Implications of Alleged Iranian Assassination Plot
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-10-13/implications-alleged-iranian-assassination-plot
The United States promised Iran will face serious consequences if it's found to have been involved in an alleged terror plot on U.S. soil. The Justice Department accused an Iranian-American of planning to assassinate Saudi Arabia's U.S. ambassador with the help of a Mexican drug cartel. The White House said the plot clearly involved senior levels of Iran's security forces. Iran strongly denied the accusations. Some Iran experts here and abroad voiced skepticism about Iranian government involvement. They say little about the case resembles Tehran's past actions. An update on the bizarre case and the implications for U.S.-Iran relations.
Guests
Michael Greenberger
director, Center for Health and Homeland Security at the University of Maryland; former senior regulator, Commodities Futures Trading Commission.
Barbara Slavin
senior fellow, The Atlantic Council; author of four reports on Iran in the past year; and author of "Bitter Friends, Bosom Enemies: Iran, the U.S and the Twisted Path to Confrontation."
Trita Parsi
president, National Iranian American Council; author of the forthcoming book "A Single Roll of the Dice - Obama's Diplomacy with Iran."
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In September 1976 exiled Chilean socialist Orlando Letelier and his American assistant, Ronni Moffitt were killed in a bombing in Washington DC...the fascist Pinochet put into power by the CIA escaped punishmnent for this....No threat of invading Chile or any of the stuff being batted around today against Iran...indeed the US administration knew ahead of time about this and did nothing to stop it...after all Pinochet was Kissinger's boy.
Meanconser.
Clearly Saddam was a bad guy that the US had supported in the past. Providing some of the chemicals, intelligence when they were hammering Iran (we played both sides) and our US ambassador to Iraq basically told Saddam we would look the other way if he invaded Kuwait. Have read that Kuwait was doing some slant drilling taping into Iraq's oil reserves.
Yes he killed people but our support of him at times makes it all the worse. And the illegal and immoral invasion has killed far more Iraqi's. Our sanctions. The US is responsible for millions being dead in Iraq.
And let's not forget Meanconser that the US and the UK helped eliminate a democratically elected leader in Iran in the 50's eliminating a potential developing democracy. Hmmm.
Israel started the arms race in the middle east. Their undeclared and uninspected weapons continue to be a threat to peace in the middle east. Israel needs to be pressured to sign the NPT. You know the agreement that Iran signed long ago
Please beware that Trita Parsi is not a reliable and good source of information about Iran. Neither is Vali Nasr. They both support the Islamic mafia in Iran.
From what I can tell, only 4 nations in the world are now without a Rothschild controlled central bank: North Korea, Sudan & Iran - Iraq & Libya didn't have one until very recently...