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Revolutionary Guards’ Terror Cells in U.S. Mosques

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

05/24/2012

By: Reza Kahlili

Last week, CBN aired a special report on the possibility of an attack in the scale of 09/11 by Iranian assets here in America: “Will Iran Strike New York City on 9/11 Scale?”

Erick Stakelbeck, the CBN News Terrorism Analyst, who put together the report, explained how Iranian diplomats and other assets are present in America and the possibility of an attack on U.S. soil.

The report included a statement by Congressman Peter King, who sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, that hundreds of operatives are in U.S. and that several Iranian diplomats stationed at the UN were involved in much more than it appeared as several of their associates were caught photographing sensitive sites. These people were removed from the UN mission and sent back to Iran.

Also in this report is my interview about how the Islamic regime uses Mosques in the U.S. as their operational centers and how they have done reconnaissance on key sites for terror attacks such as railroads, power plants, food distribution centers, water supplies, bridges, and others. Some of that information was also passed to the FBI.

Today, however, Mashregh news, the media outlet run by the Islamic regime’s Revolutionary Guards, has put up the CBN report with a title “Iranian Assets Present in U.S. Mosques for Terror Attacks,” with a full translation of the report, which even included the original video of the report.

Without refuting the report or any part of it as they usually do, the outlet stuck to a direct translation of the CBN report and included my quotes naming the specific sites that their terror cells might attack.

The regime’s media outlet often mocks reports in the West to play down any threat by the regime. Although the CBN report touches on a very sensitive subject, “Mosques used as operational centers,” they seem to be strangely quiet on the issue. Mashregh News only refers to the CBN report as unsubstantiated and just a repeat of accusations by the U.S. officials.

Also by putting up the video, it seems that I have managed to get under their skin and they are looking for help in trying to figure out who Reza Kahlili really is!

One thing is for sure: My book, “A Time to Betray” was only promoted in the West before, now it’s sure to be a big hit in Iran.

ادعای شبکه تلویزیونی مسیحیان آمریکا:

عوامل ایران برای عملیات تروریستی در مساجد آمریکا حضور دارند + فیلم

عوامل ایرانی در مساجد آمریکا حضور دارند و آماده حمله به تاسیسات انرژی و آب رسانی، توزیع غذا، پل‌ها، تونل‌ها و هر آنچه که بتوان از آن برای ایجاد رعب و اختلال در زندگی آمریکایی‌ها استفاده کرد، هستند.
به گزارش مشرق ، شبکه تلویزیونی مسیحیان آمریکا در گزارشی ایران هراسانه به بررسی این سوال پرداخت که آیا ایران به شهر نیویورک در مقیاس حادثه یازدهم سپتامبر حمله خواهد کرد؟این گزارش چنین آغاز شد: اینجا مرکز سیستم مالی ایالات متحده است و بسیاری از افراد آن را پایتخت جهان می‌دانند. از این رو، سیب بزرگ [از جمله عناوین نسبت داده شده به این شهر] به هدف اصلی تروریست‌ها تبدیل شده است.
از بمب‌گذاری در مرکز تجارت جهانی در سال 1993 تا حادثه یازدهم سپتامبر و تلاش اخیر برای بمب‌گذاری در میدان تایمز، تروریست‌ها به کرات، منهتن را مورد هدف قرار داده‌اند.
اکنون بنا به گزارش‌ها ایران، چنین هدفی در سر دارد.
قانونگذاران کپیتول هیل  [محل مجلس قانونگذاری ایالات متحده ] به تازگی پیرامون تهدید ناشی از ایران و حزب‌الله  هشدار داده‌اند.
پیتر کینگ، نماینده جمهوری‌خواه از نیویورک در ماه مارس خطاب به کمیته امنیت داخلی مجلس نمایندگان گفت: ما می‌دانیم که عوامل مخفی حزب‌الله اینجا [در آمریکا] حضور دارند.
وی افزود: سوال این است که آیا این عوامل حزب‌الله از ظرفیت حمله به خاک ایالات متحده برخوردارند؟ و مدت زمان دستیابی این نیروها به ظرفیت کامل عملیاتی چقدر است؟
کینگ خاطرنشان کرد: صدها تن از این عوامل در آمریکا حضور دارند و برخی دیپلمات‌‌های ایرانی مستقر در سازمان ملل وظایفی بیش از آنچه در ظاهر نشان می‌دهند، برعهده دارند.
وی همچنین اظهار داشت: تعدادی از همراهان این دیپلمات‌ها در هیات نمایندگی سازمان ملل در نیویورک، پس از اینکه پلیس نیویورک آنها را در حال عکس‌برداری از سیستم راه‌آهن این شهر در سال‌های پس از یازدهم سپتامبر دستگیر کرد، به ایران بازگردانده شدند.
بنا به اظهارات یکی از مقامات پلیس نیویورک، حداقل 5 مورد دیگر از این‌گونه اتفاقات آنچه وی ” عملیات شناسایی خصمانه” عوامل ایرانی علیه شهر نیویورک خوانده، وجود دارد.
این گزارش در ادامه می افزاید: رضا خلیلی، جاسوس دوجانبه پیشین سازمان سیا به سی‌بی‌ان نیوز گفت: آنها اینطور در نظر می‌گیرند که حمله به نیویورک یا در معرض خطر قرار دادن تاسیسات این شهر، بازارهای مالی را بی‌ثبات کرده و به طور خودکار، به اقتصاد ایالات متحده ضربه خواهد زد.
وی هشدار می‌دهد: گروههای بسیاری در اینجا حضور دارند و منتظر حمله به تاسیسات انرژی و آبرسانی، توزیع غذا، پل‌ها، تونل‌ها – و هر آنچه که بتوانند از آن برای ایجاد رعب و وحشت و اختلال در زندگی روزمره آمریکایی‌ها استفاده کنند – هستند.

