Have U.S., International Spies Penetrated Deep Within Iran?
In just the last couple months, valuable information about Iran has helped with the confiscation of several ships and planes which were carrying arms and explosives either to Iran or from Iran to the Middle East and Africa. One such incident occurred last month: Malaysian police seized suspicious equipment found in two containers from a ship that left a Chinese port bound for Iran. The equipment was said to be for nuclear weapons.
It is important to note that China has been collaborating with the radicals ruling Iran ever since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, and today continues to help Iran with its nuclear ambitions. (I submitted several reports on precisely that to the CIA during the time I worked as a spy inside the Revolutionary Guards, and have covered the Chinese connection in my book, A Time to Betray.) China was continuously providing arms to the Revolutionary Guards despite the U.S. arms embargo back then — even training Guards’ members at a base in China. The Chinese also provided Silkworm missiles to Iran, which threatened the security of the Persian Gulf. China has done all of this while publicly denying the collaboration in its entirety.
The recent events have forced Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security to conduct well-publicized sweeps of their hierarchy every once in a while in order to filter out the “spies” among them.
So far, not a single sector of the regime — including the parliament, the president’s office, and the supreme leader, who is the commander of the armed forces and who oversees all aspects of the regime — has questioned any of the incidents: not the forced landing of the plane in Turkey, the explosions in Iran, the impounding of all the cargo ships in international waters, the carrying of arms, or many other such episodes.
Though many brave men and women in and outside of Iran risk their lives each day to help confront this evil regime, the Iranian leaders — with their collaborations with China and North Korea — grow ever closer to obtaining the nuclear bomb. It is our responsibility to humanity and to future generations to help Iranians overthrow their messianic regime before it is too late for all of us.
Iran has so many enemies in the Arab states and the Ayatollahs have so many enemies within, that it must be teeming with spies and informants, many of them Islamic and just as fervently anti-Israel. It has always been my opinion that the Israel intelligence is hour-to-hour up to date on what’s going on within the Revolutionary Guard, which enables them to take preemptive action as soon as Iran’s toe moves across the line in the sand.
It would take a Master Spy, a Super-agent. to track the course of the information that brought the Turks to use fighter planes to force that cargo plane to land. And he wouldn’t be a Westerner. This high level of intelligence coupled with Israel’s strike readiness is the strongest defense we have against the blood-lust of Tehran. Yet the world hates the Jews and would hate them even more if they were to bring down Iran instead of permitting themselves to be obliterated!
the chinese should keep in mind they are as much the infidel as anyone in the west and will be bitten as soon as they are no longer useful.
That doesn’t matter to them. They are just as big a liars as the Muslims they support… and they hate the West just as much.
too bad the terrorists realize what would happen to them if they targeted china
This is true. China is not like us.
They are not afraid to go in and bomb the hell out of another country. AND the people, leaders of those countries know it.
US? No one is afraid of..the USA..paper tiger..
We tip toe around, afraid of or shadows..or have our soldiers called before a court martial for asinine charges, reporters everywhere trying to make a dirty little story to spread to the world…
With the leaders we have, I think more things in war..the wars we get into…should be carried off covertly. It would save a lot of lives and we might be able to accomplish something
(as we not seem capable of winning them…even trashy little country’s beat our socks off..)))
It is not necessary to assign to “evil intent” that which can be explained by incompetence.
Either way, it’s heartening news.
Incompetence explains much than goes right or wrong in war. It takes a great deal of competence to know the secret cargo on an aircraft before it takes off. Ordnance almost never detonates during transport, incompetence is overwhelmingly in play during loading and unloading. It is never a good idea to underestimate your opponents abilities, nor expect providence to attend you.
There you go again – disparaging the Democrats!
Assad must go and then Hizb’Allah is in trouble. I suspect the US, Israel, the Brits and KSA are on the same page here. Either Iran is stopped or the ME will see destruction several magnitudes greater than it has seen before.
Lasers on the US ships to counter swarming. Perhaps its time to demonstrate to the world what happens when mass is accelerated to many times the speed of sound. A half a kiloton of energy produced is enough to reach deep into Iran’s underground.
I would like to know what this writer who has been interviewed recently by Michael Totten has to say on the number of Iranian troops moving into Syria. Even more, I would like to see what Clinton thinks of this help to the reformer Assad.
