In Africa, the mullahs’ regime escalates export of terrorism and fundamentalism.
The recent trip by the mullahs’ President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to the Eastern African countries of Kenya, Djibouti, and the Comoros Islands took place in the context of the mullahs’ policy of exporting terrorism and fundamentalism. Djibouti, a country with coastlines along the Gulf of Eden and the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, a passageway for oil tankers from Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and East Africa, holds a strategic value for the Iranian regime.
Since 94 percent of Djibouti’s population is Muslim, the Iranian regime sees this as an apt opportunity to implement its fundamentalist agenda. Ahmadinejad has reportedly signed five economic contracts during his trip to Djibouti. Bilateral trade between the two countries from March to December 2008 has been more than $11 million.
On Tuesday, Kenya became next on Ahmadinejad’s African destinations. There, he signed five economic contracts which will bring total bilateral trade to more than $500 million by March 2010. In line with such “generosity” and creating a political foothold for itself, the regime also signed a contract with Kenya to help it build a nuclear reactor.
The Comoros Islands is another underdeveloped African nation which the regime seeks to exploit in order to pursue its agenda. Under the guise of the Aid Committee and the Red Crescent, the regime is implementing its reactionary and fundamentalist policies in this country. On Ahmadinejad’s order, the regime’s Red Crescent has established a so-called medical centre in the Comoros capital of Moroni. In stark contrast to normal formalities in any country, this so-called medical center has begun its operations without obtaining permission from the Comoros Ministry of Health.
The regime’s “Aid Committee,” located on the main highway leading to the capital’s airport, attempts to recruit individuals on a wide scale under the banner of humanitarian aid, in order to further the mullahs’ aims. Examples of these activities include setting up a dormitory for Comoros students in the neighboring country of Madagascar, and providing computer and other forms of technical training to youth.
The regime also sends the youth to Iran in a bid to recruit them to work with organs such as the Global Center for Islamic Sciences responsible for exporting fundamentalism. Some of the regime’s organs of fundamentalism, including the Islamic Cultural and Communications Organization, are also active in this regard. This organization has created a so-called cultural center at the heart of Moroni whose goal is to fan the flames of religious conflicts.
The regime’s initiative has met widespread opposition from the country’s clerics as well as political and nationalist figures. Clerics from the Comoros, including the Chief Justice of Moroni, Saeed Mohammad Jilani, have condemned breeding of conflict on the part of the Iranian regime and have asked for the expulsion of regime agents from the Comoros.
They insist that every single activity conducted by the regime’s institutions in the country is suspicious, and questioned the so-called humanitarian objectives propounded by these institutions. Instead, they argue that the organizations’ real objective is to spread the Iranian regime’s fundamentalist ideology in their lands.
Visits by the Iranian regime’s officials to foreign countries, especially to some deprived African countries, have absolutely no other objective than export of terrorism and recruitment of youth for terrorist goals.
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Reza Shafa is an expert on the Iranian regime's Intelligence networks, both in Iran and abroad. He has done extensive research on Iranian Ministry of Information and Security (MOIS) also known as VEVAK, Intelligence Office of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Qods Force among others. Currently he is a contributor to NCRI website.