یک فرمانده نیروی دریایی ایران اخیرا گفته است که نیروهای ایران در صورت تصمیم  می‌توانند تا سه مایلی شهر نیویورک پیش روند.
خلیلی اظهار داشت: حمله به تاسیسات هسته‌ای ایران می‌تواند آغازگر چنین رویدادی باشد.
وی در ادامه می‌افزاید: آنها معتقدند که حمله به سوریه یا ایران، دلایل لازم برای واکنش را فراهم می‌کند. این واکنش می‌تواند حملاتی تروریستی در سطح جهان علیه منافع ایالات متحده و اسرائیل و حمله به خاک این دو کشور باشد.

این گزارش مدعی می شود: افشای طرح حمله به دیپلمات‌های خارجی در واشنگتن دی‌سی در سال گذشته از سوی ایران بسیاری از تحلیلگران را متعجب کرد.ایران مجهز به سلاح‌های هسته‌ای احتمالا با جسارت بیشتری دست به عمل خواهد زد.
رایان مائورو، تحلیل‌گر امنیت ملی پایگاه اینترنتی اسلام رادیکال در گفتگو با سی‌بی‌ان نیوز گفت: می‌توان گفت ایران هرچه به سلاح هسته‌ای نزدیک‌تر می‌شود، متهورانه‌تر عمل می‌کند.
وی می‌افزاید: فشار‌های بین‌المللی به جای اینکه موجب خودداری و مهار ایرانیان شود، در واقع آنها را بیش از پیش جسور و متهور ساخته است.
ایران و حزب‌الله از شبکه وسیعی در آمریکای لاتین برخوردارند و می‌توانند از آن برای حمله به ایالات متحده استفاده کنند. بنا به گفته خلیلی، عوامل ایرانی در برخی مساجد آمریکا نیز حضور دارند.
گفتنی است این شبکه برای واقعی جلوه دادن خطر ایران به تکرار اتهامات مقامات آمریکا پرداخته و کوچکترین سند و مدرکی دال بر اتهامات خود نشان نداده است.
معرفی مساجد به عنوان پایگاههای تروریسم و ایران به عنوان عامل تهدید در داخل آمریکا از اهداف اینگونه گزارشها به شمار می رود.

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Report on pro-Tehran advocacy

Sunday, April 15th, 2012

I found this report by the Iranian American Forum very interesting:

IranianAmericanForum

The powerful circles in Washington that preach appeasement with the Iranian regime have become active to influence public opinion and policy makers in favor of Tehran: Bijan Khajehpour, an Iranian oil consultant’s speech at Woodrow Wilson. Barbara Slavin details Obama’s goodwill gestures toward Tehran. Vali Nasr demands more incentives for the Mullahs. A new House resolution is presented by Barbara Lee to facilitates dealings with Tehran.

Also see: Why Iran Thinks America Won’t Attack

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The Diaspora’s Conscience

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Does the National Iranian American Council have a moral obligation to speak out against the ayatollahs?

Suffolk University

Peter Kohanloo writes in Foreign Policy

Peter Kohanloo '12The ten year-long rumblings of a democracy movement in Iran culminated in widely televised protests in 2009 and resulted in a chain of kidnappings, murders, and mass imprisonment.

Peter Kohanloo, who will be graduating from Suffolk Law in 2012, recently published an article on Foreign Policy magazine’s website. In it he claims there is a vast disconnect between how Iranian-Americans feel and the stance that the most visible Iranian-American organization is currently taking.

We interviewed him for our Student Voices podcast series. Tune in as he shares his view on the appropriate role of Iranian-Americans in voicing their political opinions about the turmoil in Iran.

Listen to the podcast (MP3)

The Article:

foreignpolicy.com

BY PETER KOHANLOO, SOHRAB AHMARI | FEBRUARY 1, 2012

In the epic poem The Book of Kings, the 11th-century Iranian bard Ferdowsi warns of how “Unrighteous thought and the turn of days / Combine to seal one’s fate.” Ferdowsi’s verse expresses the ethical injunction, deeply ingrained in Persian culture, to speak truthfully in times of personal and collective crisis. Today, as the clerical regime in Tehran grows ever more repressive at home and defiant abroad, Iranian-Americans have a special responsibility to speak out clearly on the moral stakes at the heart of the U.S.-Iran conflict.

