Three Goals Scored by U.S. at Baghdad Conference by Defection of Iranian General in February!
March 11, 2007
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The information gained from the Iranian General by the U.S. revealed weaknesses in the military strength of the Persian demon east of the Tigris River, which gave the U.S. a lever at the Baghdad Conference for present and future diplomatic negotiations.
Next month’s meeting in Istanbul could lead to a temporary lowering of Middle East tensions but, from Iran and Syria’s perspective, such an occurrence would only be a lull to give them additional time to build up their forces for an eventual Middle East major war.
The following release from DEBKAfile Report is well worth reading.
Begin DEBKAfile Report
The Iraq neighbors’ peace conference ends in Baghdad by deciding on a follow-up at foreign ministers’ level next month in Istanbul
March 10, 2007, 9:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
At least 35 Iraqis were killed in Baghdad Sat. March 10 as Iraqi prime minister Nouri Maliki appealed to Iraq’s neighbors for support in fighting terrorism and to stop using Iraq as a battlefield for their proxy war. Three mortar blasts shook the conference venue where US diplomats joined Iranian and Syrian delegations
for the first time.
Over the weekend, DEBKAfile’s military sources reveal American air contingents from the United States and Europe continued to land at US Persian Gulf air bases. Ir an responded by pl
acing it s air defen
se units on a war footing and deploying Revolutionary Guards special forces
units around its nuclear installations.
Iraqi prime minister Nouri Maliki‘ s appeal wa
s addressed primarily to the latter two.
Outgoing US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad again charged Syrian of allowing foreign jihadists and Sunni insurgents to cross into Iraq and weapons shipments from Iran reach Shiite militias.
DEBKAfile adds: Quite apart from the upbeat symbolism, not much substance was expected from the encounter of more than 100 diplomats, many of them adversaries, beyond a follow-up at foreign ministers’ level. David Satterfield, senior state department adviser on Iraq and ambassador Khalilzad led the US delegation. They faced Iran’s deputy foreign minister Abbas Aragchi.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly reported last week that the Americans would be coming to Baghdad with three goals scored against Iran in their covert war which continues unabated:
1. The defection of Iranian General Ali Reza Asgari, whose debriefing by US intelligence is underway. It is revealed here that the general flew out of Istanbul on Feb. 7 shortly after arriving from Damascus.
He landed in Turkey under one identity and left with another.
Involved in his secret flight were the CIA, Turkish military intelligence, the Israeli Mossad and one European intelligence service.
For a promise of immunity and asylum for life for him and his family, the Iranian general, a former deputy defense minister, agreed to spill everything he knew about Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps, the internal situation in the Islamic leadership, the clandestine Iranian networks in Iraq, the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, as well as Tehran-Damascus ties, Hizballah, the Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami and how far they are controlled from Tehran.
The Americans procured enough material – not just for an edge at the Baghdad meeting, but for an awareness of the weak links in Iran’s armor and Tehran’s probable modes of retaliation for Washington’s coup.
2. With Saudi help, the United States has finally played off Iran against Syria, breaking up the Tehran-Damascus alliance in Lebanon and removing Hizballah from Syrian control.
3. Wednesday, March 7, the Pentagon announced the deployment of an extra 2,100 military police to Baghdad on top of the 24,000 consigned to the Iraqi capital earlier. The US defense department did not release for publication word of the US squadrons airlifted during the week from the States and Europe to US Air Force bases at Udeid, Qatar, and Naama, Bahrain.
DEBKA-Net-Weekly’s military sources report that Iran responded to these American military movements by three steps.
Tuesday, March 6, Tehran announced a nationwide air defense drill. This was camouflage for the mobilization of the air defense brigades’ reserve units and their deployment around Tehran and other main towns and national strategic installations, including nuclear and oil facilities.
This step placed all of Iran’s air defenses on full war footing.
The Revolutionary Guards additionally encircled all nuclear facilities with the commando units they had formed as protection against possible raids by American or Israeli special forces.
Finally, Tehran stepped up the volume of arms sent to pro-Iranian forces in Iraq.
Iran has by and large responded passively thus far to the whipping inflicted by Washington. However, no one responsible there or in Jerusalem expects the Iranians to turn the other cheek for long.
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