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ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran
April 03, 2007 5:25 PM
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html

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US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran
25/02/2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/25/wiran25.xml

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Active CIA Terrorist Cells operate inside Iran
Aljazeera Magazine - 2007-04-08
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=TAY20070411&articleId...

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Terrorist group operating in southeastern Iran hired by CIA
Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:25:28
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=4901§ionid=3510203

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Report: U.S. Sponsoring Kurdish Guerilla Attacks Inside Iran
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/27/1356250

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CIA and FBI Documents Detail Career in International Terrorism;
Connection to U.S.
May 10, 2005
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB153/index.htm

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/25/wiran25.xml
US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran

By William Lowther in Washington DC and Colin Freeman, Sunday
Telegraph
Last Updated: 12:30am GMT 25/02/2007

America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran
in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its
nuclear programme.

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime is accused of repressing
minority rights and culture

In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure
of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping
opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups
clustered in Iran's border regions.

The operations are controversial because they involve dealing with
movements that resort to terrorist methods in pursuit of their
grievances against the Iranian regime.

In the past year there has been a wave of unrest in ethnic minority
border areas of Iran, with bombing and assassination campaigns against
soldiers and government officials.

Such incidents have been carried out by the Kurds in the west, the
Azeris in the north-west, the Ahwazi Arabs in the south-west, and the
Baluchis in the south-east. Non-Persians make up nearly 40 per cent of
Iran's 69 million population, with around 16 million Azeris, seven
million Kurds, five million Ahwazis and one million Baluchis. Most
Baluchis live over the border in Pakistan.
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Funding for their separatist causes comes directly from the CIA's
classified budget but is now "no great secret", according to one
former high-ranking CIA official in Washington who spoke anonymously
to The Sunday Telegraph.

His claims were backed by Fred Burton, a former US state department
counter-terrorism agent, who said: "The latest attacks inside Iran
fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran's ethnic
minorities to destabilise the Iranian regime."

Although Washington officially denies involvement in such activity,
Teheran has long claimed to detect the hand of both America and
Britain in attacks by guerrilla groups on its internal security
forces. Last Monday, Iran publicly hanged a man, Nasrollah Shanbe
Zehi, for his involvement in a bomb attack that killed 11
Revolutionary Guards in the city of Zahedan in Sistan-Baluchistan. An
unnamed local official told the semi-official Fars news agency that
weapons used in the attack were British and US-made.

Yesterday, Iranian forces also claimed to have killed 17 rebels
described as "mercenary elements" in clashes near the Turkish border,
which is a stronghold of the Pejak, a Kurdish militant party linked to
Turkey's outlawed PKK Kurdistan Workers' Party.

John Pike, the head of the influential Global Security think tank in
Washington, said: "The activities of the ethnic groups have hotted up
over the last two years and it would be a scandal if that was not at
least in part the result of CIA activity."

Such a policy is fraught with risk, however. Many of the groups share
little common cause with Washington other than their opposition to
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose regime they accuse of stepping up
repression of minority rights and culture.

The Baluchistan-based Brigade of God group, which last year kidnapped
and killed eight Iranian soldiers, is a volatile Sunni organisation
that many fear could easily turn against Washington after taking its
money.

A row has also broken out in Washington over whether to "unleash" the
military wing of the Mujahedeen-e Khalq (MEK), an Iraq-based Iranian
opposition group with a long and bloody history of armed opposition to
the Iranian regime.

The group is currently listed by the US state department as terrorist
organisation, but Mr Pike said: "A faction in the Defence Department
wants to unleash them. They could never overthrow the current Iranian
regime but they might cause a lot of damage."

At present, none of the opposition groups are much more than irritants
to Teheran, but US analysts believe that they could become emboldened
if the regime was attacked by America or Israel. Such a prospect began
to look more likely last week, as the UN Security Council deadline
passed for Iran to stop its uranium enrichment programme, and a second
American aircraft carrier joined the build up of US naval power off
Iran's southern coastal waters.

The US has also moved six heavy bombers from a British base on the
Pacific island of Diego Garcia to the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar,
which could allow them to carry out strikes on Iran without seeking
permission from Downing Street.

While Tony Blair reiterated last week that Britain still wanted a
diplomatic solution to the crisis, US Vice-President Dick Cheney
yesterday insisted that military force was a real possibility.

"It would be a serious mistake if a nation like Iran were to become a
nuclear power," Mr Cheney warned during a visit to Australia. "All
options are still on the table."

The five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany
will meet in London tomorrow to discuss further punitive measures
against Iran. Sanctions barring the transfer of nuclear technology and
know-how were imposed in December. Additional penalties might include
a travel ban on senior Iranian officials and restrictions on non-
nuclear business.

