Could this have something to do with Bush's alleged and no-longer-secret plan for Iran?
Or maybe this isn't true either, and both sides are trading disinformation.
"Intelligence Ministry discovers several spy networks," from IRNA, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
Iranian Intelligence Ministry said on Saturday that it discovered several spy networks at the Western, Southwestern and central Iran.It said in a statement that the networks enjoyed guidance from intelligence services of the occupying powers in Iraq and Iraqi groups also were involved in the case.
I would be amazed and surprised into a state of shock if the CIA and MI5, Mossad and many others did not have their tentacles reaching into Iran. It is not as though Iran is a cohesive nation brought together by their hatred for all things western.
Therefore the fact that the Mullahs have made this statement is meaningless. If they had proof of internal disorder they would act and we would never hear from our side or theirs. If they have a spy from the west then a show trial and cheap suit will follow.
This in my opinion is yet more information warfare from a tired and scared theocracy staring down the barrel of a very large gun.
From what I understand about intelligence networks in Iran..there are so many spies for the U.S. in Iran, you can uncover several by accident and still have plenty. Get information while we still can because it will dry up in a democrat administration.
Really? I am just shocked! Imagine a country spying on another country that has, as its stated goals, the destruction of Israel and the United States... Just shocking!
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Do you think your President won’t act before his time is up? Even if his actions are aimed at Iran through Israel, would he not try to do the right things before the Democrats take the seat of power?
Just like Bliar signing away Britain during his farewell tour of the world, it is easy to take decisions that you know will impact your successor.
gee...wonder who tipped 'em off? Here's a BIG clue:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/23/eveningnews/main2843582.shtml
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55846
5th column anyone?
You can't be too thin or too rich, or have too many spy networks in Iran.
the news came from Brian Ross of ABC news, that is iranian tipsters,, ABC and rest of media whores will do about anything to get their poor ratings up.
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/fun/zippy.asp
"Iran claims discovery of "several spy networks" run by "the occupying powers in Iraq"
This sounds like the prelude to something big.
Dictators normally create some kind of excuse just prior to a spectacular move they've been planning all along.
You folks are definitely paying attention...well, done.
If the pattern comes full circle their plans should commence about...*tick* *tock* *tick* *tock*...6 weeks (same pattern as 9/11, same as 7/7, same as last years thwarted attempt).
My take is this story along with the one reported (leaked?) earlier this week about our side probably has other reasons for being made public. That is the nature of the spy business. It is not what we/they know its what we/they what them/us to know we know. There could be a lot or a little of other things related to this but then we would be speculating.
Just hope that the outcome is better for us than them.
Do you not get the feeling that we have done everything that can be done except the big things?
I sit here and listen to old music that blows away the modern stuff by a mile. The BBC who used to rule the airwaves are so politically correct and troubled by issues that I really don’t care what they show anymore. It’s all not quite as good as it was.
I don’t think it is just me being old either. Where are the great writers? What new content is holding us in front of the box? It would seem that everything as been done at least once before.
Are we feeling the decay that Rome suffered as it fell to the Barbarians? I truly hope not. But it is difficult to see why our society should survive in its current state.
Once we looked to the stars, we were going to colonise the solar system.
The pseudo communists that infest politics today have no time for such great endeavours, and the result is a stagnant society wracked with their guilt.
As far as I'm concerned, this is further evidence of bush's incompetence. Why didn't bush turn the CIA loose on Iran the day our tanks rumbled into Iraq? That at least would have kept them busy putting out fires on the home front and left less time for wrapping their tentacles around Iraq. he had already declared them part of the Axis of Evil, so why the delay? As much as I'd like to see the mullahcracy & their nuclear program dismantled, I'm not getting my hopes up. After all, this is a bush production. he's fresh off his engagement with North Korea. We really showed them who's boss.
If we haven't got a few dozen "spy networks" going full time in Iran we're bigger idiots than I think we are.
And if the mooolahs are half as unpopular as everyone is claiming, that number should be a few hundred.
As it happens, in countries like "Iran", anybody who wears his hat cocked at a politically unfashionable angle is a "spy" in the eyes of his masters.
Consequently, this story doesn't mean all that much.
But I would bet that it absolutely is a response to the story published by the fifth columnists over at ABC (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito).
The story BTW is at:
Bush Authorizes New Covert Action Against Iran
As it happens, I think it will only cost some hapless Persian his life, probably for no good reason.
And his (her?) family can send their thanks to Mssrs. Rat Ross and Rat Esposity over at ABC for inspiring the slave masters to murder their kin for a scarier-than-thou photo op.
CIA was more interested in doing a "covert op" (aka, a coup) against a sitting President
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/front2453666.3305555554.html
which was the real reason tenet finally got fired...PC infested even the CIA...
(Plame also recently perjured herself to congress on the 5th columns obsession with a non-event...and tenets CYA-esque 3rd grade temper tantrum, totally unbecoming of the office, didn't help either)
...not easy fighting the enemy from without and the 5th column enemy within at the same time.
Now you know only one of a few major reasons for the delay.
...and once again, THE reason we don't have spy networks in iran & other enemy countries is for the same reason I posted even further above (see CBS & ABC news' TREASON)...5th column tipping off the enemy masquerading as free speech.
From Mert above...
I would be amazed and surprised into a state of shock if the CIA and MI5, Mossad and many others did not have their tentacles reaching into Iran. ..."
Maybe Mossad, but the other two lost their balls for clandenstine decades ago.
I was in Nicaragua when the Sandanistas were fighting Samoza. The CIA never did figure out what was going on, although some State Dept employees at the embassy did (amazingly).
Mert´s posting is RIGHT ON THE MONEY!
Okay. Iran knows that there are spy networks in its country. That's common sense.
The real point of making this statement? Perhaps a kind of 'chess move' towards war with Iraq?
More than just iraq...a self-justification measure they so seek for when the big show starts. That way they have their "reason" (since they can't get us to fire first, which is what they've been desperately trying to do for so long...and failed). Without that "reason" the populace won't be as motivated as if we fired first.