Blast at IRG
The face of the Israeli terror machine may have reared its ugly head again in the world. This time it may have produced yet another massive act of sabotage (Hebrew original) at an IRG missile base west of Teheran. During transfer of explosives at the Modarres (other sources say the base is called Sajad) garrison, which houses Shihab 3 (Israel Defense says the site is also responsible for development of the new Shihab 4) and Zelzal surface-to-surface missiles, an explosion ripped apart the base and killed anywhere from 14 to 40 soldiers depending on the source (UPDATE: the official number released by the IRG now is 17), and wounded an equal number, some severely. Among the dead were a high level IRG officer, Major General Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam (more background here), the director of the IRGC Jihad Self-Sufficiency Organization, which directed base operations. The blast was felt as far away as Teheran, 25 miles distant. Those who experienced the explosion said it felt like an earthquake. Some say there were two explosions.
Ynet raises the possibility that it was a deliberate act of sabotage on not just a missile base, but an intelligence facility. Teheran Bureau says the IRG is telling the Iranian media that the incident was not an act of terror, but purely an industrial accident. An Iranian who worked at the base for several months and was interviewed by Iranian media discounted the likelihood of an act of sabotage since security at the base was extremely strict.
However, an Israeli source with extensive senior political and military experience provides an exclusive report that it was the work of the Mossad in collaboration with the MEK. Israeli media is humming with similar reports and Channel 10’s intelligence correspondent went so far as to say, a bit coyly perhaps:
If it was the work of western intelligence it was a high successful and impressive achievement.
It is widely known within intelligence circles that the Israelis use the MEK for varied acts of espionage and terror ranging from fraudulent Iranian memos alleging work on nuclear trigger devices to assassinations of nuclear scientists and bombings of sensitive military installations. A similar act of sabotage happened a little more than a year ago at another IRG missile base which killed nearly 20. In the murky world of Israel-Iran relations, where it’s often hard to tell the difference between information, misinformation and disinformation, either explanation may be true. But my source has never been wrong so far in the reports he’s offered.
It is, of course, ironic that the same MEK is paying key political players in U.S. life hundreds of thousands of dollars to lobby on behalf of removing it from the Treasury Department terror list. I suppose when a terror group is harming your enemy then it’s no longer a terror group, eh? Certainly if there was another power than the Mossad willing to pay more for them to attack Israel and the U.S., guess who they’d be wreaking havoc on?
To give you an idea of the level of brainwashing Israelis undergo thanks to willing collusion between military correspondents and the intelligence services, this is how the Hebrew Ynet report describes the MEK and its collusion with Mossad and others:
Though the reliability of this report can’t be substantiated, it should be remembered that the Iranian opposition [by this they mean MEK and not the Green movement] fulfills an important role in revealing secret Iranian installations and serves as a pipeline for publication of secret intelligence. There is an assumption that western intelligence services pass on to them intelligence in order to “launder” it and expose it to the world.
An unsuspecting Israeli would find nothing in this passage unduly alarming. But those analysts who’ve followed the various shenanigans and frauds perpetrated by Mossad and MEK in the past understand the truth that is concealed here: that the information fed to MEK is fraudulent. But by laundering and having an ostensibly Iranian group release it, it has more credibility among the world press.
The irony of such acts of terror committed by the Mossad is that they supposedly relieve pressure to attack Iran head on with a military strike to knock out its nuclear targets.
On a related subject, Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann (Turner Overdrive), attempting to outdo her rivals in fawning obeisance to Israeli interests, claimed that with Iran’s alleged nuclear ambitions:
The table is being set for worldwide nuclear war against Israel.
Frankly, I don’t know who’s worse, the mystic, megalomaniacs in Tel Aviv plotting a military strike against Teheran or their enablers within the far-right confines of the Republican Party.
Of course it could not be anyone else who’s responsible.
I mean the CIA would NEVER do something like this…
maybe you are e world will be right naybe not,however i think that the world will be better place without those missles or this “base”
Yawn, you are boring.
“The face of the Israeli terror machine” = Richard, this time you realy set a new level of hatred.
Hi, I have cited your article here .
I have no beef with Israel, but I have a serious issue with bullies!
