Shock: Iran Defense Minister — One of Interpol’s Most Wanted — Meets with U.S.
On Saturday, June 18, Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi started his two-day visit to Afghanistan at the invitation of Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak.
Mr. Vahidi, who served as the chief commander of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit and later as the commander of the Quds Force, has been involved in worldwide terrorism against America and Israel for years. He established ties with al-Qaeda and expanded his network of terrorism, which was then fully established through the auspices of Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. These collaborations resulted in several major terrorist attacks, including the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut in 1983 and the Jewish community center bombing in Argentina in 1994, which earned him a spot on Interpol’s most-wanted list.
However, Mr. Vahidi was warmly welcomed by the Afghan officials and held several meetings with Afghan Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghan Vice President Mohammad Karim Khalili, and Afghan President Karzai. In every meeting, Mr. Vahidi blamed America for all the problems facing Afghanistan and blasted U.S. plans for the establishment of permanent military bases in Afghanistan, warning that Washington seeks to strengthen its hegemony in the region. He further stated that:
If Americans were wise, they would avoid causing long-term trouble for themselves by trying to establish permanent bases in Afghanistan.
An informed source within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps reports that Mr. Vahidi also held secret talks with an American delegation consisting of political and military officials. According to the source, the Americans discussed Iran’s potential role in helping with stability and security in Afghanistan, while Vahidi insisted on Iran’s position of a speedy removal of U.S. forces and a rejection of U.S. plans for establishing permanent bases in Afghanistan.
Though much of the details of the meeting are not known, this serves as another black spot on America’s policy of negotiating with jihadists, who have sworn to do all they can to destroy America and Israel.
Interesting to note: just two days after the meeting, President Obama announced plans to reduce U.S. forces in Afghanistan. It appears that Iran is dictating events — and the U.S. is obliging.
President Obama also took a gamble during the Iranian uprising of 2009, when he turned his back on the Iranians who turned out in the millions and risked their lives to overthrow their regime. As he did two years ago, Obama continues with his policy of appeasement, hoping his overtures will result in better terms with the jihadists ruling Iran. Yet the Iranian leaders see every overture as a sign of weakness: see how Iran has accelerated their nuclear bomb project. They are openly mocking President Obama’s failed policies of appeasement and sanctions.
Instead of meeting with the Iranian defense minister, the U.S. forces in Afghanistan should have arrested Vahidi in order to honor the dictates of Interpol’s most-wanted list. The Iranian leaders should be given the message: we will not tolerate terrorism, and we will bring justice to those responsible for killing our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq.
After Mr. Vahidi’s triumphant visit to Afghanistan, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emboldened by America’s weaknesses, lashed out again: he said the continued presence of U.S. military forces in Afghanistan is the primary reason for the problems in that country.
At the same time, the Iranian Quds Force continues to train and arm Taliban and al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan and the Shiite militias in Iraq. A recent report by the Iraqi National Intelligence service which has been presented to the Iraqi officials specifically highlights the Quds Force’s activities in Iraq, and states that the analysis shows the training operations are taking place in four different locations in Iran: Qom, Tehran, Mashhad, and Ahvaz. These maneuvers are overseen by Major General Qassem Suleimani, who is the chief commanding officer of the Quds (or Jerusalem) Force. The operations are also supervised and sanctioned by Khamenei.
The report elaborates further that the Iranian Quds Force specifically recruits individuals who are deemed loyal to Iraq, and not only trains them but provides them with light weapons, explosives, mortar shells the size of RPG 20s, and bombs. They also connect these individuals to other pertinent terrorist cells. The report also includes a list of Iraqi government officials and judges who are, or were, targeted for assassination.
Members of these special forces are responsible for a string of bombings (which included the use of smart bombs), which targeted six Iraqi Al-Rasafah Supreme Court judges and led to the eventual assassination of the chief justice.
It has been reported that the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Qassem Suleimani, sent a message to the U.S. generals in Iraq saying that Iran controls the events in Iraq and it looks like Iran now intends to do the same in Afghanistan.
Mr. Vahidi’s trip to Afghanistan demonstrates: not only do the Iranian leaders ignore international law, but the weakness of America and the international community emboldens terrorists.
Because of my personal journey as a CIA spy in the Iranian Guards, I have become outspoken about the radicals ruling Iran. They intend to bring great harm to the West, and they truly believe it is their duty to do so — because Allah has commanded it. We cannot and should not take this threat lightly.
Mr.Vahdi has plans to make a similar trip to Iraq.
What’s a little bowing to our superiors? The left is incapable of shame.
“An informed source within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps reports that Mr. Vahidi also held secret talks with an American delegation consisting of political and military officials. According to the source, the Americans discussed Iran’s potential role in helping with stability and security in Afghanistan, while Vahidi insisted on Iran’s position of a speedy removal of U.S. forces and a rejection of U.S. plans for establishing permanent bases in Afghanistan.”