Unfortunately, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) — the most visible organization claiming to represent the community — has never fulfilled this duty. By cynically exploiting Iranian-Americans’ deepest fears and by misrepresenting the community’s true aspirations, NIAC promotes an Iran policy agenda that shortchanges both Iranians and Americans.

Consider NIAC research director Reza Marashi’s recent Foreign Policy article explaining why Iranian-Americans, in contrast with their Iraqi counterparts, are “so keen on dialogue with the mullahs who rule Iran.” The first thing to note about this argument is that it is based on false premises. Reflecting on his own limited personal experiences, Marashi argues that though they “deeply resent the Iranian regime, [Iranian-Americans] prefer U.S. policies that emphasize engagement and de-escalation.”

Widely available survey data belie these anecdotal findings. A 2011 Zogby poll commissioned by the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA), a nonpartisan organization that refrains from taking positions on foreign-policy issues, asked Iranian-Americans to identify their two top priorities for U.S. policy toward Iran. An overwhelming majority (63 percent) chose “promotion of human rights and democracy,” while 30 percent chose “promoting regime change.” In contrast, only 14 percent identified “preventing an American military strike against Iran” as one of their top two priorities. Yet Marashi and his NIAC colleagues have spent most of the last decade raising funds by instilling anxiety among members about the latter.

Marashi also distorts Iranian-Americans’ ultimate vision for their homeland, claiming that they “strongly prefer to use the rule of law to alter … the Iranian government’s behavior.” Marashi’s clever choice of words here masks the reality on the ground in Iran, where there is no rule of law as such to accommodate meaningful reforms. As Marashi himself concedes, opposition figures within the Iranian establishment repeatedly sought, throughout the 1990s and during the 2009 presidential election, to liberalize the regime. They failed. Perhaps that’s why the Zogby/PAAIA poll found that 67 percent believe that “Iran should be a secular democracy,” while only 6 percent believe that “any form of an ‘Islamic Republic’ would work well in Iran.”

To suppress Iranian-Americans’ overwhelming appetite for fundamental change in Iran, Marashi resorts to scaremongering. Evoking “the ghosts of America’s neoconservative past,” he predicts the rise of a new generation of Ahmed Chalabi-style exile politicians eager to lead “foreign armies into the motherland.” Marashi thus frames the hundreds of thousands of Iranian-Americans who prefer a more robust U.S. policy toward the Khomeinist regime as national turncoats and opportunists. These smear tactics reveal Marashi’s lack of moral imagination. Rather than pursuing policies that would empower a generation of Iranian (and Iranian-American) Vaclav Havels and Aung San Suu Kyis, he is bent on intimidating the community.

NIAC’s own political vision is decidedly ayatollah-friendly. Since its founding in 2002, NIAC has consistently endeavored to shield the Iranian regime from Western sanctions and other forms of pressure. Prior to the 2009 post-election uprising, for example, NIAC rarely spoke out on the issue of human rights in Iran and, indeed, repeatedly sought to defund U.S. government programs for promoting democratization there.

Asked at a Middle East Policy Council forum in 2008 about the organization’s reluctance to address human rights issues, NIAC President Trita Parsi responded: “NIAC is not a human rights organization. That’s not our expertise.” NIAC also notably opposed listing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps — the military force that created Hezbollah and is the central lever in the mullahs’ vast repressive apparatus — as a foreign terrorist organization.

Today, the organization continues to advocate against sanctions capable of shifting the mullahs’ nuclear calculus. Any significant red lines and credible U.S. deterrents backing them, its leaders insist, are counterproductive to peaceful coexistence with the regime. What’s more, NIAC immediately smears any Iranian-Americans who dare to publicly diverge from its line as “neoconservative” warmongers and supporters of the Mujahideen-e-Khalq, the bizarre terrorist cult that helped lead the 1979 uprising against the shah but was violently crushed by Khomeinist forces in the revolution’s aftermath.

Yet, as the recent signing of broad-based U.S. sanctions on Iran’s banking sector and the imposition of a European oil embargo demonstrate, the international community is coming around to the view held by the vast majority of Iranian-Americans all along: There is no peaceful coexistence with the repressive theocrats. NIAC has utterly failed to advance its legislative objectives; the U.S. Senate vote on sanctioning Iran’s central bank passed 100-to-0, over NIAC’s vociferous opposition. Despite remarkable access to the media, NIAC is an increasingly unrepresentative voice of the Iranian-American community.

As self-appointed ombudsmen, Marashi and his colleagues have a duty to reflect the actual values of their constituents. The statistics are clear: Iranians in the diaspora seek not to substitute President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s government with a slightly more accountable one, but to uproot the current theocratic regime in its entirety. Iranian-Americans, sophisticated as they are, may differ on how exactly to achieve that aim. But no amount of obfuscation and alarmism will alter the will of the community. At this eleventh hour, NIAC’s leaders must change course rather than drive their organization into further irrelevance.

Peter Kohanloo is an organizer in Boston’s Iranian-American community. Sohrab Ahmari is an Iranian-American journalist and a nonresident associate research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society.

