ICC Note:

Despite the Islamic State’s loss of territory in Iraq and Syria, Daesh continues to make the threats to the region of the Middle East.  ISIS has now turned their attention to Iran, asking the country’s Sunni minority to start a revolution against the Shi’a controlled government.  A video released from the group by their propaganda arm was released on Friday, and immediately dismissed by Iran’s state controlled media as a desperate move to distract from its military defeat in Iraq. 

4/1/2017 Iran (Radio Liberty) – The militant group Islamic State (IS) has vowed in a rare video message in Persian that includes the apparent beheading of four captured soldiers that it will conquer Iran.

In an appeal to sectarian divides, the group also calls on Iran’s Sunni minority to rise up against the Shi’a-dominated Iranian establishment.

The 36-minute video, released this week by IS’s Diyala Province propaganda arm, has been dismissed by Iran’s state controlled media as an attempt the embattled group to divert attention from its losses in Iraq.

Iranians are among the foreign forces fighting IS in Iraq, although they describe fighters who travel there from Iran as volunteers defending holy Shi’ite shrines.

One of the IS fighters in the video, in uniform with a covered face, directly threatens the highest political and religious authority under Iran’s 1979 constitution: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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