Report: Missing Iranian official can prove Tehran's ties to terror

[lovuian]

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/835359.html

he Iranian former deputy defense minister who disappeared in Turkey last month left his country with documents that prove that there is a link between the Iranian military establishment and terror groups including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Friday.

A former colleague of Ali Reza Asghari, 63, told the newspaper, which is published in London, that the document also cites groups such as the Mahdi Shi'ite militia operating in Iraq.

Asghari, a retired general in the elite Revolutionary Guards, went missing in what may have been a Western intelligence operation. Turkish newspaper Hurriyet said in an unsourced report that he was involved in Iran's nuclear program. If so, he would be a major asset for Western or Israeli interrogators.

Ram Igra, a retired official with Israel's Mossad espionage agency, said this week that Asghari is best known to Israel as the "founder" of Hezbollah.
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Wow the DUERS are right this guy could be the next Curveball

[Kagemusha]

1. The media's telling us stuff we already know here.

Yeah, yeah, Iran's linked to Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad, which is not to say that both are puppets on a string but Iran sponsors them. This is NOT news. It wasn't news when the Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up and it's not news 20+ years later..

Maybe the Mahdi Army stuff has new details the US didn't know before. But it's Badr that's Iran's buddy in Iraq, really. Mahdi's only being supported somewhat because the US is a common enemy.

[Emit]

2. Yes, predicted!

On your earlier thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x373275#374621

[oblivious]

3. May I be the first to call BULLSHIT!

Here's the original story:

Missing Iranian Minister is Cooperating with Western Intelligence - Source
09/03/2007
By Ali Nouri Zadeh

Sources confirmed yesterday...

According to a source who is a close friend of Asghari, ...

Citing a senior U.S. official, the Washington Post said...

Earlier this week a source from the Iranian military, who was among the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Beirut since the late 1980s, confirmed...

The source also revealed ...

According to a prominent colonel, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, ...

According to an Iranian diplomat in Istanbul,...

According to anonymous officials who spoke to the Turkish newspaper, ‘Millet’, the Turkish intelligence and police had discovered that Asghari was opposed to the Iranian government and that he holds information regarding its nuclear plan.

http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=8253