Iranian Commander Warns of Enemies’ Plots to Create Rifts in Region

Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy General Alireza Tangsiri warned the regional nations to be wary of the plots hatched by the enemies to sow discord among them.
“The political and security scene of the region indicates that the enemy has concentrated on sowing discord among the regional states through committing different crimes and terrorist operations,” Tangsiri said in the Southern province of Fars on Sunday.

He underlined that the recent events in the region showed that the enemies of Islam pay no respect to human rights and their advocacy for human rights is just in slogans.

In relevant remarks in November, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim Ummah (community) to increase vigilance as enemies of Islam are hatching increasing plots to stir sectarian strife among them.

“A major problem of the Muslim World today is the imposed, intentional and wicked problem of kindling differences among the Muslim Ummah and (Islam’s) religious sects,” Ayatollah Khamenei said addressing Hajj officials in Tehran.

The Supreme Leader said that the global arrogance and colonialist powers are fully experienced in igniting sectarian strife among Muslims, adding, “Hajj’s capacities should be used for confronting (and defusing) these plots under the present conditions.”

“The confrontation (that the enemies are trying spark) among the religious sects will not be limited to the Shiite-Sunni confrontation and if the enemies of Islam can institutionalize these confrontations, they will put on their agenda sparking intenal differences inside the different Shiite sects and Sunni sects,” Ayatollah Khamenei said.