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==Wikileaks cables== | ==Wikileaks cables== | ||
| + | In [[2010]], [[Wikileaks]] released many secret mails between US officials working in and with Iran. | ||
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==North Korean missiles== | ==North Korean missiles== | ||
| − | U.S. intelligence | + | U.S. intelligence argued...again, that Iran obtained advanced missiles (derived from a [[R-27 Zyb|Soviet design]]), from Russia, via [[North Korea]].<ref name="ny times missile" /> These missiles, designated the [[BM25 Musudan|BM-25]], have a range of up to {{convert|2000|mi|km}}.<ref name="Atlantic" /><ref name="ny times missile">{{Registration required|date=December 2010}} {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/middleeast/29missiles.html?_r=1|title=Iran Fortifies Its Arsenal With the Aid of North Korea|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=28 November 2010|access-date=28 November 2010}}</ref> |
==Internal conflict== | ==Internal conflict== | ||
| − | + | A cable said that Ahmadinejad and [[Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps|Revolutionary Guards]] commander [[Mohammad Ali Jafari]] had an argument. It cited an incident during a [[Supreme National Security Council]] meeting when Ahmadinejad stated (in regards to dealing with opposition protests) that "'people feel suffocated,' and argued to allow more personal and social freedoms, including more freedom of the [[media]]" to which Jafari replied "You are wrong! It is ''you'' who created this mess! And now you say give more freedom to the press?!;" and went on to punch Ahmadinejad in the face. An fight ensued and the SNSC meeting was called off, until Ayatollah [[Ahmad Jannati]] made the two make up.<ref name="10BAKU98">{{cite journal |publisher=WikiLeaks |url=http://wikileaks.dd19.de/cable/2010/02/10BAKU98.html |id={{WikiLeaks cable|10BAKU98}} |title=Iran: Jafari Reportedly Slaps Ahmedinejad at SNSC |date=11 February 2009 |access-date=8 December 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231212107/http://www.wikileaks.ch/cable/2010/02/10BAKU98.html |archive-date=31 December 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> | |
==Re-emergence of the Tudeh Party== | ==Re-emergence of the Tudeh Party== | ||
| − | There | + | There were also reports that th [[Tudeh Party]] was gaining ground with the government employees and the working-class population, and that they were reportedly the driving force behind recent strikes, even though they were already banned for ages.<ref name="10BAKU98"/> |
==Health of Ali Khamenei== | ==Health of Ali Khamenei== | ||
| − | An unidentified | + | An unidentified political friend of former Iranian President [[Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani]] stated that [[Supreme Leader]] [[Ali Khamenei]] had terminal [[leukemia]] and was to die in months, and Rafsanjani's apathy to act on rumours of [[election]] fraud in the [[Iranian Presidential Election, 2009|2009 Iranian presidential election]] comes because he wants to succeed Khamenei and revert Ahmadinejad's election afterwards.<ref>{{cite journal|author=WikiLeaks|url=http://wikileaks.dd19.de/cable/2009/08/09ISTANBUL336.html|id={{WikiLeaks cable|09ISTANBUL336}}|title=A xxxxx contact shares views from a rafsanjani business ally on khamenei's cancer and rafsanjani's next steps|date=28 August 2009|access-date=28 November 2010}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |
==Exploitation of the Iranian Red Crescent Society== | ==Exploitation of the Iranian Red Crescent Society== | ||
| − | + | The [[Iranian Red Crescent Society]] was alleged to be controlled by the government and involved in illicit [[arms smuggling]] and intelligence gathering on behalf of Iran.<ref>{{cite news|author=MacAskill, Ewan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/28/iranian-spies-red-crescent-war?intcmp=239|title=Iranian Spies 'Used Red Crescent To Enter War Zones' — US Embassy Cables Reveal Claims that Intelligence Agents and Weapons Were Smuggled into Lebanon and Iraq|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=28 November 2010|access-date=29 November 2010}}</ref><ref>[[Staff writer]] (28 November 2010). | |
