Fundamentalist Sunni Terrorist group IS attacks Shiaite Iran

Iran had a big terrorist attack on Wednesday for the first time after 38 years of 1979 revolution. The world’s most dreaded fundamentalist Sunni terrorist group Islamic State marked its presence in Iran also by simultaneously attacking the Irani Parliament and the mosque of Ayatullah Khomeini. Four firing assailants entered the Parliament. Security forces killed all the four after a clash of about an hour. While the Parliament was being attacked, other three terrorists attacked the Khomeini mosque. A woman terrorist blasted herself by the explosive attached to her back. At Khomeini Metro too a blast occurred. 12 people were killed and 42 were hurt in this attack. Two terrorists were caught live but one of them gave his life consuming the cyanide. For the first time themosqe of AyatullahKohmeini has been targetted. Shiaite preacher Ayatullah Khomeini had leaded the Irani Revolution of 1979 when royal rule in Iran was abolished and Shah Raza Pahalvi had to leave the country. Since then there is Shia government in Iran. Undoubtedly these attacks have occurred just after attacks on Manchester and London Bridge, these will also be linked to the rising worldwide activity of Islamic State, but the terrorist attack in Iran means something else for Islamic State. It is true that many nations including the western nations are claiming to combat Islamic State, but Iran is the most active against it. At one side it is directly supporting the Asad government in Syria in fight against IS, on the other hand it is said to have formed a Shia Militia. This terrorist group has only motto to provide security to Shia people in Iran and fighting with IS. The prevailing politics nowadays in West Asia for Qatar may not have a direct link with the terrorist attack on Tehran on Wednesday, but these two things together state that the problem of gulf nations is continuingly being puzzled and complicated. Bashing Iran in recent Saudi visit of the US President is also linked with it. Is it a strange coincidence that Trump targets Iran and Islamic State strikes terrorist attack on Iran?Recently with the ending of boycott of Iran by the Western nations hopes were raised that equations may change due to ending of old prejudices but the recent stand of Trump seems to have ruled it out. Saudi Arabia already treats Iran a real enemy for its monarchy and with the dual policy of the US, it is unable to fix whether its first priority is to demolish the Islamic State or dethrone the Asad government from Syria. It’s a bitter truth that Islamic State has now become a threat for the entire world. It’ll be useless to think that Iran should deal with it alone. Who is supporting the IS? These Arab nations are its biggest funding sources. Sadly to say that many Islamic nations are more against each other due to their selfish personal interests rather than fighting against the IS. If there are Iran and US on one hand, and on the other hand Russia and the US are against each other, it’ll benefit only the IS and it’s happening. Shia-Sunni clash is thousand years old, the terrorist attack on Tehran is an extension to it. It’s the need of the hour that all the nations must fight together with the IS. Unless and until it happens, neither London nor France, Germany and Middle-East Asia is safe. With this attack Iran boasting on its strict security has also been exposed.

-          Anil Narendra