US War
on Iran Takes Bizarre Turn
By Tony Cartalucci
By Tony Cartalucci
October 19, 2014 "ICH"
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It is not merely hyperbole when it is said the
US created terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda
or the so-called “Islamic State.” It is
documented fact. The current conflict in the
Middle East may appear to be a chaotic
conflagration beyond the control of the United
States and its many eager allies, but in reality
it is the intentional, engineered creation of
regional fronts in a war against Iran and its
powerful arc of influence.
It is not
Western policy that indirectly spurs the
creation and perpetuation of terrorist
organizations, but in fact, direct, intentional,
unmistakable support.
This support would manifest itself in perhaps
the most overt and bizarre declaration of
allegiance to terrorism to date, US Army General
Hugh Shelton on stage before terrorists of the
Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK) and their Wahabist
counterparts fighting in Syria, hysterically
pledging American material, political, and
strategic backing. MEK was listed for years by
the US State Department as a foreign terrorist
organization, but has received funding, arms,
and safe haven by the United States for almost
as long.
General Hugh’s speech titled, “Making
Iranian mullahs fear, the MEK, come true,”
was most likely never meant to be seen or
fully understood by Americans. In titled
alone, it is clear that US foreign policy
intends to use the tool of terrorism to
exact concessions from Tehran. If the true
nature of America’s support for terrorist
organizations like MEK were more widely
known, the current narrative driving US
intervention in Iraq and Syria would
crumble.
MEK
Has Killed US Servicemen, Contractors, and
Iranian Civilians For Decades
MEK has
carried out decades of brutal terrorist
attacks, assassinations, and espionage
against the Iranian government and its
people, as well as targeting Americans
including the attempted kidnapping of US
Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II, the
attempted assassination of USAF Brigadier General
Harold Price, the successful
assassination of Lieutenant
Colonel Louis Lee Hawkins, the double
assassinations of Colonel
Paul Shaffer and Lieutenant Colonel Jack
Turner, and the successful ambush and
killing of American Rockwell International
employees William Cottrell, Donald Smith,
and Robert Krongard.
Admissions
to the deaths of the Rockwell International
employees can be found within a
report written by former US State Department
and Department of Defense official Lincoln
Bloomfield Jr. on behalf of the lobbying
firm Akin
Gump in an attempt to dismiss concerns
over MEK’s violent past and how it connects
to its current campaign of armed terror – a
testament to the depths of depravity from
which Washington and London lobbyists
operate.
To this day
MEK terrorists have been carrying out
attacks inside of Iran killing political
opponents, attacking civilian targets, as
well as carrying
out the US-Israeli program of targeting and
assassinating Iranian scientists. MEK
terrorists are also suspected of handling
patsies in
recent false flag operations carried out in
India, Georgia, and Thailand, which have
been ham-handedly blamed on the Iranian
government by the United States and Israel.
MEK is
described by
Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow
Ray Takeyh as a “cult-like organization”
with “totalitarian tendencies.” While Takeyh
fails to expand on what he meant by
“cult-like” and “totalitarian,” an
interview with US State Department-run Radio
Free Europe-Radio Liberty reported that
a MEK Camp Ashraf escapee claimed the
terrorist organization bans marriage, using
radios, the Internet, and holds many members
against their will with the threat of death
if ever they are caught attempting to
escape.
US
Has Been Eagerly Supporting MEK Terrorists
For Years
Besides
providing MEK terrorists with now two former
US military bases in Iraq as safe havens,
the US has conspired to arm, fund, and back
MEK for years in a proxy war against Iran.
Covert
support for the US-listed terrorist group
Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) has been ongoing
since at least 2008 under the Bush
administration, when Seymour Hersh’s 2008
New Yorker article “Preparing the
Battlefield,” reported that not only had
MEK been considered for their role as a
possible proxy, but that the US had already
begun arming and financing them to wage war
inside Iran:
The M.E.K. has been on the State Department’s terrorist list for more than a decade, yet in recent years the group has received arms and intelligence, directly or indirectly, from the United States. Some of the newly authorized covert funds, the Pentagon consultant told me, may well end up in M.E.K. coffers. “The new task force will work with the M.E.K. The Administration is desperate for results.” He added, “The M.E.K. has no C.P.A. auditing the books, and its leaders are thought to have been lining their pockets for years. If people only knew what the M.E.K. is getting, and how much is going to its bank accounts—and yet it is almost useless for the purposes the Administration intends.
More recently, the British Daily
Mail published a stunning admission by
“US officials” that Israel is currently
funding, training, arming, and working
directly with MEK. The Daily Mail article
states:Seymore
Hersh in an NPR interview, also claims
that select MEK members have already
received trainingin the US.