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| + | [http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-expose-iran-used-ambulances-to-run-arms-into-lebanon-during-2006-war-1.327483 "WikiLeaks Exposé: Iran Used Ambulances To Run Arms into Lebanon During 2006 War — Top Iranian Source Told U.S. Officials That Medical Staff Loading Lebanon-Bound Planes in Iran Noticed That the Aircraft Were 'Already Half Full.'"]. ''[[Haaretz]]''. Retrieved 11 December 2010.</ref> | ||
==U.S. sanctions== | ==U.S. sanctions== | ||
| − | + | The U.S. State Department said that the U.S. kept wanting more sanctions on [[Iran]].<ref name="10STATE9124">{{cite journal|author=WikiLeaks|url=http://wikileaks.dd19.de/cable/2010/01/10STATE9124.html|id={{WikiLeaks cable|10STATE9124}}|title=Hillary Clinton Demands Actions Against Iran|date=29 January 2010|access-date=29 November 2010}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> | |
==Iranian–Canadian intelligence correspondence== | ==Iranian–Canadian intelligence correspondence== | ||
| − | [[Jim Judd]], former director of the [[Canadian Security Intelligence Service]] told U.S. State Department official [[Eliot A. Cohen]] that "he and his colleagues are 'very, very worried' about Iran." CSIS had talked | + | [[Jim Judd]], former director of the [[Canadian Security Intelligence Service]] told U.S. State Department official [[Eliot A. Cohen]] that "he and his colleagues are 'very, very worried' about Iran." CSIS had talked to Iran's [[Ministry of Intelligence and Security]] after they requested its own "channel of communication to Canada". The Iranians agreed to "help" with the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]], sharing information on attacks, but CSIS refused. Judd also said "we have not figured out what they are up to," saying it was trying to "led NATO in Afghan battles bleed slowly to death."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/12/01/five-of-the-most-intriguing-canadian-wikileaks-revelations/|title=The five most intriguing Canadian WikiLeaks revelations|last=McDermott|first=Vincent|date=1 December 2010|access-date=3 September 2012|work=The National Post|publisher=Postmedia Network Inc.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://montrealgazette.com/news/Cnds+have+Alice+Wonderland+approach+security+Wikileaks/3902117/story.html|title=Canadians have 'Alice in Wonderland' approach to security, Wikileaks documents say|work=The Montreal Gazette|date=29 November 2010|access-date=3 September 2012|publisher=Postmedia Network Inc.|last=Kennedy|first=Mark}}</ref> |
==Organized crime== | ==Organized crime== | ||
| − | According to | + | According to the U.S. embassy in [[Baku]], [[Azerbaijan]], in 2009, there was a "widespread rumor" that Iranians in Baku were sanctions-busting, [[money laundering]], obtaining spare parts, equipment and revenue generation for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and management of [[narcotic]]s trafficking originating from Iran. The cable mentioned that Iran had large network of operatives, including students, businessmen, and activists involved.<ref>{{cite journal|author=WikiLeaks|url=http://wikileaks.dd19.de/cable/2009/03/09BAKU175.html|id={{WikiLeaks cable|09BAKU175}}|title=Iran's Money Launderers, Sanctions-Busters, and Revolutionary Guard Money Makers: A Baku Sampler|date=6 March 2009|access-date=1 December 2010}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:42, 11 October 2023
 Iran  (Country, Enemy image)     | |
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| Capital city | Tehran |
| Location | Middle East, Asia |
| Leader | President of Iran |
| Type |  nation state |
| Interest of | Sheldon Adelson, CENTCOM, Charles Cogan, Hassan Firouzabadi, Iran Policy Committee, Dan Kovalik, Elon Musk, NewColdWar.org, Emanuele Ottolenghi, Olivier Roy, Gary Sick |
| Member of | Safari Club, UN |
| Sponsored by | 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine |
| Subpage | •Iran/1953 coup d'état •Iran/Ambassador •Iran/Foreign Minister •Iran/Nuclear weapons •Iran/President •Iran/Prime Minister |
| Iran possesses the 4th largest oil reserves of any nation state. | |
Iran, formerly known as Persia, is an oil rich nation state in the middle east. It has the 4th largest oil reserve and the 2nd largest natural gas reserves of any nation state, about 16% of total global reserves,[1] and is situated at a maritime choke point, the Strait of Hormuz. After its controversial removal of the Shah, it has been in a cold war fighting U.S backed Saudi Arabia.[2]