 

 

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Michael Coren & Family Threatened for interviewing Reza Kahlili

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

By: Reza Kahlili

I was interviewed on Feb. 15 by Michael Coren on Sun News Network TV in Canada. After the interview aired, Coren received a death threat from a “Vancouver” Twelver named “Rani Rani,” who also promised to kill Coren’s family. Therein lies the logic of radical Islamists: Only through killing can they justify their faith.

The original interview
REVOLUTIONARY DOUBLE AGENT
February 15, 2012 19:25
Reza Kahlili led a harrowing double life as a CIA operative inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. He tells us his story.

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The Islamists’ Hypocrisy

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

February 23, 2012

For many years, I have tried to not only raise awareness about the threat posed by the fanatics ruling Iran, but also to raise awareness on the injustices done to the Iranian people. This has drawn the ire of the mullah-appeasers and those in alliance with the criminal Islamic regime in Iran.

Recently, I revealed a shocking piece  “Ayatollah: Kill All Jews, Annihilate Israel,” in which a well-known strategist within the Iranian government introduced a new doctrine not only to destroy Israel in a preemptive attack, but to commit to genocide and kill the Jewish people. The piece got international attention and made headlines across the world.

The facts in my piece were an exact copy of the original piece, which was published in Iran. I even left a link to the Iranian piece that interestingly was not only written in Farsi, but also translated into English. I wanted to make sure that the world could see that my piece was a true and accurate reflection of what was said in Iran.

I wanted the world to see that the Jihadists in Tehran had no shame in openly calling for the mass murder of the people of another nation. I wanted the world to realize that we were once again dealing with mad men who had no interest in humanity, love or peace, and that they were determined to commit a grave crime, based on their belief in glorifying Allah.

Even though I did my best to make it easy to verify the facts, many Islamists and those supporting negotiations with the regime in Iran, launched an attack against me and my article and did not hide their hatred for Israel and the Jewish people.

In their attacks, they not only tried to assassinate my character but also tried to deceive the readers, claiming that my piece was a lie and that no one in Iran was calling for the killing of the Jewish people..

These people failed to mention that just recently, the Iranian supreme leader once again called Israel “a cancerous tumor that should and will be cut,” during his recent Friday prayer sermon. One must be living in a cave not to have heard Khamenei, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other officials of the Islamic regime call for the destruction of Israel and how this “cancerous cell” needs to be wiped off the face of the earth.

But the clarity is in the piece that was published in Iran, which has a full paragraph with the title “Israeli People Must be Annihilated.” All Iranian state media are strictly pro-government and highly sensitive to any statement that might cause the regime problems. The original piece was published in over 28 major official media sites of the Islamic regime, including the Revolutionary Guards’ Fars News Agency and Mashregh News. It does represent the official view of the Islamic regime.

The site, Alef, which ran the piece, belongs to Ahmad Tavakoli, a hardliner parliamentarian and a close ally of Khamenei. The author, Alireza Forghani, (who recently resigned his post as governor of southern Iran’s Kish Province over tensions with pro-Ahmadinejad circles) entered the Basij forces when he was 14 and served one of the most fanatical elements of the regime, the Ansare Hezbollah in the city of Mashhad, from age 17 to 21. He continued his education in the field of analytical strategy. He was one of the first within the Iranian government to call Khamenei an Imam, and is an analyst and a strategy specialist in Khamenei’s camp. He has the following in his bio on his blog:

“Favorite book: The Absolute Rule of the Jurisprudent”

“Favorite sport: Jihad in fierce war”

But let’s take direct quotes from the original piece, which was published in English:

“In the name of Allah
Iran must attack Israel…

“The necessity of Israel annihilation …:

“Today, the first Qibla of the Muslims has been occupied by Israel, a cancerous tumor for the Middle East. Today, Israel is causing division using all evil means. Every Muslim is obliged to equip themselves against Israel. … and since the potential danger is facing the foundations of Islam, it is necessary for the Islamic governments in particular and other Muslims in general to remove this corrupting material by any means. All our troubles are due to Israel! And Israel results from America too.

“Military Aspects of Iranian Attack on Israel

“In order to attack Iran, Israel needs western and U.S. assistance, permission and coordination. In the current situation and passiveness of U.S. and the West, Iran should wipe out Israel.
“… Based on preemptive defense doctrine, Israel should get under heavy military strikes through first and final strikes. In the primary step of first scene, ground zero points of Israel should be annihilated by Iranian military attacks. To get this end, Iran can use long-range missiles. The distance from Iranian easternmost point to westernmost point of Israel is about ۲۶۰۰ km (2,600km). Strategic targets deep inside Israeli soil are in the range of Iranian conventional missiles.

“Israeli People Must Be Annihilated

“Israel is the only country in the world with a Jewish majority. According to the last census of Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, this country has a population of ۷.۵ (7.5) million including ۵.۷ (5.7) million Jews …

“Residents of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa can be targeted even by Shahb ۳ (3). Population density in these three adjacent areas composes about ۶۰ % (60%) of Israeli population. Sejjil missiles can target power plants, sewage treatment facilities, energy resources, transportation and communication infrastructures; and in the second stage Shahab ۳ and Ghadr missiles can target urban settlements until final annihilation of Israel people.”