Saying that the Mossad did it is like saying that men never went to the moon. No hard proof of anything…
Your title is irresponsible saying that the Mossad is responsible for killing 40 people where:
* the IRG themselves claim it’s only 17.
* the IRG did not make any allegations towards the Mossad or Israel in general.
All of your post relies on a nameless source whose identity you do not revile and we’re just suppose to eat it and believe you.
there’s not a single fact in your post – everything is just baseless speculations.
The explosion might have come from accidents (REAL accident do happen from time to time), the opposition may have bombed the base or it may have been 101 other different reason. Tying it directly to the Mossad without any shred of proof is simply idiotic.
The blinded left “liberal” terminology of the writer disturbingly resembles to Ahmadinijad’s. For Mr. Silverstein Israel is using “terrorist” methods when fighting a crazy dark fanatic religious regime whose ideology is to wipe out Israel of the map. The fact that Iran’s regime is repeating this massage on every stage (incl. in UN general assembly) can not confuse Mr. Silverstein. Iran is using proxies (IE Hamas and Hezbollah) to terrorize Israeli civilian. It is arming them with more missiles than few states have (and they are using these missiles every day against Israeli civilians). But to Mr. Silverstein Israel is “A Terrorist state”.
What sick moral Tikun Olam has – What a sad Joke!
And dare you to publish my response…?
You’re the main story on ynet:
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Unlike you, my source has a track record that establishes him as highly credible. And btw, you can’t read: the headline says “40 Dead AND Wounded.” Not “40 Dead.”
You’ve not read previous reports reported here by intelligence mavens like Ronen Bergman who wrote months ago about a series of similar attacks against Iranian targets which he claimed (& Yossi Melman separately joined in this evaluation) that the Mossad had a hand in. One of these attack was the missile base explosion a yr ago which is highly reminiscent of today’s explosion. So there.
I’ve noted that Iranian sources claim it was an accident. But when someone as authoritative as my source tells me something’s happened, I take notice. You may think or say whatever you wish.
I don’t hate Israel, I hate terror whether it originates in Israel or Iran or Palestine or the U.S. Sorry yr mind is too small & cramped to contemplate this nuance.
That must mean you have narcoplepsy. Have you seen yr doctor?
I would agree with you if you would join me in saying the world would be better without Israeli nuclear weapons as well.
I published a link to this post at the popular right wing Israeli site Rotter & realize a lot of the dyspeptic comments are coming from that source. So I’ve published a few comments I wouldn’t ordinarily publish because these readers don’t know the comment rules & because they represent a circle that doesn’t address me or this blog directly very often.
I inform this writer that I don’t allow racism to appear in the comment threads & yr comments about Iran are precisely that. I remind him as well that most Iranians would have no trouble with this statement, which turns yours on its head: Israel is a “crazy dark fanatic religious regime whose ideology is to wipe Iran off the map.”
I didn’t use the term “terrorist state,” so don’t put words in my mouth. But I do believe that Israel, like the U.S. and many other so-called civilized nations, engages in acts of terror. And I oppose all acts of terror whether committed by Israel, Iran, the U.S. or whoever.
I’ve given you this comment gratis. If you publish another you must read the comment rules and follow them as I will not be as permissive if you break the rules next time.
since when is attacking a military base considered terrorism?
So Iran claims it was an accident yet you claim otherwise based on an anonymous source that you don’t disclose? Which would hold up as more persuasive.
wow! youre full of BS
17 people died not 40!
stop making up facts youre as reliable as a shoe
First – Not a Surprising comment – from a writer who supports “freedom” of speech writes and enjoys freedom of speech even when it is endangering other people (IE civilians in Israel) and expects everyone to observe it. But in commenting on your posts you do not offer same freedom. Interesting and very typical to people with your views.
Second – I do not read “Rotter” and not one of its followers.
Third – You obviously did call Israel a terrorist state (indirectly but very clearly) when wrote that it is using a “terrorist” measures.
Fourth – and most important – there is nothing racist in saying the regime in Tehran is crazy fanatic (which it is..) I did not say people of Iran are all crazy. But its regime is and you are not doing your readers any favor in denying it. If you can prove this assertion as wrong please do…
Richard,
I think you are unwittingly playing into the hands of the mossad, and they’ll love you for publishing this rumour/story/fact.