Contents
- 1 History
- 2 Iran & Saudi Arabia fighting for Qatar
- 3 Activities
- 4 Strait of Hormuz
- 5 Wikileaks cables
- 6 North Korean missiles
- 7 Internal conflict
- 8 Re-emergence of the Tudeh Party
- 9 Health of Ali Khamenei
- 10 Exploitation of the Iranian Red Crescent Society
- 11 U.S. sanctions
- 12 Iranian–Canadian intelligence correspondence
- 13 Organized crime
- 14 Events carried out
- 15 Related Quotations
- 16 Events
- 17 Groups Headquartered Here
- 18 Citizens of Iran on Wikispooks
- 19 Sponsor
- 20 Events Participated in
- 21 Related Documents
- 22 References
History
Iran's fossil fuel wealth has made it a target for decades. It was on a list of seven countries which retired 4-star general Wesley Clark (SACEUR from 1997-2001) stated that the US military had plans to invade:
In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’[3]
1953 coup d'état
| “It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran. - Democracy Now! |
- Full article: Iran/1953 coup d'état
- Full article: Iran/1953 coup d'état
Planned since at least 1951, a coup d'état was carried out in Iran in 1953 against the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh. This was organised by the Seven Sisters and then carried out by a small group within MI6 and the CIA.[4], motivated largely by the huge profits of extracting Iranian oil.
“Two years after Iran’s democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalized Iran’s oil industry that had been controlled by the company now known as British Petroleum a coup happened in Iran. “If nationalisation in Iran of oil was successful, this would set a terrible example to other countries where U.S. oil interests were present,” explains Ervand Abrahamian, Iranian historian and author of Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d’Etat and The Coup: 1953, The CIA, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian Relations. While the CIA has historically taken credit for Mosaddegh’s overthrow, “the British have not admitted their leading role,” notes Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani, whose documentary film Coup 53 uncovers the influence of MI6 agents who sought to preserve their imperial-era access to Iranian oil and pulled in the Americans by promising a “slice.” Seventy years later, says Amirani, “We are still living with the ripples of this disastrous event”
Democracy Now (2023) [5]
US Deep State operative Frank Terpil admitted working for the Iranian government.[6]
"Iran-Contra"
- Full article: “Iran-Contra”
- Full article: “Iran-Contra”
The US commercially-controlled media used the phrase "Iran Contra" to refer to a US Deep state scheme which smuggled cocaine in the the US and shipped weapons to the "contras".
1980 October surprise
- Full article: October surprise
- Full article: October surprise
The October surprise was a deal organised by the US deep state to try to ensure the defeat of Jimmy Carter in the 1980 US Presidential election. This is suspected[By whom?] of having arisen from the Iran-Contra drug deals.
Iran-Iraq war
- Full article: Iran Iraq war
- Full article: Iran Iraq war
The Iran Iraq war began on 22 September 1980 and concluded on 20 August 1988.
Nuclear weapons?
- Full article: Nuclear weapon
- Full article: Nuclear weapon
The commercially-controlled media has repeatedly claimed that Iran was developing Nuclear weapons. Several nuclear scientists have been assassinated in ambushes since 2010.[7][8][9] In fear of retaliation, Israel has warned it's own nuclear scientists after the 2020 assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, to be vigilant and change daily routine.[10] Tony Cartalucci comments:
"There was a rush by the Western media to blame the Israeli government - who in turn appears to be in no rush to discount or disprove these accusations. The purpose of this is to make the US appear uninvolved in the recent escalation. The race to shape public opinion and depict the US as helpless amid growing tensions between Israel and Iran is meant to make any possible US involvement in the near future look uninvited, unplanned, and reluctant on Washington's part."[11]
COVID-19
Lots of dead politicians.