There is no need to post the whole piece as the link here is available for all to see.

The point is that my piece was a true reflection of this new doctrine and shocking ideology of genocide of the Jewish people.

However, in order to see the truth, one must be faithful to one’s spirit. In Iran, Basiji bullies, Revolutionary Guards armed to the teeth and Ansare Hezbollah thugs with chains and knifes attack those bold enough to reveal the truth. In America, the mullah-appeasers attack and character-assassinate those who reveal the truth about this criminal regime. There’s no difference between the two.

I do not take these attacks on me to heart as I choose truth over lies, love over hate, justice over injustice, and light over darkness. I choose to be the voice of the voiceless. Although it is a constant battle on many fronts, I know that in my heart that I walk the path of My Lord.

I do not expect those who have chosen evil to understand, but again if they had any dignity, if they had respect for humanity, then they would not support a regime that stones women to death, a regime that rapes and tortures Iranian boys and girls to suppress their desire for freedom, a regime that chops off hands and feet in punishment for stealing, a regime that lashes Iranians as punishment for not adhering to Islamic rules and savagely attacks anyone opposing it. This is a regime that is at the helm of worldwide terrorism in which many of its officials are either wanted by Interpol or courts around the world for terrorist acts and assassinations.

Though it saddens me to know there are such individuals among us — individuals who profess loyalty to a barbaric regime — I am happy to report that even they will not be able save the criminals ruling Iran. Their final outcome is in the hands of God.

Long Live the Iranian People.

God Bless America.

Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the author of the award winning book, A Time to Betray. He is a senior Fellow with EMPact America and teaches at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA).

Also See:

The Iranian Plan to Annihilate the Jews

AYATOLLAH: KILL ALL JEWS, ANNIHILATE ISRAEL

Iran Leaders: The Coming is Upon Us – Israel Shall be Destroyed! (Watch the Video)


 

 

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The Officer Journal: CIA operative and former Iranian Guard member discusses the Iran force U.S. troops face today.

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

ROA Reserve Strength

01/19, 2012

CIA operative and former Iranian Guard member discusses the Iran force U.S. troops face today.

The Officer Journal

By: Christopher Prawdzik, Editor

January – February 2012 Edition

In early 2007, then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Peter Pace told Congress that Iranians were a focus of efforts in Iraq. And he noted that in the previous weeks, while trying to pursue insurgent networks in Iraq, U.S. forces had captured Iranians…

… Still, as troops face these threats, particularly in Afghanistan and Iraq, gaining an understanding of that force is an evolutionary process in which troops, no doubt, are deeply engaged.

… “I think as a whole [U.S. officials] do not understand the seriousness of the [Iranian] ideology,” Mr. Kahlili said. “We know what factions they support, how they train … but they misunderstand their goals.”

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The Officer is the bimonthly journal of the Reserve Officers Association. Its pages are devoted to important topics for Reserve Component members and editions include the following:

  • Feature stories, expert analysis, and in-depth articles on the Reserve Components, missions involving Citizen Warriors, national security issues, and Reservists balancing civilian and military careers;
  • An insider’s review of legislation affecting Reservists and ROA’s activities among policymakers;
  • Discussion of legal issues specifically concerning Citizen Warriors and their families;
  • Reports on and profiles of programs for Reservists’ spouses and children;
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Tell Congress Not to Drop Iran Sanctions from Defense Bill

Saturday, December 10th, 2011

12/10/2011

Monetary Policy

Sanctioning the Central Bank of Iran is essential to confronting the Islamic regime and its activities of pursuing the nuclear bomb, expanding its missile program, and its collaboration with terrorist entities worldwide.

It is time to show the radicals ruling Iran that America is serious about preventing the Jihadists in Tehran from obtaining the bomb and that it will support the aspirations of the Iranian people for freedom and democracy.

Sanctioning the regime’s Central Bank will weaken the hardliners and their surrogates who depend on the oil dollars and can become an effective tool for positive change in Iran.

Yesterday, Foreign Policy reported on high-level congressional negotiations that will determine the parameters of new sanctions on the Central Bank of Iran (CBI). 

FP‘s Josh Rogin disclosed that the administration is pressing key Democrats on the defense bill conference committee to get their colleagues to water down the strong sanctions language that passed the Senate on a 100-0 vote.

Even though senior officials like Secretary of State Clinton have paid lip service to the need for truly ‘crippling’ sanctions, the administration is now pushing for sanctions that are less severe and take effect more slowly.

The Democrats carrying the administration’s agenda in the conference committee are Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) – who voted for the sanctions language that is now being targeted – and House Armed Services Committee ranking Democrat member Adam Smith (D-WA).

The Senate-passed sanctions measure was crafted on a bipartisan basis by Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ). Since neither of these Senators is a member of the conference committee, Americans concerned that sanctions on Iran will be weakened are being asked to contact the members who are reportedly doing the administration’s bidding and urge that the Kirk-Menendez language be adopted without alteration.

For more details, read the full report from Foreign Policy HERE.

