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    JSOC’s war against Iran

    A new book is coming out about JSOC’s (Joint Special Operations Command) war against Iran. It appears to have input from people within the operation. Certainly an interesting article. I will have to get the book.

    It was July 25, 2004. Violence was escalating in Iraq, the Taliban were reasserting themselves in Afghanistan, and Joint Special Operations Command—the U.S. military’s cadre of elite special operations forces—was already deploying operators to the Horn of Africa and Yemen. But for the first day of the three-day JSOC commanders’ conference at Fort Bragg, the country under discussion was Iran.
    Some interesting tidbits:

    ....Delta quickly made connections with the Asayish—the Kurdish intelligence organization that had one or more spies reporting on the Iranian nuclear program. Delta enlisted the help of other Iraqis as well in its twin campaigns against al Qaeda in Iraq and Iran’s covert operatives, but “the guys with the greatest access and placement were the Kurds,” said a task force officer. “They delivered some $#@!ing huge targets to us.” Delta wasn’t the only unit working with the Asayish. “There’s a long history between Orange and the Kurds going back to at least the early 1990s,” said a special mission unit officer.
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    By spring 2004, Orange had selected a two-person male-female team for a proof-of-concept mission and figured out an effective cover for them.

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    The Quds Force struck back January 20, [2007] with a carefully planned attack on the Karbala Provisional Joint Coordination Center, a compound manned by U.S. and Iraqi troops in central Iraq. The League of the Righteous, one of the Iranians’ most dangerous proxy forces, carried out the attack, driving eight black SUVs and wearing U.S. uniforms to gain access to the compound. They killed one U.S. soldier on the spot [a captain] and kidnapped four, only to execute them shortly thereafter while making their escape.
    Read more at the link.
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    Iran threatens Israel while Rouhani 'talks peace'...

    Iran’s Military Threatens to Turn Israeli Cities to ‘Dust’
    September 22, 2016 – On the eve of Iranian President Hasan Rouhani’s address to the United Nations, military parades back home Wednesday featured ballistic missiles on a truck draped with a banner threatening to turn a fellow U.N. member state’s cities to “dust.”
    “If the leaders of the Zionist regime make a mistake then the Islamic Republic will turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust,” read the banner, according to Reuters. Iranian media outlets including state-run Al-Alam TV and Tehran Times published multiple images of the Zolfaqar missiles and the banner. The Fars news agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), quoted IRGC aerospace force commander Brig. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh as saying the Zolfaqar was capable of hitting targets up to 466 miles (750 kms) “with a zero margin of error.” Tel Aviv lies roughly 650 miles from the nearest Iranian territory.

    Another ballistic missile on display in Wednesday’s parades, however, the liquid-fueled Qadr, boasts a range of up to 1,240 miles (2,000 kms), potentially threatening Israel, Saudi Arabia, U.S. forces in the Gulf, and south-eastern Europe. Also on display was the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system, which Iran recently deployed at a key underground nuclear facility. The parades – near the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, and in other locations – were held to mark the beginning of “Sacred Defense Week,” commemorating the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Iran has used military displays before to send propaganda messages to its people and its foes. Last March it test-fired a Qadr missile, engraved with the words, in Hebrew, “Israel should be wiped from the earth.”


    Zolfaqar missiles are displayed at one of several military parades in Iran on Wednesday, September 21, 2016. The slogan on the banner on the truck has been translated as 'If the leaders of the Zionist regime make a mistake then the Islamic Republic will turn Tel Aviv and Haifa to dust.'

