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Terror Suspects of Iranian Mosque Connected to the US and Israel

By Manila Ryce
Published Sunday, May 25th, 2008, 12:34 pm
Filed under: Human Rights, Videos: Political, World: Asia, Society/Culture: Civil Unrest, War, Videos, Society/Culture, Terrorism, US Politics

Bombers responsible for a deadly blast on the Shiraz mosque in Iran have confessed to having links to Israel and the US, said Iran’s chief prosecutor Ghorbanali Dorri-Najafabadi.

The bombing took place on April 12th and left 13 people dead and more than 200 wounded. 15 suspects were subsequently arrested. The group also admitted carrying out “one or two minor operations” a year ago, but the ISNA student news agency failed to provide further details into what those operations were.

US-led forces in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan have also launched attacks in the past on Iranian border provinces with significant minority populations. The attack in Shiraz was the first in decades which took place in Iran’s normally placid Persian heartland. The city is not in a border zone, nor is it home to any friction between ethnic or religious groups.

In addition to the military and even nuclear threats of US and Israeli politicians against Iran, the United States has also been suspected in the past of financing and training rebel groups within the country to create a schism between Sunni and Shia populations. This strategy to divide and conquer has been a trademark of American imperialism throughout Asia and Latin America. Destabilizing governments and undermining national unity is considered necessary in order to “protect American interests”. Terrorism is called defense in the US when America is the one doing the bombing.

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2 Responses to “Terror Suspects of Iranian Mosque Connected to the US and Israel”

  1. While it is a possibility that the bombers confessed an accurate portrayal of US interference in Iran, the government there is no model of human rights, and it is almost a certainty that such information was extracted by torture.
    The use of such methods invalidate the results they produce. A most public and obvious case was the ‘confession’ extracted from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who admitted to 28 acts of terrorism, shooting JFK and bringing down a UFO in Roswell in 1948.
    And this is the big problem in the world today, when both sides use torture to extract often fallacious evidence, then report these so-called confessions, how are we expected to believe it, knowing full well that the guy who admitted to the charges was water boarded, had electrodes attached to his balls and is walking around a cell without any fingernails.

    Vay Nadarajah
    05/25/08 at 3:35 pm

  2. @Vay Nadarajah

    While I certainly do not rule out the possibility that these suspects were tortured, I do think we should be careful about lumping any suspicious country like Iran in with the United States. HRW reported several years ago that while torture is still practiced against dissenters In Iran, it is usually plainclothes and security agents working outside the administrative government that use these techniques. In the United States, it’s just the opposite. Torture is a common practice sanctioned by the highest levels of government. Had the case been less public and handled by less official channels, then it would be more likely that their confessions were obtained through torture. Countries like Iran are more worried about their image than a superpower like the United States, who can care less if the world knows they torture detainees. Just look back at how well Iran treated those captured British sailors as opposed to the treatment we’ve given our prisoners.

    Manila Ryce
    05/25/08 at 10:31 pm

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