SOME OF ISLAMIC IRANS BLOODY INVOLVEMENT IN GLOBAL WARS SUCH AS IN:
Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Somalia, Eritrea, Nigeria, Yemen, Afghanistan (Taliban), Palestinians, Lebanon, Venezuela-Colombia drug war (Farc).
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Benghazi follow-through
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Monday, October 8, 2012
Lassitude has not been limited to al-Qaida. Hezbollah and its backer, Iran, clearly were behind the deadly assault on a U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983; a planned retaliation on a Hezbollah base was dropped. The bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996 by a Hezbollah affiliate was, the FBI concluded, engineered by Iran; no counter-blow was launched. was quiet outside the U.S. Consulate as evening fell on Benghazi.
Benghazi follow-through - BostonHerald.com
Officials: Iran behind advanced, lethal IED - Army News | News from .../
Feb 11, 2007 ... the highest levels of the Iranian leadership of arming Shiite militants in Iraq with sophisticated ... Officials: Iran behind advanced, lethal IED ...
Officials: Iran behind advanced, lethal IED - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times
Iran Deploys Troops, Ballistic Missiles To Eritrea
The Cutting Edge
Joseph Grieboski December 8th 2008
Cutting Edge Foreign Editor
Iranian ships and submarines have deployed an undisclosed number of Iranian troops and weapons at the Eritrean port town of Assab, according to opposition groups, foreign diplomats, and NGOs in the area.
The city of Assab sits at the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea. As such, Assab offers a strategic position as the world nervously eyes the precarious routes through which a seaborne oil traverses daily.
Local sources have reported that Iran recently sent soldiers and a large number of long-range and ballistic missiles. The military basing came after Iran signed an accord with Eritrea to revamp the Russian-built refinery used by the Eritrean Oil Company, also known as Assab Oil Company.
The Cutting Edge News
Ethiopia: Iran Steps In As Eritrea Attacks
Jun 19, 2008 June 19, 2008: For several years Eritrea and Iran have made friendly diplomatic gestures and discussed economic cooperation In mid-May the ...
Ethiopia: Iran Steps In As Eritrea Attacks
Yemen summons Eritrean ambassador for alleged arms supply to ...
Nov 10, 2009 Yemen summons Eritrean ambassador for alleged arms supply to rebels ... using Eritrean soil as a base by Iran, but providing no further details.
Yemen summons Eritrean ambassador for alleged arms supply to rebels_English_Xinhua
Yemen Sees Mounting Evidence Iran send arms from Eritrea ...
Nov 26, 2009 Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) Yemen sees increasing evidence that Iran is arming Shiite Muslim rebels who seized territory on the 1,500-kilometer ...
Yemen Sees
West accuses Iran of shipping arms to Syria
WZVN-TV-Sep 20, 2012
... who said his citys Somali immigrants should accept our culture and leave your .... A spokesman for Irans mission to the U.N. did not immediately ... other Western powers expressed serious concern at Irans arms exports to ...
http://www.abc-7.com/story/19600614/west-accuses-iran-of-shipping-arms-to-syria
FSA threatens to take fight to Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut
The Daily Star-Oct 9, 2012
They [the Hezbollah detainees] have confessed to killing and slaughtering [people] in Syria, Masri said, indicating that most of the captives ...
FSA threatens to take fight to Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut | News , Politics | THE DAILY STAR
Somalia-Iran Foreign Relations | IranTracker
May 9, 2010 In 2006, the Somali government accused Iran of attempted to supply the Somali insurgent Union of Islamic Courts militia with weapons, ...
Somalia-Iran Foreign Relations | IranTracker
Iran tried to get uranium by arming Somalia - Telegraph
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph News World News
Nov 16, 2006 Iran tried to obtain uranium from Somalia in return for supplying weapons to the anarchic countrys Islamist movement, the United Nations said ...
Iran 'tried to get uranium by arming Somalia' - Telegraph
Iran and Syria supplied Somali Islamists with arms, says UN - World ...