Contact information:

Senator Carl Levin
Phone: 202-224-6221
Fax: 202-224-1388
EMail: https://levin.senate.gov/contact/email/
Twitter: @SenCarlLevin

Congressman Adam Smith
Phone: 202-225-8901
Fax: 202-225-5893
Email: http://adamsmith.house.gov/Contact/
Twitter: @Rep_Adam_Smith

Because members of Congress are more responsive to constituents, you may wish to alert friends and family members who live in Michigan or in Washington state’s Ninth Congressional District (which includes parts of King, Pierce andThurston Counties) and ask them to weigh in as well.

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Stunning facts on assassination as a political tool of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Monday, November 14th, 2011

11/14/2011

As I revealed in my book, “A Time to Betray,” all Iranian consulates and embassies worldwide are the centers of terrorism. The Quds forces of the regime actively plot, recruit, transfer arms and explosives, and commit acts of assassination and terrorism through every extension of the Islamic regime in the world. These include offices of Iran Air, Iranian shipping offices, bank branches, front companies, mosques, Islamic cultural centers, Iranian Islamic student associations and Iranian consulates and embassies.

Today not only have they successfully infiltrated Europe, but also here in America.

Also See: Jihadists at the Gate

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Jihadists at the Gate (See Video)

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

09/29/2011

By: Reza Kahlili

America!! It’s time to wake up: There’s an Iranian missile base in Venezuela; The Iranian Navy is starting a mission in the Atlantic Ocean and into the Gulf of Mexico; Iranian missiles are being armed with nuclear warheads; Iran now has enough enriched uranium for six nuclear bombs; and Iran has hundreds of terrorist cells in the U.S. and in Europe.

For decades I have tirelessly tried to warn the West about the ideology and agenda of the radicals ruling Iran. I have urged the West to help the people of Iran with their aspirations for freedom and democracy. I have tried to help the West understand the determination of these radicals in their quest to bring about death, destruction and disaster to the world.

However, the Western leaders have instead chosen to allow these radicals not only to slaughter the freedom loving people of Iran but to arm themselves to the teeth and to continue developing their nuclear program unabated, which only emboldens them and confirms their belief that Allah is protecting them — that they are on the right path.

In May, I reported that the Revolutionary Guards were building a missile base in Venezuela (Opinion: Iran is Building a Secret Missile Installation in Venezuela). The leaders of Iran and Venezuela hailed what they called their strong strategic relationship, saying they are united in efforts to establish a “New World Order” that will eliminate Western dominance over global affairs.

I revealed back in July (KAHLILI: Iranian missiles could soon reach U.S. shores) that the Guards have armed their naval vessels with long range surface-to-surface ballistic missiles; that the Iranian Navy plans to start missions in the Atlantic Ocean and into the Gulf of Mexico — off the shores of America’s eastern and southern coasts.

Yesterday, Reuters reported that Iran says it is ready to deploy its Navy near the U.S. coast. It is important to now understand that the danger posed by the Jihadists in Tehran is not only an existential threat to Israel, but soon it will be an existential threat to the U.S.

I also revealed several months ago that the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has ordered the Guards to arm their missiles with nuclear warheads (Does Iran Now Have Nuclear Capable Warheads?). America needs to understand that we cannot fail. We cannot allow them to get the bomb.

The Islamic regime in Iran now has enough enriched uranium for six nuclear bombs. They continue to defy four separate sets of UN sanctions and will soon be arming their missiles with nuclear warheads. Not only will they destroy Israel, but with only one nuclear armed missile for an Electromagnetic Pulse attack, they could bring about the demise of America, as promised by the leaders of Iran. Should that attack occur,  over two- thirds of the U.S. population will lose their lives.

If that’s not enough, they have now announced the existence of Hezbollah cells in the U.S. and in the heart of Europe. Their only mission is to destroy the West. The radicals in Iran truly believe that the timing is right, that the time is now for the final glorification of Allah!

See video of Islamic regime’s theorist, Rahim Poor Azgadi, calling for Jihad in America and Europe:

Note: Also Read: Hezb’allah Cells Active Worldwide, Including in U.S.

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The Objective Standard – Review – A Time to Betray

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011

A Time to Betray: The Astonishing Double Life of a CIA Agent Inside the Revolutionary Guards of Iran by Reza Kahlili

New York: Threshold Editions, 2010. 352 pp. $26 (hardcover).

Reviewed by Daniel Wahl

Fall 2011

Vol. 6, No. 3

A Time to Betray

At the start of A Time to Betray, Reza Kahlili writes that this is “a true story of my life as a CIA agent in the Revolutionary Guards of Iran.” As such, you might expect it to be a fast-paced thriller—and, if so, you’d be partially correct. A Time to Betray involves many intense moments, but its primary focus is on the choices that Kahlili and his two childhood friends made growing up in Iran, along with the sometimes-deadly consequences.

One of those friends, Kazem, always took religion seriously, hated the Shah, and, when the Shah was overthrown, became a supporter of Khomeini and a devoted member of the Intelligence Unit of the Revolutionary Guards.

Soon after the Shah’s overthrow, Kazem asked Kahlili to join the Guards. Having just returned from studying in the United States and being eager to help improve his country, Kahlili joined. Looking back today, he explains that, like many Iranians, he naïvely believed Khomeini and the mullahs would keep their promise not to force their faith on Iranians.