Additional reporting by Gethin Chamberlain.

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html

ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran

April 03, 2007 5:25 PM

Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report:

Iran_militant_group_nr A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible
for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly
encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and
Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News.

The group, called Jundullah, is made up of members of the Baluchi
tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan, just
across the border from Iran.

It has taken responsibility for the deaths and kidnappings of more
than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials.
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U.S. officials say the U.S. relationship with Jundullah is arranged so
that the U.S. provides no funding to the group, which would require an
official presidential order or "finding" as well as congressional
oversight.

Tribal sources tell ABC News that money for Jundullah is funneled to
its youthful leader, Abd el Malik Regi, through Iranian exiles who
have connections with European and Gulf states.

Click Here for Full Blotter Coverage.

Jundullah has produced its own videos showing Iranian soldiers and
border guards it says it has captured and brought back to Pakistan.

The leader, Regi, claims to have personally executed some of the
Iranians.

"He used to fight with the Taliban. He's part drug smuggler, part
Taliban, part Sunni activist," said Alexis Debat, a senior fellow on
counterterrorism at the Nixon Center and an ABC News consultant who
recently met with Pakistani officials and tribal members.

"Regi is essentially commanding a force of several hundred guerrilla
fighters that stage attacks across the border into Iran on Iranian
military officers, Iranian intelligence officers, kidnapping them,
executing them on camera," Debat said.

Most recently, Jundullah took credit for an attack in February that
killed at least 11 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard riding
on a bus in the Iranian city of Zahedan.

Last month, Iranian state television broadcast what it said were
confessions by those responsible for the bus attack.

They reportedly admitted to being members of Jundullah and said they
had been trained for the mission at a secret location in Pakistan.

The Iranian TV broadcast is interspersed with the logo of the CIA,
which the broadcast blamed for the plot.

A CIA spokesperson said "the account of alleged CIA action is false"
and reiterated that the U.S. provides no funding of the Jundullah
group.

Pakistani government sources say the secret campaign against Iran by
Jundullah was on the agenda when Vice President Dick Cheney met with
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in February.

A senior U.S. government official said groups such as Jundullah have
been helpful in tracking al Qaeda figures and that it was appropriate
for the U.S. to deal with such groups in that context.

Some former CIA officers say the arrangement is reminiscent of how the
U.S. government used proxy armies, funded by other countries including
Saudi Arabia, to destabilize the government of Nicaragua in the 1980s.

Click here for Brian Ross & Investigative Team's Homepage

April 3, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (247)

On 28 abr, 18:55, "Sunny" yahoo.com.au> wrote:

I don't understand why your slander is directed at me. These are all
mainstream press articles.

I don't know why you keep trying to slander me with anti-semitism
either. I have addressed your slander before here:
http://groups.google.com.br/group/aus.politics/msg/57896fa37345a94f?dmode=source

and here:
http://groups.google.com.br/group/aus.politics/msg/8fbc8bbfdb86bfa1?dmode=source

And now again here (for the sake of innocent jewish people worldwide
who are threatened by your Zionism):

I don't know what you mean by "the jews". I have jewish friends and I
can assure you that they have nothing to do with any of this. However
perhaps you are trying to protect Israel by relentlessly slandering
any discussion about US/Israeli alliance by charging everyone who
criticises it with anti-semitism? And by relentlessly trying to subdue
the distinction between Zionism and Judaism?
That would suggest that you are a Zionist. It is well known that this
is the ploy of Zionists to drag world jewry into complicity with their
own crimes. In that respect it is you who is truly anti-semitic for
only someone who has no care for innocent jewish peoples of the world
would relentlessly try and complicate them in the war crimes of the
Zionist state. Your methodic lies and shameless deceptions are
characteristic of Zionist disinformation. Zionists truly are the
greatest enemy of the jews.

Why do we constantly have to redress you on this? I can only draw the
conclusion that you are very distrubed ignorant person or that you are
an agent of Zionism.

Here you can see that this hsa been a ploy of Zionists ever since its
founder
Theodore Herzl decreed in 1897:
"It is essential that the sufferings of Jews. . . become worse. . .
this will assist in realization of our plans. . . I have an excellent
idea. . . I shall induce anti-semites to liquidate Jewish wealth. . .
The anti-semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen
the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-semites shall be our
best friends".

How much of the anti-Semitism since 1897 has come from Zionists?

The only valid question I can infer from your Zio-anti-semitism is to
rephrase it. "Are Israel involved in this too?".
Well there is a good summary here of Israeli terrorism (its very long
list so I doubt you would read it given your non-investigative
preference for all things ignorant)
http://groups.google.com.br/group/soc.culture.israel/msg/1c12bfd6287f0906?