In a Jerusalem Post article from 2016, former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid pointed out: “Twelve million Muslims have been killed by other Muslims since 1948…..The number of people killed during the Arab-Israeli conflict is 0.3 percent of this.” Despite strenuous efforts to unite the ummah, sectarianism continues to plague the Muslim world.
Sunnis are marginalized in Shia Iran. They make up 10% of the population, and “officials in Tehran are concerned about ISIS’ ability to recruit among Iranian Sunnis” and expand its regional interests.
So the Iranian regime regards the Islamic State — which has been “actively plotting against Iran for years” — as a destabilizing threat, just as Israel and other states see the Islamic Republic of Iran itself.
“Iran foils terror plot, defuses 30 bombs in Tehran, arrests 28 terrorists,” WIONews, September 24, 2023:
Authorities in Iran released a statement claiming that they had neutralised 30 explosives that were meant to go off simultaneously in Tehran and also detained 28 terrorists that had connections with the terror group Islamic State and were involved in the terror plot, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday (September 24), citing the intelligence ministry.
“Some of the members are of Islamic State (IS) and the perpetrators have a history of being affiliated with Takfiri groups in Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Kurdistan region of Iraq,” Iran’s intelligence ministry added in a statement.
The militant group has claimed several attacks that have taken place in Iran in the past, including the deadly twin bombings, that targeted Iran’s parliament and the tomb of the Islamic Republic’s founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the year 2017.
Last year, in October, the Islamic State took responsibility for a mass shooting incident that took place at a Shiite Muslim shrine in Iran’s central city of Shiraz, leaving 13 people dead and 30 wounded.
According to the judiciary’s Mizan Online news website, the two men involved in the attack, identified as Mohammad Ramez Rashidi and Naeem Hashem Qatali, were hanged in public….
Westman says
Found a religion on growing and becoming wealthy through warfare. Set the top leader up with total dictatorial powers over every aspect of life. Then fail to create any mechanism of leadership succession, fail to define the structure of the needed bureaucracy, and leave a war manual as the core doctrine.
A warlord and his companions. Seems familiar, can’t quite place it……
“..Twelve million Muslims have been killed by other Muslims since 1948..”
And this is unexpected?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Awesome. Just when the OIC was rallying behind Teheran
somehistory says
They hanged two in public, but the one that was killed by *outsiders*….not so happy about that, since he was a terrorist hired by the head cheeses of the foul government, and his targets were Americans
If these terrorists had been working for the same foul government, they would have been allowed to do their thing. It’s not to the *terror* they object, but the targets.
Keith O says
They claim 30 bombs and 28 terrorists!
The cynical part of me is thinking, that actually means 3 bombs and 2 terrorists. We all know the levels of BS that comes from the Iranian dictatorship.
Sb1234 says
Whenever terrorism is mentioned regardless of the country where it occurs, Pakistan is always involved, why doesn’t the US do something about it? Should I have did UN, nvm they have no power unless US allows them!