Kahlili’s other childhood friend, Naser, was not so naïve. Although he, too, was happy to see the Shah overthrown, Naser began speaking out against Khomeini soon after. He explained his reasons to Kahlili:

“Look around, Reza. Everything is changing. Banning the opposition parties, shutting down the universities, attacking whoever disagrees with them. They’re taking our rights away. They’re arresting innocent people for nothing more than reading a flyer.”

I tried to calm him down, attempting to soothe my own rattled nerves at the same time. “We’re in a transition, and change is always difficult. Maybe you should be more careful. Things will get better, you’ll see.”

Naser took a moment before speaking again. When he did, there was pain in his voice. “I wish I felt the same way, Reza. I don’t want to argue with you, but if people don’t speak up now, it will only get worse.” (p. 60)

Numerous times, we see the young Kahlili not wanting to take sides, simply wanting everyone, in spite of everything, to get along. Indeed, this approach appears to have been his MO from childhood. Kahlili writes that, as a child, he found it tough just to stand up to his mother and friends. How could he, as an adult, stand up to the government of Iran? Something compelling would have to happen—something that threatened or assaulted his values on a personal level. Unfortunately, something did.

The regime arrested Naser and took him to Evin Prison, where he was tortured and then repeatedly forced to watch his younger brother being beaten and his younger sister being raped. Hearing of where Naser was being detained, Kahlili used his good standing in the Guards to visit him there. Inside, Kahlili saw some of the atrocities only whispered about outside the prison walls, and he finally recognized the nature of the regime he was working for. From that moment, he felt intense guilt for his involvement in the Guards. And he became more curious; he wanted to know what even he, as a member of the Guards, was unauthorized to know about what went on in that prison.

He soon learned the full extent of the atrocities being committed in Evin from the suicide letter of a young woman who suffered them. At that point, Kahlili explains, he could “no longer remain quiet and watch [the] country disappear into a morass of evil.” But what could he do? Upon reflection, he realized:

I needed to go back to America, to the one other place I’d ever called home. America was one of the true superpowers in the world, and I was convinced that Americans didn’t really know what was happening inside of Iran—and that if they did, they would do what they could to come free us. Someone needed to tell them about the atrocities. (p. 97)

Using as an excuse a sick aunt and his duty to repay the help she had offered him when he had been in America studying, Kahlili, with the help of an oblivious Kazem, made it back to the States. There, Kahlili says, he shared with the CIA everything he knew about the Guards, expecting that to be that. But the CIA asked Kahlili if he would be willing to work for them, as a spy embedded in the Guards. Given the obvious and profound danger involved, Kahlili was reluctant, but wanting desperately to save his country from the evil regime, he agreed. His training began immediately, and he was soon back in Iran, undercover.

Kahlili recounts various missions and events, sharing his thoughts and fears along the way. He also conveys what this decision meant for his relationships with family and friends. For example, he relates how his grandfather hated the clerics, in particular their attempt to force their religion and way of practicing it onto others. He quotes his mother calling those who supported them “donkeys,” “jackals,” “traitors,” and “imbeciles” (p. 64). And he shows how his continued involvement with the Guards repeatedly threatened to end his marriage.

The same Kahlili whom many referred to as a coward now faced the certainty of torture and death if he were exposed as a spy and the damnation of those he loved so long as he continued working for the Guards.

Unfortunately, despite Kahlili’s efforts, America was doing little with the information he provided them, instead responding to new threats with ever more appeasement. As a result, Kahlili became increasingly disheartened and began questioning whether he should continue working for the CIA. In one passage, he writes:

I had been risking my life to rid my country of the criminals running it and the Americans were negotiating with them. The CIA knew that the Guards were responsible for the barracks bombing in Lebanon that took the lives of 241 American servicemen. They knew that their own people, William Buckley, were being kidnapped, tortured, and killed. Yet they were offering appeasement to these two-faced donkey-riding mullahs. (pp. 250–51)

After much deliberation, Kahlili decided both to leave the Guards and quit working for the CIA. To discover how he managed to implement these decisions, you’ll have to read the book, which I highly recommend.

A Time to Betray delivers much more than inside information about the ever-growing Iranian threat and the corresponding evasions of the U.S. government. The primary value of the book is that it tells a true story of a man of remarkable courage, the kind of man we desperately need more of today.

The Objective Standard

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Remembering 9/11

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

Click on the September 11th photos and pictures of the 9/11/2001 attack on America for a larger image.

By: Reza Kahlili

09/11/2011

I still remember that day. I was dressing for work when my wife Somaya screamed as she was watching the television. We were shocked and in tears. What we witnessed then lives with us to this day.

I realized at that moment that the weakness in U.S. policy and the lack of understanding of the Jihadists’ ideology left our citizens defenseless. Nearly 3,000 peaceful and loving people lost their lives that day. Husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, children were unjustly taken from their families.

