Recently, Morrell says, Iranian operatives have been actively pressing Iraqi politicians to oppose U.S. efforts to reach a new “Status of Forces Agreement” with the Iraqi government regarding the continued presence there of American troops.
Now, more than 80 pages of newly declassified intelligence documents for the first time describe in detail an elaborate network used by Iraqis to gain entry into Iran and train under Iranian supervision. They offer the most comprehensive account to date to support American claims about Iranian efforts to build a proxy force in Iraq.
The move would be part of Germany’s continuing efforts to get Iran to stop its nuclear development programs, weekly newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday, Oct. 18.
Iran, under U.N. sanctions for its nuclear program, received only 32 votes from U.N. members, compared with 158 for Japan. Mexico and Uganda ran unopposed and received seats.
Almost three decades after the Islamic Republic’s founding, former Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders are infiltrating the political, economic, and cultural life of Iran. Half the members of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cabinet are former IRGC officers,[1] and he has appointed several IRGC officers to provincial governorships.
Ignoring the past failures and continuing to negotiate with the Iranian authorities to resolve the ongoing problems between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic has been the policy adopted by the West in general and the US in particular; as if they keep trying their magic wand hoping it will work.
Responding to the report, the Treasury said it has repeatedly expressed its “deep concerns about Iran’s financial and material support to deadly terrorist groups.”
At least two shipments over the past year are believed to have been destined for Iran’s Shahab rocket program, according to Germany’s federal prosecutor’s office. The rockets have an estimated range of 1,300 to 1,600 kilometres and could reach Israel. There are fears they also could someday be fitted with nuclear warheads.
“I had a lot of problems because of this movie [Iranian officials] took my passport. The intelligence service interrogated me several times. In the end, the judge said, ‘We have to see the movie and then decide what we’re going to do with you,’” The New York Daily News quoted the actress, as saying.
That country was hit with a U.N. arms embargo to keep weapons out of its western Darfur region, where Khartoum has been accused of genocide by the United States and the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court.