51,000 "covid orphans" - children who have lost both parents to COVID.[12]
Iran & Saudi Arabia fighting for Qatar
Video archive
Activities
Drugs
Andrei Fursov has reported that groups in Iran are involved in international drug trafficking which threatens the profits of globally organised and US deep state groups. He stated in 2014 that "Cocaine is transferred to Sierra Leone, where it is exchanged for diamonds. With the diamonds they purchase arms. This triangle - Hezbollah, Syria, Iran - gets in the way of the Americans. They take the view, correctly, that eliminating Syria as an Arab partner of Iran, whether relations with Iran are good or bad, Iran will be weaker, and it will be easier to get an agreement with them. The removal of the Assad regime therefore became objective No.1 for the Americans. Likewise for Saudi Arabia and Israel."[13]
In 2018, the New York Times headlined a story Iran Eases Death Penalty for Drug Crimes, Saving Potentially Thousands of Lives, which cited anonymous "activists" as claiming that an elevation of the drug minimums for a capital sentence "could save potentially 5,000 lives."[14]
Unconditional basic income
Iran was the first country to introduce an unconditional basic income. Since Autumn 2010 it has paid an income to all citizens and replace the decades long system of subsidies of petrol, fuel and other supplies. In 2012, the sum corresponded to about 40 U.S. dollars per person per month.
Strait of Hormuz
Iran is located at the Strait of Hormuz (the world's most important oil transit chokepoint)[15] and as a major power in the region, can influence world economy by closing or limiting transit.[16][17]
Wikileaks cables
In 2010, Wikileaks released many secret mails between US officials working in and with Iran.
North Korean missiles
U.S. intelligence argued...again, that Iran obtained advanced missiles (derived from a Soviet design), from Russia, via North Korea.[18] These missiles, designated the BM-25, have a range of up to 2,000 miles (3,200 km).[19][18]
Internal conflict
A cable said that Ahmadinejad and Revolutionary Guards commander Mohammad Ali Jafari had an argument. It cited an incident during a Supreme National Security Council meeting when Ahmadinejad stated (in regards to dealing with opposition protests) that "'people feel suffocated,' and argued to allow more personal and social freedoms, including more freedom of the media" to which Jafari replied "You are wrong! It is you who created this mess! And now you say give more freedom to the press?!;" and went on to punch Ahmadinejad in the face. An fight ensued and the SNSC meeting was called off, until Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati made the two make up.[20]
Re-emergence of the Tudeh Party
There were also reports that th Tudeh Party was gaining ground with the government employees and the working-class population, and that they were reportedly the driving force behind recent strikes, even though they were already banned for ages.[20]
Health of Ali Khamenei
An unidentified political friend of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani stated that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had terminal leukemia and was to die in months, and Rafsanjani's apathy to act on rumours of election fraud in the 2009 Iranian presidential election comes because he wants to succeed Khamenei and revert Ahmadinejad's election afterwards.[21]
Exploitation of the Iranian Red Crescent Society
The Iranian Red Crescent Society was alleged to be controlled by the government and involved in illicit arms smuggling and intelligence gathering on behalf of Iran.[22][23]
U.S. sanctions
The U.S. State Department said that the U.S. kept wanting more sanctions on Iran.[24]
Iranian–Canadian intelligence correspondence
Jim Judd, former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service told U.S. State Department official Eliot A. Cohen that "he and his colleagues are 'very, very worried' about Iran." CSIS had talked to Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security after they requested its own "channel of communication to Canada". The Iranians agreed to "help" with the War in Afghanistan, sharing information on attacks, but CSIS refused. Judd also said "we have not figured out what they are up to," saying it was trying to "led NATO in Afghan battles bleed slowly to death."[25][26]
Organized crime
