Reacting to being cut off by the SWIFT banking system – Iran has now threatened to block the Straight of Hormuz – a major artery in global oil shipping. That warning comes as US and Israeli intelligence agencies, the CIA and Mossad, admit that Iran hasn’t yet decided to develop nuclear weapons. And Peter Rushton, political analyst and historian, says it’s ideology, not facts, driving talk of war against Iran.
Tag: Mossad
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Mossad agrees Iran has no nuke bomb plot
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Government issues travel advisory to Turkey; ‘Iran seeking out Israelis’
Counter Terrorism Bureau issues alert announcing terror groups’ intention to carry out attacks against Israeli, Jewish targets in coming days
Attila Somfalvi
Published: 03.13.12, 21:43 / Israel News
The Counter Terrorism Bureau issued a travel advisory advising Israelis to avoid visiting Turkey on Tuesday. The bureau said that terrorists are planning to carry out attacks against Israelis or Jews in the country in the coming days.
Last week, a Turkish TV report said that Israel warned Ankara that Iran had sent terrorists to Turkey in order to target Israelis.
Israeli security establishment officials told Ynet on Tuesday that Iran was behind the plot to attack Israelis and Jews.
“Iranian elements will try to seek out Israeli businessmen and Jews in other locations around the world – not just in Turkey,” one official told Ynet.
שדה התעופה באיסטנבול. מומלץ לבטל (צילום
Airport in Istanbul. Turkey not safe for Israelis (Photo: AFP)
The NTV network reported that a letter from the Mossad sent to Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) said that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are planning a terrorist attack “using bombs” against Israeli targets in Turkey.
The report also stated that four people from Iran have already arrived in Turkey carrying weapons and materials to be used in the attack.
Israel’s travel advisory was issued several hours after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan made harsh statements against Israel in the backdrop of the current round of violence with Gaza terror groups.
via Government issues travel advisory to Turkey; ‘Iran seeking out Israelis’ – Israel News, Ynetnews.
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Mossad, CIA and Blackwater operate in Syria – report
A security operation in Homs reveals Mossad, CIA and Blackwater are involved in the military violence in this part of Syria, as over 700 Arab and Western gunmen and Israeli, American and European-made weapons were detained in Baba Amr district.
Syrian security forces got yet further proof of Western powers’ military involvement in Syria’s internal conflict, reports Al-Manar, a news agency, affiliated with Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militant group and political party.
Around 700 gunmen were recently arrested in the former rebel stronghold of Babar Amr.
“The captured gunmen held Arab nationalities, including Gulf, Iraqi, and Lebanese. Among them were also Qatari intelligence agents and non-Arab fighters from Afghanistan, Turkey, and some European countries like France,” the agency quotes Syrian expert in strategic affairs Salim Harba as saying.
Harba also confirmed to the agency that “a coordination office was established in Qatar under American-Gulf sponsorship. The office includes American, French, and Gulf – specifically from Qatar and Saudi Arabia – intelligence agents, as well as CIA, Mossad, and Blackwater agents and members of the Syrian Transitional Council.”
The Syrian expert also added the security forces have also seized Israeli-, European- and American-made weapons.
“The Syrian army also uncovered tunnels and equipments there,” he told to the agency, “advanced Israeli, European, and American arms that have not yet been tested in the countries of manufacture, in addition to Israeli grenades, night binoculars, and communication systems were confiscated by the security forces.”
Salim Harba however said the Syrian authorities are not planning to reveal all the obtained information now, but assured all the evidence is of high value.
“The Syrian security forces have documents and confessions that could harm everyone who conspired against Syria, and could make a security and political change, not just on the internal Syrian level, but also on the regional level,” he said.
The recent Stratfor leak and hacked email of the company’s director of analysis also suggest undercover NATO troops are already on the ground in Syria.
There have been previous allegations of a Western presence on the side of the rebels as 13 French officers were reportedly captured by the loyalist forces earlier in March.
President Bashar al-Assad has repeatedly claimed his regime is fighting not with peaceful protesters as claimed by the West, but with the military gangs supported by the West.
Western powers however have categorically denied any military involvement in Syrian internal conflict.
rt.com, 07 March 2012
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Mossad Warns Turks Of Iranian Plan To Hit Israelis
Istanbul, Turkey – The Mossad has warned Turkey that Israel’s diplomatic missions in the country could be in danger of Iranian “bomb attacks,” Turkish daily Hurriyet reported on Wednesday, citing a story aired on the NTV news channel.
According to the report, the Israeli intelligence agency sent a letter to its Turkish counterpart warning of a plot by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Quds Force to attack Israeli targets on Turkish soil.Four individuals have already entered Turkey from Iran and are in possession of weapons and materials to be used in the attacks, the report added.
According to Hurriyet, Turkish intelligence sources neither confirmed nor denied the NTV report.
