- (december 2010)
Iran's own terrorism.
In december 2010 two suicide bombers of the Sunni Muslim group Jundollah killed
35 people in southeastern Iran during a Shiite ceremony, ostensibly as a
retaliation for the execution of the group's leader (that took place in june).
Iran initially stated that it had evidence of British and USA involvement,
with the ritual reference to Israel (blamed for everything in the Islamic
world).
Needless to say, both the USA and Britain denied any involvement.
But later Iran also pointed the finger at Pakistan, claiming that the group
involved had been trained in Pakistan.
The town, Chabahar, is located about 100 kms from the Pakistani border.
Jundollah is loosely affiliated with Al Qaeda, although it has no history
of acting outside Iran.
Southeastern Iran is home to Iran's Sunni minority, which has certainly been
discriminated by the current Shiite regime, as are all other religious
minorities pretty much everywhere in the Islamic world. Thanks to religious
discrimination, all Islamic countries are rapidly becoming monolithic societies
in which only one narrow interpretation of religion is allowed. The notable
exceptions have been embrolied in bloody civil unrest for decades (Lebanon
and Iraq being the most famous) and will probably be until one group prevails
over the other or the countries split.
The inhabitants of this region of Iran are ethnic Baluchs, who have tribal
links to the Baluchs in neighbouring Pakistan, who are themselves staging a
civil war against Pakistan (this one not based on religion but simply on
ethnic grounds).
Therefore Iran's accusation sounds odd. Pakistan might be responsible for not
stopping Jundollah from using Pakistani territory to launch its operations,
but Pakistan is an enemy of Jundollah's friends in Baluchistan, or, if you
prefer,
Jundollah's friends in Baluchistan are sworn enemies of the Pakistani
government. It's hard to see what Pakistan would gain from letting this group
prosper. It is more likely that the Baluchs are similar to the Kurds: a people
without a nation that dislikes all the regimes that control and divide it,
in that case Turkey and Iraq, in this case Iran and Pakistan.
Iran is in the typical situation of the father's sin that falls on the son.
Iran has been a strong supporter of Palestinian terrorism against Israel.
The Baluchs are "occupied" and discriminated just like the Palestinians.
It is Iran that justifies Palestinian terrorism. Indirectly, it is Iran that
has motivated the Baluchs to do the same to its own oppressors.
TM, ®, Copyright © 2010 Piero Scaruffi All rights reserved.
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