Iranian Defense Official Defects (WaPo)

[White_Male_Canada]

The left wants evidence of Iranian support of terrorism, they got it ! 8)

Former Iranian Defense Official Talks to Western Intelligence

Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 8, 2007; A16



A former Iranian deputy defense minister who once commanded the Revolutionary Guard has left his country and is cooperating with Western intelligence agencies, providing information on Hezbollah and Iran's ties to the organization, according to a senior U.S. official.

Ali Rez Asgari disappeared last month during a visit to Turkey. Iranian officials suggested yesterday that he may have been kidnapped by Israel or the United States. The U.S. official said Asgari is willingly cooperating. He did not divulge Asgari's whereabouts or specify who is questioning him, but made clear that the information Asgari is offering is fully available to U.S. intelligence.

Asgari served in the Iranian government until early 2005 under then-President Mohammad Khatami. Asgari's background suggests that he would have deep knowledge of Iran's national security infrastructure, conventional weapons arsenal and ties to Hezbollah in south Lebanon. Iranian officials said he was not involved in the country's nuclear program, and the senior U.S. official said Asgari is not being questioned about it. Former officers with Israel's Mossad spy agency said yesterday that Asgari had been instrumental in the founding of Hezbollah in the 1980s, around the time of the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut.

Former Mossad director Danny Yatom, who is now a member of Israel's parliament, said he believes Asgari defected to the West. "He is very high-caliber," Yatom said. "He held a very, very senior position for many long years in Lebanon. He was in effect commander of the Revolutionary Guards" there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/07/AR2007030702241_pf.html

[Quinn]

No matter how you cut it, Asgari's defection is huge. I wonder how long they've been working on him to get him to defect.

-Quinn

[qeuqheeg222]

do you think iran never supported terrorists?shit they have been at it for a while but who are we to talk we we were fuckin with their politics way back in the 50's and 60's.remember the shah and his family?karma is such a bitch...the u.s. really should have rethought their middle east policy after the mid 70s oil crisis....

do you think iran never supported terrorists?shit they have been at it for a while but who are we to talk we we were fuckin with their politics way back in the 50's and 60's.remember the shah and his family?karma is such a bitch...the u.s. really should have rethought their middle east policy after the mid 70s oil crisis....


Every man supports his interests. This goes from man to woman and all forms of government. There's nothing wrong with standing strong for your way of life and the way of life you love. Nor the woman you protect, nor the peace and sanctity of the home. We didn't hurt them, they hurt themselves by standing against us.

If it's my woman and my way of life againsts yours, you have to go. I don't care if you were my friend. When you get in the way of me, my woman or family, you will die. We were friends in the 50's and 60's and that was cool. But when you challenge OUR happiness, you will die.

[qeuqheeg222]

they werent our enemy in the 50's or 60's or even 70's with the shah...with the proper interests we could have changed this outcome....it doesnt revolve around who kicks who'se ass..we ahve the power to change and we fucked up!!

[quote="qeuqheeg222"]they werent our enemy in the 50's or 60's or even 70's with the shah...

Tell that to Jimmy Carter, he could have and SHOULD have supported the Shah against the Jihadists even way back in 1978. As a result of liberal philosophy, the Shah fell. Jimmy Carter de facto abandoned the Shah.

[qeuqheeg222]

yeah but the shah was put in years before he got into office.....

yeah but the shah was put in years before he got into office.....


Irrelevant. The Shah was a peace-friendly non-jihadist. The people who stole power were notorious Jihadists. Who was complicit in the rise of the Mullahs and Ayatollahs?

Started during the pussy-boy bitch Carter Administration

[White_Male_Canada]

DEFECTOR'S INTEL TROVE

March 10, 2007 -- Iran's ex-deputy defense minister smuggled top-secret maps and documents - some of which prove terror ties around the Middle East - out of Tehran when he defected to the West, former colleagues said yesterday.

The confidential files Ali Reza Asghari brought with him provide details about Iran's links to terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad as well as the radical Mahdi Army and Badr Corps in Iraq, according to an influential Arab newspaper.

An Iranian colleague told the paper, Al-Sharq al-Awsat, that Asghari also had secret documents concerning Iran's nuclear missile program.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards are beefing up defenses around the country's nuclear reactors out of fear that the United States and Israel, now armed with the new intelligence, could attack them, the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported yesterday.

Asghari is believed to have planned his defection well in advance because he arranged for relatives to leave Tehran before him and apparently had a fake passport waiting for him in Turkey.

An Israeli intelligence figure told Yediot Achronot that the defection may explain recent successes by U.S. intelligence in Iraq, including the capture of Asghari's former deputy there.

Since his defection, Asghari has been described as a former senior general in the Revolutionary Guards, the one-time national security adviser to former President Mohammed Khatami and the virtual founder of the Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

http://www.nypost.com/php/pfriendly/print.php?url=http://www.nypost.com/seven/03102007/news/worldnews/defectors__intel_trove_worldnews_oron_dan_in_jerus alem_and_andy_soltis_in_new_york.htm

[Quinn]

they werent our enemy in the 50's or 60's or even 70's with the shah...

Tell that to Jimmy Carter, he could have and SHOULD have supported the Shah against the Jihadists even way back in 1978. As a result of liberal philosophy, the Shah fell. Jimmy Carter de facto abandoned the Shah.

The Shah was kept in power by two things:

1) A very powerful CIA created and assisted secret police force, known as SAVAK;
2) Most of Iran's leading Shiite clerics were secretly on the CIA's payroll to keep quiet and not oppose the Shah.

If memory serves, Carter ordered the CIA to permanently suspend payments to the clerics, who then turned on the Shah with a vengeance, thereby indirectly causing the revolution. Carter also ordered the CIA to dramatically scale back its HUMINT capability, which dramatically affected our ability to affect developments on the ground once they started turning against the Shah.

-Quinn

[White_Male_Canada]

[quote=White_Male_Canada]The left wants evidence of Iranian support of terrorism, they got it !

How about U.S. support of terrorism in Iran?:
quote]

Of course ! Convert to islam,

fight the great satan ! 8)

[guyone]

The Shah was kept in power by two things:

1) A very powerful CIA created and assisted secret police force, known as SAVAK;
2) Most of Iran's leading Shiite clerics were secretly on the CIA's payroll to keep quiet and not oppose the Shah.

If memory serves, Carter ordered the CIA to permanently suspend payments to the clerics, who then turned on the Shah with a vengeance, thereby indirectly causing the revolution. Carter also ordered the CIA to dramatically scale back its HUMINT capability, which dramatically affected our ability to affect developments on the ground once they started turning against the Shah.

I don't think this plan worked out too well.

[chefmike]

It never fails, if the repugs can't blame Clinton, they blame Carter....

So predictable.

Next... :sleep

[guyone]

The problem with the left is that they can never take the blame for anything when they screw up.

[Quinn]

The problem with the left is that they can never take the blame for anything when they screw up.

The Same can be said of the Right as much as of the Left. Wake up already.

-Quinn

[guyone]

Regan wasn't president in 1976.

[Quinn]

Regan wasn't president in 1976.

Which has what bearing upon the following statement -- a statement not limited in scope to the year 1976:


The problem with the left is that they can never take the blame for anything when they screw up.

-Quinn

[guyone]

???

[Quinn]

LMAO.....

-Quinn