You’re kidding, right? Not only are we “negotiating” with this murderer but we are actually discussing giving up the only thing that is really worth something in Afghanistan, which are some permanent bases for US forces? Having one or two major bases in Afghanistan would be the best way to keep an eye on al Qaeda in that area and they could be used for launching occasional attacks against al Qaeda if necessary. The bases would also act as a deterrent to the Taliban, sending the clear message that if they ever supported terrorists that want to attack the United States, they themselves would be attacked from these bases. It would be the same arrangement that we have with Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And that base has been VERY useful to us for over 100 years now. So to even think about giving these bases away would be horrible and would only help the Iranians. So much for more of that “Smart Power” coming out of the White House. Disgusting.
You’re kidding right?, I am sure that there were some who said this as they were being placed into ovens.
What will it take for us to say….NO MORE.
Oh, I’d talk to him.
But I doubt the content of the conversation would be at all the same.
We must stop saying we are “shocked” by the behaviors of this administration:
every time we say something like that we offer a free pass to this administration to be considered a “normal” administration that just “makes mistakes”.
We have to do with an administration led by an extreme ideology: they are anti-capitalist, anti-West, anti American. They say so.
The only “shocking” thing is that the mass media have pushed into power, with a national brainwashing campaign with no equal in the history of subversion, a subversive administration.
These guys are internationalist subversives, what they do towards Iran is perfectly consistent with what they think.
Let’s try to understand that the elections of 2012 will be, exactly like the elections of 201 have been, a counterinsurgency operation.
We will not win if we keep telling to the American people that “it is politics as usual”. It is not. The Republic is in mortal danger. We need every single vote we can get (and then one more).
Let’s be clear-the POTUS IS one of them.
Therefore, their strategies/polices/demands ARE his.He takes his marching orders from the Soros cabal and from the Brotherhood/Islamists.BOTH have the same goal-the destruction of the US.
Period.
I agree. Isn’t it apparent by now, after 3 plus years of apologizing and placating the islamic fractions that The POTUS is an islamist pure and simple? Get your heads out of your collective anal canals and begin impeachment proceedings against this traitor.
Incorrect.
In order to be a Muslim–or a Christian for that matter–means that one must believe in a power greater than one’s self.
Barack Obama clearly believes himself to be the Supreme Being in this universe.
Therefore, he cannot be a Muslim or Christian.
QED.
I don’t know if there is such a thing, but it sounds like we can call this the “Neville Syndrome”, and we all know how that turned out.
It’s worse than “Neville Syndrome”; It’s puerile arrogance from Hambone on down, thinking that they are actually so impressive that the sand-people wouldn’t dare play them as saps. If you’ve ever watched someone get taken in, when you, yourself were wise to the scam, you’ll know what I mean. I’m not sure which is more shameful: The sand-people engaging in their usual subterfuge or the intellectual elites who think they are too smart to be taken in.
If I were a grunt in Afghanistan or Iraq I think my morale would be hurting right now.
“If Americans were wise, they would avoid causing long-term trouble for themselves by trying to establish permanent bases in Afghanistan.”
Hence the drawdown of troops announced recently? Have these guys been advising the POTUS? Whao!!
The only way we’re going to get military bases in Afghanistan, which is in the vital interests of the US and the West to have, is to get rid of Obama in the 2012 election.
“U.S. forces in Afghanistan should have arrested Vahidi in order to honor the dictates of Interpol’s most-wanted list. ”
A few small quibbles… The sovereign USA doesn’t need the pathetic fig leaf of the “dictates of Interpol”. Such a gesture undermines the sovereign legal standing of America (and all sovereign nations), and our righteous sovereign claims against the Terror States of Islam, whoever they are. As a side note, when Interpol eventually fills there roster of “most wanted” with past US presidents, US security advisors, US secs of State, “global warming deniers”, or any others which the Euros deem apostate, what then? Why lend the socialist totalitarian bastards any credence?
Further, hiding behind the so-called “dictates of Interpol” helps to perpetuate the lie that Muslim terrorism and Jihad are simply law enforcement matters, and not a World War waged by Muslims against all the rest. Accepting this lie has been a lethal blunder on the part of the West and must stop. Muslims all subscribe to Jihad or they are not Muslms – and Islamic Jihad mandates global war to impose Islam – it mandates the subjugation of all people under the jackboot of Muhammad. Islam is an evil ideology, responsible for many hundred million murders – today it is responsible for global mayhem, global terror, and global destruction.
How long will it take for the United States government to wake up to the fact that Islam is bent on the destruction of the United States?
Instead of talking to General Vahidi, we should kill him when he travels to Iraq.
That would send a strong message to Teheran.
Lets not to forget that Islamic republic’s inception had the full blessing of President Carter’s administration!They are Pillar of threat in that area and everyone is benefiting from Islamic republic except Iranian nation!
You all know how it is, they, the administration, will talk to and show respect for murderers, just not American Christians and other Normal People.
This is what really bothers me about the Obama Administration; the continued imagination that you can deal with this barbaric and tyrannical regime through reason. This is horrible. But on the other side we have the Republicans isolationists who are running for President. I feel like we need someone like a John Bolton to step up to the plate and run for President. These are murky times going on with a dangerous and fanatical regime.
