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Iran’s president recruits terror master
Monday, 24 April 2006
ImagePlot for revenge attacks on West

Sarah Baxter, Washington and Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv

The Sunday Times
– Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, according to intelligence experts and a former national security official in Washington.

US officials and Israel intelligence sources believe Imad Mugniyeh, the Lebanese commander of Hezbollah’s overseas operations, has taken charge of plotting Iran’s retaliation against western targets should President George W Bush order a strike on Iranian nuclear sites.


Mugniyeh is on the FBI’s “Most Wanted Terrorists” list for his role in a series of high-profile attacks against the West, including the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet and murder of one of its passengers, a US navy diver.

Iran suicide bombers ‘ready to hit Britain’
Sunday, 16 April 2006
ImageMarie Colvin, Michael Smith and Sarah Baxter

IRAN has formed battalions of suicide bombers to strike at British and American targets if the nation’s nuclear sites are attacked. According to Iranian officials, 40,000 trained suicide bombers are ready for action.

The main force, named the Special Unit of Martyr Seekers in the Revolutionary Guards, was first seen last month when members marched in a military parade, dressed in olive-green uniforms with explosive packs around their waists and detonators held high.


Swiss orders arrest of Iranian ex-minister
Sunday, 09 April 2006
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A Swiss judge has issued an arrest warrant for the former head of Iran's secret police for his role in the killing of a leading Iranian dissident 16 years ago.
 
Ali Fallahian is charged with masterminding the assassination of Kazem Rajavi, a renowned human rights advocate, near Geneva in April 1990.
 
According to a report in Lausanne-based newspaper Le Matin Dimanche, the international arrest warrant was issued by Swiss investigating magistrate Jacques Antenen on March 20.

Attacking Iran May Trigger Terrorism
Monday, 03 April 2006
U.S. Experts Wary of Military Action Over Nuclear Program

By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer


As tensions increase between the United States and Iran, U.S. intelligence and terrorism experts say they believe Iran would respond to U.S. military strikes on its nuclear sites by deploying its intelligence operatives and Hezbollah teams to carry out terrorist attacks worldwide.


Rice: Iran a Menace Beyond Nuclear Issue
Wednesday, 29 March 2006
ImageBy ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Tuesday that Iran was a menace for reasons other than its alleged drive to build a nuclear bomb and that the U.S. and its allies have "a number of tools" if Tehran does not change its ways.

"I think there's no doubt that Iran is the single biggest threat from a state that we face," Rice told a Senate panel.

She claimed strong international backing for the U.S. position that Iran must not be allowed to continue what she claimed is a covert effort to gain bomb-making expertise and technology.

"We need now to broaden that thinking and that coalition, not just to what Iran is doing on the nuclear side but also what they're doing on terrorism," Rice said. "Those are some of the discussions that I have with these same states."
Fear over Al-Qaida's Iran links
Monday, 27 March 2006
Intelligence officials say terrorist leaders safe in Islamic republic in

By Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times

WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence officials, already focused on Iran's potential for building nuclear weapons, are struggling to solve a more immediate mystery: the murky relationship between the new Tehran leadership and the contingent of al-Qaida terror network leaders residing in the country.


U.S. envoy sees Iran fueling turmoil in Iraq
Friday, 24 March 2006
ImageNeighbor nation's actions belie its words, he says

Jonathan Finer, Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post

Baghdad -- Iran is publicly professing its support for Iraq's stalemated political process while its military and intelligence services back outlawed militias and insurgent groups, U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Thursday.

Iranian agents train and arm Shiite militias such as the Mahdi Army, linked to one of Iraq's most powerful clerics, Khalilzad said, and also work closely with Sunni Arab-led insurgent forces including Ansar al-Sunna, which is blamed for dozens of deadly attacks on Iraqi and U.S. soldiers and Shiite civilians.

Blair: Iran meddling “furiously” in Iraq
Friday, 24 March 2006
Iran Focus – British Prime Minister Tony Blair accused Iran on Wednesday of meddling “furiously” in Iraq and said that the ruling theocracy had a terrorist “ideology” at its heart.