Nov 16, 2006 A UN-commissioned report has accused 10 countries, including Iran and Syria, of breaking an arms embargo on Somalia amid fears that the ...
Iran and Syria supplied Somali Islamists with arms, says UN - World Politics - World - The Independent
Hizballah in Africa | Wege | Perspectives on Terrorism
by C Wege - 2012
Africas state system, exploited by Hizballah and Iran for a generation,[1] ... Iranian arms smuggling infiltrations from that circle reach into Nigeria, Kenya, and the central African spaces.
Hizballah in Africa | Wege | Perspectives on Terrorism
Hezbollahs powerbase in w. Africa growing - Israel News, Ynetnews
Israel News: Ynetnews Ynetnews News World News
Feb 22, 2012 Azerbaijan arrests Iran-linked attack plotters · Iran, Hezbollah planning ... Prosor said that Hezbollahs grip on western Africa was part of a growing ... in which criminals and terrorists join forces on drugs and arms trafficking.
'Hezbollah's powerbase in w. Africa growing' - Israel News, Ynetnews
The Iran/Hezbollah Strategic and Terrorist Threat to Africa
Mar 28, 2012 The Iran/Hezbollah Strategic and Terrorist Threat to Africa. Ely Karmon .... of Africa. Major regional blunder: Iranian Arms Shipment to Nigeria ...
ICT - Articles > The Iran/Hezbollah Strategic and Terrorist Threat to Africa
FARC Cash Seized in Costa Rica Linked to Iran & Venezuela | The ...
Mar 25, 2008 FARC Cash Seized in Costa Rica Linked to Iran & Venezuela ... Information on Russian illegal arms dealer Viktor Bout who was later captured ...
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2008/03/farc-cash-seized-in-costa-rica-linked-to-iran-venezuela/
Terror At Hugo Chavezs Hand - Forbes.com
Jan 21, 2009 The U.S. is also investigating weapons deliveries to the FARC by Iran, Syria and Russia that violate U.N. sanctions against both Iran and the ...
Terror At Hugo Chavez's Hand - Forbes.com
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Iran arming Taliban, U.S. claims - CNN
Jun 13, 2007 The United States has irrefutable evidence that Tehran is transferring arms to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, a top U.S. diplomat told CNN ...
Iran arming Taliban, U.S. claims - CNN
BBC News - Hague fury as Iranian arms bound for Taliban seized
Mar 9, 2011 The foreign secretary condemns Tehrans actions after British Special Forces seize a suspected shipment of Iranian arms intended for the ...
BBC News - Hague fury as 'Iranian arms' bound for Taliban seized
Irans illegal arms trade: Hypocritical and dangerous
By Allan Urry
6 June 2011 Last updated at 19:24 ET
Evidence is mounting that Iran is supplying weapons to the Taliban - and that British and other foreign troops are dying in Afghanistan as a result.
On the one hand it claims to want to come back into the international community, and the next thing theyre doing something that it knows is contrary to what the international community has decided.
The BBC has seen a letter from the UK Mission to the United Nations, addressed to the chairman of the Security Council committee on Iran, which states without hesitation that Tehran supplied the rockets to the Taliban.
These rockets originated in Iran and were being transferred to the Taliban at the behest of the Iranian regime, writes Philip Parham, Charge dAffaires to the UK Mission.
And this is only one of a number of recent incidents which provide damning evidence of Tehrans involvement in arms smuggling to Afghanistan and elsewhere.
One such case involved former Royal Marine Andrew Faulkner, who was jailed for two-and-a-half years last year after he admitted trying to smuggle high specification rifle sights to Iran.
Not long ago the weapon of choice for Taliban fighting UK troops in Afghanistan was the improvised explosive device (IED), but in the last 15 months there has been an increase in the number of soldiers shot dead by Taliban marksmen.
Snipers
The first British victim of the change of tactics by the Taliban in Helmand Province was 23-year-old Corporal Richard Green, from the 3 Rifles, who was shot dead on patrol in Sangin in March 2010.
