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Wed, 05/25/2011 - 09:06
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Iranian Spokesman Lambasts Washington's Hypocritical Policies in Region
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast lashed out at Washington's hypocritical and double-standard policies in the region, and said the US officials are seeking to project the blame on others to divert the public opinion from their crimes and wrongdoings.
"The remarks that US President Barack Obama has made about the developments in the Middle-East and, specially his point about Iran's policies, describing them as double-standard, raises serious questions for our people and the regional countries," Mehman-Parast said here in Tehran on Tuesday.
Obama in his speech on Sunday, had claimed that "the Iranian government has shown its hypocrisy by claiming to support the rights of protestors" in the regional countries.
The Iranian spokesman pointed to the US zealous support for the Zionist regime's crimes against the Palestinian nation, Washington's silence on the suppression of the Bahraini people by the al-Khalifa forces and its advocacy of such terrorist groups as the Pakistan-based Jundollah terrorist group, and asked, "Have our policies or the Americans' really been hypocritical in the region?"
In November, Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi Moqaddam announced that Washington and London are trying to revive the Jundollah terrorist group after the group lost most of its power due to the strong measures adopted by the Iranian Police.
"These services have spent a great amount of money on Rigi's group as they feel compelled to make efforts to revive and reorganize it," Ahmadi Moqaddam said at the time.
There are few remaining elements of the group that the United States and British intelligence services are supporting, he noted.
After Iran arrested Abdolmalek Rigi, the ringleader of Jundollah, in late February 2010, the criminal ringleader confessed that he was traveling to Bishkek to meet with a high-ranking US official at a nearby military base to discuss new terrorist attacks on Iranian territory. Rigi was executed in June.
The Jundollah group has claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks in Iran. The group has carried out mass murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, acts of sabotage and bombings. They have targeted civilians and government officials as well as all ranks of Iran's military.
In one of the worst cases, the terrorist group killed 22 citizens and abducted 7 more in the Tasouki region on a road linking the southeastern city of Zahedan to another provincial town.
In 2007, Jundollah kidnapped 30 people in the Sistan and Balouchestan province and took them to the neighboring Pakistan.
Jundollah claimed responsibility the same year for an attack on an Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) bus in which 11 IRGC personnel were killed.
In another crime in October, the Pakistan-based terrorist Jundollah group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in the Sistan and Balouchestan province which killed 42 people among them a group of senior military commanders, including Lieutenant Commander of the IRGC Ground Force Brigadier General Nourali Shoushtari.
"The remarks that US President Barack Obama has made about the developments in the Middle-East and, specially his point about Iran's policies, describing them as double-standard, raises serious questions for our people and the regional countries," Mehman-Parast said here in Tehran on Tuesday.
Obama in his speech on Sunday, had claimed that "the Iranian government has shown its hypocrisy by claiming to support the rights of protestors" in the regional countries.
The Iranian spokesman pointed to the US zealous support for the Zionist regime's crimes against the Palestinian nation, Washington's silence on the suppression of the Bahraini people by the al-Khalifa forces and its advocacy of such terrorist groups as the Pakistan-based Jundollah terrorist group, and asked, "Have our policies or the Americans' really been hypocritical in the region?"
In November, Iran's Police Chief Brigadier General Esmail Ahmadi Moqaddam announced that Washington and London are trying to revive the Jundollah terrorist group after the group lost most of its power due to the strong measures adopted by the Iranian Police.
"These services have spent a great amount of money on Rigi's group as they feel compelled to make efforts to revive and reorganize it," Ahmadi Moqaddam said at the time.
There are few remaining elements of the group that the United States and British intelligence services are supporting, he noted.
After Iran arrested Abdolmalek Rigi, the ringleader of Jundollah, in late February 2010, the criminal ringleader confessed that he was traveling to Bishkek to meet with a high-ranking US official at a nearby military base to discuss new terrorist attacks on Iranian territory. Rigi was executed in June.
The Jundollah group has claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks in Iran. The group has carried out mass murder, armed robbery, kidnapping, acts of sabotage and bombings. They have targeted civilians and government officials as well as all ranks of Iran's military.
In one of the worst cases, the terrorist group killed 22 citizens and abducted 7 more in the Tasouki region on a road linking the southeastern city of Zahedan to another provincial town.
In 2007, Jundollah kidnapped 30 people in the Sistan and Balouchestan province and took them to the neighboring Pakistan.
Jundollah claimed responsibility the same year for an attack on an Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) bus in which 11 IRGC personnel were killed.
In another crime in October, the Pakistan-based terrorist Jundollah group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack in the Sistan and Balouchestan province which killed 42 people among them a group of senior military commanders, including Lieutenant Commander of the IRGC Ground Force Brigadier General Nourali Shoushtari.
