Thursday 4 January 2024

Of course it was Isis who killed more than 80 Iranians

After the double bomb explosion in Iran which it was initially claimed had killed more than 100 people commemorating the death of General Qasem Soleimani, some figures in Tehran leapt in and blamed Israel and the United States. Yet it was perfectly obvious to anyone who has followed the terrorist activities of the Islamic State that it was an atrocity committed by Isis. One of the bombs was a suicide bomb. This is pure Isis modus operandi and it made absolutely no sense to accuse Israel of being responsible for the attack. Isis has carried out simliar attacks in Iran in recent years. Isis hated Soleimani, the late leader of the Islamic Revoutionary Guard Corps's Quds Force, who was killed by an American drone strike at Baghdad airport in January 2020. Soleimani had authorised numerous strikes aganst Isis in Iran while he ran the powerful Quds Force. So a twin bomb explosion aimed at killing as many pro-Soleimani mourners as possible, was always going to be Isis, and never Israel. But with the Middle East on fire over the war in Gaza and the missile launches by Houthi rebels across the Red Sea, the explosions in Iran fed into the general anti-Israel narrative. The Supreme Ayatollah has vowed to take revenge against the perpetrators of the bomb attacks. I assume someone has told him to aim his ire at Isis and not at Israel or the US.

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