    The unveiling earlier this month of a new IRGC Navy vessel was accompanied by a message advising the U.S. Navy to “go to the Bay of Pigs; the Persian Gulf is our home.” In a speech at the Tehran parade – delivered in the place of Rouhani, who is at the U.N. – armed forces chief of staff head Maj. Gen. Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said Iran’s military capabilities are designed to give a “timely response to the enemy threats.” Baqeri said Iran’s enemies fear its power. The ultimate goal of the U.S., the “Zionist regime” and their supporters in launching proxy wars in the region, he said, “is to destroy the infrastructure of Muslim states.” Baqeri also said that “military tests and maneuvers will continue as scheduled, and will not be suspended or postponed under any circumstances,” possibility alluding to Western unhappiness about an escalation in missile tests since the nuclear agreement was concluded a year ago.

    Meanwhile in New York, Rouhani has been holding a series of bilateral meetings with mostly European leaders on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session. At several of the meetings, including one with French President Francois Hollande, the Iranian president pledged to cooperate with Europe in the fight against terrorism, describing Iran as one of the “main victims” of terrorism. Meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Rouhani described Iran as “the region’s defense line against terrorism and Daesh [ISIS].” The U.S. State Department says Iran remains the world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism.

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...s-turn-israeli
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    Granny says, "Dat's right - ya can't trust the Iranians - dey in cahoots with the commies an' Chinamens an' Fatboy Kim...

    ‘Iran Simply Is Not an Acceptable Partner in the War Against Terror’
    September 21, 2016 – James Jeffrey, former U.S. ambassador to Turkey and Iraq, argued Wednesday that “Iran simply is not an acceptable partner in the war against terror” in his testimony on Capitol Hill on the state of the fight against Islamic terrorism 15 years after 9/11.
    “Iran simply is not an acceptable partner in the war against terror despite a recent article published in the United States by the Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif to that end,” Jeffrey said in reference to a recent New York Times editorial by Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in which Zarif argued that the international community should unite to combat extremist Sunni Wahhabism.

    Jeffrey is the Philip Solondz distinguished fellow at The Washington Institute, where he focuses on U.S. diplomatic and military strategy in the Middle East, with emphasis on Turkey, Iraq, and Iran. He was a former ambassador in Baghdad, Ankara and Tirana, Albania, and served as assistant to the president and deputy national security advisor in the George W. Bush administration with a special focus on Iran. “The theocratic Iranian regime’s Islamic roots have much in common with Sunni Islamic extremism,” Jeffrey argued. “It has relation with al Qaeda and Taliban elements and undercuts international order and sovereignty and thus provides a breeding ground for terror of all sorts, but in particular - and we saw this in Iraq particularly - regional states generally view Iran as a greater existential threat than Sunni Islamic terror. “There is thus a real danger that if the Sunni-Shia conflict now seen in Syria emerges regionwide, our Sunni partners could see violent Sunni Islamic movements not as threats but as allies against Iran,” Jeffrey warned.

    Jeffrey also testified that “only a few people in the Middle East really endorse this kind of extreme terrorist violence,” but “a much larger percent of the population, however, accept views of Islam that are orthodox, that are quite strong, that include sharia and basically challenge modernity in some ways.” “We have to be sensitive,” he emphasized, but added, “sensitivity can go too far. One of the things I’m concerned about is we seem to avoid speaking publicly of this threat as an Islamic terrorist threat. It is an Islamic terrorist threat. “If we try to hide this, people in the region, Muslims know what’s behind this. They know this is a struggle for the region and to play this down, frankly, doesn’t play very well in our own population or in a population in Europe, and it’s very important to keep those people behind us,” he concluded.

    http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/...ptable-partner
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    Israel, if needed, can defeat Iran.
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    Granny says, "Dat's right - dat oughta piss Iran off...

