Posted on 03/20/2007 2:40:56 PM PDT by jmc1969
IRAN has been operating training programs for Iraqi Shiite militants at secret bases for several months as part of its efforts to destabilise Iraq, an opponent of the Iranian Government said today.
Alireza Jafarzadeh, who accurately disclosed important details about Iran's nuclear program in 2002, said the Iranian Revolutionary Guards have been running the camps with the full knowledge and approval of the Iranian Government.
"Over the past few months the Iranian regime has stepped up its efforts to destabilise Iraq and further escalate the violence there," Mr Jafarzadeh said.
Mr Jafarzadeh provided names, dates and details of alleged training activities he said had been provided to him by Iranian opposition groups.
While at the camps, militants are instructed by members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' Qods Force and Lebanese members of Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Islamic militant group, in unconventional warfare, explosives and shoulder-launched anti-aircraft weapons.
Iran denies it is supporting sectarian groups in Iraq or promoting the anti-US insurgency.
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Reuters just now got the memo? ;)
"Mr Jafarzadeh provided names, dates and details of alleged training activities he said had been provided to him by Iranian opposition groups."
Duh.
We aren't at war with iran. But they damn shure are at war with US!
If January 1, 2008 rolls around without the United States having taken decisive action against the Iranian regime then Pres. Bush's second term will have been a failure,
I think the administration has to make noises about the Shia and the Iranians in order to appear fair, but the fact remains that the vast majority of US casualties are the result of Sunni Arabs.
Which leads to the question about where THEY get their money, arms, etc...
Ok, so besides wringing our hands, what are we going to do about it?
I wish to God we would bomb the crap out of Iran. But we won't.
Sunni Arabs like this from PBS from early 2002.
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The U.S. says Al Qaeda fugitives may have slipped into Iran, and that some may have found sanctuary there, including Abu Musaab Zarqawi. The New York Times reported on March 24 that Zarqawi, "a senior Al Qaeda leader who fled the western Afghan city of Herat after the American military campaign began, has turned up in Tehran under the protection of Iranian security forces, according to senior Israeli and American officials." Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on ABC's This Week in early February, "We have any number of reports that Iran has been permissive and allowed transit through their country of Al Qaeda." Iran denies that it has provided any assistance to Al Qaeda fugitives.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/tehran/axis/map.html
A Tehran/Al Qaeda alliance is less likely than Duncan Hunter partying down with Jane Fonda.
"A U.S. official says the CIA believes that while in Iran, al-Zarqawi spent a lot of time trying to evade arrest by Iranian authorities..."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6262451/site/newsweek/
Its about as likely as the US supporting Zarqawi, Zawhiri, and Bin Laden against our enemies the Russians. Oh wait we did.
While remotely plausible on an enemy of my enemy basis, Iranian support for al Qaeda isn't likely to be NEARLY as large as the support of elements of the Saudi, Pakistani and Syrian governments.
have been since '79
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