So the main threat was IEDs and they had pretty well sorted out the IED threat, he said.
Snipers werent even considered, he never spoke to me about snipers, ever. It was always about IEDs.
The sniper scopes Mr Faulkner tried to smuggle were stopped before they reached Tehran, but his arrest led HM Revenue and Customs to a Europe-wide illegal arms racket.
UK Customs tipped off their Italian counterparts, who began an investigation into claims that people inside - or connected to - Irans Revolutionary Guard were placing orders for explosive fuses and chemical parts, despite an arms embargo against the country.
Iranian Arms Deals
[Spanish police prevent sale of nine military transport helicopters (March 2011)
Israeli commandos intercept a ship which officials say is carrying arms from Iran to militant groups in the Gaza Strip (March 2011)
Italian officials arrest two Iranians and five Italians suspected of trafficking arms to Iran (March 2011)
British special forces seize a shipment of 48 rockets in Afghanistan - thought to be from Iran (February 2011)]
Nigeria seizes a shipment of rocket launchers and grenades, labelled building materials, thought to have originated in Iran (October 2010)
The UN has become so concerned about Iranian links to illegal arms deals - both imports that violate the arms embargo, and exports that violate international sanctions on Iran - it has set up a special panel of experts to advise the Security Council.
Head of that committee is Salome Zourabichvili, who admits diplomatic efforts to halt the deals have not been 100% successful.
It has been clear to us from what weve seen... that [there is a] continuous trend of Iran violating the sanctions and continuing to supply weapons to different non state organisations.
Analysts believe Iran has been offering help and assistance to Hamas and Hezbollah and recent evidence put before the US Congress suggests links with al-Qaeda.
A leaked copy of a report for the panel for the Security Council sanctions committee says: Irans circumvention of sanctions across all areas, in particular the use of front companies, concealment methods in shipping, financial transactions and the transfer of conventional arms and related material is wilful and continuing.
BBC News - Iran's illegal arms trade: 'Hypocritical and dangerous'
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AFP: Ahmadinejad visit to bolster Iran-Sudan ties: envoy
Ahmadinejad visit to bolster Iran-Sudan ties: envoy. (AFP) Sep 25, 2011. KHARTOUM Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to arrive in ...
AFP: Ahmadinejad visit to bolster Iran-Sudan ties: envoy
Wikileaks: Iranian weapons pass through Sudan to Hamas - Sudan ...
Dec 19, 2010
December 19, 2010 (KHARTOUM) The United States has attempted to stop Sudan being used as a transit for Iranian arms en route to the ...
Wikileaks: Iranian weapons pass through Sudan to Hamas - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
Who is arming Sudan?
London Review of Books (subscription) (blog)-Oct 2, 2012
Hes an arms expert, and my friend and colleague. .... Hisein Kombola, the camps chief, told us that in the Nuba Mountains he had been under fire from what he thought were Iranian Shahab rockets, shot from government positions tens of kilometres away. In different places we were shown remnants of the attacks: Claudio said the two-metre-long warhead fragments werent from Shahabs, but Chinese Weishi WS-1 rockets. We later found the catalogue of a company promoting them at an African arms fair. At more than four metres long and with a diameter of 302 mm, they are the largest artillery weapons ever used in Sudan, and according to the catalogue can reach targets up to 45 km away from the government areas of South Kordofan deep into Nuba rebel areas and South Sudanese territory...
In March, on the border in Jaw, Northern rebels shot down an aircraft, a drone that was probably being used to spot future targets. Data observed on the drone suggest it was assembled in Iran, including components from the European Union in spite of embargos on both Sudan and Iran. We managed to see some of the videos shot by its camera: according to a military aviation researcher who joined us for some of our trips, the metadata are identical to those of samples from video recorders made by a known British company.
Who is arming Sudan? « LRB blog
Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Somalia, Eritrea, Nigeria, Yemen, Afghanistan (Taliban), Palestinians, Lebanon, Venezuela-Colombia drug war (Farc).