According to the U.S. embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, in 2009, there was a "widespread rumor" that Iranians in Baku were sanctions-busting, money laundering, obtaining spare parts, equipment and revenue generation for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards and management of narcotics trafficking originating from Iran. The cable mentioned that Iran had large network of operatives, including students, businessmen, and activists involved.[27]
Events carried out
| Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/October 7 | Gaza Israel Palestine Lebanon Golan Heights | Hamas attacks Israeli settlements in Southern Israel, mass raping and abducting, which get called an Israeli "9-11" by CCM. The NYT and Al Jazeera claimed the Israeli government knew of the impending attack, ignored warnings, shot some of their own civilians, made up several stories and used the resulting increased death toll to go on a revenge killing spree in the 2023 Israeli invasion of Gaza. |
| July 2021 Gulf of Oman incident | Incident in July 2021 |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ziad Abdelnour | “Iran's going to be finished and every single Arab regime that's like this will be finished. Because there is no room for us capitalists and multinationalists in the world to operate with regimes like this. Its all about money. And power. And wealth... and democracy has to be spread around the world. Those who want to espouse globalization are going to make a lot of money, be happy, their families will be happy. And those who aren't going to play this game are going to be crushed, whether they like it or not! This is how we rule. And this is how it's going to be as long as you have people who think like me.” | Ziad Abdelnour | 18 November 2005 |
| Sheldon Adelson | “What is there to negotiate about? What I would say is: listen, you see that desert out there? (...) So you pick up your cellphone and call someone is Nebraska and say OK, let one go and it doesn't hurt a soul, maybe a couple of rattlesnakes and scorpions or whatever and say: See? The next one is in the middle of Tehran” | Sheldon Adelson | 2013 |
| Wesley Clark | “In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’” | Wesley Clark | 2 March 2007 |
| Patrick Clawson | “One can combine other means of pressure with sanctions. I mentioned that explosion on August 17th. We could step up the pressure. I mean look people, Iranian submarines periodically go down, some day one of them might not come up, who would know why? We can do a variety of things if we wish to increase the pressure... We are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians. We could get nastier.” | Patrick Clawson | September 2012 |
| George Curzon | “Turkestan, Afghanistan, Transcaspia, Persia. To many, these words breathe only a sense of utter remoteness, or a memory of strange vicissitudes or moribund romance. To me, I confess, they are pieces on a chessboard, upon which is being played out a game for the domination of the world” | George Curzon | 1898 |
| Lowell Jacoby | “Saddam Hussein appears determined to retain his WMD and missile programs...Iran and Iraq have active nuclear programs and could have nuclear weapons within the decade.” | Lowell Jacoby | 11 February 2003 |
| John McCain | “Republican 2008 presidential hopeful John McCain crooned the words “Bomb Iran” to a Beach Boys’ tune in joking response to a question about any possible U.S. attack over Tehran’s suspected nuclear weapons program. “That old Beach Boys song, Bomb Iran ... bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb,” the Vietnam War veteran warbled softly to the band’s “Barbara Ann” when he was asked when the United States would send an “airmail message” to Iran.” | John McCain Reuters | April 2007 |
| Sharmine Narwani | “My friend, an engineer — who I will not name for obvious reasons and who I will call ‘Kourosh’ for the purpose of this article — revealed to me in 2010 that he was approached by two “State Department employees” who offered him $250,000 to “do something very simple” during his upcoming trip to Tehran.” | Sharmine Narwani | 21 March 2019 |
| Television | “I once said to the chair, the heads of the CIA, when I was prime minister, that if you want to advance regime change in Iran you don't have to go through the CIA cloak and dagger stuff. What you want to do is, is take very large, very strong transponders and just beam Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 2050 and all that, into, into Tehran and into Iran because that is subversive stuff. They watch with, the young kids watch it, the young people. They want to have the same nice clothes and the same houses and swimming pools and so on.” | Benjamin Netanyahu | 12 September 2002 |
Events
