 A top security official accused the United States Thursday of seeking to undermine Iran's clerical regime by stoking sectarian and ethnic tensions in the country and using newspapers and non-governmental agencies toward that goal. "A soft threat is the main plan of the US due to its incapability to launch a military operation [against Iran,]" Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr was quoted as saying by the official IRNA news agency.
| Evidently he hasn't seen our full inventory. |
Zolqadr, whose comments came in a speech he made in Iran's Kurdistan province, said, "The threat is being implemented through the creation of instability and tension inside Iran as well as fanning ethnic and sectarian differences."
| I sure hope we're doing this, and doing other stuff you don't even know about. |
"The threat is being implemented through the creation of instability and tension inside Iran as well as fanning ethnic and sectarian differences," said Zolqadr.
| You mean the Kurds, Balochis, Arabs and Azeris aren't all that excited to be subservient citizens of the Empire of the Medes and Persians? Tusk, tusk. |
Earlier Thursday, he said that his country would attack Israel and American targets throughout the world if Teheran were attacked over its nuclear program, Israel Radio reported.
| Thanks for the warning, but we knew that already. |
According to the official Iranian news agency, the official, who deals with defense issues, said that no American would be safe from Iran's long-range missiles. "We are prepared to fire tens of thousands of these missiles every day," he said.
| That's almost, ... KCNA-like. |
He added that the Shahab 3 missiles, which have a range of some 2,000 kilometers, could hit Israel, as well as US Army bases in the Persian Gulf.
| Funny, we have some long-range missiles too. As do the Israelis. |
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Irans top nuclear negotiator denied the countrys Revolutionary Guards have any connection to Irans nuclear program and said UN sanctions on commanders of the elite force will only increase their status, a state newspaper reported Wednesday. The UN Security Council froze the assets on 15 Iranian officials, including members of the Revolutionary Guards, part of limited sanctions imposed on the country in March for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment. The Security Council froze assets of companies and organizations it said were involved in Irans nuclear program, including ones linked to the Guards. Irans top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said the Guards connection to Irans nuclear and atomic issue is nil, the state-owned Iran daily newspaper reported. They (the UN) think that by this (sanctions), they have hit the Guards. But the Guards will become more popular. Their anger has let to more influence for us, Larijani, a former member of the Guards, told a gathering of officials from the force, the paper reported. The UN sanctions resolution also urges nations not to allow travel by the officials listed for the asset freeze. In April Gen Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard general on the travel-ban list of the UN Security Council, completed a six-day trip to Russia on without any difficulty. Moscow defended the visit and denied it was a violation of UN sanctions on Iran.
In an apparent reference to the presence of US troops in Iraq, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guard's Corps (IRGC) official called for Iran to mobilize its troops against the "dangerous Zionist threat". Speaking to Revolutionary Guards and Iran's Bassij (paramilitary police) forces in Khuzestan on Tuesday Deputy IRGC Commander