As the world focuses on the state of negotiations between world powers and the Iranian regime over the latter’s controversial nuclear [weapons] program, it is paramount to keep a close eye on the terror threats emanating from the ruling mullahs of Tehran and their entire terror machine apparatus.
The world was shocked last Friday over the news of the writer Salman Rushdie being stabbed in western New York state. The Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), issued a statement strongly condemning the hideous attack. It is crystal clear that this attack was inspired by the 1989 fatwa issued by former Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. The current Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and other clerical leaders have continuously vowed to implement this anti-Islamic fatwa for the past three decades.
Iranian Resistance Strongly Condemns Attack on Salman Rushdie, Instigated by Khomeini and Khamenei’s Fatwa #Iran #SalmanRushdie https://t.co/xjAxJInII0
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 13, 2022
Encouraged by the West’s appeasement policy, numerous officials and state media outlets in Iran have been praising Rushdie’s attacker and literally expressing their joy following this heinous act.
In an interview on August 15 with the semi-official ILNA news agency, Javad Karimi-Ghodousi, a member of the regime’s Majlis (parliament) and the National Security Commission, said the regime could pay money to hire hitmen in New York to carry out assassination plots against U.S. officials.
“To take revenge from U.S. officials, we don’t need to dispatch Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) forces to the U.S… this can be carried out if we pay people in the streets of Manhattan and other parts of New York,” he indicated. Referring to the attack on Salman Rushdie, this regime MP added, “This is evidence to deny the White House’s claim that the [Iranian regime] has dispatched an IRGC member to the U.S. to assassinate John Bolton, the National Security Advisor of the former U.S. president… In that very country, there are proud people that can be found that are informed about our position, and they are trigger happy. Wherever they find the opportunity, they will take revenge from [Donald] Trump, [former U.S. Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo, and others like them,” Karimi-Ghodousi added.
“As long as there are people with other names, languages, and nationalities who can carry out such measures, [the Iranian regime] will never send its own main personnel to the scene,” he continued. “If the [Iranian regime] decides, it can pay money to the people in the streets to [carry out these attacks] and not send an IRGC member from Iran to New York. This would be quite dangerous,” this Iranian MP explained.
Such brazen support for terror attacks and assassinations on foreign soil follow reports of foiled plots targeting John Bolton, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mike Esper, and others.
These threats are also the other side of the coin of senior regime officials recently boasting about being just one step away from producing nuclear weapons.
On November 27, 2021, Fereydoun Abbasi, a parliament deputy and the former head of the regime’s Atomic Energy Organization, acknowledged in an interview with state media that Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the assassinated former head of the regime’s nuclear weapons establishment, had created a system to obtain nuclear weapons.
“We have the technical capability to produce a nuclear bomb,”
On July 17, former Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharrazi, now a senior adviser to Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, boasted that the Iranian regime had become a nuclear threshold country. “We have the technical capability to produce a nuclear bomb,” he specifically said.
Less than 24 hours later, Mohammad Javad Larijani, another senior adviser to Khamenei, said: “If we ever decide to build a nuclear bomb, no one can stop us!”
Seeing no firm response or action from the West, one week later, former Iranian regime diplomat Amir Mousavi said Tehran is technically capable of producing a nuclear bomb. He added that there is pressure from inside Iran and the region to change Khamenei’s fatwa banning nuclear weapons.
1. The clerical regime will not abandon the project to obtain a nuclear bomb. Today, regime officials brazenly talk about their intention to build an atomic bomb. Firmness is required to prevent a terrorist dictatorship from being equipped with nuclear weapons. #Iran #JCPOA pic.twitter.com/TPDlExoKr3
— NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) August 4, 2022
It is worth noting that this nuclear deal will provide more funding to the IRGC and its Quds Force to launch even more terror operations across the globe, including such assassination plots.
None of this should be taken lightly. Washington should be serious about this matter and adopt a firm stance. The U.S. Justice Department should start by apprehending all members of the Iranian regime’s network of terrorists and would-be assassins on U.S. soil, busting their operations, and sending Tehran a message that such actions will not be tolerated. Furthermore, the U.S. should immediately walk out of the nuclear talks with Iran and start reimposing and implementing targeted sanctions against the regime and the IRGC.
Washington should also be indicating to Tehran that their terrorism and assassination plots will not be tolerated by refusing a visa to Raisi for next month’s United Nations General Assembly.
IRGC plot to assassinate @AmbJohnBolton is alarming. Regime’s president was involved in the massacre of political prisoners &1500 protesters. Now, he is embarking on assassinating foreign politicians. Raisi must not enter the US&UN. He must be arrested &prosecuted #NoVisa4Raisi
— Mohammad Mohaddessin (@Mohaddessin) August 10, 2022