    US Lawmakers Promise Iranian Opposition Group Tougher Action Against Iran
    January 27, 2017 | WASHINGTON — A bi-partisan group of U.S. lawmakers has told an Iranian opposition group that it will press for tougher U.S. action against Iran's Islamist rulers, as Tehran awaits word on whether President Donald Trump will follow through on campaign pledges to take a similarly tough stance.
    The half-dozen Republican and Democratic House members made the pledges to the Organization of Iranian-American Communities (OIAC) on Tuesday. OIAC, which is allied to exiled Iranian dissident movement Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK, had invited the lawmakers to speak at a gathering in Washington's Rayburn House Office Building, as part of the group's years-long efforts to lobby Congress. OIAC says it advocates for a "democratic, secular and non-nuclear government" in Iran. MEK, which leads the France-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), seeks to "overthrow" what it calls the "religious dictatorship" ruling Iran. In a statement to the gathering, OIAC political director Majid Sadeghpour said his group looks forward to working with President Trump and Congress to shape a "successful policy" toward Iran, which he called "arguably the greatest threat to U.S. national security."

    Trump has yet to outline his Iran policy since taking office on January 20. But as a candidate, he strongly criticized then-President Barack Obama for joining world powers in reaching a nuclear deal with Iran a deal in which Tehran agreed to stop activities that Western powers feared could be used to develop nuclear weapons, in return for relief from international sanctions. Trump said the 2015 agreement would not work, calling it a "disaster" and pledging to either dismantle or renegotiate it. Speaking to the OIAC gathering, Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen called for expanding an existing set of U.S. sanctions against Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) sanctions that are not part of the nuclear deal. "It is time that we put the tools that we have created to use, broadening our sanctions so that they include IRGC-controlled businesses and subsidiaries," Ros-Lehtinen said. "We must target the (Iranian) regime at every turn, not only enforcing the sanctions that have been too long neglected, but expanding their scope whenever and wherever possible."

    As part of the nuclear deal's sanctions relief, Iran has been able to sign agreements to buy Western passenger planes for its aging commercial airline industry. Those agreements include state-run Iran Air's $16 billion purchase of 80 aircraft from U.S. plane-maker Boeing a deal announced in December. Democratic Congressman Brad Sherman has co-sponsored new legislation that could complicate Iran Air's efforts to secure the Boeing aircraft. The bill would require the Trump administration to report on any signs of Iran using commercial aircraft for "illicit military or other activities" violating the sanctions relief. In an interview with VOA on the sidelines of the OIAC gathering, Sherman accused Iran of using "supposedly civilian aircraft" to support war crimes in Syria's conflict an accusation Tehran has denied. "We need an ironclad system that makes sure (any newly-acquired planes with American technology) are not used for military or terrorist purposes (by Iran)," Sherman said. He also said U.S. banks should not loan Iran any money to pay for new planes, citing the billions of dollars of sanctions relief it already has received.

    Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher told the OIAC gathering that he believes Washington should intensify political pressure against Iran's government. "One strategy is to help pro-democracy movements who would replace the mullahs," Rohrabacher said. He also called for holding Iranian leaders accountable for human rights violations and encouraging ethnic minorities to pursue autonomy. "I'm willing to help the Azeris, Baluch and Kurds, who are not part of the Persian majority, to create a situation where you have autonomous regions similar to the states of the United States, so that those people's rights will feel secure as well," he said.

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    Iran was behind cyber attack on British lawmakers in June: The Times
    October 14, 2017 - Iran carried out a cyber attack on British lawmakers earlier this year, The Times newspaper reported on Saturday, citing an intelligence assessment of the incident.
    The report came the day after Britain joined other European countries in warning the United States against harming a nuclear deal with Iran. Britain’s parliament was hit by a “sustained and determined” cyber attack in June, designed to identify weak email passwords, just over a month after a ransomware worm crippled parts of the country’s health service.

    The Times said that the attack was Iran’s first significant cyber attack on a British target after the hack was initially blamed on Russia. Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre was not immediately available for comment. The Iranian government had no immediate comment. While the motive for the attack has not yet been established, the hackers were not seeking simple financial profit, The Times said.

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    Granny is a bit of a warmonger. Maybe Granny should strap on some combat boots and go to Iran herself. Maybe she can bring Uncle Ferd with her as well?
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