Iran: Regime Blames Israel & U.S. For Thousands Killed

• Iran’s Khamenei says US, Israel links behind ‘thousands killed’ in protests

  The country’s supreme leader says foreign-backed protests ‘caused massive damage and killed several thousands’.
  The “revolutionary guards”, the henchmen of the regime did this. The blood is on their hands. Khamenei  accused protesters of widespread destruction, “including burning more than 250 mosque and medical facilities”
  

  Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says actors linked to the United States and Israel were responsible for killing “several thousands” of people during weeks of antigovernment protests in the country.

  “Those linked to Israel and US caused massive damages and killed several thousands” during the protests that convulsed Iran for more than two weeks, Khamenei said on Saturday.

  He accused the two nations of direct involvement in the violence, describing US President Donald Trump as a “criminal”. “The latest anti-Iran sedition was different in that the US president personally became involved,” Iranian state media quoted him as saying.

  Iranian authorities have increasingly pointed the finger at foreign powers for the unrest, accusing longstanding geopolitical rivals – mainly Israel and the US – of fomenting instability and directing operations on the ground.

  Khamenei warned that while Iran would avoid escalation beyond its borders, those it holds responsible would face consequences. “We will not drag the country into war, but we will not let domestic or international criminals go unpunished,” he said.

The mullah regime, Hezbollah & Venezuela

Jason Kenney, former Canadian minister of defense: This👇is exactly right. One of the most fascinating briefings I received as a federal Immigration Minister was from a foreign intelligence agency about the connections between Venezuela and the Iranian terror proxy Hizbollah. And they showed me the receipts. I saw in detail how the Venezuelan regime imported raw cocaine from the FARC Marxist terror group in Colombia, and worked with the Al Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to ship it in “dark” planes to Beirut, where it was then processed in Hizbollah facilities in the Bekaa Valley. The refined product was then shipped to Europe, and the proceeds used to finance Hizbollah operations, including weapons procurement. When I asked how a fundamentalist organization could do this given that narcotics are haram, I was shown fatwas issued by Hizbollah imams indicating that as long as the drugs were sold to kaffirs, and the proceeds used to finance “the struggle,” that it was religiously sanctioned. I was also shown details on how Hizbollah agents were using Canada to launder illicit funds by buying stolen cars with cash from criminals gangs, and then shipping them out of the Port of Montreal for resale in West Africa. All of this was possible because of extremely close coordination between the Iranian and Venezuelan regimes. The agency was concerned that Canada was being lax about permitting Iranian and Hizbollah agents to enter the country. Prompted by this, I travelled to Damascus to spend time with our officials from various agencies drilling down on how to improve radically security screening of visa applicants from Lebanon and Iran. This was in 2008! All evidence suggests the cooperation between these two abhorrent regimes has only grown since then, with Iran providing Venezuela with arms, helping to sustain its dwindling oil industry, and to market its sanctioned crude. In return, Venezuela has acted as a kind of giant base of operations for Iran in the Western Hemisphere, including the IGRC and Hizbollah’s ongoing involvement in drug trafficking and money laundering. And, of course, both regimes have been in lockstep diplomatically, including with their shared enthusiasm for their biggest ally: Putin’s Russia. Upshot: stable democratic governments in both Iran and Venezuela this year would be a massive gain for global peace and security, including for Canada.