Iranian Commander Sees Boston Blast as Natural Outcome of US Policies, Actions

A senior Iranian Commander lashed out at the US for its attitude towards terrorism in the world, and stressed that the recent explosions in the US city of Boston was the outcome of the performance and policies of the US statesmen.

“The US government is the source of the greatest state-sponsored terrorism and America is inevitably faced with the ugly side of this phenomenon (terrorism) as well,” Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Brigadier General Seyed Massoud Jazzayeri said on Monday.

The commander condemned terrorist moves as “inhumane”, and noted, “Now in some parts of the world, terrorism is killing hundreds and thousands of the people and the world people see a clear and vivid example of it in Syria and Iraq and unfortunately the US administration is the source of this (terrorism in Iraq and Syria).

Jazzayeri said majority in the US society are against the US statesmen’s current imperialistic policies and are trying to bring a new order to power.

Two explosions rocked the Boston Marathon last Monday killing three people and injuring more than 138 others.

Later, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast condemned the bomb explosions and said, “The Islamic Republic strongly condemns any measure that endangers the lives of innocent people,” Mehman-Parast said late Tuesday.

Mehman-Parast described the deadly incident as a “source of sorrow”, calling for greater global efforts to eradicate terrorism.

In similar remarks last week, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei condemned the bomb blasts in Boston, but meantime slammed Washington for its selective and illogical attitude towards terrorism, saying the US keeps mum about the massacre of innocent Muslim nations, but it wants to set fire to the world when a bomb blasts on its soil.

“In compliance with the logic of Islam, the Islamic Republic of Iran opposes and condemns any kind of explosion and killing of innocent people no matter it takes place in the United States’ Boston or in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria,” Ayatollah Khamenei said in Tehran on Wednesday, addressing a meeting with Iranian Army and Basij (volunteer forces) commanders and personnel on the threshold of the National Army Day.

“But”, he said, “the attitude of America and others who allege to be supporters of human rights towards the killing of innocent people is contradictory and we, thus, believe that the United States and the front standing against the Islamic Republic of Iran are irrational.”

Elaborating on the United States’ selfish and irrational approach to terrorism, Ayatollah Khamenei said despite the Americans’ claim about their opposition to the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), “the United States’ drones massacre innocent people, children and women in Afghanistan and Pakistan, while the terrorists who are overtly or covertly supported by the US are killing people in Iraq and Syria”.

“What kind of logic is this that if children and women in Afghanistan and Pakistan are killed by Americans and if the terrorists supported by the US, the West and the Zionists cause catastrophes in Iraq and Syria, it wouldn’t matter, but if a blast takes place in the US or a western country, then the whole world should pay the price for it,” he asked.

The Leader warned that “the paradoxical, irrational and bullying” behavior of the US and the West and their disrespect for human principles have pushed the western civilization towards demise.