_______
Benghazi follow-through
By Boston Herald Editorial Staff
Monday, October 8, 2012
Lassitude has not been limited to al-Qaida. Hezbollah and its backer, Iran, clearly were behind the deadly assault on a U.S. Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983; a planned retaliation on a Hezbollah base was dropped. The bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996 by a Hezbollah affiliate was, the FBI concluded, engineered by Iran; no counter-blow was launched. was quiet outside the U.S. Consulate as evening fell on Benghazi.
Benghazi follow-through - BostonHerald.com
Officials: Iran behind advanced, lethal IED - Army News | News from .../
Feb 11, 2007 ... the highest levels of the Iranian leadership of arming Shiite militants in Iraq with sophisticated ... Officials: Iran behind advanced, lethal IED ...
Officials: Iran behind advanced, lethal IED - Army News | News from Afghanistan & Iraq - Army Times
Iran Deploys Troops, Ballistic Missiles To Eritrea
The Cutting Edge
Joseph Grieboski December 8th 2008
Cutting Edge Foreign Editor
Iranian ships and submarines have deployed an undisclosed number of Iranian troops and weapons at the Eritrean port town of Assab, according to opposition groups, foreign diplomats, and NGOs in the area.
The city of Assab sits at the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea. As such, Assab offers a strategic position as the world nervously eyes the precarious routes through which a seaborne oil traverses daily.
Local sources have reported that Iran recently sent soldiers and a large number of long-range and ballistic missiles. The military basing came after Iran signed an accord with Eritrea to revamp the Russian-built refinery used by the Eritrean Oil Company, also known as Assab Oil Company.
The Cutting Edge News
Ethiopia: Iran Steps In As Eritrea Attacks
Jun 19, 2008 June 19, 2008: For several years Eritrea and Iran have made friendly diplomatic gestures and discussed economic cooperation In mid-May the ...
Ethiopia: Iran Steps In As Eritrea Attacks
Yemen summons Eritrean ambassador for alleged arms supply to ...
Nov 10, 2009 Yemen summons Eritrean ambassador for alleged arms supply to rebels ... using Eritrean soil as a base by Iran, but providing no further details.
Yemen summons Eritrean ambassador for alleged arms supply to rebels_English_Xinhua
Yemen Sees Mounting Evidence Iran send arms from Eritrea ...
Nov 26, 2009 Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) Yemen sees increasing evidence that Iran is arming Shiite Muslim rebels who seized territory on the 1,500-kilometer ...
Yemen Sees
West accuses Iran of shipping arms to Syria
WZVN-TV-Sep 20, 2012
... who said his citys Somali immigrants should accept our culture and leave your .... A spokesman for Irans mission to the U.N. did not immediately ... other Western powers expressed serious concern at Irans arms exports to ...
http://www.abc-7.com/story/19600614/west-accuses-iran-of-shipping-arms-to-syria
FSA threatens to take fight to Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut
The Daily Star-Oct 9, 2012
They [the Hezbollah detainees] have confessed to killing and slaughtering [people] in Syria, Masri said, indicating that most of the captives ...
FSA threatens to take fight to Hezbollah stronghold in Beirut | News , Politics | THE DAILY STAR
Somalia-Iran Foreign Relations | IranTracker
May 9, 2010 In 2006, the Somali government accused Iran of attempted to supply the Somali insurgent Union of Islamic Courts militia with weapons, ...
Somalia-Iran Foreign Relations | IranTracker
Iran tried to get uranium by arming Somalia - Telegraph
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph News World News
Nov 16, 2006 Iran tried to obtain uranium from Somalia in return for supplying weapons to the anarchic countrys Islamist movement, the United Nations said ...
Iran 'tried to get uranium by arming Somalia' - Telegraph
Iran and Syria supplied Somali Islamists with arms, says UN - World ...
Nov 16, 2006 A UN-commissioned report has accused 10 countries, including Iran and Syria, of breaking an arms embargo on Somalia amid fears that the ...
