FABRICATING A "SMOKING GUN" TO ATTACK IRAN?
Israeli Spies Disguised as Iranian Soldiers on Mission Inside Iran
By Julie Lévesque
Global Research, March 27, 2012
URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=29981
A report published in The Sunday Times
on March 25 suggests that “Israel is using a permanent base in Iraqi
Kurdistan to launch cross-border intelligence missions in an attempt to
find ‘smoking gun’ evidence that Iran is building a nuclear warhead.” (Israeli spies scour Iran in nuclear hunt, The Sunday Times, March 25, 2012)
Western sources told the Times
Israel was monitoring “radioactivity and magnitude of explosives tests”
and that “special forces used Black Hawk helicopters to carry commandos
disguised as members of the Iranian military and using Iranian military
vehicles”. The sources believe “Iranians are trying to hide evidence of
warhead tests in preparation for a possible IAEA visit”. (Cited in Report: Israeli soldiers scour Iran for nukes, Ynet, March 25, 2012)
The
number of Israeli intelligence missions at the Parchin military base in
Iran has increased in the past few months, according to the article.
During that period, Tehran has been negotiating with the IAEA which had
requested to visit Parchin. According to Iran's permanent representative
to the IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, both parties had agreed in early
February that the visit would take place in March. (Gareth Porter, Details of Talks with IAEA Belie Charge Iran Refused Cooperation, IPS, March 21, 2012)
The
IAEA requested to visit Parchin in late January and late February, after
having agreed to a visit in March. The IAEA thus requested to visit the
military complex exactly at the same time Israel was intensifying its
secret operations to allegedly search for a “smoking gun”.
A few
years ago it has been suggested that Israel was the source of fake
intelligence, a stolen laptop, related to Iran’s alleged nuclear
program. The New York Times reported in 2005 on what was presented as
“the strongest evidence” Iran was building nuclear weapons:
American
intelligence officials called the leaders of the international atomic
inspection agency to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Danube in
Vienna and unveiled the contents of what they said was a stolen Iranian
laptop computer.
They
presented them as the strongest evidence yet that, despite Iran's
insistence that its nuclear program is peaceful, the country is trying
to develop a compact warhead to fit atop its Shahab missile, which can
reach Israel and other countries in the Middle East. (William J. Broad
and David E. Sanger Relying on Computer, U.S. Seeks to Prove Iran's Nuclear Aims - New York Times, November 13, 2005)
In 2010, an investigative report suggested that those documents were fake:
The
warhead shown in the schematics had the familiar "dunce cap" shape of
the original North Korean No Dong missile, which Iran had acquired in
the mid-1990s [...]
The laptop documents had depicted the wrong re-entry vehicle being redesigned [...]
The
origin of the laptop documents may never be proven conclusively, but
the accumulated evidence points to Israel as the source. As early as
1995, the head of the Israel Defense Forces' military intelligence
research and assessment division, Yaakov Amidror, tried unsuccessfully
to persuade his American counterparts that Iran was planning to "go
nuclear." By 2003-2004, Mossad's reporting on the Iranian nuclear
program was viewed by high-ranking CIA officials as an effort to
pressure the Bush administration into considering military action
against Iran's nuclear sites, according to Israeli sources cited by a
pro-Israeli news service." (Gareth Porter, Exclusive Report: Evidence of Iran Nuclear Weapons Program May Be Fraudulent, Global Research, November 18, 2010).
The
fact that Israeli intelligence officers were on a secret mission in
Parchin, dressed up as Iranians and driving Iranian military vehicles,
while the IAEA was pressuring Tehran to visit that precise location,
raises serious questions. The stated goal of those secret missions is
the search for a smoking gun. The smoking gun allegations regarding
Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction have proven that such evidence can be
fabricated and used to launch so-called pre-emptive wars.
