Iran has been an ally of Al Qaeda and a refuge for its leaders since 1991

There is close cooperation between Iran and the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, the details of which are revealed day by day, the most recent of which is the murder of Abu Muhammad al-Masri and his daughter, the widow of Hamzah bin Laden, in a fatal accident last August in Tehran.

Elaf from Dubai: The murder of Al-Qaeda’s second man, Ahmed Al-Masry, with his daughter, Hamzah bin Laden’s widow, who lived in Iran, shows Tehran’s ties to extremist organizations, according to what the Al-Hurra website cited. to his followers in a report published Saturday. Although the media close to the Iranian authorities claimed on August 7 that “unknown persons murdered an Arab father and his daughter,” Tehran insists on denying information that it is home to leaders of terrorist organizations.

The agency “Fars” reported at that time that “a motorcycle approached the car and fired four shots at the driver and his daughter,” noting that “their bodies were found on August 7,” without indicating the identity of the two dead.

^{Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, whom the New York Times said the Israelis killed in Tehran on August 7.}

On Friday, the US newspaper “New York Times” quoted US intelligence officials as saying that Israeli agents killed the second highest-ranking al-Qaeda leader in Iran on August 7, 2007, Abdullah Ahmad Abdullah, who has a nom de guerre Abu Muhammad. Al-Masry, accused of planning fatal attacks on US embassies in Africa, in 1998.

On Saturday, Tehran called the US newspaper report “fabricated information.” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatib Zadeh said in a statement that “Washington and Tel Aviv are trying, from time to time, to blame others for the criminal acts of this organization and other terrorist organizations in the region. “. And link Iran to such organizations through lies and the diversion of fabricated information to the media. “

An old collaboration

However, the Al-Hurra website credited the security expert Brigadier General Musa Al-Qallab as saying that after the US war on terror in Afghanistan in 2001, they sought refuge in Tehran, which was taken in by the services intelligence department of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, in preparation for various roles and uses. Noting that “a large part of the terrorists were sent to Iraq, Syria and other conflict areas, so that the Iranian apparatus could strengthen its influence through them”, considering that Iran has employed al-Qaeda leaders to serve its political and regional agenda.

Al-Qallab stressed that “it cannot be denied that the leaders of al-Qaeda are present in the territory of Iran, which employs some of them to coordinate to defend it in case of any attack”, as well as “use others to carry carry out attacks, bombings and assassinations, most of which are directed against US interests in the Middle East and the Gulf region. “

Secret cooperation between al-Qaeda and Iran began in the early 1990s in Sudan, when Hassan al-Turabi, the leader of the Sudanese National Islamic Front, began encouraging reconciliation between Sunnis and Shiites, and continued after the transfer of the organization to Afghanistan, and demonstrated on Iranian soil before, during and after the 9/11 attacks. The United States officially accused Iran for the first time in July 2011 of forming an alliance with al-Qaeda that includes hosting al-Qaeda operatives on its territory and helping them transport money and weapons.

Informal agreement

According to US records, Osama bin Laden was living in Khartoum when the Sudanese religious scholar Ahmed Abd al-Rahman al-Hammadibi Sheikh Nomani brought an Iranian envoy to meet with al-Qaeda leaders. As a result of this meeting, Iran and Al Qaeda reached an informal cooperation agreement.

The Al-Hurra report says that the 9/11 commission report includes a section dedicated to investigating Iranian relations with al-Qaeda titled “Aid from Hezbollah and Iran to Al Qaeda,” indicating that shortly after These meetings in Sudan in late 1991 or 1992, “High-ranking activists traveled to Al-Qaeda and their trainers went to Iran for explosives training, and in the fall of 1993, another such delegation went to the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon for further training in explosives, as well as in the field of intelligence and security.

Furthermore, Imad Mughniyeh, the mastermind of Hezbollah, was responsible for the bombing of the American barracks in Beirut in 1983, and inspired bin Laden to develop coordinated and simultaneous attacks as a method of regular action, a hallmark of most subsequent operations. of Al Qaeda.

To read Al Hurra’s full report, click here.