While KSA must wonder why Mubarak’s sons are detained and Qaddafi’s are negotiating, if they haven’t started working out a game plan with Israeli Generals, they might very well lose this game of survival. Depose Assad, and Hizb’Allah unravels. Egypt and Turkey hang in the balance. Obama is in the election mode and cannot survive the twin anger of Israel and KSA. However both these nations need to improve their chess, even if they can’t do this in public.
This is the real threat and continued moves by NK along make China more isolated in the view of its neighbors. China is aware of the recent trip of KSA and Israel to Russia. The Turks know Cyprus is an alternative to US basing in Turkey. Egypt knows they cannot stand up their economy without the West.
Is our leader capable of poker at such a serious level of gravitas? That depends on whether he has an instinct for survival and an eye for the judgment of history.
http://www.informationdissemination.net/2011/04/saudi-arabia-seeks-quote-for-aegis-lcs.html
http://defensetech.org/2011/04/12/us-navy-now-zapping-boats/
You left out the interception of cargo ship “Victoria” with weapons headed for Gaza by Israel Navy last month which included 6 advanced C-704 missiles and radar. Note the instruction manual in Persian with Iranian government symbols.
http://idfspokesperson.com/2011/03/16/list-of-weaponry-found-on-the-victoria/
The IDF apparently knew exactly where to look among the cargo containers and the weapons were hidden in them. The ships crew had no idea that there were weapons and allowed the IDF to board and inspect.
Look to the ones with the MOST to gain through said infiltrations, as well as the intelligence assets to pull it off.
Not to point to the obvious, but there are MANY highly motivated Israelis of Iranian descent who would like nothing more than to bring this murderous regime down. They speak perfect Farsi, they know the exact mannerisms and local customs.Except for the fact that they don’t bow to Allah it would be impossible to tell them apart.
So, what are the chances that these Jewish patriots are not part of the Mossad’s ‘boots on the ground’? Can anyone imagine a CIA asset (unless they are using double agents,risky business at best)capable of doing what a Mossad agent of Iranian extraction can accomplish?
Of course not.Use your imaginations…..
There is a complete absence of leadership from the White House. Rather than having plans to deal with events the current administration is being led by them. This abdication began in 2009 with the Cairo Speech. The latest indication of how out of touch the Administration is is the recent comments by H.Clinton that Assad is a
” reformer ” -
Syrian revolt spreads to ruling Alawite tribes. Cities sealed. Executions in army
DEBKAfile Exclusive Report April 13, 2011, 12:24 PM (GMT+02:00) Tags: Syria Bashar Assad protest demonstrations US
Clashes in southern Syrian city of Daraa.
The popular uprising against Syrian President Bashar Assad is still spreading. Tuesday, April 12, one of the Assad family’s own Alawite tribes and the key Sunni city of Aleppo joined the movement demanding the president and his kin’s removal. Assad fought back against the expanding threat to his survival by mobilizing all his military and security resources, including the loyal young thugs of the shabbiha gangs. They have orders to shoot to kill and not permit ambulances to collect the wounded. Tanks seal the most restive towns of Teraa, Bania,s Latakia and Hama.
Alawite unrest centers on the impoverished Knaan tribe centered in the village of Bhamra in the mountains of northern Syria. A second immediate danger to the regime comes from Aleppo, Syria’s commercial hub, where for the first time more than 10,000 protesters marched. The Druze mountain inhabitants are up in arms. So too are the Kurdish towns of the north such as Kamishli and the Shammar tribes of southeastern Syria around the border town of Abu Kamal.
Damascus University has been under siege for four days, although security forces have not been able to breach it.
http://www.debka.com
If one needs any further examples of how theology can wreck an entire world I don’t know what they’d be.
If Israel disappeared tomorrow it wouldn’t benefit any muslim country in the world today yet billions have been spent by muslims probably in the last decade alone to arm people against Israel and to what real world purpose none can say; it makes no more sense than madness ever does.
Iran is a madhouse and as was the case in Germany and Japan in WW II, the madmen consist of a small cabal at the very top; when are its people going to realize that several thousand lives spent to take down that regime will be cheaper than tens of thousands of dead lying in the rubble of Tehran?
