Opvallend
dat een aantal van de voorgestelde zaken die deze drie terreurstaten
wensen te nemen, precies de zaken zijn waar het westen Rusland van
beschuldigt....... Het zijn bovendien ook handelingen die de VS al vele
malen eerder heeft gebruikt tegen landen die haar niet welgevallig
zijn.... Neem alleen al het gelul en hysterie over 'fake news' ('nepnieuws'), met het voornemen van de drie eerder genoemde terreurstaten, ook het nieuws te manipuleren, laat men daar zien dat men dit middel al eerder heeft ingezet..... Op zich geen nieuws, immers er zijn voorbeelden te over van liegen door bijvoorbeeld de geheime diensten van de VS, al is het erkennen van deze nieuwsmanipulaties elders, door deze drie staten, wel degelijk nieuws!
Lees het
volgende artikel van Whitney Webb en zegt het voort, het is de
hoogste tijd dat iedereen eindelijk eens gaat inzien dat deze drie
staten gestopt moeten worden met de vreselijke terreur die
ze verspreiden, wil de wereld eindelijk wat meer vrede zien.........
Saudi Intelligence Met with Trump Admin and Mossad To Discuss Iran Sabotage and Assassinations
A plan to use private intelligence operatives to sabotage Iran was developed by Trump confidant George Nade and Joel Zamel, an Israeli known for his “deep ties” to Israeli intelligence and security agencies.
November
13th, 2018
WASHINGTON
– A new
report published
in The
New York Times has
revealed that top Saudi intelligence officials with ties to Saudi
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), in meetings with figures
close to the Trump administration and Israel intelligence, expressed
interest in using private contractors to “sabotage the Iranian
economy” and to assassinate top Iranian officials.
The plan to use private intelligence operatives to sabotage Iran’s economy had been developed by George Nader, an American-Lebanese businessman close to Trump and the United Arab Emirates (Nederlands: VAE) and a convicted sex offender, and Joel Zamel, an Israeli known for his “deep ties” to Israeli intelligence and security agencies. The plan, at the time of the meeting, did not include the assassination component, though the Saudi officials present sought to probe whether such acts could be included in the campaign.
The Times noted
that both Nader and Zamel “saw their Iran plan both as a lucrative
source of income and as a way to cripple a country that they and the
Saudis considered a profound threat.” The plan was said to involve
operations like “revealing hidden global assets of the Quds Force;
creating fake social media accounts in Farsi to foment unrest in
Iran; financing Iranian opposition groups; and publicizing
accusations, real or fictitious, against senior Iranian officials to
turn them against one another.” The two met with Saudi officials in
early January 2017 in order to secure funding for the plan, which
they estimated would cost around $2 billion.
Both
Nader and Zamel are now witnesses in the investigation led by Robert
Mueller into Trump campaign practices and alleged collusion. It is
unclear how Nader and Zamel – who are connected to the United Arab
Emirates and Israel, respectively – fit into Mueller’s inquiry,
which has been publicized as focusing largely on alleged collusion
with the Russian government.
Nader
and Zamel had enlisted Erik Prince – the former
head of
the private military company Blackwater (now Academi) and Trump
adviser — in their efforts to secure Saudi financing for their
plan. In their discussion with Prince, Nader and Zamel were informed
of Prince’s “own paramilitary proposals that he planned to try to
sell the Saudis,” though the details of Prince’s proposals are
unknown.
George
Nader and Mohammed bin Salman in a photograph obtained by The New
York Times.
However, during the meeting, Saudi intelligence officials were apparently more interested in using private companies to assassinate “Iranian enemies of the kingdom [Saudi Arabia]” than in sabotaging Iran’s economy.
During
the discussion with Nader and Zamel, Saudi Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Assiri
inquired specifically whether the plan could include the
assassination of Qassim Suleimani, the leader of Iran’s elite Quds
Force, and other senior Iranian officials. Notably, al-Assiri has
been named the
man allegedly responsible for the
murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in
the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in early October. Al-Assiri
is also known for being a close confidant of MBS, who was deputy
crown prince and defense minister at the time of the meeting.
Al-Assiri’s
interest in a privatized assassination scheme was met tepidly by
Nader and Zamel, who offered to consult their lawyer on the matter.
Although their lawyer promptly rejected the idea, Nader, eager to
please the Saudi officials whom they were seeking to win over,
nevertheless told al-Assiri and the other Saudi officials present
that a London-based company run by former British Special Operations
troops might consider the contract for such high-profile
assassinations. The Times stated that it was unclear
which company Nader had suggested.
Though
their ambitions to use private contractors to assassinate top Iranian
officials did not receive the response they had hoped, Saudi
officials reportedly told Nader and Zamel that – while they were
interested in the plan – it was so “provocative and potentially
destabilizing” that they wanted the approval of the incoming Trump
administration before financing the campaign.
Was part of the plan enacted?
