By Gilad Shiloach
Mar 27, 2017 at 6:43 AM ET
ISIS rarely takes on Iran in Farsi, but the terror group has released a propaganda film aimed at Tehran out of its Diyala Province arm. Diyala stretches from Baghdad to Iraq’s border with Iran and was the nerve center of ISIS operations before the group spread into the north and west of the country.
The video, 36 minutes long, is titled “Persia between yesterday and today,” and along with the threats to attack Iran, the Islamic State also accuses Tehran of persecuting Sunnis who live in Iran. The group alleges that more than 18,000 Sunnis living in Iran have been executed there since the 1979 revolution. “Execution by hanging is the preferred method of killing Sunnis in Iran,” the video notes.
The video denounces the current Islamic Republic there as an un-Islamic regime that copied democratic institutions from the west. It featured four Farsi-speaking ISIS fighters criticizing Tehran for its hostility towards Sunnis and called on the Sunnis living in Iran to rise up against the theocratic regime. One called for attacks on mosques in Tehran, Isfahan and to “burn the land beneath their feet.”
ISIS Directs Threats To Iran In Farsi In New Video