It is a lesson that was entirely lost on Germans and Japanese in WW II and brought home with terrific force in the end; it’s easy to dream mad dreams before the bombs start falling on you but unfortunately that is also the only opportunity to evade those bombs as well and so it is a choice. In those instances of Germany and Japan, you had cultures that went insane and had to be brought back to reality by the very violence they used to propel their insanity.
We give Tehran a break because though there cabal has the intent of a Hitler they possess not the military strength. Iran is trying and testing American resolve. The protesters of Iran better wake up because if the American army does eventually say enough, though an unlikely scenario, there will be no occupation and nation building, there likely will just be hard lessons and delivered as often as necessary until the courage of those erstwhile protesters is engendered and bolstered by fear, a type of fear worse than what they have for their regime.
“…. the madmen consist of a small cabal at the very top… ”
In Iran that may be more true than in other Islamic countries but in the wider Muslim world extremism has wide popularity and support. It is also true that in Iran the ” cabal at the top ” are the chief enablers of terror in the world. The biggest mistake Obama made was sitting on his hands when the Iranians took to the streets. His incompetence has put the entire planet at risk.
Theology I think has less to do with it that historical dynamics and group identity. If it were up to the theologians there would not be this level on conflict. Judaism is more similar to Islam than it is to Christianity in many ways from the point of of basic religion.
A thoughtful religious Jew would point out that Islam with it’s strict monotheism, restrictions on diet, etc has many echoes to Jewish practice, though in very important ways differing, is not unacceptable to a Jew who never thought anyway that the almighty wants us to all convert to Judaism.
At the core there is some similarity between Islam and Christianity also. Both think that if you gave not accepted the core of our faith you are doomed in some way. Islam in it’s underpinnings accepts Jesus/yeshuah as a prophet while Judaism does not if you want a further twist.
Theology can blur those lines. From any religious view, it is difficult to say what will happen in the ultimate judgement, nor
are we so fit to judge, We can only deal with human action from what we know. We are not the deity. We are what we have, skin, bone, nerves, muscle and lungs.
Theology itself might provide a way out. It has for most Christians and Jews. For Islam I cannot speak. Allah is nothing but the Arabic word for God. We all know that there are many faiths some of which are atheistic. Still the existential task does not change so much in the big picture.
Shalom,
Spindok
Allah is the Arabic word for the god, not God. History, a correct version, has shown Allah, or the god to be the moon god Sin.
Indeed Sir, please get your facts stright before vomiting on the Internet.
Islam is a pagan religion worshiping a false moon god, and following a mad man who raped, lied, and murdered named Muhammad.
That “small cabal at the top” consists not just of the mullahs but of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) which controls some 30% of the economy, the enforcement thugs of the Basji, and Arab militants (mostly Hizbullah, but also some PLO) that spend a lot of time in Iran. Where the army’s loyalties lie Kahlili knows better than I, but the IRGC is in many ways a parallel army.
Nobody knows better than than the Iranians what it is like to live under militant Islam. Their rejection of it and removal of the tyrants who rule them would send a profound message.
What an important spy you must be, young Reza. I guess it is now standard espionage practice to blab up all over the internet about your reports to the CIA.
Bah. Sounds more like that famous glory boy Mr. Plame.
Plus, on the internet, you cannot be sure it’s not a dog on the other end of the phone line. So who can distinguish whether you are a Fifi dog or a Rottweiler?
And this question you ask, “How did the U.S. and international intelligence sources have access to such information?” — any normal adult could put two and two together and come up with that query. Even the notorious Michael Ledeen can do better than that.
“What an important spy you must be, young Reza. ”
X, it may behoove you to read Reza’s byline before posting.
“Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for an ex-CIA spy who requires anonymity for safety reasons.”
DUDE, yes, I read the byline. I cannot take it seriously. Maybe I should, but…
I’m sure everyone’s thinking the same thing but if someone wants to publish disinformation, mess with heads, play mind games with Iran I really don’t care.
If it makes them think that launching missiles might make them actually target that building in Iran that has missiles painted on the side and ‘Down with the U.S.A. as a way of an introduction to American humor then let it be so.
