Iran is threatening terror attacks against the West

By Olivier Guitta

Hossein Shariatmadari, the president of the conservative Iranian Kayhan newspaper, wrote in his newspaper on July 31, 2006 an article where he asked "young Muslims to attack Zionists, Zionist centers as well as the embassies of the countries supporting Israel such as the U.S., the U.K., etc." and nobody really cares.
Shariatmadari is a mouthpiece for the regime in Tehran, and is appointed personally by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini.(He was interviewed by Newsweek here)
Iran usually acts on its threats by using proxies to perfom attacks on the West. For example, in 1986 Hezbollah on Tehran's orders terrorized Paris for a few months placing bombs in public places on a very regular basis;iIn 1992 and 1994 in Buenos Aires, the attack against the Israeli embassy and in 1994 the Jewish center; in 1996 the attack against the Khobar Towers.

In a related and very unreported story, Iran has litterally taken hostage two European citizens: one French and one German. In fact on November 29, 2005 they were sailing from Um Al Quwain, in the United Arab Emirates for a fishing trip. When they approached the island of Abu Mussa- which is legally in UAE territory but Iran claims it's his-, they were right away arrested by Iranian authorities for illegally entering "Iranian waters". They were sentenced to eighteen months in jail and are starting their ninth month in the famous Evin prison. Whtat's most interesting about this is that just before them two English sailors were arrested in the same spot but were released after ten days.
Why would the French and German citizens get such a harsher sentence?
Could it be that France and Germany part of the EU 3 who have been trying to negotiate with Iran on the nuclear issue, have been tougher on Iran than expected?
Iran will use any means to get their nuclear program up and running including attacking asymetrically any nation standing in its way. Western nations should be fully aware that the Hezbollah war on Israel is just the beginning...

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