A senior Iranian commander says the United States planned the 9/11
terrorist attacks to use them as pretext to invade the energy-rich
Middle East.
“The US, looking for a pretext to invade the Middle East, masterminded
the 9/11 incident and pointed an accusing finger at Muslim countries,”
Commander of the Iranian Army Ground Forces Brigadier General Ahmad-Reza
Pourdastan said on Saturday.
Pourdastan added that following the fall of the Soviet Union, the US
introduced itself as the world’s sole superpower and moved to instill
the new world order to prove its supremacy.
The Iranian commander noted that the US later found its geopolitical
policies a failure and decided to follow a geo-economic policy and
control the world’s energy resources, 60 percent of which was located in
the Middle East.
“To achieve that goal, they launched preemptive attacks on
Afghanistan and Iraq, and Iran was their next target, but wise policies
adopted by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali
Khamenei along with the unity of the Iranian nation prevented them from
achieving their objective,” Pourdastan said.
On September 11, 2001, a series of coordinated attacks were carried out in the United States leaving almost 3,000 people dead.
The US, under the administration of former President George W. Bush,
invaded Afghanistan in 2001 after claiming that the 9/11 attacks were
carried out by members of al-Qaeda harbored by the then Taliban regime
in Afghanistan.
The US also attacked Iraq in 2003 claiming that the Middle Eastern
country was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Washington’s
wars on Iraq and Afghanistan have claimed the lives of more than a
million people.
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Saturday, 19 January 2013
US planned 9/11 attacks to invade Middle East
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