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Iran's Senior Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Reportedly Defects to the U.S.
PJ Media ^ | 04/26/2019 | Michael Ledeen

Posted on 04/26/2019 6:44:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

It seems we may have an important defector from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a senior commander no less. The news first appeared on Banafshah Zand’s indispensable website on the crimes of the Islamic Republic of Iran:

Brigadier General Ali Nasiri, head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps Protection Bureau, is said to have fled to the West after a fallout with the representative of the Supreme Leader in the IRGC.

On Thursday, April 11th, during a meeting among the senior IRGC intelligence officials, Nasiri and Hossein Taeb, the representative of the Supreme Leader to the IRGC came to blows. The following days, when Nasiri failed to show up for work, it was revealed that he had actually left the country.

General Nasiri was said to have fled with hundreds of classified documents, which could be of great value to the United States, to which Nasiri is said to have defected.

Nasiri could provide valuable information about IRGC deployments in the Middle East, North and East Africa, and Latin America, notably in Venezuela. Even though Secretary of State Pompeo has proclaimed that we will not wage military attacks against the Islamic Republic, Nasiri’s military expertise might enable us to move against secret Iranian bases, capture Iranian agents, and stage limited operations.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: defection; iran; revolutionaryguard

1 posted on 04/26/2019 6:44:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

ok, but no jumping to the head of the immigrant line.


2 posted on 04/26/2019 6:46:29 AM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: SeekAndFind

This was a good episode of Homeland. The defector’s ex-wife and kid live in the US and he proceeds to murder them both with a broken bottle and impunity.


3 posted on 04/26/2019 6:48:03 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sure hope his family is somewhere in a safe country and well guarded.


4 posted on 04/26/2019 6:48:43 AM PDT by ryderann
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To: SeekAndFind

Valerie Jarret deeply saddened


5 posted on 04/26/2019 6:54:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The chief of SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police, was named Nematollah Nasiri, and yes, he was one of the first to be executed when Khomeini took over. Any relation to this guy?


6 posted on 04/26/2019 6:54:17 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder if he knows anything about pallets of cash being delivered.....


7 posted on 04/26/2019 6:54:21 AM PDT by kevslisababy (I am a Genuine Female: No after market parts.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Intel community trying to prove that it’s indispensable. They’re under pressure to do that now.


8 posted on 04/26/2019 6:55:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BenLurkin

John F’n Kerry, too. . . you know, I hear he served in the Vietnam war. . . .


9 posted on 04/26/2019 7:04:37 AM PDT by RatRipper
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To: SeekAndFind

Wow. Dude is brave. The deep state will leak his position to Hillary and Obama goons...


10 posted on 04/26/2019 7:13:14 AM PDT by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hatse:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: kevslisababy

I wonder if he knows anything about pallets of cash being delivered.....


Yeah, was thinking the same. The kenyan can’t be happy about this development.


11 posted on 04/26/2019 7:16:02 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: SeekAndFind

I am guessing that the US designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization, just days before, is what got them at each others throats.

Bravo!

As the head of their version of the Secret Service, this guy should be very helpful in targeting senior regime figures, during regime change.


12 posted on 04/26/2019 7:42:13 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: SeekAndFind

Gotta wonder if he was a mole who came in from the cold. Not the easiest thing in the world to exfiltrate from a country like Iran.


13 posted on 04/26/2019 7:43:53 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Zhang Fei
Gotta wonder if he was a mole who came in from the cold

You called?


14 posted on 04/26/2019 8:09:11 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: SeekAndFind

Mole.

Or rat leaving a sinking ship.


15 posted on 04/26/2019 8:13:25 AM PDT by karnage
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To: SeekAndFind
Nasiri’s military expertise might enable us to move against secret Iranian bases

And for what possible purpose would we do that?

16 posted on 04/26/2019 8:13:30 AM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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To: SeekAndFind

One has to wonder if Israel thinks a big, giant United States of Mex-Rifca will continue to be capable to be their muscle and send their boys to die for them?


17 posted on 04/26/2019 8:35:04 AM PDT by riri
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To: SeekAndFind

[You called]


Lol.


18 posted on 04/27/2019 7:39:19 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Exactly. No other reason for this story.


19 posted on 04/27/2019 7:41:26 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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