Blair also hinted at an Iran-Al-Qaeda axis and said that for them, Britain and “democratic” countries were the enemy.
Some U.S. officials fear Iran is helping Al Qaeda
Wednesday, 22 March 2006
The Los Angeles Times

They say intelligence suggests that the regime lets key figures plot. But the picture is cloudy.

By Josh Meyer

WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials, already focused on Iran's potential for building nuclear weapons, are struggling to solve a more immediate mystery: the murky relationship between the new Tehran leadership and the contingent of Al Qaeda leaders residing in the country.


US accuses Iran of "unhelpful activities" in Iraq
Friday, 17 March 2006
ImageBAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. officials in Iraq on Friday again accused Iran of meddling in its neighbor's internal affairs, saying the Islamic Republic was carrying out "unhelpful activities" there.

A U.S. embassy statement said Washington was "concerned about unhelpful Iranian activities in Iraq. These concerns are well known and we have talked about them."

The statement was issued one day after Iran said it accepted a proposal by a leading Iraqi Shi'ite leader to open a dialogue with the United States on Iraq.

Iraq, ocean of violence
Wednesday, 15 March 2006
ImageThe Washington Times

By Hatem J Mukhlis, M.D.


Iraq is part of the much wider sociopolitical order of the Middle East. For solutions to be successful, Iraqi problems therefore need a much broader approach.

A domestic approach, albeit plausible in the past, is impossible today. Foreign forces with contradicting interests entered Iraq and changed the sociopolitical order. The former balance of power had to change. More serious regional problems have to be addressed before expecting the Iraqi crisis to be solved.

Bush warns Iran, Syria against meddling in Iraq
Wednesday, 15 March 2006
ImageWASHINGTON (AP) — Playing down predictions that Iraq is headed toward civil war, President Bush said Saturday that he's optimistic a new government will unify the nation. He denounced any moves by Iran or Syria to interfere in Iraq's effort to build a democracy.
"I'm optimistic that the leadership recognizes that sectarian violence will undermine the capacity for them to self-govern," Bush said. "I believe we'll have a unity government in place that will help move the process forward."

The president's hopeful words came a day after Iraqi President Jalal Talabani called the new parliament into session March 19 for the first time since it was elected nearly three months ago. Talabani said he feared "catastrophe" and "civil war" if politicians could not put aside their differences.

Terrorist Trainings by The Qods Force & the VEVAK (Part II)
Wednesday, 08 March 2006
The Intelligence Ministry Terrorist Training Centers

The Intelligence Ministry often uses barracks and military centers belonging to the IRGC or the classic army for training non-Iranian agents. The Ministry takes part of the army or IRGC barracks and turns it into a secret section for training the terrorists.

a. Lavizan Training Center
Lavizan Training Camp is located in Lavizan District, Tehran and is an army center for intelligence and counter-intelligence courses. The instructors are from the classical army. The Intelligence Ministry also uses this camp for training its cadres and terrorists. The assassins of Dr. Kazem Rajavi, received a great amount of their trainings in this camp.

Terrorist Trainings by The Qods Force & the VEVAK (Part I)
Tuesday, 28 February 2006
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History of Training Centres


Since early 1993, Khamenei started setting up training camps for non-Iranian Moslems and left the job to be pursued by Mullah Mohammed Ali Taskhiri, head of International Relations in Khamenei’s Office. The candidates for such camps are selected and introduced by the Regime’s cultural, intelligence and terrorist organs in foreign countries. The Qods Force elements stay with the candidates as their hosts, instructors and companions throughout the period in the camps in order to closely assess and select them for their intelligence and terrorist missions and put them under further special trainings.
US envoy accuses Iran of training Iraqi militias
Tuesday, 28 February 2006
ImageReuters

The American ambassador to Iraq, taking an unusually blunt line with Iran, accused Iraq's eastern neighbour on Monday of giving training and weapons to militias operating in Iraq. " Iran has another policy as well: to work with militias, provide training and provide weapons to extremist groups, direct and indirectly," Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters after a news conference.

Tehran is playing a "negative role" in Iraq, Khalilzad said, adding that the Iranian foreign minister's recent demand that Britain pull its troops out of the southern Iraqi city of Basra was "uncalled-for interference."

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