Having already lost two distinct spy rings earlier this week in the Pizza Hut fiasco in Beirut, Lebanon, an Iranian MP reports that a third CIA spy ring has been broken inside Iran, with at least 12 arrested.
Reports say that the new spy ring was linked to Iran’s deployment of missiles around the country to prepare for a reaction to an oft-threatened Israeli attack. The spies had been tracking where the missiles were and what defenses they had against attack.
MP Parviz Sorouri, a member of the National Security Committee, said that they were “trying to use regional intelligence services, both inside and outside Iran, in order to deal a strong blow to our country.” The nationality of those arrested has not been made public.
In addition to being the third spy ring lost this week, it is also the second time this year Iran has uncovered a CIA spy network, after arrests in May. With the CIA putting more and more focus on its assassination program, it raises further questions about its ability to effectively operate intelligence gathering services.
Hopefully we'll see the 12 on youtube, as they undergo some "enhanced interrogation techniques".
If the 12 are westerners, you can be sure the "enhanced interrogation" advocates will be howling – especially if some of the 12 are Americans or Israelis. If they are not westerners you most likely won't hear a peep out of the "enhanced interrogation" advocates – you know, they're just cannon fodder for the empire – quite expendable.
Actually, ALL CIA assets are expendable. The fate of such 'luminaries' as Manuel Noriega, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, Saddam Hussein, Hosni Mubarak, and Osama bin Laden are offered as absolute proof. The CIA's 'retirement plan' for their assets include disavowal,and a bullet or hangman's noose, never a chalet in Switzerland.
The CIA operates exactly like the Black Hand / Sicilian Mafia — once you join, you can never really leave the 'company', and dead men tell no tales or reveal any secrets. Neither Congress nor the American People are even permitted to investigate the skeletons in the CIA's closet. JFK was the last President to try to curb CIA excesses, and look what happened to him …
Couldn't think of a better fate for the bastards.
foreign spies in iran normally operate under cover of journalists (low level spies) and diplomats (high level spies). Iran is unlikely to take either of these categories seriously as it does not make sense to persecute the low level spies and they cannot legally touch the diplomats. The most dangerous foreign spies operating in Iran (from irans perspective) are the western european and asian businessmen who are normally very closely monitored. The vast majority of espionage in Iran these days is conducted by MEK and other Iranian nationals recruited by CIA in other countries to go back and work in Iran. I suspect most of those caught are this type who also hold foreign passports, european, american, canadian for exp
The MEK aren't just spies either; as you're no doubt aware, they carry out terror attacks within Iran also. This though is the terrorism that cannot speak its name because it is 'our' terrorism. While every effort is currently being made to remove them from the US list of proscribed terror organisations, this has already been quietly achieved in Europe, which might soon become home to many of them.
This Washington Post article describes them as 'Iranian exiles', but their identity is clear and well documented elsewhere. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle-east/e…
yup, they are probably responsible for the surge in bombings in iran over the last several years. They are also responsible for killing americans in Iran and Iraq prior to 1979 in various acts of terror. They receive most of their help from Israel, however, not the US. If fact, their presence at camp ashraf in Iraq over the last years and the efforts to remove them from the terrorism list is due solely to the lobbying of Israel and her agents in the US
I wonder what portion of the $400 Million that a bipartisan Congress voted 2 years ago for the overt destabilization of the duly elected government of Iran went to such terrorist organizations as MeK?
IIRC, the MeK are still classified as a terrorist organization, and since the Congress, White House, and CIA have all been in alliance & collusion of known terrorists, under the provisions of the PATRIOT Act they all would be classified as terrorists (or terrorist sympathizers) as well. No wonder that the Obama regime is so eager to have the Congress decertify the MeK as terrorists.
On a related note, one of the CIAs most useful 'protagonist groups' in the Libyan Uprising against Gadhaffi is a branch of al-Queda, which kind of puts the lie to the entire War on Terror as a Machiavellian construct. It equates to the War OF Terror, not unlike the War OF (Some) Drugs, another Orwellian misnomer.
Shouldn't the rest of the world speak out against the CIA doing this kind of thing? Are the other nations so scared of the US govenrment or jsut so stupid they don't realize that if you allow the US to do that to iran or Syria you can't expect the US to respect your own soveriegnty?
the rest of the world has often spoke out against it but you never hear it in the US media and it has not exactly made the US stop…
The Iranians are always reminding us that we deposed their elected PM and destroyed their democracy but we simply dont care because oil and israel are more important than human rights and international law
I think they should be westerners ,because as I know there is no day ministry of intelligent ( Vezarat e Ettela’at) arrest some MeK or PJAK spies around the country.It’s somehow common in Iran to arrest exiled Iranians!
but when they say they have arrested someone, they should be important spies and maybe westerner.
why do you think all of the intelligent services around the world act like CIA,MI6 or other cruel agencies?
Iran’s Intelligent service (Ettela’at )is known for it’s SPECIAL behavior in region!
they make you speak without even touching you!
they don’t use those old interrogation Technics which is used by CIA!
It is amazing to me that CIA director Petraeus is not even mentioned in any of the coverage. Oddly a google news search of Petraeus barely mentions he is the director of the CIA.
Hang 'em all. Don't even bother with the charade of a trial. Time for Iran to do unto others as others have done unto it.
Iran lost 1 million soldiers in the war with Iraq, thanks in no small part to USA-supplied chemical munitions to our ally Saddam — practically an entire generation of mostly men perished. IIRC, Iran's current population is about 75 million, over twice that of Iraq in a territory about 4 times greater. The USA cannot hope to occupy and pacify Iran, any more than the USA could successfully occupy and pacify Iraq. The USA has been equally unsuccessful in pacifying Afghanistan. We put over 1/2 million troops into Vietnam, a country far smaller, and ultimately lost that war as well.
What the USA can do is bomb Iran back into the bronze age. Somehow, even then the USA would lose because the Iranians would still be fighting the USA in 20 years, even with spears & swords, until they win. I don't believe that the USA is prepared to support universal military conscription in the advance of a 20 or 30 year war against a country that has never attacked or threatened the American homeland.
Iran, with a history of civilization 3,000 years old, shows far more maturity in its dealings with its neighbors and the USA than we could muster in response to Iranian provocations … er, wait, there have been no Iranian provocations.
The US would have been better served if they would have had the secret spies openly working with the Iranians to verify that they are not building nukes. But Rats! The State Department , WH, and Zionist members of Congress say they are building nukes, so they had to watch the missiles that would be used only for defense.
If Iran had 12 spying agents arrested in US, what do you think will be the reaction of the US State Department?
Ok. they have spies in Iran. then bomb Iran. Iran bombs israel. USA get involved, War all over persian Gulf, the USA dosent understand, once the war starts with Iran, NATO wont have peace in the middle east. WAR wont stop, till it is won by Iranians.