Who knows what the hell is going on; one of the last stories by this guy had weird trollers with different names, same IP addresses, fake bad English and the whole nine yards.
At best earthquake prone Iran is headed for a Chernobyl and at worst…?
I know if I were an Iranian I’d start praying to a god called reason cuz this regime ain’t quite working out for the greater good. Half the population dreams of nose jobs while a few retarded mental cases make the entire country seem like the ‘Special Olympics’ version of a nation.
Good luck playing with reactors with uncertain results. A meltdown in Iran’s future seems almost guaranteed in a country where half the population are Israeli spies.
Creating paranoia in Iran’s highest circles is a very good thing. If 0.1% of the people in the organization are spies, that paranoia will most likely get someone who isn’t a spy. The more fear that you can create within the ruling elite, the more likely they are to destroy each other. That is always a good thing.
Ahmadinejad stole the election. I doubt he sleeps in the same bed two nights in a row.
X Contra,
Doesn’t sound like you have rational commentary or are specifically interested in debate. Your personal attack mode is signature standard and practice of mental midget Iranian regime apologists.
Complete misfire, Banasheh.
Check my blog (link above). I will accept you apology in the form of a coupon for 12 donuts from Krispy Kreme or a bag of Starbucks coffee.
I rest my case.
As for young Reza, sorry to get on your nerves about it, but realistically, how many trickesters are there in the internet, pretending to be super spies, millionaires or some other kind of man of dange and intrigue? Twitter is full of wishful thinking disguised as rumor masquerading as fact. Useless. Think back to June 2009, when Iran was waking up, and all the stuff on #Iranelection but very little of it worth reading. I learned long ago, in completely different context, to grant credence very carefully. It’s normal.
ok, so…but–if Obama knows all this, and he must (mustn’t he?) then WHY THE HECK does he keep reaching out to Ahmadinejad and bashing Israel?
X
It’s highly unlikely that Simon & Shuster would publish a book by someone claiming to be an ex-CIA spy unless they vetted him thoroughly beforehand. There’s been too many embarassing scams pulled on publishers in the past. Doubtful that they would let another past them, especially since it would be so easy to check with the CIA for verification.
Maybe you are right. But I find his “revelation” on this to be relatively lukewarm — not very hot, in my view, not much more than a potzer civilian like me could figure out just by reading the newspapers and using some mental elbowgrease.
On another note: I seem to have hit a nerve with questioning this guy. This is about the only time in the past year or so that anyone gives a damn about my comments and responds. Some of these responders, not you, though, seem to want to rip me apart. Seems unusual… and amusing.
Well, young Reza will do fine whether I question his pedigree or not.
Who knows what’s happening in Iran? They should be discomfited by the bloody collapse of Syria, though the weakening of Iran’s influence there may be accompanied by other, not-so-appetizing scenarios.
Contra’s contrarian mantra seems to be: don’t trust nobody about everything.
What I learned long ago is: the words of a contrarian carry no weight unless accompanied by proof of authenticity and authority. Just exactly why should anyone heed vacuous contrarian rants? What qualifications are provided in the area involved – in this case, international intelligence gathering? Does the proud contrarian reveal his true name or attack under cover of anonymity? Here, the author being deprecated has revealed his background and published a book, subject to open examination and criticism. Feel free to contradict, but please offer evidence of your qualifications.
Contrarians who arrogantly challenge on a knee-jerk basis, hiding behind an alias. have zero credibidlity and should be ignored.
Correct, Sturart man. You read my mind. That actually IS my mantra.
One of those, “let’s hope it’s true” things.
I am meantime, for some odd reason, remembering a brief moment in the movie ‘Tora, Tora, Tora’, when a high ranking Naval Intelligence Officer seethes that a highly classified document had been found in a White House wastebasket, and ceremoniously turns to a flow chart on the wall and removes the President of the United States from the intellegence “loop”, as being to much of a security risk to be given the most classied info.
I haven’t the slightest idea why this scene, seen ages ago, occurs to me now, all of a sudden.
Not the slightest idea. Weird.
Interesting thought, what if a lot of information is simple disinformation. Remember Hitler’s minions gave out info that Stalin used as a reason to decemate his militarl and political enemies real and percieved.He almost lost the “great patriotic war” before it started.Iran may be near a similar event.