ML:

I don’t think there is much mystery about the large numbers of people who are fed up with the regime. The whole world knows that. And a real spy, someone who leaked nuclear secrets, wouldn’t be uncovered by a phony story about the Leader’s death.

Finally, the Leader’s constantly changing web site’s publishing a “statement” and photographs doesn’t prove anything.

Do you know anyone who actually saw him in Qom yesterday?

ML:

Well first of all the source has reappeared, insisting that Khamenei is dead. He may still be an effing liar. I’ve had sources lie to me ad infinitum.

Secondly, don’t imagine that it’s easy for people in Iran to just pick up the phone and call, or to logon and send an email. Communications are monitored, they take risks when they do such things. That’s one reason why I’m usually very suspicious of communications from Iran, since I figure those who aren’t afraid to contact me are probably protected in some way, maybe even working for the regime.

Life is very complicated. Even Jack Bauer would have trouble sorting out Iran.

Did you hear about an explosion in the mountains near Kirman? One Iranian news agency called it a ufo crash. What do you could have caused it?

Thanks

ML:

Martian kamikazes, probably.

Oh please! First, where are your proofs? Are Iranians the only ones who are angry at the U.S for its foreign policies in the past 60 years?! And secondly, even if that was true, how does it compare to the hundreds of thousands of Iranians who died with your conventional and chemical weapons handed to your old pal Saddam?!!

If Iran really wanted to kill american civilians, america would be a huge mess right now. And you know that. So, let’s not engage into that kind of propaganda and psychological warfare.

ML:

Oh silly me, I thought the smarmy question a few comments down was an actual question. Now I see it’s a mini campaign.

ML:

Last I checked they were in Moscow, with good legal representation and under no threat of immediate expulsion to Iran.

Well, just to take the most recent example, there’s Khobar Towers and the bombing of the American embassies in Africa.

Can I assume you’ve seen the evidence that Iran was involved in Khobar Towers?

It seems no one else has been allowed to.

ML:

Please do not give us that smarmy “I assume…” bit. If you did your homework you’d know this.

Read Louis Freeh’s book and/or his several articles on this, or just read the recent court decision in which an American judge concurred that Iran, having been responsible for the bombing, was liable for damages.