ISIS threatens: More attacks against Iranians are coming
The Islamic State group, ISIS, issued a statement on Wednesday, June 8, announcing that members of the group were responsible for Wednesday's attacks in Tehran and threatening that more attacks against Iranians were coming.
According to Reuters, the ISIS group, which calls itself the Islamic Caliphate, wrote in its statement, referring to Iran, that "the Caliphate will not miss any opportunity to shed their blood" until Sharia law is implemented in Iran.
On Wednesday, June 7, two teams of armed men attacked the Islamic Consultative Assembly and the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic in Tehran, killing a total of 12 people and injuring about 42 others, and the attackers were also killed.
The Islamic Republic of Iran government implements Islamic Sharia law in accordance with Shiite principles, and the ISIS group has repeatedly stated that it considers Shiites apostates and fights against them.
Iran is also a major backer of the Iraqi government in the fight against the Islamic State group, and the Islamic Republic has provided assistance to organize Iraqi Shiite militias in the fight against ISIS.
Iran is also one of the main supporters of the Bashar al-Assad government against ISIS and other forces opposing Bashar al-Assad in the Syrian civil war.
ISIS's new threat against Iran comes as the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced on Wednesday that it would take revenge on the perpetrators of today's attacks on Tehran and their "supporters."
The ISIS group had previously threatened Iran on April 27 of this year by releasing a video titled "Persian Country; From Yesterday to Today" in Persian.
In the 36-minute video, a man with his face covered read a message addressed to Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying: "O Khamenei, you cursed person who controls the so-called Islamic Republic, be assured that we will soon demolish your house on your head."
In the video, the Islamic State group accused Iran of suppressing Sunnis in Iran for centuries, and one of the men in the video also said: "We will conquer Iran and return this country to the Sunnis again, as it was in the past."
The narrator of the video goes on to say that "Iran chants slogans against America and Israel, but Jews in this country are safe and protected, and they have their synagogues and places of worship in Isfahan and Tehran."
Previously, on November 15, 2015, Ahmad Reza Pourdastan, commander of the Iranian Army's Ground Forces, referring to ISIS threats that year after the Paris bombings, said: "ISIS has threatened that the options after France are Russia and Iran, and in this regard, the Iraqi Foreign Minister also gave the necessary warning, but the Islamic Republic of Iran's army declares that it is not afraid of these threats."
Meanwhile, Mohammad Esmail Kowsari, an official of the Defense Committee of the Islamic Consultative Assembly who was previously a senior commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, had sarcastically told French officials a few days before Ahmad Reza Pourdastan's remarks, "If France cannot ensure the security of its people against ISIS, it should leave this task to Iranian advisors."
Source: Radio Farda
