Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
said Tuesday it executed nine holy warriors of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
group detained after a 2018 attack.
The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan news agency announced the executions, saying that the death sentence
...the barbaric practice of sentencing a murderer to be punished for as long as his/her/its victim is dead...
s had been upheld by the country’s top court.
It described the holy warriors as being detained after they were in a clash in the country’s western region with Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, in which three troops and several IS fighters were killed. Authorities said they had seized a cache of combat weapons, including a machine gun and 50 grenades, after surrounding the bully boys’ hideout.
Iran carries out executions by hanging. In the past eight months, it has executed an average of one person every six hours, according to Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam, director of advocacy group Iran Human Rights.
He said Tuesday’s executions were issued without fair trials and that there have been no updates about seven others reportedly detained in the 2018 attack.
IS, which once held vast territory across Iraq and Syria in a self-described caliphate it declared in 2014, was ultimately beaten back by US-led forces.
It has since been in disarray, though it has mounted major assaults. In Iran’s neighbor Afghanistan, for instance, IS is believed to have grown in strength since the fall of the Western-backed government there to the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
in 2021.
The group previously claimed a June 2017 attack in Tehran on parliament and a mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that killed at least 18 people and maimed more than 50. It has claimed other attacks in Iran, including two suicide kabooms in 2024 targeting a commemoration for an Iranian general slain in a 2020 US dronezap. That assault killed at least 94 people.
The clash with Revolutionary Guardsmen in 2018 marked a point of heightened tensions between Iran and the bully boy group. Iran launched ballistic missiles at parts of eastern Syria, vowing Dire Revenge after holy warriors disguised themselves as soldiers and shot up a military parade in the Islamic Theocratic
Republic’s southwest. That attack killed at least 25 people and was claimed by both IS and local separatists.
But Tehran’s hand in Syria was weakened with the fall last year of President Bashir
Pencilneckal-Assad
Supressor of the Damascenes...
, a key ally. Analysts say IS could take advantage of the security vacuum to stage a comeback while Syria’s new leaders are still consolidating their control over the country and forming a national army.