The lack of response to bin Laden’s previous attacks had emboldened him in his belief that he had become invincible and that, as Allah demanded, America had to be destroyed. The consequences of his brutal attack are still felt across U.S.: Our economy is in shatters; we are engaged in two wars; and we are facing yet another enemy who will have the nuclear bomb.

The radicals in Iran, just like bin Laden, are emboldened by our lack of response to their terrorist activities, their pursuit of the nuclear bomb, and their activities with arming the Taliban in Afghanistan and assisting the Iraqi Militias in attacking our soldiers. They have concluded that this lack of response is due to their belief in Allah, who has promised them the final glory. They have openly stated that the demise of America and the destruction of Israel are at hand and that there is nothing the world can do to stop their nuclear drive.

Today, we should remember the horrific scenes of 9/11 and promise that we will never allow any power to attack our country and harm our citizens.

Today we need to understand the ideology of the Jihadists ruling Tehran and stop our vacillation in confronting them. We should announce that either they stop their nuclear program or we will do it for them.

God Bless the souls of those who were taken from us 10 years ago. Let us never forget 9/11.

God Bless America

 

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SEPTEMBER IS NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH

Saturday, September 10th, 2011

09/10/2011

By: Reza Kahlili

Two congressional commissions, the EMP Commission and the Strategic Posture Commission, have warned that terrorists, rogue states (such as Iran), China and Russia could, using a single crude nuclear weapon delivered by a primitive missile, inflict an EMP attack that would cause the collapse of critical civilian infrastructures — such as electric power, telecommunications, transportation, banking and finance, food and water — across the entire continental United States. These are vital for the sustenance of our modern society and the survival of its citizens.

EMPact America has been at the forefront of raising awareness and educating our public officials of the need to pass the SHIELD Act, to amend the Federal Power Act to protect the bulk-power system and electric infrastructure critical to the defense and well-being of the United States against natural and manmade electromagnetic pulse (“EMP”) threats and vulnerabilities.

I urge every citizen of this great nation of ours to take action in raising awareness and to demand that President Obama and the legislators take immediate action to pass the SHIELD Act (H.R. 668).

PRESIDENT OBAMA:

PLEASE ISSUE AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO PROTECT OUR NATION FROM LONG-TERM DISASTER

DEAR MR. PRESIDENT:

WE URGE YOU SIGN THE EXECUTIVE ORDER THAT WAS PREPARED BY THE EMP COMMISSION, WHICH OUTLINES A PLAN FOR PROTECTING OUR NATION’S VULNERABLE ELECTRIC GRID AND PREVENTING A GRID-DOWN SITUATION.

TWO BI-PARTISAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES HAVE DONE EXTENSIVE WORK IN STUDYING THE EMP THREAT, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES OF SCIENCE AND THE STRATEGIC POSTURE COMMISSION, AND PRESENTED THIS EXECUTIVE ORDER, WHICH THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION FAILED TO ACT ON.

YOU HAVE DEMONSTRATED EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP BY AUTHORIZING THE MISSION TO GET OSAMA BIN LADEN.  WE HOPE YOU ALSO UNDERSTAND THE URGENCY OF PROVIDING SIMILAR LEADERSHIP BY SIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING THIS  EXECUTIVE ORDER TO PROTECT OUR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE FROM ADVERSARIAL AND NATURAL THREATS.

AN ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSE ATTACK OR A GREATGEOMAGNETIC STORM, COULD RESULT IN A NATIONWIDE CATASTROPHIC COLLAPSE OF OUR ELECTRIC GRID.

AT THIS TIME, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT PROTECTED IN THE EVENT OF A THREAT TO OUR ELECTRIC GRID. A NUCLEAR OR NATURAL EMP IS PERHAPS THE MOST CATACLYSMIC THREAT, AND THE MOST URGENT PRIORITY, OF OUR TIME:

SEVERAL COUNTRIES HAVE ACCESS TO NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AND SOME SUCH AS NORTH KOREA AND IRAN HAVE WRITTEN IN THEIR MILITARY DOCTRINE OF THEIR DESIRE TO USE AN EMP AGAINST THE US

- OUR COUNTRY HAS BEEN THREATENED WITH A HIGH-ALTITUDE NUCLEAR ATTACK.

- YOU HAVE RECOGNIZED THE POSSIBILITY OF CYBER ATTACKS, AND

- WE ALL HAVE SEEN THE INCREASE IN SOLAR ACTIVITY.

- ALL OF THESE FACTORS CAN THREATEN OUR ELECTRIC GRID AND, THUS, THE SAFETY OF ALL AMERICANS.

THIS IS A NON-PARTISAN ISSUE, AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, TO DEMONSTRATE YOUR CONCERN FOR THE SAFETY OF ALL AMERICANS, BY SIGNING THE EXECUTIVE ORDER ON THIS ISSUE THAT WILL BEGIN THE PROCESS OF PROTECTING OUR ELECTRIC GRID AND THAT, EQUALLY IMPORTANTLY, WILL SEND A MESSAGE OF HOPE TO OUR ENTIRE NATION.

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Please see:

Protecting America from EMP attack

Listen to Point of View interview:

Reza Kahlili with DR. Peter Vincent Pry ( President of EMPACT America )

 

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