Threat Scenarios

Iranian Commander: ‘We Have Infiltrated America and the UK’

 

Pajamas Media
By Reza Kahlili
June 20, 2011
According to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Fars News Agency, on Tuesday night — during a gathering of high-ranking members of the IRGC command and the Basij militia — Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi announced:
Today we are in a full-scale war with our enemies. During the last 32 years, the enemy has gone from pillar to post and from one angle to another in order to find a way to bring us down. But the enemy has been hit hard and the proof of that is in the collapse of the Western block, the humiliation of the banking and investment sector, the awakening of our various nations, the spread of the religion of God, and people distancing themselves from the devil-worshipping elitists. This is a sign of our populist progress.
Naghdi, the commander of the Basij militia, added:
You all have managed to infiltrate into the heart of the enemy’s various nests to the point where even in the streets of New York, Ashura is known as Imam Hossein Day and it is observed by pious self-mortification and prayer; in London, the month of Muharram and the passing of Fatimah are observed. This is what it means to penetrate into the enemy camp. Today, our enemy is at the front line of a confrontation with us.
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The enemy hides behind many masks, but you all have managed to expose their conspiracies in order to expose their real character. Once upon a time the United States was thought of as the standard-bearer of human rights and liberty, but the truth came out and all was revealed. Now as a result of our strength, resistance, courage, and sacrifice, everyone knows that the U.S. is nothing more than a rogue criminal enterprise.
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Today the enemy has put up all these fronts so that they can fight our people, but they have lost miserably as we have arrived at their doorstep. When they create figures, who are behind various conspiracies and the organization of all kinds of coups, that person ends up being directly linked to their vice president and secretary of state. Ultimately they have been discredited and shown for their incompetence. One can now clearly see who is really responsible for these plots and treachery. Our people, however, are aware and enlightened and at this point in time, the United States and the evil British, who are always looking to bluff us, will be outwitted until the point where they no longer have any cards to play.
Naghdi, born in Iraq, was a member of Iranian Quds forces involved in international terrorism before he was appointed in 2009 by Ayatollah Khamenei as commander of the Basij. He has previously threatened the assassination of American generals in retaliation for the killing of the Iranian nuclear scientists.
On June 12, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi — chairman of Iran’s Joint Chiefs of Staff — stated that the culture of jihad should be developed in Muslim nations which have been experiencing an Islamic awakening:
According to the supreme leader, the Islamic Revolution has given us the culture of jihad as a gift and now jihadists should grant it to other nations.
The senior commander also said that jihadists should not forget about jihad principles if they want to find a place among the poor. He added that jihad culture would actually provide moral support for the people and was an important factor in the victory of the Islamic Revolution, in the sacred defense against Iraq’s war against Iran in the 1980s, and in safeguarding the Islamic Revolution’s values.
I have been outspoken about the fact that the infiltration of jihadists in our society is deep and wide. I learned during my spy activities for the CIA in the Revolutionary Guards how the Guards successfully use mosques, Islamic cultural centers, Islamic student associations, alliances with other Islamic groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and Muslims from Afghani and Pakistani groups to infiltrate the West and to infect its society.
The radicals in Iran also use assets, such as non-profit organizations in America, in an effort to promote better ties with Iran. These entities warn that taking any harsh action against Iran or attacking the country will cause Iranians to then support the very regime they resent. They further spread their propaganda with repeated arguments such as: “Sanctions hurt the people of Iran, not the government”; the nuclear issue is a matter of national pride; negotiation is the best course because the Iranian regime can help with the U.S.’s problems in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course, they fail to mention that their true plans are to ultimately destroy America and Israel.
Hassan Abbasi, a longtime top officer of the Guards and a political strategist, stated openly that the duty of Muslims is to create terror and fear in the land of infidels. He emphasized that Islamic agents have identified about 800 sensitive sites within the U.S, and when the time is right their cells will attack those very same locations to create fear, chaos, and instability.
Please, wake up America!
Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for an ex-CIA spy who requires anonymity for safety reasons. A Time to Betray, his book about his double life as a CIA agent in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was published by Simon & Schuster on April 6.

Pajamas Media
By Reza Kahlili
June 20, 2011

According to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s Fars News Agency, on Tuesday night — during a gathering of high-ranking members of the IRGC command and the Basij militia — Brigadier General Mohammad-Reza Naghdi announced:

Today we are in a full-scale war with our enemies. During the last 32 years, the enemy has gone from pillar to post and from one angle to another in order to find a way to bring us down. But the enemy has been hit hard and the proof of that is in the collapse of the Western block, the humiliation of the banking and investment sector, the awakening of our various nations, the spread of the religion of God, and people distancing themselves from the devil-worshipping elitists. This is a sign of our populist progress.

