Basij Commander blasts West’s support for Rigi

The West is supporting such notorious terrorists as Jundollah’s ringleader Abdolmalek Rigi under the cover of defending human rights in Iran, a senior Iranian commander said on Saturday.

“There are countless instances like Abdolmalek Rigi in the world who are conducting the most severe behaviors in various countries through the supports provided by the hegemonic states,” Commander of Basij (volunteers) forces Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi said on Saturday.

“Such individuals are operating in Latin America and East Asia under the support of the western states,” Naqdi stated, reminding that there are a large number of people who have gone missing or sustained great losses from such acts of terrorism.

The comment by the Basij commander came a day after the ringleader of the Jundollah terrorist group, Abdolmalek Rigi, confessed that the United States offered to provide him with military aid to wage an insurgency against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

“After Obama was elected, the Americans contacted us and they met me in Pakistan. They met us after (Iranian forces’) clashes with my group around March 17 in (the southeastern city of) Zahedan and he (the US operative) said that Americans had requested a meeting with me,” Rigi said in remarks broadcast on press tv.

“They (Americans) said they would cooperate with us and will give me military equipment, arms and machine guns,” Rigi stated, adding, “They also promised to give us a base along the border with Afghanistan next to Iran.”