Al-Qaeda in Iraq threatened to annihilate Iran in a taped recording posted on a website on Sunday. The Al-Qaeda leader on the tape also took credit for the truck bombings in Kurdistan that killed dozens of Iraqis.
This news comes a day after reports claimed that Al Qaeda was using Iran to organize and launch operations against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq.
Aljazeera reported.
The leader of an al-Qaeda umbrella group in Iraq, who was thought to have beeen killed by US forces, has threatened to wage war against Iran unless it stops supporting Shias in Iraq within two months.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State in Iraq, said his Sunni fighters have been preparing to wage a battle against Shia-dominated Iran.
Al-Baghdadi made the announcement in an audiotape that was posted on a web site commonly used by armed groups.
The 50-minute audiotape, which was released on Sunday, could not be independently verified…
“We are giving the Persians, and especially the rulers of Iran, a two-month period to end all kinds of support for the Iraqi Shia government and to stop direct and indirect intervention … otherwise a severe war is waiting for you,” al-Baghdadi said.
Iraq’s Shia-led government is backed by the US but closely allied to Iran.
The United States accuses Iran of arming and financing Shia militias in Iraq, charges Tehran denies.
In the recording, al-Baghdadi also gave Sunnis and Arab countries doing business in Iran or with Iranians a two-month deadline to cease their ties.
“We advise and warn every Sunni businessman inside Iran or in Arab countries especially in the Gulf not to take partnership with any Shia Iranian businessman, this is part of the two-month period,” he said.
Al-Baghdadi said his group was responsible for two suicide truck bomb attacks in May in Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. He said the attacks in Irbil and Makhmur showed the “Islamic jihad” was progressing in the Kurdish areas.
The Al-Qaeda bombings in May killed over 70 Kurds in Irbil and Makhmur.
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