highlighting quotations from the
Gathering of Seekers of Martyrdom, Tehran, June
2nd 2004.
On Wednesday June 2nd 2004 the Islamic
Republic in Iran (IRI) sanctioned the
inauguration of a widely advertised and
government sanctioned conference of the newly
formed organization of worldwide Islamic suicide
terrorists named the “Headquarters for Honoring
the Martyrs of the Worldwide Islamic Movement”
also referred to as “The Gathering of Seekers of
Martyrdom”.
According to the Iranian and international news
media, representatives of various Islamic
terrorist groups and candidates for suicide
terrorist attacks from around the world were
present at the conference held in Tehran at the
‘Lord of the Martyrs’ Auditorium.
Special registration forms for candidates of
suicide attacks had already been distributed in
Iran, with the choices of volunteering to attack
the occupiers of the holy shrines in Iraq, the holy
temple in Jerusalem or Salman Rushdie. Mr.
Mohammad Ali Samadi, one of the organizers
and the spokesman for the gathering was quoted
in “Ya Lessarat” as saying “Last Friday in just
three hours we registered 2000 people. We
predict that in today’s gathering our numbers will
approach ten thousand ...”.
The speeches made during the conference
however, pointed to much bigger military and
terrorist targets around the world such as the
countries of Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait, even the
concepts of democracy and modern science!
According to the publication “Ya Lessarat Al
Hussein” (Avengers of the Blood of Imam
Hussein) of June 9th 2004, General Salami of the
Revolutionary Guard Corps said that Globalism is
not confined to the sphere of economics and with
security becoming Global, so will insecurity which
is at this point precisely the most vulnerable
dimension of the great powers.
In its June 16th issue, Ya Lessarat quotes
Mr.Hassan Abbassi, RGC external security
planner, the main speaker at the conference,
addressing Western countries as following: “…
Yes! We know that oil is the blood that flows
through your veins and your civilization is run on
Arab oil, which is precisely why the departed
Imam (Khomeini) said ‘shut down the oil flow’!
The Supreme Leader (Khamenei) also decreed
that ‘if all the Arab countries shut down their oil
for one full month, nothing will remain from this
science which you think the West has, this
freedom, liberalism, democracy and civil society
for which the modernists crave’. We are issuing
this serious warning” . This Mr. Abbassi is the
same official who in May 2004 threatened that
29 locations around the world have been marked
for terror attacks including American nuclear
warheads.
IRI’s Past and Present Doctrine of International
Terror
Mr. Abbassi in his “moving” speech at the suicide
terror conference, elaborated on the “Doctrine of
Asymmetric Defensive(!) Warfare” which
basically means individual or mass suicide
operations against a militarily superior force.
Abbasi said “We overthrew the Shah’s regime
which was armed to the teeth with only empty
hands. We conquered the American Embassy
with empty hands. Through the Lebanese
Hizbullah, without having Israel’s superior
weapons, we succeeded in expelling Israel from
Southern Lebanon.
Our existing sporadic operations through The
(Palestinian) Islamic Jihad and Hamas have until
this moment paralyzed Israel”. Today, as such
links including IRI-Al Qaedeh connections are
being ‘discovered’ and reported daily, the
‘Gathering of Seekers of Martyrdom’ further
cements extremist Shiite-Sunni terrorist
solidarity ending all the whitewashing efforts of
Western appeasers who have tried to absolve the
IRI of complicity in many international terrorist
attacks on the grounds of Shiite-Sunni religious
incompatibility.
Iranians have known for a long time that both
during the anti Shah movement of the late 1970s
and during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s, the
Islamic extremist leaders in Iran had sent
thousands of children, young men and women to
their deaths, in street confrontations as well as
mine sweeping operations (walking across
minefields) by teenage and pre-teen children, in
order to claim victims and “martyrs” for
propaganda purposes; now, in a rare admission,
Abbassi recounts some of these experiences less
known to the world and sometimes deliberately
ignored by Western journalists and appeasing
politicians.