Though
it is unclear whether the plan drafted by Nader and Zamel was ever
enacted, there is some evidence suggesting that aspects of their plan
as well as al-Assiri’s separate, privatized assassination plan were
ultimately enacted in some form.
For
instance, in early June of last year, the CIA created a “new
mission center”
in Iran that focused on fomenting domestic dissent and gathering
intelligence, as well as on “covert action.” That mission center
has been headed by CIA officer Michael D’Andrea, a close associate
of former CIA Director John Brennan and a convert to Wahhabi Islam.
After D’Andrea was appointed to head the center, former CIA case
officer Robert Baer told Al
Jazeera that
“All I can say is that war with Iran is in the cards,” given that
D’Andrea’s aggressive anti-Iran approach was well known within
the CIA. Notably, the center’s activities fit with aspects of the
Nader/Zamel plan aimed at revealing key Iranian government assets
through intelligence gathering and covert ops.
Furthermore,
the aspect of the Nader/Zamel plan that sought to create fake social
media accounts to foment unrest in Iran was ultimately enacted
through the creation of an Albania-based
“troll farm” of
fake anti-Iranian government accounts that was managed by the Iranian
terror group MEK. That “troll farm,” according to an Al
Jazeera report,
had been used by the MEK to orchestrate what appeared to be a wave of
support for the group and its anti-regime message toward the end of
last year, when Iranians took to the streets to protest adverse
economic conditions largely caused by a mixture of domestic
legislation and intense pressure by Washington.
Left to right: Maryam
Rajavi, former MEK leader talks with Rudy Giuliani and Senator Joe
Lieberman at the Free Iran Gathering, July 1, 2017. Flickr | Maryam
Rajavi
As MintPress reported at
the time, many of those social media trends had been fueled by fake
accounts, or bots, that behaved in an automated fashion and amplified
messages through swarm-like behavior such as retweeting, liking, and
republishing videos and articles posted alongside hashtags such as
#FreeIran and #IranRegimeChange. Many top officials in the Trump
administration, including John
Bolton and Rudy Giuliani, are close to the MEK and its leader Maryam
Rajavi. The MEK has also been supported in the past by Saudi Arabia,
Israeli intelligence, and the U.S. military.
In
addition to the aspects of the Nader/Zamel plan that appeared to have
been implemented, Iran has recently accused “foreign regimes” and
U.S. allies in the region, particularly Saudi Arabia, of plotting
terror attacks within Iran. For instance, in June of last year, a
pair of terror attacks in the Iranian capital of Tehran were
blamed on Saudi
Arabia by the Iranian government.
This terrorist action, coming one week after the meeting of the president of the United States with the leader of one of the region’s reactionary governments (Saudi Arabia) … shows they are involved in this savage action.”
Daesh
(ISIS), which Saudi Arabia is known
to fund,
officially claimed responsibility for the attacks.
More
recently, a terror attack in late September targeted an Iranian
Veteran’s Day parade in the city of Ahvaz, killing 25 – more than
half of whom were civilians. After the attack, Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani stated
that “those
who give intelligence and propaganda support to these terrorists must
answer for it.” Rouhani’s comments were followed by a
tweet from
Iran’s Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, who asserted that
the attackers were “terrorists recruited, trained, armed and paid
by a foreign regime,” but did not elaborate. He blamed regional
countries and their “U.S. masters” for the attack, adding that
Iran would respond “swiftly and decisively.”
Outsourcing assassination
Furthermore,
it seems that some Gulf countries have used private military
contractors for assassinations since al-Assiri first suggested the
idea in the January 2017 meeting with Nader and Zamel. However,
instead of targeting Iranian officials, the tactic has been used in
Yemen.
A
report published
last month by Buzzfeed detailed
how Green Beret, Navy SEAL, and CIA paramilitary veterans had been
hired by the U.S.-based security company Spear Operations Group to
serve as the “private murder squad” for Emirati Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), assassinating prominent Yemeni clerics and
political figures who had run afoul of the crown prince. At the time
MBZ’s “private murder squad” was active, Saudi Arabia’s
al-Assiri was overseeing intelligence operations in Yemen in
coordination with the UAE.
Whether
these tactics were influenced by the January 2017 meeting of
al-Assiri, Nader and Zamel is unclear. However, the details of the
meeting and the recent efforts by the U.S. government and its Middle
Eastern allies to foment regime change in Iran clearly show that
these governments are willing to use the dirtiest of tactics in order
to topple Iran’s government and clear the way for U.S. hegemony in
the Middle East and beyond.
Top
Photo | Donald Trump shakes hands with Saudi Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh, May 20, 2017. Evan Vucci | AP
Whitney
Webb is
a staff writer for MintPress News and a contributor to Ben Swann’s
Truth in Media. Her work has appeared on Global Research, the Ron
Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has also made
radio and TV appearances on RT and Sputnik. She currently lives with
her family in southern Chile.
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