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> ABC News Exclusive: The Secret War Against Iran
> April 03, 2007 5:25 PMhttp://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html
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> US funds terror groups to sow chaos in Iran
> 25/02/2007http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/02/25/wiran...
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> Active CIA Terrorist Cells operate inside Iran
> Aljazeera Magazine - 2007-04-08http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=TAY20...
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> Terrorist group operating in southeastern Iran hired by CIA
> Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:25:28http://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, 2007http://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, 2005http://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/wiran...
> 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.
>
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