Emphasizing the decades long role of the Islamic
republic in spreading terrorism and sacrificing
young lives for the IRI ideological and security
aims, Mr. Abbassi continued “Basically, the
fundamentals of the military and defense
doctrine of the Islamic Republic which was
successful during the Holy Defense period (Iran-
Iraq War) as well as the strategic doctrine which
was designed and prepared for the Lebanese
Hizbullah, was one of emphasizing the
asymmetric (strategy). This defensive (!)
doctrine also showed results in Bosnia(!)”
Mr. Mehdi Koochack-Zadeh, a member of the
Islamic Assembly (“Parliament”) from Tehran
who was the first speaker at the conference,
actually volunteered for suicide terrorist
operations. Quoting Ayatullah Khomeini,himself
having had declared his readiness for
“martyrdom” back in 1988, the “Parliament”
Member said “the Palestinian youth today,
following the above mentioned message of his
eminence the Imam (Khomeini), sacrifice
themselves for the liberation of the Holy Ghuds
by carrying explosives”. In fact, trying to remind
everyone of the IRI’s leading role in exporting
terrorism, Islamic extremism and suicide
operations, the “Ya Lessarat” of May 26th 2004
which carried a full page advertisement for the
suicide conference, also printed an interesting
article about the history of the IRI involvement in
the region.
In the above mentioned article, covering the
Revolutionary Guard’s role in Lebanon as far
back as 1982, Ayatullah Rafsanjani said “We
have weapons and forces there (in Lebanon);
initiative and decision making is ours alone; we
shall act ourselves and we shall never agree to
reconciliation and surrender”. The article also
quotes RGC General Haj Ahmad Motavasselian
(sometimes referred to as the innocent Iranian
diplomat kidnapped by the Israelis in 1982;
executed by the Lebanese Phalange militia)
regarding IRI military involvement against
Israel :“… we shall fight and we believe that we
must export the Islamic Revolution to the world
… we shall fight with our faith, the army of God
fights with its belief (exporting the revolution is
called ‘Defensive Strategy’! because any
alternative ideology anywhere is considered to be
‘confronting’ Islam).
Let the propagandists of Zionist media and the
Zionist leaders say that we have come to commit
suicide! We shall prove that our blood will
liberate the holy Islamic lands from the US
imperialists and this corrupt and occupying
Zionist Regime … As long as there are those who
chant ‘there is no God except Allah’ (Muslims) in
the farthest places in the world, those places are
our Islamic borders…” (further testimony to the
claimed “defensive” nature of extremist Islamic
goals!). Clearly, the IRI has succeeded in
preventing any Arab Israeli peace and has
exported the idea of suicide terrorism into the
Palestinian and Islamic movement in the region.
Suicide Operations, Means Towards Martyrdom
Not a Natural Reaction
Mr. Abbasi, reminded the Conference of the all
too familiar theme of martyrdom, which from the
point of view of suicide volunteers is neither
rooted in any “reaction”, “defensive strategy”,
“American or Zionist oppression” or other
external actions as its causes nor even in
territorial expansion as its final goal. The
quotations below may serve to familiarize.
Western readers with the real nature of
international Jihadists and refute the usual
humanist, nationalist and legalist pretensions of
the most dangerous terrorist individuals and
governments in history. These educated,super
rich and ruthless fanatics, only use Western
language in their propaganda to disarm naïve
Westerners, use terrorism to intimidate them and
thus prepare the grounds for a world wide Jihad
and global domination of their extremist
ideologies, power for their leaders, paradise and
martyrdom for their followers.
Mr. Abbassi describes three kinds of martyrdom:
Martyrdom by accident, by necessity when the
time comes and martyrdom by choice and
initiative. He names a certain martyr of the third
kind, named “Fahmideh”, whose act supposedly
“laid the foundations for martyrdom operations in
the culture of the Holy Defense Campaign (Iran-
Iraq war) and the culture of the Islamic
Revolution”. Abbassi then offers a 1981
quotation in this regard which according to the
organizers of the conference is the Shiite Fatwa
(Holy Decree) for suicide operations by Ayatullah
Khomeini: “Do not call me a leader … our leader
is that 13 year old child (!) who wears a grenade
around himself and goes under the enemy tank
(Iraqi tank)”.
