By: Shahram Mirzaei
John Kirby, the spokesman of the American National Security Council, announced on Friday night, March 22, 2024, that the United States has provided information about an imminent terrorist attack to Russia to the country's top security officials at the beginning of this month.
While the number of people killed in the terrorist attack on the concert hall in the city of Krokus in Krasnogorsk near Moscow has reached 143 people, the news and evidence published have strengthened the possibility that Vladimir Putin's government is involved in this massacre.
John Kirby's statements have convinced Russian security and internal affairs experts that the Russian intelligence and security organizations were aware of the aforementioned terrorist attack. By leaving the terrorists free to carry out their nefarious plans, Russian intelligence and security organizations intend to use it politically to justify the continuation of the war against Ukraine and to make this country guilty.
After 25 months since Russia's massive attack on Ukraine, Moscow has not only been unable to achieve its goals, but has sunk into a quagmire from which it is very impossible to get out.
Confirming this fact, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted for the first time in an interview with "Argument and Facts" newspaper: "We are in a state of war. We first started a special military operation, but now it has changed to a full-scale war."
Military experts believe that Vladimir Putin and his mafia government are looking for an excuse to justify the continued military presence in Ukraine. So what could be better than a terrorist attack on innocent people and introducing the government of Ukraine as the perpetrator of this terrorist attack?
In this regard, Russian security officials and the president of this country have claimed: "They arrested four terrorists who were fleeing to Ukraine." These statements herald the beginning of a new round of attacks on Ukraine and are a way to justify the continuation of the war against Ukraine.
Although ISIS claimed responsibility for this terrorist attack on Saturday, March 23, the statements of the spokesperson of the US National Security Council have convinced political and security experts that Russia was aware of this attack long ago and had opened the way for them.
But most importantly, the intelligence service of Ukraine, having documents in hand, in response to the mentioned terrorist attack, claimed that this terrible assassination was carried out with the full guidance of Russian special forces and with the knowledge of Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with Pravda newspaper, Andriy Yusef, the spokesman of Ukraine's intelligence service, said: "What happened is the result of targeted provocation by Russian special forces, and Vladimir Putin has actually committed a crime against the Russian people."
Carrying out such actions by terrorist governments and then accusing the enemies is a repeated routine that there are many examples of throughout history.
The explosion in the city of Kerman on January 3, 2024, is one of these examples that was carried out by the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 273 people were killed in this terrorist operation. The Islamic Republic identified Kurdish organizations and ISIS as the perpetrators of this bombing and took advantage of this opportunity to execute more political prisoners and kill Kurdish people.
Also, in the explosion at the shrine of Reza, the eighth Shiite Imam, on June 20, 1994, during which 326 people were killed and injured. Tehran accused the People's Mojahedin Organization in this terrorist operation, which was carried out by the Ministry of Information of the Islamic Republic of Iran. With this action, Republican Islamic had enough excuse to start massacring political prisoners with a more open hand.
Russia and Iran are two sides of the same coin, they are the main cause of the spread of terrorism in the Middle East and the world.
