IRGC Commander:

US, S. Arabia, UAE, Israel Masterminding Terrorist Attacks in Iran

Rasa - Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh warned that the US, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Israel are collaborating in plots to foment insecurity in Iran.

News ID: 441556

Date: 15 November 2018 - 22:21

RNA - "The US, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and the Zionist regime are advancing three hostile projects focused on economy, psychological operations and stirring insecurity in the country," General Hajizadeh told reporters in the Northern city of Qazvin on Wednesday.

He added that the three intended to make Iran insecure as they did in Syria and Iraq few years ago.

General Hajizadeh also said that the terrorist groups supported by Washington, Riyadh, Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv have conducted nearly 80 operations to foment insecurity in Iran, but "achieved success in only less than 3% of these cases."

His remarks came days after New York Times reported that top Saudi intelligence officials close to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked a small group of businessmen last year about using private companies to assassinate what they called as Iranian enemies of the kingdom.

Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri, a high-ranking adviser to the crown prince, was present for a meeting in March 2017 in Riyadh, the Saudi capital, where the businessmen pitched a $2 billion plan to use private intelligence operatives to try to sabotage the Iranian economy, it added.

During the discussion, part of a series of meetings where the men tried to win Saudi funding for their plan, General Assiri’s top aides inquired about killing Qassem Suleimani, the leader of the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolution Guards Corps, the paper said.

Also in 2017, John Bolton, the current US national security advisor and former US ambassador to the United Nations and uber-hawk, put forward a several-page plan to enforce regime-change in Iran.

In his plan he proposed the Trump administration to make use of sectarian rifts across Iran's bordering provinces in a bid to undermine the country's national security.

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