At least 12 people have been killed and scores of others wounded today when a time bomb planted along the route of a military parade detonated in the city of Mahabad, just miles from Iran’s border with Iraqi Kurdistan.
Officials were quick to blame Kurdish separatist groups for the attack, and Provincial Governor Vahid Jalalzadeh said he believed the attack involved “foreign elements,” mentioning the US in particular as a possible culprit.
The Iranian government has been fighting an on-again, off-again war with the Kurdish separatist movement for years, and in recent months has launched attacks across the border into Iraq, claiming that the groups are using Iraqi territory as a staging area.
The military parade was part of a weeklong celebration in Iran commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion, which sparked an eight year long war that killed upwards of a million people. Iran and Iraq have been on comparatively good terms since the start of the US occupation of Iraq in 2003, which installed a pro-Iranian regime.
cannot rule out the Mossad
Or the CIA giving Ahmedinejad a little UN present.
Of course the US or Israel had nothing to do with this, especially since that would mean a false-flag operation- and neither the US nor our squeaky-clean allies in Tel Aviv would EVER do a thing like that, or have anything to do with supporting such an attack. But it is interesting to note that such an attack is obviously the work of terrorists, so….. why aren't we offering Iran our expertise in drone warfare to help them patrol their territories on the lookout for terrorists since we are, of course, at war with terrorists EVERYWHERE. Or are we just at war with terrorists when it's convenient for us?
By now, its well known the US is supporting such groups. See the US congressional appropriations for 'regime change' in Iran, as well as reports from people like Seymore Hersh.
The Kurds are the US' closest allies in the three faction politics of Iraq.
The Kurds have also been getting training from the Israelis.
None of these facts are new.
If its US money behind this bomb, or if its groups the US supports behind this bomb, then what does that say about America today. That we are the ones setting off terrrorist bombs in countries that we decide we don't like.
Or, see the other report on antiwar.org today about three thousand plus CIA and Pentagon assassins that have been working in Afghanistan.
I don't think Thomas Jefferson would recognize nor approve of the America that sets of terrorist bombs in other countries or that unleashes hordes of thousands of assassins upon the world.
The America I believe in would be so far away from such actions that there wouldn't even be a hint that we might be doing it. Instead, while I don't know of definite proof that the US is behind such an attack, but there seems to be an obvious trail like someone just drove a hummer through these woods.
Remember, it was the US that sparked the Iran-Iraq war by getting and paying Saddam to launch the attack. The famous photo of Rumsfeld and Saddam shaking hands dates from those years.
Maybe its the US's way of saying Happy 30th Anniversary.