Officials Say Iran Not Libya or Sudan

Terrorists Go on Violent Spree

Date: 18 November 2022 - 22:25

News ID: ۱۰۹۱۳۳

TEHRAN – Thousands of people in the city of Izeh in southwest Iran on Friday held a funeral procession for the victims of a terrorist attack.
A number of high-ranking state and military officials attended the procession, with Vice President for Economic Affairs Mohsen Rezaei pointing out that three members of the terrorist group that carried out the attacks had been captured while trying to flee through the Maku border crossing to Turkey and were being brought to Ahvaz in Iran.
Gunmen on motorcycles martyred 10 people in two mysterious attacks Wednesday.
In Izeh, a terrorist group took advantage of a gathering of protesters to shoot dead seven people -- including a 45-year-old woman, two children aged nine and 13, IRNA said.
The victims were identified as Reza Shariati, 25, Kian Pir Falak, 9, Ashraf Nikbakht, 45, Abtin Rahmani, 13, Ali Moulai and two other unidentified people.
Three police officers and two Basij members were wounded, a security official told national TV.
In a separate attack hours later in Iran’s third city Isfahan, two assailants on a motorcycle martyred two members of the Basij force and wounded another two, Fars news agency said.
IRNA later reported a police colonel who was injured Wednesday in Isfahan died of his wounds on Thursday in hospital.
In Sanandaj about 200 kilometers west of the capital Tehran, police colonel Hassan Youssefi was martyred after being stabbed repeatedly, the news agency said.
Separately, two Basij members were stabbed to martyrdom and three others injured as they sought to intervene to prevent “rioters” from threatening shopkeepers in the northeastern city of Mashhad, the news agency said.
Rezaei assured that all the perpetrators would be arrested and punished for their heinous crimes.
He said Iran cannot be turned into another Syria or Lebanon by violent acts similar to those at the Shah Cheragh holy shrine in Isfahan, where Daesh terrorists gunned down at least 13 pilgrims.
“Iran’s enemies have been attentive to the recent cultural and economic reforms carried out by Tehran and want to create unrest and division among the Iranians,” he said. But these attempts will fail and the enemies will be defeated, he added.
The enemies of Iran, Rezaei said, want to sever the relationship between the people, the religion, the Leader of the Islamic Republic and the government.
“If the Islamic Revolution … is connected with the people, it can be more dangerous than dozens of

atomic and hydrogen bombs, and for this reason, they have resorted to sowing insecurity and are backing the protesters.”
Rezaei said, “Today we are dealing with economic sanctions and slapping America and Europe in the face as we export more than one million barrels of oil.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hussein Amir-Abollahian said the occupying regime of Israel and its allies have plotted a civil war in the Islamic Republic.
But, he tweeted, they “must know that Iran is not Libya or Sudan” and that the “wisdom of our people has thwarted their plan”.
Fars news agency said the attacks Wednesday show “that those who want to dismantle the country have entered into the armed action phase”.
These actions were carried out “with the aim of inciting the people and security forces to a civil war,” after a “large quantity of weapons” clandestinely entered the country, Fars said.
General Hussein Salami, head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, said Iran is facing a “massive conspiracy” by foreigners including the U.S., the occupying regime of Israel and Saudi Arabia who “are preparing to fight God, his prophet and the martyrs.”