By Richard Walker
Just like his predecessor, President
George W. Bush, Barack Obama and his Israeli allies are working together
to train foreign terrorists—sometimes even in the United States—to
assassinate Iran’s scientists and military leaders, while talking loudly
about diplomacy and a desire to negotiate with Tehran.
The most startling revelations about the
secret war against Iran, now almost a decade in the making, have
centered on a Bush-Cheney policy set in motion in 2003. According to
journalist Seymour Hersh, the policy authorized the use of a classified
military site in the Nevada desert for the training of selected fighters
from the Mujahideen e-Khalq (MEK).
Before and after the collapse of the
Saddam Hussein regime, the MEK had thousands of anti-Iranian fighters in
a camp north of Baghdad. MEK leaders promoted a leftist philosophy and
called for the overthrow of the Iranian regime. Under Saddam’s
protection, the group helped his forces murder thousands of Kurds in
northern Iraq. It also maintained links to Europe, with offices in
Paris, but more significantly it had ties to Israel’s Mossad and the
CIA.
Bush and Cheney saw advantage in using
MEK to attack targets in Iran. At the Nevada site, and also in an
undisclosed Israeli facility, MEK fighters were trained in the arts of
assassination, bombing and surveillance. And they were not the only
terrorists given training. Members of Jundullah,
a Sunni group based in Pakistan and linked to the Taliban, were flown
to Nevada with Iranian Kurds specially selected by Mossad. In effect,
Washington was running a terrorist camp on U.S. soil—just a few years
after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
While it is impossible to know how long
the training of terrorists continued in Nevada, or if it is still
happening somewhere on U.S. soil, there is no doubt that Obama and
Netanyahu have expanded their covert war against Iran. There are even
reports U.S. special forces have been running missions in Iran until
foreign terrorists are ready to take their place.
MEK fighters have also been trained at
secret Middle East sites by special forces teams from Britain, the U.S.
and Israel and have been supplied at U.S. taxpayer expense with
state-of-the-art weaponry and surveillance gear. In particular, the
terror cells planning the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists
were taught to use small explosive packages normally reserved for
American and Israeli special forces.
Recently, the secret war took on a
political dimension when leaked diplomatic cables revealed that Japanese
diplomat, Yukiya Amano, who now heads the International Atomic Energy Agency
(IAE ), had assured Washington before his appointment to the IAEA that
he is “solidly behind” an anti-Iran policy. Senior nuclear experts
believe he has not only backed poor Israeli intelligence on Iran but has
adopted a pro-Washington stance.
But not all has gone well with Obama and
Netanyahu’s terror plans. Iran’s intelligence apparatus recently rolled
up a foreign terrorist network that was preparing to carry out bombings
and assassinations. Initial evidence indicates the terrorists had been
trained over the past decade by Israel and its anti-Iran allies.
