Iran's Secret Meeting With Israel

News Max ^ | 08 Jan 2010 | Ken Timmerman

[Ooh-Ah]

As the Islamic government in Iran attempts to circle the wagons against the growing popular unrest, cracks within the top leadership itself have begun to appear.

Deep divisions are opening up between President Ahmadinejad and some of his former supporters in the Majles (parliament). On Wednesday, a Majles panel implicated a senior official and Ahmadinejad ally, Saeed Mortazavi, for the murder of three detainees who were arrested during last summer’s protests.

Rifts are also developing inside the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), pitting top IRGC generals against the supreme leader. A closed-door meeting last summer between nearly 100 generals and the supreme leader marked a turning point for many IRGC officers, when Gen. Ruholamini accused Ayatollah Khamenei of ordering the murder of detainees — including Ruholamini’s own son in Kahrizak prison.

One of the more ironic divisions has opened between Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei, surrounding the supposedly secret mission of Ahmadinejad’s top adviser to Europe to meet with Israeli emissaries.

Ahmadinejad has repeatedly called for Israel to be “wiped off the map,” so the very idea of him sending this chief of staff, Esfandiar Rahim-Mashai, to meet with Israeli emissaries sent shockwaves throughout the Tehran establishment.

Mashai went to a European country to meet with individuals close to the Israeli government to seek their assistance in setting up an “accidental” face-to-face meeting with President Barack Obama during the United Nations General Assembly in NY...

In exchange, he said that Ahmadinejad would tone down his anti-Israeli rhetoric, and stop making statements about wiping Israel off the map.

“Ahmadinejad was frustrated because all the contacts with the U.S. were going through Khamenei,” one source told Newsmax on condition of anonymity. “He wanted to be able to show that he was the one who could make the U.S. connection and win concessions from President Obama.”

[4horses+amule]

Written by someone who thinks Iran would WANT ‘concessions’ from the US. I recommend Hooman Majd’s The Ayatollah Begs To Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran.

[ImpBill]

More like the paradox of mortal men seeking power and dominion!

[chopperman]

Just Nuke them and get it over with.

[SeeSharp]

He wanted to be able to show that he was the one who could make the U.S. connection and win concessions from President Obama.”

Note the confident assumption that somebody will get concessions from Obama. It's just an argument over who gets to get the credit for punking Barry.

[FARS]

A recent example of the “hedging” Katzman refers to involves Revolutionary Guards officer Mohammad Reza Madhi (Alan note: should be pronouned and written as Madehi) , a former top security officer in Khamenei’s office, who sought refuge in Thailand last year and now is calling openly for regime change*.

*(Alan note: NOT SO! This rather low level, former Revolutionary Guard intelligence street thug, with criminal charges pending against him for local crimes in Thailand, allegedly as a conman, theft by deception and extortion, is calling for a change from the the current management team of Khamenei and Ahmadi-Nejad NOT a change from the Islamic regime. He wants to retain the Islamic Republic under different management).

A familiar figure in Iran (?) because of his " prominent position " (?) in a veterans association of victims of chemical warfare (known as the Bonyad-e Janbazan), Madehi said in a recent interview that he was in touch with his former colleagues and others inside Iran for 10 hours or more every day. “I use mobile phones, e-mails, and other means to communicate with them. I know what is going on in Iran every day.”

(Madehi is trying to create a safe haven island somewhere for himself on which to land and has to become "important" - communication extent, possibly true enough - reliability and bias questionable - edits and emphasis by Alan)

http://alanpetersnewsbriefs.blogspot.com/2010/01/islamic-irans-secret-israel-meeting.html

[2001convSVT]

The Israelis know that President Obama will do nothing about the threat that Iran poses, so the Israelis are taking matters into their own hands. For better or worse the Israelis now know they are on their own.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FARS.

Deep divisions are opening up between President Ahmadinejad and some of his former supporters in the Majles (parliament). On Wednesday, a Majles panel implicated a senior official and Ahmadinejad ally, Saeed Mortazavi, for the murder of three detainees who were arrested during last summer's protests... A closed-door meeting last summer between nearly 100 generals and the supreme leader marked a turning point for many IRGC officers, when Gen. Ruholamini accused Ayatollah Khamenei of ordering the murder of detainees -- including Ruholamini's own son in Kahrizak prison. One of the more ironic divisions has opened between Ahmadinejad and Ayatollah Khamenei, surrounding the supposedly secret mission of Ahmadinejad's top adviser to Europe to meet with Israeli emissaries.

[JerseyHighlander]

This Madehi guy sounds like the kind of character that Joseph Farah and his WorldNewsDaily scam will “make an arrangement” with so they can sell books to the rubes in the Anglosphere.

[FARS]

Ken Timmerman’s a good guy and Alan sent him a note asking who gave him the “familiar face in Iran” and tried to deal him into the prominent mother organization under the section of chemical warfare veterans association...

How much chemical warfare has Iran faced? Even with Iraq?

Stuent protesters faced more chemical warfare from the tear and pepper gases sprayed on them in the streets.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[airborne]

In exchange, he said that Ahmadinejad would tone down his anti-Israeli rhetoric, and stop making statements about wiping Israel off the map.

So they want to offer "shutting Imanutjob up" - at least that is, until they're ready to nuke Israel.

Look for Obama to jump on this deal!