Iran says it has uncovered several Western spy networks

[seemslikeadream]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/26/africa/ME-GEN-Iran-Espionage.php

TEHRAN, Iran: A statement from the Intelligence Ministry said Saturday that Iran has uncovered several spy networks that have been organized by the occupying forces in Iraq — shorthand for Unites States and its allies.

The ministry has "succeeded in identifying and striking blows at several spy networks comprised of infiltrating elements from the Iraqi occupiers in western, southwestern and central Iran," said the statement, read out on Iran's state-run television. The broadcast gave no further details.

[bluerum]

1. No. In the middle east? Well whoda thunk it. Soon they will be discovering

that water is wet.

[aquart]

2. Come on. You know you can rely on intel gained by torture.

[bluerum]

13. I for one, do not need intel to know that Irans borders are riddled with

listening posts and spy apparatus.

Anyone who has followed the doings of the US and the UK over the last 6 years can see where this is headed.

[Edweird]

3. iss gonna be ko-vert heh heh heh....wait... is this thing on? oh damn.

chimp is a fucking moron announcing "covert" operations on tv like that. All he is doing is endangering everybody that has any link whatsoever to the US inside Iran. What an asshole.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Probably remnants of the Plame network

How many people did she say had been exposed? Seventy? More? The number just keeps rising.

[Lurking Dem]

5. Probably has to do with this.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2085865,00.html

[seemslikeadream]

6. 9/11: TRUTH, LIES AND CONSPIRACY

9/11: TRUTH, LIES AND CONSPIRACY
http://www.cbc.ca/sunday/911hamilton.html

[Lurking Dem]

7. Does that have something to do with the story I posted?

[seemslikeadream]

8. I'm sorry for the vagueness

I just don't trust anything Lee Hamilton has to say

[Lurking Dem]

9. Oh there are a gazillion articles

on this story if you don't like that one. For whatever reason.

[seemslikeadream]

12. yes I know I've read them

It's not the article, like I said it's Hamilton

[On the Road]

10. What are the Chances That This Backfires

by making the Iranian population fall in line behind its government and strengthening the most hawkish elements of the regime?

[Octafish]

11. Former FBI Agent (Levinson) Still in Iran According to Salahuddin

Joseph Trento sheds light:

Former FBI Agent Still in Iran According to Salahuddin

Written by the National Security News Service
Monday, 14 May 2007
National Security News Service incorrectly reported on April 30 that Iran had decided to release retired FBI agent Robert Levinson. NSNS regrets the error. The source of that information was the American fugitive that Levinson met with in Iran before he disappeared on March 8 on Kish Island.

Salahuddin was not the sole source of the information that Levinson’s release from Iran was pending. Several U.S. intelligence authorities confirmed that information. These sources are now saying that intercepted intelligence from Iran indicates that Iranian authorities changed their mind as they learned from media accounts that described Levinson’s FBI career as more significant then he revealed during his interrogation sessions. This led Iranian officials to believe that he should not be released according to both US intelligence sources and Salahuddin.


US and Iran have been grabbing each other’s foreign nationals for the last several months. It began with the US military grabbing five Iranian intelligence officers in the Kurdish controlled area of Iraq.


Picture of Bob Levinson from helpboblevinson.comIn December, Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, was visiting her mother in Tehran when authorities began to harass her. Last week she was arrested and taken to Tehran's gruesome Evin prison. Esfandiari holds dual citizenship, a concept the Iranian regime does not recognize.


Iranian authorities are especially upset over the detention Mehdi Pourisfahani, according to Salahuddin. Pourisfahani was picked up at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport with a group of other Iranians about six weeks ago. All the others in the group were released within a day or two. Pourisfahani remains in detention. According to Salahuddin, the Iranian “is a wealthy businessman, resident in the states he past 15-20 years, apolitical but knows people over here.”

Salahuddin, formerly known as David Belfield, has been living in Iran since carrying out a murder of the Shah of Iran’s former spokesman in Bethesda, Maryland. Belfield, now known as Dawud Salahuddin, confessed to NSNS’s Joe Trento in 1995 (for ABC’s “20-20”) that he killed former Iranian spokesman Ali Akbar Tabatabai after being recruited by Iranian intelligence to carry out a Fatwa issued by the Supreme Iranian Revolutionary Council.

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