This is what we are up against around the world, this
is why we had to go to war with Iraq and why we may have
to go to war with Iran and/or Syria.
Tony
Iran's Revolutionary Guards Official Threatens Suicide Operations:
'Our Missiles Are Ready to Strike at Anglo-Saxon Culture… There Are 29
Sensitive Sites in the U.S. and the West…'
The London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat reported that "an
Iranian intelligence unit has established a center called The Brigades
of the Shahids of the Global Islamic Awakening to replace the Iranian
Revolutionary Guards' Department of Liberation and Revolutionary
Movements, which had been in charge of helping and training
revolutionary forces across the world." [1] The article went on to
report a speech given by an official of the Iranian Revolutionary
Guards, threatening the U.S. with suicide and missile attacks at
already-selected sensitive targets, and threatening to "take over"
Britain. The following is the report: [2]

Iran Stands Ready to Attack the West
"A source close to [Revolutionary Guards] intelligence confirmed that
P.R. has been appointed secretary-general of a new office that has
begun registering the names of suicide volunteers to be sent to Iraq,
Palestine, and Lebanon.

"[The newspaper reported that it had obtained] a tape with a speech by
H.A., a [Revolutionary] Guards intelligence theoretician, who teaches
at the Revolutionary Guards' Al-Hussein University. [In the tape,
H.A.] spoke of Tehran's secret strategy aimed at taking over the Arab
and Muslim countries by means of helping revolutionary forces and
organizations. H.A. is regarded as one of the advisors of a branch in
the organization, and has published a number of works on exporting the
[Islamic] revolution and the method of the struggle against the world
arrogance [i.e., the U.S.].

"In his speech at a secret conference attended by students who are
members of the Ansar Hizbullah movement at Al-Hussein University,
[H.A. said]: 'Iraqi oil constitutes 11% of the world oil reserves, and
it has fallen into the hands of the U.S. and Britain. The value of the
intelligence documents that the U.S. obtained because of its takeover
of Iraqi intelligence is greater than $1000 billion. Whereas our
[Iran's] Foreign Ministry was expressing willingness to reconstruct
the statue of the Buddha [destroyed by the Taliban in 2001] in
Afghanistan – that is, to build an idol, which is an act that is
against the principles of Islam – the U.S. managed to force its rule
on Afghanistan.

"'(President Muhammad) Khatami speaks of the dialogue between
civilizations, and I have grave doubts about this. It is a dubious
idea. We do not want to take over the British Embassy, since they (the
British) have already cleared the embassy of documents; we must take
over Britain [itself].'

"After [H.A.] harshly attacked Khatami and the reformists, he said in
his speech: 'The West sees us as terrorists, and depicts our strategy
as terrorism and repression. Had our youth agreed to Khatami's
teachings and interpretations, it would never have fought the
arrogance, and would never have defended the holy places – because
Khatami speaks always of being conciliatory, of patience, and of
rejecting terrorism, while we defend [the line of] toughness and war
against the enemies of revolutionary Islam. I take pride in my actions
that cause anxiety and fear to the Americans.

"'Haven't the Jews and the Christians achieved their progress by means
of toughness and repression? We have a strategy drawn up for the
destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilizationand for the uprooting of the
Americans and the English.

"'Our missiles are now ready to strike at their civilization, and as
soon as the instructions arrive from Leader ['Ali Khamenei], we will
launch our missiles at their cities and installations. Our motto
during the war (in Iraq) was: Karbala, we are coming, Jerusalem, we
are coming. And because of Khatami's policies and dialogue between the
civilizations, we have been compelled to freeze our plan to liberate
the Islamic cities. And now we are [again] about to carry out the
program.'

"In his speech, he added: 'The global infidel front is a front against
Allah and the Muslims, and we must make use of everything we have at
hand to strike at this front, by means of our suicide operations or by
means of our missiles. There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in
the West. We have already spied on these sites and we know how we are
going to attack them.'

"In another part of his speech, he emphasized, 'If Israel dares attack
the [nuclear] installations at Bushehr, our losses will be very low,
because [only] one structure will be destroyed – while we [i.e., Iran]
have means of attacking Israel's nuclear facilities and arsenals such
that no trace of Israel will remain.'"


Other Reports: ' Many Young Muslims are Willing to Carry Out Martyrdom
Operations Against the American Crusaders'
The previous day, Iranian sources had statements on the same issue. At
a ceremony marking the four-year anniversary of Israel's withdrawal
from southern Lebanon, reformist MP and Secretary-General of the
International Committee for the Support of the Palestinian Intifada
Ali Akbar Makhatashemi-Pour called on Muslim countries to open their
borders with Iraq to troops of Muslim martyrdom bombers. "We, the
Muslim countries, must create a storm front against the U.S. and
Israel. The half-million member organization that was created in
Beirut [i.e., Hizbullah] is not sufficient. Many young Muslims are
willing to carry out martyrdom operations against the American
Crusaders." [3]

The Iranian reformist paper Sharq reported that the Persian-language
Ruydad website stated that Hizbullah-Iran activist Forouz Rajaii-Far
said that "martyrdom operations are the only option to expel the
Americans and British from Iraq," and that a Basij activist from Elm
Vasonaat University in Iran acknowledged that a group calling itself
the "To Karbala Battalion" was sent on May 27, 2004 to Karbala to
fight the coalition forces. [4]