A major tragedy occurred in the Iranian city of Kirman on Wednesday.
On January 3, 2020, exactly four years ago on the orders of US President Donald Trump, nearly 100 people were killed and many others injured in two explosions as thousands of people marched towards the grave of Qassem Soleimani, the legendary commander of the ‘Quds Forces’ who was assassinated in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 3, 2020.
Iran’s religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Qasem Soleimani a “living martyr”, and his contact with Turkey during the July 15 coup attempt to express his opposition to the coup attempt was reflected in the Iranian press.
However, in November 2016, Major General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Forces, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ military-exploratory activities abroad, allegedly met with Cemil Bayık, one of the PKK’s senior leaders, in the Iraqi Kurdish Regional Government’s (KRG) city of Sulaymaniyah and demanded the PKK’s participation in the Mosul operation.
The connection between Ruzi Nazar and Qasem Soleimani!…
Not many people know, but it was the CIA’s Uzbek spy Ruzi Nazar who connected the Iranian regime, which wanted to break the US embargo, with the US-aligned government in Bonn, West Germany.
With his merchant identity, Ruzi Nazar was supplying many of the materials needed by the Iranian army fighting Iraq and winning the hearts of his Iranian friends. The fact that Ruzi Nazar, a CIA spy known to Iranians as an Uzbek Turk immigrant from Afghanistan and a German citizen carpet merchant, suggested to Iranian officials that young officers in the Iranian army fighting the Iraqi army should receive training in Germany has long ceased to be a secret for experts on the subject.
Among the young officers of the Iranian army sent to Germany in the first mail was Qasem Soleimani, whom the public thought was a primary school graduate. The first group of young Iranian officers flew from Tehran to Ankara. The next stop was Bonn, the capital of West Germany.
Qassem Soleimani’s name was mentioned together with that of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, later President of Iran, in the murder of Dr. Abdurrahman Qassemlo, who was ambushed and killed by Iranian agents in Vienna, Austria, on July 13, 1989, where he had gone to meet with Iranian government officials. The Austrian Police went after three Iranian Diplomats – Jafar Sahraroodi, Mustafa Ajvadi and Amir Mansour Bozorgian – whose names they supposedly identified.
Intelligence reports later revealed that the Austrian police’s ‘Amir Mansour Bozorgian/Amir Mansour Bezirgan’ was a fake name, and that Qasem Soleimani was the one carrying a dual passport. Upon his return to Iran, he was promoted to the rank of general and put in charge of the Pasdaran (revolutionary guards) headquarters in Urmia, Dr. Qasimlo’s hometown, to which the units in Eastern Kurdistan were attached.
Qassem Soleimani did not arrive in Vienna from Tehran, as the Austrian police’s fictitious crime scene report states, but traveled to Vienna from Kaiserslautern in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate via Nuremberg. His train journey took 7 hours and 51 minutes.
What was Qassem Soleimani doing in Kaiserslautern?
Kaiserslautern is a city in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Qassem Suleimani was studying here at the University of Maryland University College, the University of Maryland University College, which is based in the USA.
As the University of Maryland Global Campus Europe (UMGC Europe) promises on its official website, he rose rapidly in the Iranian Military Bureaucracy and made history as the military actor the whole world is talking about.
Incidentally, Dr. Hakan Fidan, former Head of MİT, is among those who attended the University of Maryland in the US, where Qassem Suleimani received his education. He graduated in 1986 as a non-commissioned officer and served as a communications intelligence non-commissioned officer in the Turkish Armed Forces for 15 years until 2001.
After graduating from the Land Forces Communication School, he also graduated from the Language School. For a period of three years, he was assigned by the Turkish Armed Forces to the NATO Rapid Reaction Corps Headquarters in Germany.
It is known that he graduated from the U.S.-based University of Maryland in Germany during this mission.
Who was behind Wednesday’s massacre?
Iranian officials have hinted that the assassination bombing could be linked to the Israeli offensive in Gaza, suggesting that Tel Aviv or Washington could be behind it. But Mohammad Jamshidi, an aide to President Ibrahim Reisi, said that Washington, the United States and Israel had no role in the terrorist attack in the Iranian city of Kerman.
Really? “A fox first smells his own den. Make no mistake. The responsibility for this crime lies with the US and the Zionist regime (Israel) and terrorism is just a tool.”
