Comments on: Another Senior Iranian Military Official Defects

By: azim

azim — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:39:40 +0000

I recieved on the 25 of april the collonel who asked asylum in this country. He needs real help, for his security Iwouldn’t tell in wich coountry is he now!

Azim

By: don

don — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:20:08 +0000

Our disgruntled officials defect–they defect to the New York Times or The Nation or Newsweek. Then those disgruntled, patriotic, officials get a nice book deal for their defection. In the heroic traditions of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, they go on to castigate their former colleagues as “chicken hawks” who never show up for the fight; curiously, I don’t recall seeing the New Left and their defectors humping the boonies with the Vietcong. Actually, they all stayed home, defecting to do the free love scene. Since they never defected from Mr. Bill, their only complaint must have been Monica’s inability to get a stain out of her dress; hardly anything to defect over.

By: brooklyn red

brooklyn red — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:00:21 +0000

“According to Tabnak’s Turkish sources, Colonel Arian escaped because he was against the torturing of Iranian opposition figures inside Iran.”

Interesting, no?

By: Hamid

Hamid — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:59:08 +0000

What sort fo insane person would want to defect from a free country like Sweeden or Norway, UK or Canada to a miserable Islamic country like Iran or Suadi Arabia for instance?!!

PS1- I am an Iranian by the way and I know what exactly I am talking about here.

PS2- A person living in a free country does not need to defect to another country, he or she simply travels to that country!!

By: sara

sara — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:26:47 +0000

I AM AGREE WITH RAND, …..

But I should say that unfortunatlly who ever is supporting Mullahs in Iran,they are looking for their money and thier oil that is all. even though they know these mullahs and ahmadinejat and … are killing, murduring, and torturing their own people, they are also killing Palastinian, Israeli, and also Iraqi people too.

I ask Rand and those who are against this inhuman government in Iran, to have a visit on our weblog (Students’ Committee). to know the reality in our country.

http://studentscommittee.blogfa.com
I welcome any contact to my email who is against this mullahs’ regime:
joan.baezo@gmail.com

Thank you
SARA

By: Rand

Rand — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:01:24 +0000

Iran does not need an intelligence service, they have The New York Times.

By: Fantom

Fantom — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:55:50 +0000

@ 1…. No but there are plenty of Al Gore/Obama types who do. Alger Hess comes to mind.

By: winston

winston — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:49:17 +0000

Banafsheh, I am willing to bet some top dollars that this so-called COLONEL will turn out to be a no-body. Dar akhar, siahi be zoghal mimooneh. LoL

By: Banafsheh

Banafsheh — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 22:48:52 +0000

Mr. Javedanfar,
I wouldn’t get SO excited yet. Until these people are vetted and the facts that they impart is sifted through, their voracity MUST be regarded with an EXCEEDINGLY squinty eye! The ones of us who have spent our lives working on Mullah issues should know better than to get excited about someone who could turn out to be a regime operative!

By: Paul_Unalaska

Paul_Unalaska — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 21:54:52 +0000

I’m in agreement with cedarford. Intel folks can be the 1-2 striper to almost any officer rank under the sun. The analysts (those who take into account the data and assemble it for the higher-ups to peruse) are the ‘low men/women on the totem pole’ so to speak and know the information more times than not before the bosses do.

It’s why most enlisted people will rely upon or trust the ‘Chief’ before most officers. Lieutenants and in many instances Majors are extremely doe-eyed or even worse, kiss-ups. Their obtaining rank is similiar to the practices med school students use on their fellow students.

That being said, I hope more defectors and/or good news is abound.