As Congress debates whether to support President Obama’s call for a limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons, Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.
Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, Wednesday told the Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that “[w]e will support Syria to the end.”
And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the world and the rape and killing of one of Obama’s daughters should the United States attack Syria.
Alireza Forghani, the former governor of southern Iran’s Kish Province, threw down the gauntlet last week. Forghani is an analyst and strategy specialist in the supreme leader’s camp and closely aligned with Mehdi Taeb, who heads the regime’s Ammar Strategic Base, a radical think thank, and thus speaks with the blessing of the Islamic regime.
“Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we will see the … loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks],” he threatened. “In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family member of every U.S. minister [department secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputation will be spread [around the world].”
A similar act was committed in a video of the torture of William Buckley, a CIA station chief who was abducted in Beirut in 1984 and later killed by Hezbollah on Iran’s order. That video was dropped off at the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Former CIA Director William Casey later described what he saw in the video: “They had done more than ruin his body. His eyes made it clear his mind had been played with. It was horrific, medieval and barbarous.”
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This guy ȋ̝̊̅§ not serious,one day it will get to your turn because if the use of chemical weapon ȋ̝̊̅§ not addressed,a faher will use it on his children while the children will do the same.Nobody ȋ̝̊̅§ interested in your interest in Syria but the question remains that,”Why would Chemical weapon be used against your fellow citizen(especially children)?knowing the consequences in near future.If your son was among those that inhales that gas and died,”what would you have done?Bad ȋ̝̊̅§ bad nomatter who does it.
This would generate the unexpected and old issues between this countries.AMERICANS have to tread carefully to avoid been messed up by this blood tasty fanatic extremist.
They’re known barbaric,hence the’re always backwad. I’d bet America’s not gonna back off coz of this threat. Wonder if they can’t see reason in all this set up. How can a nation use a chemical weapon on it’s own citizens engaged in a civil?
This will be nice to follow up