They would love that all Israel’s enemies would think that the mossad did it even without their actual involvement.
It’s the same as the Israeli nuclear policy = “blurred” (in Hebrew “עמימות”) – neither denying nor admitting. This is their strength that the enemy will be wary even if not based on actual proof.
You write:
” I hate terror whether it originates in Israel or Iran or Palestine or the U.S”
However, you never use express hate toward Iran or Palestine the same you do when you discuss Israel or US.
Hate is wrong. ואהבת לרעך כמוך. Even if your buddy is a zionist.
What a load of polizer winning bulls**t.
Your “source” is probably iranian
I don’t get it.
Iran say it is an accident and you write here it is an hostile act of Israel.
Do you accuse Iran officials of lies ?
If so, what do they have to gain by it ?
and what evidence do you have for it ?
Richard, you certainly did not get enough attention from your father Gepetto.
I am clueless for how you are planing to either make a Tikun or the world a “better place”, when the best thing you can do is spreading lies and hate.
Al Bundy- Your mind has obviously been occupied by weapons if mass deception. The fact that intelligence agencies are actively working to diminish Iranian nuclear and military capabilities is indisputable. Iranians are not all crazy. Wake up from your slumber. A huge tragedy occurred in Iran, and we should all mourn the loss of life, liberty and prosperity. Whether this incident was an accident or another act of terror is not nearly as important as the fact that this type of incident would be better classified as a great loss to another great nation of the himsn race that is struggling to deal with nearly a century of oppression and terrorism under imperialist and colonialist ideology enforced by corrupt British, French, American and Israeli leadership.
JamBo Jack- Your mind has obviously been occupied by weapons if mass deception. The fact that intelligence agencies are actively working to diminish Iranian nuclear and military capabilities is indisputable. Iranians are not all crazy. Wake up from your slumber. A huge tragedy occurred in Iran, and we should all mourn the loss of life, liberty and prosperity. Whether this incident was an accident or another act of terror is not nearly as important as the fact that this type of incident would be better classified as a great loss to another great nation of the himsn race that is struggling to deal with nearly a century of oppression and terrorism under imperialist and colonialist ideology enforced by corrupt British, French, American and Israeli leadership.
Dear Richard,
Theses Sihab Missiles, are developed only for one pupose and it is the final distruction of the jewish state and its people. It is a natural right of the Israelis to take them out and it can not be considered as act of terror, but, self sefense.
If Iran will give up its wepon- there will be peace. If Israel will give up its wepon, there will be no Israel and no Jew alive!!!
Shlomo
Silverstein is citing Bergman, Bergman is quoting Milman, Milman is referring to Silverstein.
Is it a good example for perpetuum-mobile? Moebius ring? auto alimentation?….
Mr. Silverstein:
Another lie against Israel, without any evidence to confirm it, only fervent desire to be true, to give vent to his anti-Israel hatred.
“Ynet raises the possibility that it was a deliberate act of sabotage on not just a missile base, but an intelligence facility” – How funny it is. In Ynet there is an article say That’s kind of funny. Today Ynet is publishing Silverstein’s story and the title is: “The Mossad is responsible for the explosion in Iran”. Are you working together? Who comes first? The chicken or the egg? http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4147387,00.html
It’s funnier when all of your posts seem to be an evaluation and no more. No hard proof of anything was shown. Oh, it seems that I’m wrong because “intelligence mavens like Ronen Bergman who wrote months ago about a series of similar attacks against Iranian targets which he claimed (& Yossi Melman separately joined in this EVALUATION) that the Mossad had a hand in.”
The most funny thing is when someone wrote on your blog that Iran is responsible to the Buenos Aires Attacks alomst 15 years ago you dismissed it by “The claims about Buenos Aires may or may not be true. But they are NOT a proven fact” although Argentina’s prosecutors charged Iran’s government and Hezbolla.
So, yes, you’re right about this thing – The claims about Iran’s explosion may or may not be true. But they are NOT a proven fact like you try to show.
Not the first time if Israel is behind this, maybe even a drone attack.
Despicable.
However, I find it intresting that so many rabiate likudniks bother to visit Richard’s blog since you obviously hate his views.
since when is an attack on a military target terrorism?
as far as i understand the terms, terrorists attack civilian targets while insurgents attack military targets