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| 2024 Persian Gulf floods | Severe flash floods in a arid desert kill dozens in countries known for documented geoengineering. CCM quick to copy spokespersons denying any link to geoengineering, after one admitted this to be the caused by geoengineering. |
| Contaminated blood affair | For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands. |
| Iran-Iraq war | An war from 1980-1988, that was ended with a UN-brokered ceasefire. |
| Iran/1953 coup d'état | The first of many large scale coups was carried out at the behest of big oil, by the CIA. The report of the inaugural Bilderberg next year termed this "firm Western action in Persia ... [that] had produced successful results." |
| Le Cercle/1978 (Tehran) | |
| Noricum scandal | Illegal sale of artillery guns to Iraq and Iran |
Groups Headquartered Here
| Group | Start | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Iran University of Science and Technology | 1929 | A research institution and university of engineering and science. |
| Press TV | 2 July 2007 | An Iranian English-speaking media channel notably banned from the UK and US |
| Sharif University of Technology | 1966 | Iran's leading institution for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. |
| University of Tabriz | 1947 | One of the most prestigious universities in Iran |
Citizens of Iran on Wikispooks
| Title | Born | Died | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan | 11 January 2012 | An assassinated Iranian nuclear weapons specialist | |
| Shahram Amiri | 1977 | ||
| Ladan Archin | Iranian-American protégé of Paul Wolfowitz | ||
| Amir Attaran | Canadian "Dr. Doom" epidemiologist pushing for Trudeau's emergency rule, masks forever, and "accelerated" safety standards for jabs. | ||
| Abolhassan Banisadr | 22 March 1933 | 9 October 2021 | |
| Hamid Biglari | 1958 | Iranian-US finance executive who worked for Citigroup. | |
| Shirin Ebadi | 21 June 1947 | ||
| Sibel Edmonds | 18 January 1970 | Sibel Edmonds was recruited by the FBI as a translator in the wake of 9/11. She quickly turned whistleblower when she discovered security breaches, cover-ups and malpractice at numerous levels. The US government has made her "the most gagged person in the history of the United States". | |
| Hassan Firouzabadi | 3 February 1951 | 3 September 2021 | Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff (1989 to 2016), died of COVID-19 |
| Manucher Ghorbanifar | 1945 | Arms dealer and central figure in the Iran-Contra Affair. | |
| Mohammed Hashemi | 12 December 1951 | One of the leaders of the 1980 Iran Hostage Crisis. Later intelligence officer and businessman. | |
| Moshe Katsav | 5 December 1945 | ||
| Sadruddin Aga Khan | 17 January 1933 | 12 May 2003 | Specialist in running intelligence operations under humanitarian cover. Club of Rome member. |
| Ruhollah Khomeini | 24 September 1902 | 3 June 1989 | |
| Siamak Namazi | 14 September 1971 | Iranian-American academic convicted of espionage by Iran in 2016. National Endowment for Democracy Fellow in 2005. Selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007. | |
| Nematollah Nassiri | August 1911 | 15 February 1979 | Iranian spook who co-founded the Safari Club. Assassinated in 1979 |
| Omid Nouripour | 18 June 1975 | German Green politician involved in many transatlantic influence networks. | |
| Pardis Sabeti | 25 December 1975 | Iranian biologist, YGL 2012, Rhodes Scholar 1997, Global Commission for Post-Pandemic Policy | |
| Mahmood Sariolghalam | 1959 | US deep state connected Iranian academic | |
| Qassem Soleimani | 11 March 1957 | 3 January 2020 | Iranian general killed in Iraq by the United States in an airstrike in January 2020. |
| David Sonboly | 20 April 1998 | 22 July 2016 | Official perpetrator of the 2016 Munich shooting |
| Ardeshir Zahedi | 16 October 1928 | Iranian diplomat, Le Cercle | |
| Kourosh Ziabari | 1990 |
Sponsor
| Event | Description |
|---|---|
| 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine | In a new episode of Cold War 2.0 Russia forcefully halted NATO expansion by invading Ukraine, with financial support of China. Although the EU and US denounced the "war crimes" as multiple cities were bombed, several countries opted less severe sanctions to keep importing diamonds and luxury goods and gas (and their loaned money) from Russia, seemingly creating a new iron curtain in Eastern Europe. |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War | 7 October 2023 | Gaza Israel Iraq Egypt Syria Palestine Lebanon Indian Ocean Golan Heights | Hamas attack on dozens of illegal Israeli settlements in Southern Israel provoking mass retaliatory killings by Israel. Corporate media call it the Israeli "9-11", while critics of Israel refer to "10-7" as a staged, military operation in order to manufacture consent for a disproportionate response. | |