While the Wall Street Journal reported that Israel was not involved in the attack on its allies, US State Department spokesman Matt Miller said that Washington had “no reason to believe that Israel was involved in this explosion and that the US had no involvement in the blasts.”
Avi Melamed, a former Israeli intelligence official and regional analyst, as well as a fellow in Intelligence and Middle East Affairs at the Eisenhower Institute in the United States, is among those who have suggested that several regional militant groups may have carried out the blasts.
He didn’t name names, but I would add that the Ahvaz Cortulus Army, Iran’s feared terrorist organization, can be put at the top of the list.
On June 20, 2010, the Sunni Islamist organization Jundullah, founded by the Baloch Abdulmalik Rigi, was executed by hanging in Evin Prison. To these organizations, we must now add PJAK/KODAR, which wants to avenge the death of Dr. Kasım Lo.
On Thursday, a day after the bombing, Daesh/ISIS claimed responsibility for the massacre.
The New York Times noted that the “Islamic State” statement coincided with American intelligence assessments that indicated that Sunni Islamists, or ISIS, were potentially behind the terrorist attack.
Even Israel, which said “we will declare war on Iran”, did not take responsibility for the incident!…
Even Netanyahu, who failed miserably in the Gaza war and is losing his legitimacy in the eyes of the Israeli people every day, missed an opportunity that could have saved his prestige.
The commander of the Quds Army did not claim responsibility for the murder on the anniversary of Soleimani’s mourning. Otherwise he would have jumped in.
Maybe they didn’t find the number of dead in the bombing enough to claim responsibility. They have slaughtered 23,000 Palestinians since October 7.
Which power is preventing Ibrahim Reisi from visiting Turkey?
Iranian President Ibrahim Reisi’s planned visit to Ankara on Thursday, January 4, 2023 (yesterday) was postponed due to “terrorist attacks” in his country. However, this is not the first postponement. Such a postponement had been made before. The visit, which was planned to discuss the latest situation in Gaza and Syria, was postponed for the second time.
Reisi’s planned visit to Turkey at the end of November was postponed due to the busy schedules of both the Turkish and Iranian foreign ministers.
According to Voice Of America sources, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan was in New York for a meeting of the Contact Group of Muslim countries, which aims to stop the conflict in Gaza and achieve lasting peace.
But Hakan Fidan is not Reisi’s interlocutor.
Iranian President Reisi was to be the guest of President Erdoğan in Ankara.
I don’t understand.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with Iranian President Ibrahim Reisi on Wednesday evening following the terrorist attack in the city of Kirman that killed at least 103 people and wounded more than 200 others.
During the meeting, Erdoğan condemned the attack targeting civilians and said that Turkey stands by Iran in the fight against terrorism. During the meeting, Erdoğan reiterated his call for Iran to act jointly in the fight against terrorism and it was decided to postpone Reisi’s visit to Turkey to a later date.
What about Turkey?
Just a week ago, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced that a total of 189 people, 27 in Ankara and 22 in Istanbul, were arrested in the “Heroes-38” operations organized simultaneously in 37 provinces against ISIS.
Then, on January 2, 34 suspects were detained in an operation organized in 8 provinces centered in Istanbul, allegedly engaged in “international espionage” activities on behalf of the Israeli Foreign Intelligence Service Mossad. As you can see, the Turks are hitting the nail on the head. The rest has already been said; Hit the wheel of the world / Ask the devil, ask the angel / Ask yourself on the way back.
Note :
On the night of January 1, 2023, I experienced respiratory failure. I was first taken to the emergency room of Dikmen 29 Mayıs Hospital due to acute myocardial infarction caused by fluid accumulation around the heart due to inflammation of the pericardium. After EGK and blood test, I was sent by ambulance to Lokman Hekim Akay Hospital due to lack of space. I had an angioplasty at 04:40 on January 2.
First of all, I would like to sincerely thank the State of the Republic of Turkey for providing health services and the devoted staff of Ankara 29 Mayıs Hospital Emergency Department and Lokman Hekim Akay Hospital.
I would like to express my gratitude to my wife Funda Çelikdönmez, who never left my bedside for a second during my illness.
My colleagues from the Ministry of Family and Social Services, my dear friends Ahmet Gürbüz and Lokman Yılmaz did not leave me alone. They discharged me from the hospital. Thank you.
I would like to thank each and every one of my heartfelt friends who called, asked and sent messages with get well soon wishes.
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