Mr. Abbassi then proclaims that “In any case, the
important issue is martyrdom, whereas the
martyrdom operations are secondary …” which
can be interpreted as an admittance that
external issues (such as the US attack on Iraq)
are NOT the cause but only the opportunity or
the excuse for a Jihadist to be martyred, “…All
the martyr wants is to eat at the Court of the
divine and holy being (Allah) …(Khomeini)
decreed that … a nation for whom martyrdom is
a desired fate is victorious. It is not important
what the result will be. Was the result important
for Imam Hussein? (Shiite 2nd Imam, who was
militarily defeated at the battle of Karbala
perpetuating the idea of martyrdom) … he
decreed that ‘if you stand in front of our religion,
we shall stand in front of your material world’.
Since the modern man does not want anything
outside this world and does not understand
anything beyond it, if this materialism and world
loving entity stands in front of our religion
(according to extremists, simply the existence of
a different religion or ideology not submissive to
Islam, is ‘confronting’ Islam. See footnote 1b,
below) we have the means of ruining the
material world on top of his head …”.
Abbassi berates the West and even moderate
Muslims for not understanding the essence of
Martyrdom and informs them that “… history is
nothing except human (endeavor) to sacrifice
this body for God. Martyrdom has a road called
Jihad … Jihad is more important than prayer,
than pilgrimage, than fasting”.
Clearly prayer, pilgrimage and fasting are NOT
reactions to persecution, real or perceived, but
routine and continuous actions and choices; so is
Jihad according to Abbassi.“ The martyr says:
material belongings must be sacrificed for life,
life for honor and all these three, for God”.
Abbassi, clarifies the basis of his military and
“defensive” doctrine: “A humanist person
(Western man) equips himself with weaponry in
order to kill more, but a God-centered person,
even though he prepares to neutralize that and
also to kill, but he prepares himself mostly to be
killed … and his prayer is ‘God! Grant me
martyrdom …”
While Abbassi’s philosophical ranting is more
geared towards followers and new suicide
volunteers, Samadi’s simpler explanation on the
other hand, better explains the practical aspects
of suicide terrorism from the eyes of those who
volunteer to live (!) and reap the benefits of such
operations.
Mr. Samadi, one of the organizers of the
conference, explains that “… these operations are
launched out of desperation (dire necessity) and
due to the higher technological advantage of the
enemy which denies us the capabilities for classic
(military) operations, with the principal aim (of
suicide terrorism) of military and morale
degradation of the (superior) enemy… these
operations are in fact some kind of flaunting of
the spirit and determination of the Jihadists and
fighters …” .
In accordance with the IRI constitution which
obligates the armed pursuit of Jihad all over the
world (1) and the ‘sacred’ declarations of
Ayatullah Khomeini (2) and other Islamic leaders
in Iran as well as the leading traditions of the IRI
in re-introducing the ancient Islamic martyrdom
concept to the world, the Islamic Republic has
launched yet another forum in support of
international terrorism and a new organized
effort for recruiting suicide terrorists. While
certain appeasers in the West have been using
their “expertise” and prominent positions to
down play IRI’s open threats of Jihad, terrorism
and nuclear war, the Islamic Republic has been
successfully carrying out massive terrorist
campaigns worldwide (US Marine barracks and
US Embassy in Lebanon, Jewish centers in
Argentina, US targets in Saudi Arabia, Iranian
opposition activists in Europe…), triggered
regional proxy wars (Lebanese Hizbullah vs.
Israel), organized and aided extremist Islamic
movements ( in Iraq, Chechnia, Bosnia, Kosovo,
Palestine, Pakistan,Afghanistan, Persian Gulf
region, and…) and has prevented peace in the
Arab Israeli conflict. Therefore, this new and
open threat must not be taken lightly or brushed
under the rug.