Naghdi, the commander of the Basij militia, added:

You all have managed to infiltrate into the heart of the enemy’s various nests to the point where even in the streets of New York, Ashura is known as Imam Hossein Day and it is observed by pious self-mortification and prayer; in London, the month of Muharram and the passing of Fatimah are observed. This is what it means to penetrate into the enemy camp. Today, our enemy is at the front line of a confrontation with us.

…

The enemy hides behind many masks, but you all have managed to expose their conspiracies in order to expose their real character. Once upon a time the United States was thought of as the standard-bearer of human rights and liberty, but the truth came out and all was revealed. Now as a result of our strength, resistance, courage, and sacrifice, everyone knows that the U.S. is nothing more than a rogue criminal enterprise.

…

Today the enemy has put up all these fronts so that they can fight our people, but they have lost miserably as we have arrived at their doorstep. When they create figures, who are behind various conspiracies and the organization of all kinds of coups, that person ends up being directly linked to their vice president and secretary of state. Ultimately they have been discredited and shown for their incompetence. One can now clearly see who is really responsible for these plots and treachery. Our people, however, are aware and enlightened and at this point in time, the United States and the evil British, who are always looking to bluff us, will be outwitted until the point where they no longer have any cards to play.

Naghdi, born in Iraq, was a member of Iranian Quds forces involved in international terrorism before he was appointed in 2009 by Ayatollah Khamenei as commander of the Basij. He has previously threatened the assassination of American generals in retaliation for the killing of the Iranian nuclear scientists.

On June 12, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi — chairman of Iran’s Joint Chiefs of Staff — stated that the culture of jihad should be developed in Muslim nations which have been experiencing an Islamic awakening:

According to the supreme leader, the Islamic Revolution has given us the culture of jihad as a gift and now jihadists should grant it to other nations.

The senior commander also said that jihadists should not forget about jihad principles if they want to find a place among the poor. He added that jihad culture would actually provide moral support for the people and was an important factor in the victory of the Islamic Revolution, in the sacred defense against Iraq’s war against Iran in the 1980s, and in safeguarding the Islamic Revolution’s values.

I have been outspoken about the fact that the infiltration of jihadists in our society is deep and wide. I learned during my spy activities for the CIA in the Revolutionary Guards how the Guards successfully use mosques, Islamic cultural centers, Islamic student associations, alliances with other Islamic groups such as the Muslim Brotherhood, and Muslims from Afghani and Pakistani groups to infiltrate the West and to infect its society.

The radicals in Iran also use assets, such as non-profit organizations in America, in an effort to promote better ties with Iran. These entities warn that taking any harsh action against Iran or attacking the country will cause Iranians to then support the very regime they resent. They further spread their propaganda with repeated arguments such as: “Sanctions hurt the people of Iran, not the government”; the nuclear issue is a matter of national pride; negotiation is the best course because the Iranian regime can help with the U.S.’s problems in Iraq and Afghanistan. Of course, they fail to mention that their true plans are to ultimately destroy America and Israel.

Hassan Abbasi, a longtime top officer of the Guards and a political strategist, stated openly that the duty of Muslims is to create terror and fear in the land of infidels. He emphasized that Islamic agents have identified about 800 sensitive sites within the U.S, and when the time is right their cells will attack those very same locations to create fear, chaos, and instability.

Please, wake up America!

Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for an ex-CIA spy who requires anonymity for safety reasons. A Time to Betray, his book about his double life as a CIA agent in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, was published by Simon & Schuster on April 6.

This article was originally published here. 

 

It Is Vengeful Man - Not God - We Need Fear

Family Security Matters
By Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, USMC (ret)
June 1, 2011
For most of us, last month’s day of the Rapture, May 21st, proved uneventful. The Day of Judgment prophesized by a Christian fundamentalist group leader came and went without the predicted global natural disasters occurring. That leader, Minister Harold Camping, supposedly was to be among those achieving eternal salvation that day—ascending to Heaven for having lived a strict Christian life, leaving all sinners remaining here on Earth to be subjected to torment.
 
Camping emerged a few days after his failed prophecy to explain his calculations were wrong (as they had been 17 years earlier when he also incorrectly predicted we would witness the world’s end). Apparently, Camping’s new date for global destruction is October 21st. At this rate, if his prediction slides another 14 months, it will eventually fall in line with that of the Mayan Indian “long count” (5,126 year) calendar, which suggests the world will end December 21, 2012.
 
While a date with destruction does await us, it is not the date predicted by Camping or by the Mayan calendar we should fear. It is a date, predicted to be coming soon by an Islamic fundamentalist leader, that we need fear. The basis for fearing the date predicted by an Islamic fundamentalist but not by a Christian fundamentalist is the perceived role man is to play in both events: Man need do nothing for the Christian apocalypse to occur while the Islamic apocalypse depends on an active role by man.
 