| 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/Israeli invasion of Gaza | 27 October 2023 | Gaza | After October 7, Israel invaded Gaza with widespread international support. The IDF went on a widely reported revenge killing spree. Even by Israel's own account, they killed 19,500 Palestinian civilians after half a year of bombing hospitals, schools and civilian towers, utilising numerous condemned tactics. | |
| 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/October 7 | 7 October 2023 | 8 October 2023 | Gaza Israel Palestine Lebanon Golan Heights | Hamas attacks Israeli settlements in Southern Israel, mass raping and abducting, which get called an Israeli "9-11" by CCM. The NYT and Al Jazeera claimed the Israeli government knew of the impending attack, ignored warnings, shot some of their own civilians, made up several stories and used the resulting increased death toll to go on a revenge killing spree in the 2023 Israeli invasion of Gaza. |
| Bandung Conference | 1955 | 1955 | Indonesia | Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy |
| July 2021 Gulf of Oman incident | 29 July 2021 | 29 July 2021 | Incident in July 2021 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Brzezinski's Black Room Report to president Carter | report | 20 November 1979 | Zbigniew Brzezinski | US National Security Advisor Brzezinski's plans for regime change in Iran, including many methods and covert tactics that are familiar 40 years later. |
| Document:Canada Takes A Hostage: Free Meng Wanzhou | Article | 8 December 2018 | Christopher Black | Canadians should be angry about these traitors isolating Canada from China, from Russia, from Iran and their great cultures, and condemning Canada to be nothing more than an outpost of the American empire. For traitors they are as they betray the Canadian people by serving the interests of the Americans and their war machine. Free Meng Wanzhou, for so long as she is held hostage, so are we all. |
| Document:Coordinating Regime Change in Iran and Venezuela | diplomatic communication | 25 August 2010 | Trowbridge Ford | Iran and Venezuela, prime candidates for regime change |
| Document:Deal or No Deal, Iran's Stock Keeps Rising | article | 20 November 2013 | Sharmine Narwani | |
| Document:Ed Miliband’s decision to oppose military action against Syria is an action of statesmanship of which Britons will be proud | Article | 28 August 2013 | Michael Meacher | It is all very well to rush to war in a surge of moral outrage, it is quite another to spell out clearly what are the war objectives and how exactly they are to be achieved. |
| Document:First Recorded Successful Novichok Synthesis was in 2016 – By Iran, in Cooperation with the OPCW | blog post | 17 March 2018 | Craig Murray | Beginning in late 2016, Iranian scientists succeeded in synthesising a number of Novichoks in full cooperation with the OPCW. This makes a complete nonsense of Theresa May’s “of a type developed by Russia” line, used to Parliament and the UN Security Council. |
| Document:Francis Boyle Interview | interview | 6 April 2013 | Francis Boyle Kourosh Ziabari | |
| Document:Global Warfare. Preparing for World War III | article | 1 August 2010 | Michel Chossudovsky | US Global military deployments, bases and command structure analysed as integral to an agenda aiming at total world hegemony |
| Document:Israel v the United States and Iran | 7 September 2010 | Unknown | ||
| Document:Obama's Secret Letter to Tehran | article | 20 January 2012 | Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | |
| Document:Outside In: The Trump Administration’s Plan to Remake the Middle East | Article | 10 October 2018 | Ted Snider | Benjamin Netanyahu refers to his doctrine as Outside In: first you pacify the Outside and ally with the Sunni Arab states (Egypt and Saudi Arabia) outside of Israel, then, in exchange, you extract a peace plan out of them that you then impose Inside on a Palestine now devoid of allies and leave it helpless to hold out against a peace plan forced on the Palestinians by Donald Trump. |
| Document:Pan Am Flight 103: It was the Uranium | article | 6 January 2014 | Patrick Haseldine | Following Bernt Carlsson's untimely death in the Lockerbie bombing, the UN Council for Namibia inexplicably dropped the case against Britain's URENCO for illegally importing yellowcake from the Rössing Uranium Mine in Namibia. |
