| Oh, Lawsy! I certainly hope so! |
The head of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards on Thursday accused the United States of financing rebel groups fighting the Islamic regime and seeking to spark ethnic unrest along its borders. "With its presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States is seeking to plot and create insecurity inside Iran and wants to encourage ethnic problems in our country," General Yahya Rahim Safavi was quoted as telling a gathering of the Revolutionary Guard's volunteer wing, the Basij militia. "In Iraq, the Americans have taken the hypocrites under their wings," he said, referring to the exiled armed opposition group the People's Mujahedeen. He alleged the United States was also supporting "counter-revolutionary groups" including the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran and the Komala, a Kurdish-Maoist group. The United States, he said, "is giving them money to create insecurity in Iran."
"In Afghanistan, the Americans have brought together Iranian rebels to create insecurity in Sistan-Baluchestan," Iran's far southeastern province, the general told the gathering. "But the Americans should know that they will carry all hope of dominating Iran and causing insecurity in Iran to their graves," Safavi added. |