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The temporary Friday prayer leader of Esfahan added that it is possible that a number of deceived people sought to launch a terrorist attack in France but it is also likely that this event was a new September 11.

“The September 11 attacks were an uncertain event that was not well understood,” he said, adding:

“Even some groups have suggested that there was no investigation in regard to this incident and after so many years is still not clear what indeed occurred. They have brought these arguments as proof that this incident was fabricated.”

He said that the fire from the wars that the West has launched in the Middle East and their exploitation of the ISIL Takfiri terrorist group to kill innocent people throughout the Islamic world has now led to acts of terrorism being launched against them at home.

“Nonetheless, the acts of terrorism that ISIL has unleashed are efforts aimed at distorting and defaming Islam in the hearts of people around the world and to instigate a crusade led by non-Muslims against Muslims. The West has created these terrorist attacks in order to exploit them,” he said.

Hujjat al-Islam Rahbar emphasized that these criminal actions are condemnable, explaining that ISIL’s actions are aimed at undermining and damaging Islam. We know that Islam is a religion of mercy, forgiveness and kindness and the issue of terrorism and violence have no relation to the religion.

He added that the fact that this scheme was launched by the House of Saud and Takfiri groups to create conflict among Muslims in order to undermine and create pressure on them as an excuse to retaliate against Islamic countries is clear.

Hujjat al-Islam Rahbar added that the arrogant powers, Zionists and Arab reactionaries have realized they haven’t been able to achieve their goals in Iraq, Syria and Yemen so perhaps they sought to create a scenario which will permit them to launch further attacks against Islam and Islamic countries.

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The six-minute video released by ISIL applauded last week’s Paris attacks, and comes one day after the militant group put out a video showing scenes of New York City, which suggested it was also a target.

ISIL claimed responsibility for last Friday’s attacks in Paris in which 129 people were killed.

FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday he was not aware of any credible threat of a “Paris-type attack” in the United States.

State Department spokesman John Kirby told CNN that Thursday’s video was being examined to determine its “veracity.” “Everybody here in the United States government are taking these threats seriously,” he said.

The video opened with television news clips of the Paris attacks and then shows two militants separately speaking to the camera.

Titled “Paris Before Rome,” the video showed an ISIL gunman threatening to “pound” French monuments and vowing to strike at the White House.

“We will blow it up, the same as we blew up the idols in this good land,” one gunman said, referring to the White House.

The second gunman threatened US President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande. “We will grill them … with (explosive) belts and car bombs.”

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He reiterated that the Takfiri terrorist groups, including the ISIL, have not even said a word against Israel, and even Israel accepts and treats their wounded in its hospitals.

The senior Iranian cleric pointed to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, and said, “The French government is harvesting what it has sown by supporting the terrorist groups.”

Earlier this week, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian took the sponsors of terrorism responsible for the Friday night’s tragic events in Paris which killed over 150 people, and said they ignored Tehran’s warnings about the backfiring of their supports for ISIL.

“Certain regional and trans-regional states helped the ISIL to be born. We had warned that those countries which support the ISIL should know that these insecurities would spread to their countries too,” Amir Abdollahian told reporters in Tehran on Monday.

“We cannot say explicitly that which country has played a role in the formation of the ISIL but (we can say that) ignoring those warnings ended in such consequences,” he added.

Many high-ranking Iranian officials have since long time ago warned advocates of terrorist groups against the adverse results of their supports for terrorism and their instrumental use of terrorist groups.

In June 2014, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani asked the masterminds and the states sponsoring the terrorist operations in Iraq and Syria to stop killing their Muslim brothers, warning that the terrorists would one day attack their supporters.

“We stress and advise all Muslim states and all those who unfortunately help the terrorists with their money and petro dollars to know that it will be their turn tomorrow, and they shouldn’t think that you have stimulated these savages merely against others,” Rouhani said.

He called on the sponsors of terrorist groups to stop their supports, and said, “Desist from violence; there is no confrontation between the Shiites and the Sunnis and they are brothers and have been living in Iraq, the Levant and Iran and everywhere beside each other.”

Rouhani underlined that any discord and conflict between Muslims merely gladdens the Zionists and the criminal powers, adding that the Islamic world needs unity more than any ever.

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Rather than burden Claire with our questions, and risk to force to relive those moments she might chose to not speak of at the moment, we simply requested that she tells her story the way she wants it to be remembered.

Mother to a three-year old little boy, Claire moved to France from her home in Spain last September after her husband was offered a position at a PR firm in the French capital.

You said you wanted to share with others not your tale as a survivor of terror but a voice for peace – what do you mean by that?

I was at La Belle Equipe on Friday evening … I literally just got back inside when I heard loud noises … I thought people were shooting fireworks or something at first, and then I heard the screams.

I was pushed on the floor by someone next to me and after that it was pretty much darkness. I simply can’t remember … my mind literally went blank. All I remember is the smell and the screams of terror. I wouldn’t be able to tell you I long I was on the floor, only that someone got me back up and asked me if I was injured. I wasn’t … all these people dead and I was completely unharmed.

It is a strange thing to walk away from such devastation and think that a few meters, a few minutes could have ended my life. I am very fortunate I know this.

But I’m not angry. I can’t be, I don’t want to be.

All these people died because of hatred and ignorance and I refuse to follow the same standards. I will not be made to hate.

What do you make of politicians and media’s call on Muslims to apologize? Do you think Islam is to blame here?

No, absolutely not. Radicalism is just racism and fascism all rolled into one. I come from Spain and Spain knows exactly what fascism looks like … it’s not pretty I tell you. Islam, like Christianity or Judaism , or Buddhism cannot be blamed for the lunacy of a few.

I mean all religions have had their fair share of evil clerics … I don’t think the West has any lesson to give when it comes to fascism … especially when our history is full of men who built their powers on blood.

I don’t like politics very much but the way I see it politicians are using this tragedy to promote their policies and justify their wars and budget increases … they don’t care about the people.

If they did care for the people officials would have resigned over their failure as civil servants.

Did they though?! Not one came to apologize to the people for failing to keep the nation safe.

With all the technology they have, with all the spying and listening onto our conversations you’re telling they had no idea … well that is not acceptable to me!!! I want answers.

So Muslims need to apologize? Why would they? Did we apologize for colonialism? Did we apologize when we invaded, pillaged and robbed Africa, Asia, South America and the Middle East across the centuries?

Did we blame Christianity for slavery? Did we call on all Christians to say sorry to every African American? This is the very definition of prejudiced to me.

The crazy thing is we are at war with the Middle East. Right now our leaders are killing civilians … they might not willingly target them but the result is the same – dead people. Have we issued an apology to all the families?

What would you like to tell people?

Well to begin with I don’t want all these people’s memories to be dishonored by calls for revenge. This is exactly what terrorists want us to do.

I also would like to know how terrorists managed to put their hands on military grade weapons. I heard in the media that they were very well trained and organized in the way they did thing.

We are told that refugees are to blame but this is ridiculous. Refugees fled the war, they fled the very people who attacked us.

My great grandfather was a war refugee at one point. He too fled the war and he was lucky enough to find good souls to give him shelter. Most Europeans have only to go back two generations to find their ancestors were war refugees at one point or the other so NO I refuse to blame the poorest among us.

We always talk about how Western society is better: more democratic, fairer and more tolerant … where is the tolerance, where is the justice and where is the compassion?

Claire chose not to share a photo with Shafaqna as she doesn’t want to draw more attention to herself. “I don’t want Friday to become this thing I carry around … I want to be me, the me I was before.”