Iran readies for retaliation on the US
WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) -- In an effort to counter any U.S. attack on its nuclear facilities, last month Iran's intelligence services reportedly sent significant financial support to eight fundamentalist Islamist organizations across the Middle East.
The plan included providing funding for suicide operations against regional U.S. and British interests and their Arab and Muslim allies if Iran is attacked,London's Arabic-language Asharq Al-Awsat reported Friday.
The newspaper said Iranian experts in guerilla warfare developed the plan, codenamed al Qiyamah, or "Judgment Day." A senior source in the Iranian armed forces' joint chief of staff leaked the plan to Asharq Al-Awsat.
According to the informant, the Revolutionary Guards' al Quds, or Jerusalem, Brigades, under Brig. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, were responsible for coordinating and providing logistical support for the groups participating in the operation.
The source said, "Most of Iran's visitors in the last four months, including the leaders of revolutionary groups in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon, as well as the heads of Hezbollah cells in the Persian Gulf and Europe and North America were asked when they met with the Iranian Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni Ezhei and his aides: are you ready to defend the Islamic revolution and the Rule of the Jurists [The Iranian theological system]? If you agree to take part in the great jihad, what would you need to be ready for the great fight?"
According to the source, an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would be followed by Iranian missile strikes on U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf and Iraq, and by suicide operations in Muslim countries against U.S. embassies, missions, military bases and economic and oil installations related to U.S. and British companies.
Iranian Basij and Revolutionary Guards allied with Iraqi fighters loyal to Iran would also attack U.S. and British forces in Iraq, the report said.
According to the source, if U.S. military intervention continued, then the al Quds Brigades would activate more than 50 terrorist cells in Canada, the United States and Europe to attack civil and industrial targets. The source ended by noting that the "final stage" of the plan might involve extremists attempting to maximize civilian casualties by using chemical and biological weapons as well as nuclear "dirty bombs" against western and Arab cities.
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The plan included providing funding for suicide operations against regional U.S. and British interests and their Arab and Muslim allies if Iran is attacked,London's Arabic-language Asharq Al-Awsat reported Friday.
The newspaper said Iranian experts in guerilla warfare developed the plan, codenamed al Qiyamah, or "Judgment Day." A senior source in the Iranian armed forces' joint chief of staff leaked the plan to Asharq Al-Awsat.
According to the informant, the Revolutionary Guards' al Quds, or Jerusalem, Brigades, under Brig. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, were responsible for coordinating and providing logistical support for the groups participating in the operation.
The source said, "Most of Iran's visitors in the last four months, including the leaders of revolutionary groups in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon, as well as the heads of Hezbollah cells in the Persian Gulf and Europe and North America were asked when they met with the Iranian Intelligence Minister Gholamhossein Mohseni Ezhei and his aides: are you ready to defend the Islamic revolution and the Rule of the Jurists [The Iranian theological system]? If you agree to take part in the great jihad, what would you need to be ready for the great fight?"
According to the source, an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would be followed by Iranian missile strikes on U.S. bases in the Persian Gulf and Iraq, and by suicide operations in Muslim countries against U.S. embassies, missions, military bases and economic and oil installations related to U.S. and British companies.
Iranian Basij and Revolutionary Guards allied with Iraqi fighters loyal to Iran would also attack U.S. and British forces in Iraq, the report said.
According to the source, if U.S. military intervention continued, then the al Quds Brigades would activate more than 50 terrorist cells in Canada, the United States and Europe to attack civil and industrial targets. The source ended by noting that the "final stage" of the plan might involve extremists attempting to maximize civilian casualties by using chemical and biological weapons as well as nuclear "dirty bombs" against western and Arab cities.
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