The report came after several terror plots against Israeli interests abroad allegedly orchestrated by the Iranians were uncovered last month. On February 13, an Israeli Embassy car was bombed in New Delhi and another bomb was discovered attached to an embassy employee’s vehicle in Tbilisi, Georgia. An additional plot was uncovered in Thailand the next day, when several Iranian men were arrested after a bomb went off in a Bangkok house, apparently a “work accident” that occurred during the planning of a terror attack.
While Israel has accused Iran of being behind the terror plots, with the help of its proxy Hezbollah, the Iranians have denied involvement.
A Shi’ite with longstanding Iranian connections was arrested by Indian police on Tuesday for his alleged role in the Dehli bombing.
Content is provided courtesy of the Jerusalem Post
via Istanbul – Mossad Warns Turks Of Iranian Plan To Hit Israelis — VosIzNeias.com.
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Baku hub for Israelis spying on Iran: Report
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev (L) embraces Israeli President Shimon Peres. “Our presence here is quiet, but substantial. We have increased our presence in the past year, and it gets us very close to Iran. This is a wonderfully porous country.”
Azerbaijan-based Israeli spy
An Israeli intelligence agent has reportedly admitted that Azerbaijan, Iran’s northwestern neighbor, is “teaming with” Mossad agents who are trying to collect intelligence on the Islamic Republic.“This (Azerbaijan) is ground zero for intelligence work,” The Times of London quoted an Azerbaijan-based Israeli intelligence agent named “Shimon” as saying on Saturday.
“Our presence here is quiet, but substantial. We have increased our presence in the past year, and it gets us very close to Iran. This is a wonderfully porous country,” JPost quoted Shimon as saying.
Secret documents released by WikiLeaks last April revealed that Israel had been using the former Soviet republic’s soil over the past four years to spy on Iran.
The document in the US Embassy in Baku, sent to Washington in January 2009, refers to a visit by the Azeri president’s advisor for security and defense issues, Vahid Aliyev, to Israel.
According to the WikiLeaks cable, the trip was aimed at signing a contract with Tel Aviv which allowed Israel to use Azerbaijan’s soil for its spying activities against Iran. The US diplomatic cable further discloses an arms deal between the two sides.
According to the leaked cables, Azerbaijani authorities banned all anti-Israeli protest gatherings anywhere near Tel Aviv’s Embassy in Baku during the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip at the turn of 2009.
Prior to the leak, there were reports about the operations of Israeli spying cells on the Iranian-Azeri border under the cover of farming activities.
Separatist groups and members of the terrorist Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization are also freely operating within Azerbaijan’s borders.
www.presstv.com, Feb 12, 2012
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Uproar after Jewish American newspaper publisher suggests Israel assassinate Barack Obama
Op-ed in Atlanta Jewish Times says the slaying of the president may be an effective way to thwart Iran’s nuclear program.
By Chemi Shalev
NEW YORK – The owner and publisher of the Atlanta Jewish Times, Andrew Adler, has suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu consider ordering a Mossad hit team to assassinate U.S. President Barack Obama so that his successor will defend Israel against Iran.
Adler, who has since apologized for his article, listed three options for Israel to counter Iran’s nuclear weapons in an article published in his newspaper last Friday. The first is to launch a pre-emptive strike against Hamas and Hezbollah, the second is to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities and the third is to “give the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current vice president to take his place and forcefully dictate that the United States’ policy includes its helping the Jewish state obliterate its enemies.”
U.S. President Barack Obama taking the stage to speak at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism. Photo by: Reuters Adler goes on to write: “Yes, you read “three correctly.” Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel’s existence. Think about it. If have thought of this Tom-Clancy-type scenario, don’t you think that this almost unfathomable idea has been discussed in Israel’s most inner circles?”
Adler apologized yesterday for the article, saying “I very much regret it; I wish I hadn’t made reference to it at all,” Adler told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. And in an interview with Gawker.com, Adler denied that he was advocating an assassination of Obama.
The op-ed in Atlanta Jewish Times. The American Jewish Committee in Atlanta last night issued a harsh condemnation of Adler’s article, saying that his proposals are “shocking beyond belief.”
“While we acknowledge Mr. Adler’s apology, we are flabbergasted that he could ever say such a thing in the first place. How could he even conceive of such a twisted idea?” said Dov Wilker, director of AJC Atlanta. “Mr. Adler surely owes immediate apologies to President Obama, as well as to the State of Israel and his readership, the Atlanta Jewish community.”
Abraham Foxman, National Director of the Anti-Defamation League, also blasted Adler on Friday, saying “There is absolutely no excuse, no justification, no rationalization for this kind of rhetoric. It doesn’t even belong in fiction. These are irresponsible and extremist words. It is outrageous and beyond the pale. An apology cannot possibly repair the damage. Irresponsible rhetoric metastasizes into more dangerous rhetoric. The ideas expressed in Mr. Adler’s column reflect some of the extremist rhetoric that unfortunately exists — even in some segments of our community — that maliciously labels President Obama as an ‘enemy of the Jewish people.’ Mr. Adler’s lack of judgment as a publisher, editor and columnist raises serious questions as to whether he’s fit to run a newspaper.”www.haaretz.com, 21.01.12