12/21/2011
By: Reza Kahlili
According to MehrNews, the mouthpiece of the Islamic regime in Iran, MP Kazem Jalali has said that Amir Mirza-Hekmati, who has recently been arrested by Iranian intelligence agents, is due to stand trial on a charge of spying for the CIA in an Iranian court of law.
Jalali, who is the rapporteur of the Islamic regime’s Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, made the remarks during an interview with the Mehr News Agency on Wednesday in response to U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland, who recently urged Iran to free Mirza-Hekmati.
Nuland said on Monday, “We call on the Iranian government to grant the Swiss protecting power immediate access to him and release (him) without delay,” according to the AFP.
Jalali said, “The remarks are the ultimate act of rudeness in the (international) political arena.”
The U.S. spy is guilty and should be brought to justice for committing crime, he added.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Jalali condemned the recent violation of Iran’s airspace by a U.S. spy drone and said that the United States’ sending of the spy drone and the CIA agent to Iran’s territory is a flagrant violation of international law.
He added, “U.S. officials arrogantly say that the Islamic Republic should return their drone and agent.”
He also said that U.S. President Barack Obama is experiencing a difficult situation.
The economic crisis and the glum electoral prospect of the Democrats have led them launching a poor public relations campaign, Jalali commented.
He added U.S. kidnaps Iranian citizens and hold them in custody for years, but the odd thing is that they expect the Iranian government to release the CIA spy.
It is noteworthy that many officials of the Islamic regime in Iran are either wanted by Interpol or by various courts around the world for acts of terrorism. Mr.Ahmad Vahidi, the Defense Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran is wanted by Interpol for his role in the Jewish Community Center bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1994.
The radicals ruling Iran see themselves engaged in a complicated intelligence battle with the CIA and are likely to use the alleged CIA spy in Iran for a trade with their assassins and agents being held in the U.S.
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).
