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May 26, 2006

Iran: Islamists Recruit More Suicide-Bombers

An article by Brian Murphy of Associated Press and syndicated in various papers, including the Scottish Herald with the story also covered by Iran Mania and Iran Focus describes the recruitment of young men and women to become potential suicide bombers.

Murphy describes how more than a hundred Iranian men and women yesterday pledged to blow themselves up in the event of an attack by outsiders. They underwent a ceremony in a burial ground for war dead in Tehran, beneath a banner emblazoned with images of coffins covered in US, British and Israeli flags. The banner had a message proclaiming Iran would "damage the US worldwide" if any attack happened against Iran.

The ceremony took place while the five permanent UN Security Council members, as well as Germany, are working on a deal to entice Iran to abandon its plans for uranium enrichment. The deal could remove the threat of military action.

Mohammed ElBaradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy agency Agency (IAEA), met with Iran's top nuclear negotiator in Vienna last week. Yesterday in Washington ElBaradei said, after consultation with Condi Rice, that Iran was ready to give up uranium enrichment on its soil for several years.

He said: "The Iranians, as far as I know, agreed in principle that for a number of years (uranium) enrichment should be part of an international consortium outside Iran".

ElBaradei is either gullible or mendacious (probably the latter). He did not openly condemn Iran when it announced that it had "joined the nuclear club" in April, even though he was in the same auditorium when the announcement was made.

With the threat of military actions hovering above them, the Iranians are eager to cover all their bases. The recruitment of suicide bombers is either a confidence building exercise for home consumption, or a veiled threat made for international consumption.

AFP has said that as well as being prepared to defend their country, the new "battalion" of suicide bombers will also be used to target Salman Rushdie. It was 17 years ago that the author wrote the Satanic Verses. To invoke his name now smacks of cheap propaganda rather than credible strategy.

The suicide battalion calls itself, in typical Iranian pomposity, the Committee for the Glorification of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement (Setad Pasdasht Shohadaye Nehzat Jahani Islam). Spokesman for the group Mohammad Mohammadi (Mohammad-Ali Samadi, according to Iran Focus) said: "Every six months we sign up volunteers. Now we have 55,000 of them. Then we choose the volunteers and divide them up into battalions."

Mohammadi said his latest battalion numbered 500, with 30% of these being women. He claims his group is independent of the Islamist regime, but anything which is public in Iran is never independent.

The volunteers can choose either to blow up Salman Rushdie, or blow up Israel or "the infidels occupying Iraq" (America), a sign that the group exists more for confidence-building among Iranian young people, who currently suffer high unemployment, rather than realistic military strategy.

Meghdad Hamedinia. a 27-year old suicide recruit said: "I want to defend Islam, so I signed up for all three. All the American presidents are rascals. I'll give my life for Islam."

A 22 year old woman, who wore the chador (Iranian Burka) said: "According to our religion, everywhere where Muslims are oppressed, we have to go and help them."

The spokesman for the Committee for the Glorification of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement said that the latest battalion would be named after Nader Mahdavi, who died in a suicide attack on a US naval vessel in 1987.

The group was founded by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in 2004, states Iran Focus.

On April 19 the UK Guardian reported that the Committee for the Glorification of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement had announced that it was seeking to recruit new members from within Britain's Muslim population, as UK passport holders were able to enter Israel with relative ease.

The British embassy in Iran had asked the Islamist regime to denounce the group. A foreign office spokesman said: "We have longstanding concerns at the support that Iran provides to groups undermining peace in the Middle East through violence, including the activities of this group."

Keywords: Committee for the Commemoration of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Campaign, Committee for the Glorification of Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement, Headquarters to Commemorate the Martyrs of the Global Islamic Movement.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 26, 2006 7:38 AM

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