Baladi News – (Alaa Noureddine)
One week after the Iranian opposition conference of 100,000 Iranian expatriates all around the world was convened in Paris, France underwent a new attack that reminded of November’s attacks last year.
In a death toll that is likely to rise according to the French government, Eighty three people were killed and more than one hundred others were wounded when a truck plowed through revelers gathered for Bastille Day fireworks in Nice.
The vicious attack of Iranian mullahs against France followed a conference of the Iranian opposition as was revealed in remarks by Iranian officials. Commenting on the conference, the Iranian government’s spokesperson, Mohammad Bagher Nobakht, said that “hosting a meeting of a bygone and despised (in Iran) terrorist group and giving a whiff to a rotten corpse indicates weakness and inability” as quoted by the Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA.
Nobakht added that “the Islamic Republic would continue counteracting this malignant group and condemn any government (…) supporting it, whether it is European or regional.”
The conference, which was considered an unprecedented global political blow for the Iranian regime according to observers, included statements by the Iranian opposition leader, Maryam Rajavi, in which she expressed frankly the reality of the Iranian terrorism by saying “Mullahs’ regime deals and cooperates with ISIS. Both sides are against the true Islamic religion. Both of them follow similar barbarian and savage manners, and their survival is interdependent. That is way the path to fighting ISIS would not be opened unless the Iranian occupation of Syria, Iraq, and Yemen is ended.”
Syrian journalist, Mohammed al-Hussein, emphasized that Iran is involved in the attack. Even if it was not directly responsible, its terrorist cells, such as Hezbollah, are classified as intercontinental according to western intelligence reports.
In an interview with Baladi News, al-Hussein added, “Hosting the Iranian opposition’s conference infuriated Iran due to the global participation opposing the Iranian policy, the attendance of Arabic and western figures against the mullahs’ regime, the unprecedented media coverage, and most importantly, hosting it by France, the state that openly expresses its opinion towards the Iranian regime as well as its arms, including Assad’s regime.”
On the other hand, observers of the Iranian affairs, including a Hezbollah dissident, accused what they called “terrorist cells serving Iran and Hezbollah” of Nice attack that came as a reaction to the national conference of the Iranian Resistance in France.
They added that, “after each terrorist attack against Europe, we find that Hezbollah supporters are happy, because they know that terrorism serves the survival of Bashar al-Assad and the expanding of Iran in the area.”
In his turn, Syrian journalist, Mohammed Azizi, commented on the terrorist attack by saying, “Practically, Russia relies on Iran in destabilizing Europe, particularly after Ukraine is no longer under its control, and that is what keeps Iran in Syria against the will of Russia.”
The speaker added that “Russia is unable to wage an explicit battle against Europe. Meanwhile Iran, hit two birds with one stone, the second bird being dressing its terrorist acts a Sunni, rather than a Shiite, clothing.”
On Twitter, Arab media representative accused Iran of the incidence, and some of them emphasized that the attack took place exactly one week after remarks by the French president that Bashar al-Assad must step down. Consequently, France is now paying the price of hosting the conference.
Others drew attention to the fact that “each European country opposing Iran is targeted by ISIS. Those terrorists seek revenge for al-Faqih state in the name of the caliphate state…The game has become exposed.”
It is noteworthy that France constantly expresses its opinion toward Assad’s regime and its supporters explicitly, emphasizing that there would be no solution in Syria unless Assad leaves, and it also refuses to cooperate with Assad in fighting terrorism since he, as well as his supporters, are among its creators.