May 19, 2008 -- Behind the anti-Iran terror network: the same people who brought us the Iraq war
Iran has rolled up a western intelligence ring that not only planned a series of terrorist attacks in Iran but was responsible for a bombing on April 12 of a mosque center in Shiraz that killed 13 people and injured over 190 others. Iran foiled the intelligence ring's plans to bomb religious, scientific and educational institutions in Khuzestan, where there is a U.S- and British-supported secessionist movement; Fars; West Azerbaijan; Gilan, and the capital city of Tehran. Among the targets were the Tehran International Book Fair, the Russian Consulate in Gilan; oil pipelines; and other "soft targets."
The plotters were caught with high explosives, cyanide, maps, and photos and sketches of targets.
Although Iran is claiming the CIA was in charge of the group, the evidence and past practices strongly suggests that it was the neocon-supported Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), or People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI), a State Department-designated terrorist group, that was behind the planned and past terrorist attacks. The MEK has received support and sanctuary from the United States in U.-occupied Iraq and the plan to launch terrorist attacks by the group bore more of the watermark of the new US Central Command head General David Petraeus than the CIA. In fact, WMR has learned that any provocation against Iran is strongly opposed by key elements of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, particularly the Clandestine Services branch.
US defense intelligence experts see the MEK as a cult-like organization similar to Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. The MEK has, in the past, received the support of the Soviet Union and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. It now enjoys the patronage of Iraq's Kurdish President Jalal Talabani.
However, it is the support the MEK receives from neocon pro-Israelis close to the Bush-Cheney regime that allows it to pursue bold operations like the planned terrorist attacks in Iran. In a paper written by US Marine Corps Major Adam Strickland for the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, it is pointed out that treatment of the MEK as a terrorist organization has not received support at home. The paper states: "In January 2004, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle spoke at a fund raiser for victims of the Bam earthquake with Maryam Rajavi."
Rajavi is a co-founder of the MEK. Perle is a top policymaker for the neocon American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and according to a French intelligence officer who spoke to WMR, "Perle's telephone conversations from his villa in the south of France to his friends in Israel and Washington have been of great interest to us." The source said transcripts of the conversations were handed over by France to the FBI.
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Iran has repeatedly offered to turn over Al Qaeda members it is holding in return for MEK terrorists in US custody. However, the Bush-Cheney regime has rejected all the offers.
The CIA treats any "intelligence" from the MEK and its allies, particularly those close to Israel, concerning Iran as bogus. Former Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA), House Intelligence Committee ranking member Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), and former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton have all profferred "intelligence" on Iran's nuclear program from Fereidoun Mahdavi, also known as "Ali," who is an agent provocateur for Manucher Ghorbanifar, an Iran-Contra figure who is on the CIA's "burn list" as a fabricator, along with Iraq's "Curveball" and Ahmad Chalabi.
Ghorbanifar is close to the Pentagon's former neocon cell of Perle, Michael Ledeen (also of the American Enterprise Institute), Douglas Feith, and Harold Rhode. However, the CIA's former Paris station chief Bill Murray has warned that "intelligence" on Iran's nuclear program offered up about Iran by Mahdavi has been fabricated. The Committee for a Democratic Iran (CDI) is a clone of AIPAC and has been linked to both the MEK; the MEK's political wing, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and Israel's Mossad intelligence agency.
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