Allen West is the right man for the time in almost every respect, but the American people isn’t ready for him yet. Since the media is BS’ing them they will only start to see the realities when things get too bad for the media to cover up effecetively, excuse with leftist platitudes and/or blame Israel and America for.
The tail is wagging the dog. It’s another sign that we are in deep trouble.
Here am I in despair in Britain, imagining that it is impossible to be governed by a worse shower than we have experienced in the last fourteen years – then your lot burst into my reverie (nightmarish as it is) with something like this. Thanks a bunch, Mr. Obama.
DaOne is only doing what he is told. One does not get a billion dollars to run for POTUS, and then march to his own tune. I suspect Sores in there somewhere buying folks off. Like Billery for 6 million dollars with her book that was a flop.
There is a CFR global agenda, and it is not in America’s national interest. However, it is written about in the Bible how things will be towards the end. This global government will come together for a short time, and be ruled by a leader that controls the monetary system, and stops the Arab/Israel hostilities.
It will bring peace, but a false peace for 3.5 years, then hell on earth.
Anyway, just wanted to drop in, and brighten your day.
Vahidi’s upcoming sojourn to Iraq ought really to be a one-way trip.
Agreed, he has the blood of countless Americans on his hands. He will continue to kill us, anywhere in the world he can, until we stop him, and his enablers, the Iranian mullahs. He deserves the same fate as Bin Laden.
Should we really be surprised that the US and in particular this administration has been obliging to the whims and whams of a terrorist regime for years? When will we the people say enough is enough and no to this paper tiger administration? When will we see that it is totally moral and logical to realize that this putrefied barbaric regime has gotta go? When will we extend our hands of support to the freedom fighting people of Iran in order to uproot their oppressive brutal regime?
Mr. ‘Khalili’,
Karzai has been cozying/kissing Iranian ass for some time now. That a sshole enjoyed the fruits AND deaths of our U.S./Allied soldiers labor’s to better his nomad-like and this is our, ‘Thanks’.
The moment we see ANY type of tough questions/posturing by our glass-lipped/jawed Urkel-in-Chief is the day ‘moderate’ Muslims gather en masse to plead with the jihadi-minded to stop the madness.
I’ll then book vacations to Beirut, Kashmir, Cairo, Sulawesi, Londonistan, Caucasus region, Istanbul and numerous other cities/countries that have been overrun or directly effected by these parasites.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/War_on_terror_attack_map.svg
I should have mentioned in my last post the wikimedia site reference is terrorist attacks POST 9-11.
Yeah, I’m ‘baffled’ as to ‘why’ there’s animosity directed towards followers of the Muslim faith and the limp-wristed actions of the ‘moderate’ Muslim.
For the ‘moderate’ has watched, in essence encourage this barbaric behavior to occur for THOUSANDS of YEARS.
When the West does get involved and drastically decreases these cowardly terrorist actions, IN LESS THAN A DECADE MIND YOU.. again, this is their ‘Thanks’.
Western leaders are on the side of barbaric Muslim terrorists. The U.S. continually gives advanced military training to PLO/Palestinian Authority terrorist organization. One terrorist declared that all of the military training given by the U.S. is used against Israel’s Jews.
See: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103410
They are American leaders’ proxy army against the Jewish people.
The fact that for YEARS, many Muslim terrorist training camps have been allowed to grow and prosper in our country is an indication of how deep the betrayal of America is by our leaders. Our leaders clearly want these Muslims to attack non-Muslim American innocents! The betrayal of America did not start with Obama, but under Muslim Obama, the process is now accelerating.
Americans have been sold out as a people, just as Israel’s Jews have been sold out by their leaders who agreed to negotiate with, and give half of holy Israel and Jerusalem to barbaric Muslim enemies bent on Jewish genocide.
Muslim terrorist training camps in America are allowed. There are many. Google: Muslim terrorist training camps in America.
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and the Imam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUYIHRRaPmA&feature=player_embedded
Muslim Terrorist Training Camps in America – Feb 16, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr8FexoNO1M
Homegrown Jihad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8_82YGXJe0&feature=player_embedded
Clearly the elite and war dogs in Washington are getting closer to the realization that we will not win the hearts and minds of the Afghan’s. The U.S. is so desperate they are talking to all the enemies that our good military has been fighting and now to IRAN. The engagements our elite have placed us in in the middle east and now Libya is so misguided, totally stupid and to the detriment of the American people and America’s treasury (monetary and lives).
The despots of the Middle East will continue to fool the elite in Washington to stay engaged. They understand that the wars will bankrupt the U.S. and then they will win.
If the elite in Washington spent a 1/4 of the backpacks of cash they have handed out in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and other rancid failed states and used it to secure our borders thus maintaining a sovereign United States of America our deficit would decline and America could heal itself.
We are doomed with the statusquo in Washington and that includes Obama’s Administration and the Republican’s. The only candidate on the Republican list that would get us out of this mess is Ron Paul yet both parties do everything to marginalize him. Why? They no he speaks the truth and he would have us out of these horrid country’s.
We could still give our support to Israel.