Saturday’s deadly blast at an Iranian military base was termed an “accident” by Iranian officials, with the Revolutionary Guard attributing it to an ammunition stock catching fire during transport.
But a growing number of reports are coming out, particularly in the Israeli press, which are calling the blast a collaborative effort between Mossad and the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MeK), an Iranian terrorist group which has received considerable support in recent months from Western officials hoping to use them in a war against Iran.
An anonymous source among several quoted on Mossad’s involvement went on to say that the attacks were an effort to “impede the Iranian ability to develop and deliver a nuclear weapon,” while predicting more attacks. It should be noted that the base involved has never even alleged to have any nuclear weapons aspect.
If the attack was indeed a covert Israeli attack, it might explain why Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak was cheering the death toll yesterday. On the other hand, publicly lauding “accidents” seems a funny way to avoid suspicion.
Acts of war come in many flavors: trade embargoes, blockades, sabotage, terrorism, assassinations, air bombing of civil & military infrastructure, and outright invasions. Not all such attacks are immediately considered warfare by international organizations, particularly when those organizations fall under the political, military, and / or financial influence of one of the antagonists. The USA / British imposed 'no-fly zone' in Iraq, as well as the UN 'Oil For Food' embargo imposed on Iraq were continuing premeditated acts of war, as much against a defenseless civilian population as against the Saddam Hussein government. The USA's on-again / off-again relationship with MeK could also be interpreted as an act of war, particularly when considered in conjunction with the USA Congress overtly funding $400 Million to the express purpose of destabilizing the duly elected government of Iran. A majority of the USA Congress, both Democratic & Republican Parties, voted in favor of that funding.
Civilians far more than the military or government on the receiving end of such acts of war generally suffer the results most. It is both hubris and hypocrisy for any nation to set itself above international law in engaging such provocations, while claiming any asymmetric response in kind is classified as terrorism. The USA (and Britain and Israel) exhibit such hubris & hypocrisy routinely, often under the rubric of "Bringing Democracy' or 'Fighting For Freedom' but really for control of territory or natural resources or even maintaining the status quo. The USA's 'War on Terror' is an Orwellian ('1984') misnomer for the "War OF Terror' they are actually engaged in. And the USA's emerging national security surveillance police state is as much about suppression of domestic resistance to their imperial program as it is to the protection of the 'homeland' from well-deserved 'blow-back'.
All very true. What we're seeing is all shifting mirrors and illusion. If you stare too long or too hard you find it all spinning round and round over and over. It's a Deja Vu carousel of deceit, death and destruction. If any nation were to openly fund a half billion dollars to destabilize the US, a bargain if ever there was one, the evil bobble heads in our government would go ballistic claiming it was an "act of war". But, of course, it is just that: an act of war, and that's what this government has done in the case of the Iranians and to countless unspoken others.
I thought the MEKkers wanted to be delisted from the list of groups that are into terror?
Now they are up and about boasting about an attack? Not that I believe any of this, sounds like the local Qaeda franchisees claiming responsibility when someone is killed in a standard mishap.
It is never too far-fetched to believe that when something blows up unexpectedly and the recipient of the unexpected explosion is in the middle east (tho that doesn't necessarily need to be relevant) and are enemies of the Zionists that the Zionists were directly involved. Never beyond the realm of belief.
When countries evolve to the place where human life is just one of the many factors in the national equation, the world is doomed. Israel and the USA have recently played the game of minimizing the value of human lives that don't buy into their global plans. And of course, there are several other, less- developed nations where these primal rules hold force. But when Western societies stoop to this level, you can be sure that societies are unravelling. All human life is sacred, including Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghanastani.
Hm… the US lists the MeK as a terrorist group, Israel wants to use the MeK to carry out terrorist attacks against Iran, attack takes place, and no one in Washington is even raising an eyebrow that Israel is now publicly in bed with a known terrorist group that we ourselves are officially against.
My, what a tangled web we weave. When do the sanctions against Israel begin? If Israel is providing 'aid and comfort' or 'material support' to the MeK, doesn't that mean we should be bombing them instead of sitting on our collective thumbs?
The hypocrisy is staggering.
The hypocrisy is staggering, indeed.
Both the Obama regime and a significant number of Congressional Republicans are seeking to have the MeK organization removed (in Congress) from the USA's official list of terrorist organizations. It's deja vu all over again — like the USA's longstanding 'special relationship' with al-Queda, another group cast as 'useful tools'.
Israel has always used terrorism as a central tool of their 'state-craft', beginning with the bombing of the King David Hotel and the Lavon Affair. Mossad engaged in acts of terrorism for over 15 years all over Europe and the Middle East in response to Black September's attack on the Munich Olympics. And WTH was Mossad doing in Mexico City when they were caught in the act of attempting to blow up the Mexican Congress? The ruling Likud Party itself should be deemed a terrorist organization by the USA, considering its roots (Stern Gang) and current disposition. But figure the odds of that actually happening, considering that ADL, JDL, and AIPAC essentially control USA foreign policy in the Middle East.
On the subject of the MeK, is not advocating for them considered to be giving them 'aid and comfort' or 'material support'? If I, as a private citizen, took to the streets advocating for any given currently-listed terrorist group, I'd be hauled up in front of a judge and have the book thrown at me doing those very things. Why, then, are our lawmakers and politicians (who made the anti-terrorist laws in the first place) exempt from those very same restrictions? If Obama wants to de-list the MeK, he needs to do it by his own hand- but anyone who advocates for them or speaks of them in a positive light should be charged with aiding a terrorist group and charged just like any average American citizen would be.
Then again, just as in Animal Farm: All pigs are created equal, but some are more equal than others.
"Then again, just as in Animal Farm: All pigs are created equal, but some are more equal than others."
Yeah, spot-on.
The Obomber regime is just as guilty as the Shrub regime when it comes to State-sponsored terrorism. And in regard to the Constitution & Bill of Rights, Obomber is measurably worse — a personal surprise to me since he was a Constitutional Scholar. We The People should be impeaching the entire Obomber regime And at least 90% of Congress — not re-electing them except on a non-partisan case-by-case basis.
I would place more faith in drawing a new USA government from the stadium crowd at an NASCAR or NFL event than our current 'leadership', and that's saying a lot.
Surprise, surprise…as if there were any doubts. If it looks like Mossad, sounds like Mossad and feels like Mossad…well, chances are that it was Mossad. In the ME, everything that happens that is evil, wrong and towards the end of creating chaos and destruction, you can pretty surely blame on Mossad and chances are, it was them.
'Ehud Barak was cheering the death toll' eh? And yet when even one Israeli soldier is killed it is grieved and agonized over in the American media and threats are made to 'end the Peace Process' and missile strikes soon follow suit. Is it really possible for anybody to make peace with Israel? Or rather I should have reversed that question. When the state is determined and has an appetite, a hunger for war only defeat in battle seems to have an effect on it.
Israel has a collective 'eternal victim' complex and only by creating imaginary enemies to hurt them can they validate this national neurosis.
It certainly looks like 'Peace' has been completely replaced by 'Piece' in the Zionist Israeli lexicon — as in: a Piece of Sinai, a Piece (all) of Gaza Strip, a Piece of Lebanon, a Piece of Syria, a Piece of Jordan, and a Piece of Saudi Arabia. It's Biblical — both their territorial aspirations And their belief that they alone are 'Chosen of God'; every other nation's people are mere grist in the machine of warfare for their ambitions.
The single biggest threat to Peace in the Middle East is Israel itself. They would rather risk the nuclear conflagration of World War 3 rather than seek true and lasting Peace with their neighbors.
Who is that sponsor of State Terrorism again?