Continue reading here. 

Family Security Matters
By Lt. Colonel James Zumwalt, USMC (ret)
June 1, 2011

For most of us, last month’s day of the Rapture, May 21st, proved uneventful. The Day of Judgment prophesized by a Christian fundamentalist group leader came and went without the predicted global natural disasters occurring. That leader, Minister Harold Camping, supposedly was to be among those achieving eternal salvation that day—ascending to Heaven for having lived a strict Christian life, leaving all sinners remaining here on Earth to be subjected to torment.

Camping emerged a few days after his failed prophecy to explain his calculations were wrong (as they had been 17 years earlier when he also incorrectly predicted we would witness the world’s end). Apparently, Camping’s new date for global destruction is October 21st. At this rate, if his prediction slides another 14 months, it will eventually fall in line with that of the Mayan Indian “long count” (5,126 year) calendar, which suggests the world will end December 21, 2012.

While a date with destruction does await us, it is not the date predicted by Camping or by the Mayan calendar we should fear. It is a date, predicted to be coming soon by an Islamic fundamentalist leader, that we need fear. The basis for fearing the date predicted by an Islamic fundamentalist but not by a Christian fundamentalist is the perceived role man is to play in both events: Man need do nothing for the Christian apocalypse to occur while the Islamic apocalypse depends on an active role by man.

Continue reading here. 

Successive Administrations Misreading the Regime: The Common Bond of Six Presidents

For over thirty years, American presidents have faltered in their policy dealings with the revolutionary regime.

From before Khomeini arrived in Tehran, the administration of Jimmy Carter believed that a friendship between the two nations would continue as it had under the Shah.  And while the hostage crisis proved the opposite, Khomeini was still met with gestures of peace and accommodation.

Yet Carter was not the only President to offer peace to the revolutionary regime and receive continued aggression in return.

Presidents both Democrat and Republican following Carter have fared no better in reaching understandings with Iran, and failed to take retaliatory actions in the wake of deadly terror attacks directly linked to the top levels of the Iranian regime.

Presidents Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush Sr., Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and President Obama have accomplished little in their attempts to reach critical dialogue with Iran,

For years, U.S. administrations have mislabeled some of Iran’s harshest politicians as moderates, and have been deceived by the intentions of the regime.

George W. Bush took a different approach on Iran, labeling them a member of the “Axis of Evil” along with North Korea and Iraq; but he failed to take constructive action to prevent Iran from masterminding terrorist attacks, attacking U.S. soldiers in Iraq, or furthering the development of its nuclear program.

In the early part of President Obama’s tenure, he has expressed a willingness to reestablish diplomatic ties with Iran, in an attempt to negotiate the continued development of Iran’s nuclear program, but with nothing to show for it.

Why Negotiations Will Never Work

To understand the Iranian leadership’s commitment to carrying out its revolutionary goals, is to understand why reaching common ground with such a regime can never work.  A regime founded on the principle of opposing an “American conspiracy”, and a leadership that openly discusses a “world without the United States,” has little to talk about with any American administration.

And thirty plus years of direct terror sponsorship, against American and Western interests, should serve as proof that this regime means what it says about fighting its enemies.

Silence in the Wake of Bloody 2009 Election Protests

Obama remained silent during the 2009 protests of the reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  

It is widely believed that severe election fraud led to Ahmadinejad’s re-appointment.  Not long after the election, rumors of electioneering started to become more prevalent. Protestors hit the streets in Tehran, and riot police were well prepared.  

Reports have surfaced that the IRGC had calculated in advance that 200 protesters needed to be killed and at least 2,000 arrested for the demonstrations to die down.

Those estimates came painfully true, as nearly 200 were killed by IRGC forces, and well over 5,000 arrested.

Many view the electioneering that took place, and the brutality inflicted on protestors, as a form of military coup that made a mockery of democratic processes.

Through his silence during the brutality, Obama refused to throw moral support behind the non-violent protest rights of civilians who were accusing the Iranian government of making a mockery of their most basic democratic rights.

The surprising message that this silence can send to opponents of the regime in Iran, is that the United States actually supports the Presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the government of Iran, and the principles of its more than 30-year-old revolution.

An EMP Attack could be more damaging than an Nuke Bomb

EMP Attack vs. Nuclear?

This news clip describes how an EMP attack could be more dangerous than a nuclear attack.

EMP: A Terrorist's Dream

EMP: A Terrorist's Dream

Short film produced by the Center for Security Policy warning about the dangers of an EMP attack. In a widely-read article in Imprimus, Frank Gaffney was one of the first to bring attention to EMP, "America's Achilles' Heel."