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Whos REALLY Blowing Up Iran?
By Michael LedeenIt just has to be Israel, according to the pundit class. You know, that warmonger Netanyahu. Or maybe its us. Maybe its Obama, who after all killed bin Laden and Qadaffi, toppled Mubarak and bin Ali, and has proclaimed that Assad must go. Who else could be behind the mysterious wave of assassination, sabotage and explosions all over the country, from military bases to factories, from pipelines carrying natural gas to the Turks to automobiles in downtown Tehran carrying nuclear physicists to or from work? Before we get to the whys and wherefores, a bit of detail: the huge detonation at Karaj, which, as I have explained, surprised the attackers and distorted our understanding. The operation was aimed at the Revolutionary Guards Corps, specifically at General Hassan Tehrani Moghadam, who was both the architect of the national missile program and one of the nastiest officials in that legendarily nasty organization. The attackers did not know that there was a large quantity of rocket fuel on the base that day (which was the reason Moghadam was there). The special fuel came from North Korea, and it was supposed to double tne range of Irans missiles. The explosion that killed Moghadam and scores of his comrades ignited the rocket fuel, with dramatic results. To date, 377 dead have been reported to the supreme leaders office. Among the dead are the attackersthey couldnt escape the big explosionand at least four North Korean officials, who were there for the celebration. The attackers came from the internal opposition, and so far as I know they had no ties to any foreign anything, not a foreign intelligence service, not a foreign military organization, not a foreign government. Ive been a lonely voice for quite a while, saying that the opposition (call it the Green Movement, for lack of an updated logo) would become more violent, that the movement was, if anything, more powerful than it was at the time of the big demonstrations a year and two years ago, and that the regime was full of opposition sympathizers and collaborators. Because its obvious that whoevers blowing up Iran, theyve got a lot of help from some very important insiders. Dont take it from me; ask Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. He knows that if his enemies can blow up those installations, they can blow up most anything. Of late, Khamenei hasnt been particularly active in public events. Like his buddy, Hezbollah chief Nasrullah, hes keeping his head down and his profile low. The sources upon whom I rely for such information tell me there is more to come, and Im sure that the supreme leader believes just that. He may not know the provenance of the army amassed against him and his regime, and he may well convince himself, as our own entrail readers have convinced themselves, that he is under siege from the satanic forces in Washington and Jerusalem. But I dont believe it. Maybeprobably, even-Stuxnet. I dont think the Greens are up to that one. Maybe, if you insist, some of the assassinations of the physicists, although I rather suspect they were suspected of disloyalty and were rubbed out by the regime. But this is a major campaign, and I think it represents the revenge of the Iranian people against their torturers, murderers and oppressors. Posted by: 2011-12-15 |
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