Daily Archives: 26 June 2009
FLASHBACK: Congress Is Funding Major Escalation in Secret Operations Against Iran
“Congressional leaders agreed to a request from President Bush last year to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran aimed at destabilizing Iran’s leadership. This according to a new article by veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker magazine.
The operations were set out in a highly classified Presidential Finding signed by Bush which, by law, must be made known to Democratic and Republican House and Senate leaders and ranking members of the intelligence committees. The plan allowed up to $400 million in covert spending for activities ranging from supporting dissident groups to spying on Iran’s nuclear program.
According to Hersh, US Special Forces have been conducting cross-border operations from southern Iraq since last year. These have included seizing members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, and taking them to Iraq for interrogation, and the pursuit of so-called ‘high-value targets’ who may be captured or killed.
While covert operations against Iran are not new, Hersh writes that the scale and the scope of the operations in Iran, which involve the CIA and the Joint Special Operations Command, have now been significantly expanded.” (Read more from alternet.org)
US rescinds July 4 invites to Iranian diplomats
“The Obama administration has rescinded invitations to Iranian diplomats to attend US independence day celebrations on July 4, the White House said on Wednesday.” (Read more from ynetnews.com)
On Iran
Remember, when ABCNNBBCBS speaks unanimously, and says the same thing over and over and over, they are lying.
“We all know that the CIA has been involved in several coup d’etats ever since President Harry S. Truman spawned this creature. Hell, they’ve even done it once before in Iran, in 1953. And I think we also know that Iran has been in the crosshair’s of the neocons, neoliberals and other policy makers for quite a while. Even the RAND Corporation has been lobbying for another world war to “save the U.S. economy”.
And that, I think is reason enough to concider the possibility that the spooks might have their dirty little hands in this one aswell. It is of course their modus operandi.
Editor’s Note: For those of you who think this is pure speculation, I direct you to these following articles Bolton Says We Must Attack Iran and Bush sanctions “black ops” against Iran in 2007.” (Read more from kopyme.com)
Britain freezes $1.6 billion of Iranian assets
“The British government says it has frozen an unprecedented total of one billion pounds (1.64 billion US dollars) worth of Iranian assets. ‘The total assets frozen in the UK under the EU (European Union) and UN sanctions against Iran are approximately 976,110,000 pounds,’ Ian Pearson, Britain’s Economic Secretary to the Treasury said in a written statement to parliament on Thursday.” (Read more from campaigniran.org)