When the powerful Ayatullah Rafsanjani
threatened the annihilation of Israel by an atomic
bomb, back in December 2001 and declared his
willingness to absorb retaliatory nuclear strikes
since it would only “cause damage” to the
Islamic world (which Rafsanjani is presumably
willing to accept on their behalf ! ), he was in
fact threatening Israel and the West with a
nuclear suicide confrontation scenario. Most of
the world reacted to the “moderate” Rafsanjani’s
threat with silence and considered it a joke.
Today, the US, Israel and even the United
Nations have begun taking such threats
seriously, being faced with the “newly
discovered” possibility of the IRI’s massive
efforts towards building nuclear weapons. The
IRI’s nuclear defiance,following a one year
successful campaign of buying time, emboldened
in particular by European appeasement, along
with this new threat of suicide bombers is in fact
a challenge to the world to choose between two
losing options as the instruments of Western
defeat and exporting the militant version of IRI
Islam all over the world : A nuclear Islamic
Republic or “ten thousand” suicide bombers .
There must be another choice.
Footnotes:
(1) IRI Constitution
a- Introduction, ‘The Form of Government in
Islam’: “With regard to the Islamic content of the
Iranian Revolution, which has been a movement
aimed at the triumph of all oppressed and
deprived persons over their oppressors, the
Constitution provides the necessary basis for
ensuring the continuation of the Revolution at
home and abroad. In particular, in the
development of external relations, the revolution
will strive, in concert with other Islamic and
popular movements, to prepare the way for the
formation of a single global Umma (Islamic
nation/ community)…”.
b- Introduction, ‘An Ideological Army’: “… The
army of the Islamic Republic and the Corps of
the Guards of the Revolution … will be
responsible not only for guarding and preserving
the frontiers of the country, but also for fulfilling
the ideological mission of Jihad in God’s path;
that is extending the sovereignty of God’s law
throughout the world. This will be in accordance
with the Qur’anic verse ‘Prepare against them
whatever force you are able to muster, and
horses ready for battle, striking fear into the
enemy of God and your enemy, and others
beyond them’ (8:60)”.
(2) Ayatullah Khomeini.
a- “…Those who say Islam is NOT a religion of
war and that Islam must not kill people, do not
understand Islam. The Koran says war! War!
Meaning those who follow the Koran must
continue the war until evil is taken out from the
world. War is a blessing for the whole world and
it is a blessing from God for any nation in any
environment that it may be. Why do you
constantly read the verses about mercy in the
Koran and ignore the verses about killing(war)?”
Ayatullah Khomeini, Tehran, December 20/21st
1984, on the occasion of ceremonies for the birth
of Prophet Muhammad.
b- “We are after killing the corrupt roots of
Zionism, Capitalism and Communism in the
world. We have decided, with the blessing and
grace of God, to destroy the systems built upon
these three bases… If we are torn to pieces a
thousand times, we shall not stop the fighting
against the oppressor…” Ayatullah Khomeini,
Tehran, 20/21st July 1988, following the
acceptance of the UN resolution on cease fire
with Iraq.
c- “Today, East and West know very well that the
only force that is able to sweep them from the
scene in Islam… Our officials should know that
our revolution is not confined to Iran. The
revolution of the Iranian people is the starting
point of the great revolution of the Islamic
world… One more time I am asking the high
officials of the Islamic Republic system not to be
afraid of any one and any thing except the great
God, tighten their belts and refrain from
abandoning the struggle and Jihad against
corruption and prostitution of the Western
capitalism and the nihilism and aggression of
Communism.
We are still taking our first steps in the global
struggle against East and West. Will it be worse
than apparently being defeated by world powers
(devourers)? Will it be worse than being accused
by the world of being violent and backward? …
Will it be worse than beloved children of the pure
Mohammadan Islam being hanged up on the
gallows? Will it be worse than wives and children
of Hizbullah being taken captive? Let the mean
materialistic world treat us like that, but we shall
continue acting according to our Islamic duty …”
Ayatullah Khomeini, Tehran, 22/23rd March

Compiled by the Intelligence

Council of the Marze Por Gohar
Party, Iranians For A Secular
Republic.