| Document:So what actually happened in the Strait of Hormuz on 10th July? | social media post | 12 July 2019 | Oliver Tickell | The aggressive posturing of US and UK and the moves to militarise the Strait of Hormuz, taken together with US calls for regime change and other threats to the sovereignty of Iran, constitute a breach of UNCLOS Articles 19 and 39 and are thus unlawful. |
| Document:Speech by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on 20 August 2017 to the Syrian Diplomatic Corps | Speech | 31 August 2017 | Bashar al Assad | The US President is not the maker of policies, but the executor. Therefore, the “Deep State” in the United States does not govern in partnership with the President, but leaves him a small margin. |
| Document:Syria: A Battle Lost Amid a Wider War | film | 8 December 2024 | Brian Berletic | "Syria's collapse is a reminder that while US military and industrial power wanes, it still possesses potent "superweapons" in terms of monopolising information space, poisoning populations against their own best interests, and toppling nations" |
| Document:The Dog That Didn't Bark | Article | 30 November 2017 | Israel Shamir | The Jared Kushner-Mohammed bin Salman peace plan for Palestine is likely to misfire, as have all MBS plans, from pressuring Qatar to vanquishing Yemen. A lot of blood and a lot of money will flow, adding to miseries in the Middle East and elsewhere. The only satisfaction is that now you know who owns the dog that did not bark. |
| Document:The Geo-Politics of the Strait of Hormuz | webpage | 8 January 2012 | Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | |
| Document:The Gulf of Credibility | blog post | 14 June 2019 | Craig Murray | That Iran would target a Japanese ship and a friendly Russian crewed ship is a ludicrous allegation |
| Document:The Iran Nuclear Studies Documents | article | December 2009 | Gareth Porter | |
| Document:The Israeli Terrorist State | blog post | 31 July 2024 | Craig Murray | "For me it is now axiomatic that there is no two state solution and that apartheid Israel must be completely dismantled as an entity. I believe that more and more people around the entire globe believe that now. "And if we have to dismantle our own political and media classes to get there, so be it." |
| Document:The New Silk Road Will Go Through Syria | Article | 13 July 2017 | Pepe Escobar | Beijing is working non-stop for the Iran-Iraq-Syria triumvirate to become a key hub in the New Silk Road (OBOR). Any bets against a future, booming Shanghai-Latakia container route? |
| Document:The Saban Center’s prescient paper on war with Iran | webpage | 20 October 2011 | Maidhc Ó Cathail | |
| Document:The Year of Iran: Tehran’s Challenge to American Hegemony in 2014 | article | 3 February 2014 | Flynt Leverett Hillary Mann Leverett | Prognosis for Iranian-US/Western relations and developments through 2014 from two ex-US government Iran experts and academics who are both disillusioned with the direction of US foreign policy and the 'War on Terror' |
| Document:US Nuclear Policy Review: The World Is Our Enemy | Article | 8 February 2018 | Christopher Black | “We (the United States) will keep you guessing as to when and against whom we will use them (nuclear weapons). We will maintain our role as the greatest state terrorist by keeping the nuclear Damocles sword over the heads of the people of the world constantly to ensure that the world acts in our interest.” |
| Document:Venezuela, Iran: Trump And The Deep State | Article | 22 May 2019 | Thierry Meyssan | Sheikh Hassan Rouhani was the primary contact with the Western powers during the Iran-Contra affair. He knows Elliott Abrams personally and put the US deep state in relation with Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who became the richest billionaire in Iran thanks to this arms traffic. |
| Document:What are the Real Targets of the E.U. Oil Embargo against Iran? | article | 31 January 2012 | Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya | |
| Document:Who is Really Behind It? The Implausibility of an Iranian Plot | article | 17 October 2011 | Esam Al-Amin | |
| Document:Will Iran Kill the Petrodollar? | article | 25 January 2012 | Marin Katusa | The possibility of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons is largely a smoke-screen used by the Western powers to obfuscate the real reasons for their escalating confrontation with Iran. |
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