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NCRI-US Press Conf on attack on Saudi oil installations:
Alireza Jafarzadeh: The regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei directly ordered the attack whose operation involved the highest levels of the IRGC... @WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept

The plan was Khamenei's brain child… The operation’s tactical command HQ was deployed from Tehran one week prior to the attack.
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The missiles used in the Sept 14 attack on Saudi oil installations were ‘Ya-Ali’ cruise missiles which are manufactured by Thamen-ol A’emeh Industries situated in Parchin, Tehran.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept On July 31, 2019, the regime’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), presided over by Rouhani, approved a plan for an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities. The regime’s FM Javad Zarif is a regular member of the SNSC.
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IRGC MGens Hossein Salami, comdr in chief of the IRGC; Qassem Soleimani, comdr of the Qods Force; Gholam-Ali Rashid, comdr of the Khatam-ol Anbiya Central HQ; and BGen Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, comdr of the IRGC’s Aerospace Force; were also present.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept Rashid and Hajizadeh are not regular members of the SNSC and participated in this session only for the purpose at hand. Several other commanders of the Armed Forces and the Law Enforcement Force participated in the SNSC session. @WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept

After Khamenei’s initial approval, detailed planning began and the SNSC referred the plan to Khamenei for final approval. Khamenei ordered IRGC comdrs Rashid and Hajizadeh to begin the plan’s implementation.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept IRGC BGen Mohammad Fallah, operational deputy comdr of the IRGC Aerospace Force, took the lead in implementation. This operational HQ is situated in Dastvareh base, located in Chitagar region of northwest Tehran.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept IRGC MGen Rashid, comdr of the Khatam-ol Anbiya Central HQ, reviewed &approved the final operational plan. The operational comdrs of the IRGC Aerospace Force were deployed from Tehran to Omidiyeh base in Khuzestan prov on Sept 7, a week prior to attack.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept Some of these comdrs have been identified:
* IRGC BGen Mohammad Fallah, operational deputy comdr of the IRGC Air Force;
* IRGC BGen Mahmoud Bagheri Kazemabad, comdr of the IRGC Air Force’s Missile Forces;
* IRGC BGen Saeed Aghajani, comdr of the IRGC Air Force’s Drone Forces.

@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept This team set up HQ in Omidiyeh base near city of Ahvaz (SW Iran, Khuzistan province). Omidiyeh base was used as the tactical operational base for the attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept Another group of IRGC comdrs/personnel with expertise in missiles & drones was transferred from the IRGC’s 3rd Naval Region in Mahshahr (75 miles south of Ahvaz) to the Omidiyeh base to participate in this operation.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept Revealed: The Sept 14 attack on oil installations in Saudi Arabia was carried out by the IRGC Aerospace Force’s Missile and Drone units.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept The team of missile/drone experts transferred from Mahshahr to Omidiyeh, returned to their base a few days after the operation. Some of these personnel, however, remained in Omidiyeh base.

@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept Based on the latest intelligence, a new team of the IRGC Air Force has been deployed from Tehran in Omidiyeh base on September 22, 2019. There is no information on their mission yet.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept According to specific information, the Ya-Ali cruise missiles used in the attack on the Saudi Aramco oil facilities were produced in Plan 4 of Parchin military complex.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept The missile/drone sept 14 attack on Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities was carried out from inside Iran & was a blatant act of war. The regime is counting on inaction of the international community in its aggression.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept According to reports from inside the IRGC, all IRGC forces were on full alert during and after the attack. IRGC units implemented suppressive maneuvers to intimidate the public in various cities and to fend off any threat.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept The lasting solution for ending religious fascism as the main source of all the crises in the Middle East is for the Iranian people to change this illegitimate regime with their popular uprising and with Iran’s organized resistance movement.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo @StateDept We call for the below concrete steps:
•Previous United Nations Security Council resolutions on the mullahs’ nuclear weapons project and the ban on enrichment must be reinstated...
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•Eviction of the regime, its IRGC & mercenary militias from Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Lebanon & Afghanistan is imperative.
•The world community must recognize the right of the Iranian people’s Resistance to overthrow the ruling theocracy and attain freedom.
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@WhiteHouse @SecPompeo Opening remarks by Ms. Soona Samsami, NCRI's US Representative:
Today, we want to disclose precise details of an act of war by the religious fascism ruling Iran against the oil facilities of Saudi Arabia on September 14, 2019.
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The regime seeks to contain the deep-seated anger of society at its disastrous and inhuman rule. They seek to blackmail the international community into inaction and retreat with their warmongering aggression.
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This regime is counting on inaction of the international community in its aggression. The regime has paid almost no price for what it has brought upon the region.
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Our intelligence shows that the regime’s calculus is that it will not pay a heavy price for its aggressions up until the US presidential elections in 2020.
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When the regime’s attacks on oil tankers & oil facilities & downing of an American drone, and then its increase in uranium enrichment and the spinning of IR5 &IR6 centrifuges didn’t receive an appropriate response, the regime became even more emboldened...
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