U.S. officials confirmed today that Israel has been funding and training Iranian dissidents to assassinate nuclear scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear program. Washington insiders confirmed there is a close relationship between Mossad and MEK.
In 2009, an
extensive conspiracy was formulated within
US policy think-tank Brookings Institution’s
2009 “Which
Path to Persia?” report, proposing to
fully arm, train, and back MEK as it waged a
campaign of armed terror against the Iranian
people. In their report, they openly
conspire to use what is an admitted
terrorist organization as a “US proxy”
(emphasis added):
“Perhaps the most prominent (and certainly the most controversial) opposition group that has attracted attention as a potential U.S. proxy is the NCRI (National Council of Resistance of Iran), the political movement established by the MEK (Mujahedin-e Khalq). Critics believe the group to be undemocratic and unpopular, and indeed anti-American.
In contrast, the group’s champions contend that the movement’s long-standing opposition to the Iranian regime and record of successful attacks on and intelligence-gathering operations against the regime make it worthy of U.S. support. They also argue that the group is no longer anti-American and question the merit of earlier accusations. Raymond Tanter, one of the group’s supporters in the United States, contends that the MEK and the NCRI are allies for regime change in Tehran and also act as a useful proxy for gathering intelligence. The MEK’s greatest intelligence coup was the provision of intelligence in 2002 that led to the discovery of a secret site in Iran for enriching uranium.
Despite its defenders’ claims, the MEK remains on the U.S. government list of foreign terrorist organizations. In the 1970s, the group killed three U.S. officers and three civilian contractors in Iran. During the 1979-1980 hostage crisis, the group praised the decision to take America hostages and Elaine Sciolino reported that while group leaders publicly condemned the 9/11 attacks, within the group celebrations were widespread.
Undeniably, the group has conducted terrorist attacks—often excused by the MEK’s advocates because they are directed against the Iranian government. For example, in 1981, the group bombed the headquarters of the Islamic Republic Party, which was then the clerical leadership’s main political organization, killing an estimated 70 senior officials. More recently, the group has claimed credit for over a dozen mortar attacks, assassinations, and other assaults on Iranian civilian and military targets between 1998 and 2001. At the very least, to work more closely with the group (at least in an overt manner), Washington would need to remove it from the list of foreign terrorist organizations.”
Besides US
Army General Hugh Shelton, other prominent
US politicians to literally stand before
crowds of baying MEK terrorists and their
supporters include former New York City
Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Howard Dean, Tom Ridge,
John Lewis, Ed Rendell, former
ambassador John Bolton, former FBI
Director Louis Freeh, retired General Wesley
Clark, Lee Hamilton, former US Marine Corps
Commandant General James Jones, and Alan
Dershowitz. US
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi would also
stand in front of MEK terrorists to deliver
to them an Iranian New Year “greeting.”
Blind
Lust for Global Hegemony is Leading America
Over a Cliff
What it says
about American foreign policy, to trick US
servicemen and women into dying in far off
lands to “fight terrorism” when US
politicians in the highest positions of
power openly pledge support to terrorism –
using it as a battering ram against its
enemies abroad, and failing to topple them
by proxy, using their own terrorist hordes
as a pretext for direct military
intervention to do so – is that such policy
is underpinned by nothing more than blind
lust for power, wealth, and influence in
senseless pursuit of global hegemony. There
is no guiding principles of peace,
stability, democracy, freedom, or any
confining principles of humanity that
prohibit US foreign policy from exercising
the most abhorrent practices in order to
achieve its goals.
Failure to identify these interests blindly
chasing hegemony at the cost of global peace
and prosperity leads not only America over a
cliff into a ravine of madness, but the
entire world as well. That a US general can
stand before terrorists even as the US bombs
two nations in the name of fighting
terrorism, is but a glimpse into this
madness.For America and the Western aligned
nations and interests caught in its orbit,
there is no future. Chasing hegemony for the
sake of hegemony alone leaves no room for
actual progress. When anything and
everything obstructing the path to hegemony
is seen as an “enemy” to be destroyed by any
means necessary, that includes setting aside
resources and attention to solving some of
the most pressing issues of our time –
health care, infrastructure, education,
better jobs, peace, and prosperity. All of
these are seen as obstacles toward hegemony,
and the very same interests standing before
MEK terrorists pledging America’s resources
to their campaign of terrorism against Iran,
are the same interests calling for and
implementing austerity upon the American
people to continuously fuel its foreign
adventures.
Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical
researcher and writer, especially for the
online magazine “New
Eastern Outlook”.
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