[…] by the United States and CIA in the past. The usual CIA mode of undermining foreign governments it does not like — from Russia to Cuba to Iran — has been to organize and train their opponents in criminal activities, including sabotage and smuggling. But time and again this strategy backfires. The problem is […]
‘You don’t investigate people for why they think but for what they do.’ – former Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti (1) Introduction If nothing else, the Iran-Contra scandal temporarily illuminated the extent to which ostensibly private organizations have been helping secretive elements within the American government — in this case the core of the executive branch’s […]
[…] there was never any link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. The US conflict with radical Islam goes back not to 2001 but to 1979, when the Shah of Iran was toppled. His fall was a huge setback for Washington’s ability to project its own influence and power throughout Near and Middle East. But Iran’s replacement […]
[…] oil price increases of 1973 put new dollar surpluses in the hands of the OPEC countries – including three of the four new U.S. superclient states ( Iran, Nigeria and Indonesia). This swelling of the international arms trade also pumped new resources into the hands of the international sales and payoff system which had […]
[…] mention lawyer Michael Palmer who, and in a different context, hit the headlines eighteen months ago. There are, of course, gaps. For example, Dorril writes copiously about Iran – allowing Norman Darbyshire his entrance into the history books – without touching on the rest of the Middle East from the mid-sixties through to the […]
[…] U.S. foreign policy, to the detriment of the latter. An important example was the ill-fated so-called Ghorbanifar initiative during Iran-Contra, to sell arms to the mullahs in Iran in exchange for the release of American hostages: Ghorbanifar was not acting alone. Although he led us to believe he was using Iranian money, his forward […]
[…] were imposed because of ethnic cleansing; in Indonesia, where ‘Kellogg Brown and Root (Halliburton’s engineering division) collusive, corruptive and nepotistic practices with former president Suharto’s family’; in Iran Cheney lobbied against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, which even when it was in place didn’t stop Halliburton contracts there; Iraq since the war, Halliburton […]
[…] some 40 in the Soviet Union itself. The conference predicted also the rise of terrorist states, emphasising the importance of the then newly established Islamic republic of Iran.’ ‘Many observers,” writes Netanyahu, ‘believed the Jerusalem conference was a turning point in the understanding point in the understanding of international terrorism….But what was still lacking […]
[…] tipping off the police as to his whereabouts. (151) Sometime around the beginning of 1980, Celik organised Agca’s escape route across Turkey and his border crossing into Iran, which occurred on 1 February. (152) There are contradictory reports about Agca’s exact itinerary, (153) but the feature that stands out in each of them is […]
[PDF file]: Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran Dr. Roger Cottrell Preamble In November 2011 claims emerged of an unlikely assassination plot against the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the US.1 According to the FBI, an alcoholic car salesman in Texas, Manssor Arbasier, with a spurious family connection to a member of Iran’s […]