Iran and Syria supplied Somali Islamists with arms, says UN - World Politics - World - The Independent
Hizballah in Africa | Wege | Perspectives on Terrorism
by C Wege - 2012
Africas state system, exploited by Hizballah and Iran for a generation,[1] ... Iranian arms smuggling infiltrations from that circle reach into Nigeria, Kenya, and the central African spaces.
Hizballah in Africa | Wege | Perspectives on Terrorism
Hezbollahs powerbase in w. Africa growing - Israel News, Ynetnews
Israel News: Ynetnews Ynetnews News World News
Feb 22, 2012 Azerbaijan arrests Iran-linked attack plotters · Iran, Hezbollah planning ... Prosor said that Hezbollahs grip on western Africa was part of a growing ... in which criminals and terrorists join forces on drugs and arms trafficking.
'Hezbollah's powerbase in w. Africa growing' - Israel News, Ynetnews
The Iran/Hezbollah Strategic and Terrorist Threat to Africa
Mar 28, 2012 The Iran/Hezbollah Strategic and Terrorist Threat to Africa. Ely Karmon .... of Africa. Major regional blunder: Iranian Arms Shipment to Nigeria ...
ICT - Articles > The Iran/Hezbollah Strategic and Terrorist Threat to Africa
FARC Cash Seized in Costa Rica Linked to Iran & Venezuela | The ...
Mar 25, 2008 FARC Cash Seized in Costa Rica Linked to Iran & Venezuela ... Information on Russian illegal arms dealer Viktor Bout who was later captured ...
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2008/03/farc-cash-seized-in-costa-rica-linked-to-iran-venezuela/
Terror At Hugo Chavezs Hand - Forbes.com
Jan 21, 2009 The U.S. is also investigating weapons deliveries to the FARC by Iran, Syria and Russia that violate U.N. sanctions against both Iran and the ...
Terror At Hugo Chavez's Hand - Forbes.com
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Iran arming Taliban, U.S. claims - CNN
Jun 13, 2007 The United States has irrefutable evidence that Tehran is transferring arms to Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, a top U.S. diplomat told CNN ...
Iran arming Taliban, U.S. claims - CNN
BBC News - Hague fury as Iranian arms bound for Taliban seized
Mar 9, 2011 The foreign secretary condemns Tehrans actions after British Special Forces seize a suspected shipment of Iranian arms intended for the ...
BBC News - Hague fury as 'Iranian arms' bound for Taliban seized
Irans illegal arms trade: Hypocritical and dangerous
By Allan Urry
6 June 2011 Last updated at 19:24 ET
Evidence is mounting that Iran is supplying weapons to the Taliban - and that British and other foreign troops are dying in Afghanistan as a result.
On the one hand it claims to want to come back into the international community, and the next thing theyre doing something that it knows is contrary to what the international community has decided.
The BBC has seen a letter from the UK Mission to the United Nations, addressed to the chairman of the Security Council committee on Iran, which states without hesitation that Tehran supplied the rockets to the Taliban.
These rockets originated in Iran and were being transferred to the Taliban at the behest of the Iranian regime, writes Philip Parham, Charge dAffaires to the UK Mission.
And this is only one of a number of recent incidents which provide damning evidence of Tehrans involvement in arms smuggling to Afghanistan and elsewhere.
One such case involved former Royal Marine Andrew Faulkner, who was jailed for two-and-a-half years last year after he admitted trying to smuggle high specification rifle sights to Iran.
Not long ago the weapon of choice for Taliban fighting UK troops in Afghanistan was the improvised explosive device (IED), but in the last 15 months there has been an increase in the number of soldiers shot dead by Taliban marksmen.
Snipers
The first British victim of the change of tactics by the Taliban in Helmand Province was 23-year-old Corporal Richard Green, from the 3 Rifles, who was shot dead on patrol in Sangin in March 2010.
So the main threat was IEDs and they had pretty well sorted out the IED threat, he said.
Snipers werent even considered, he never spoke to me about snipers, ever. It was always about IEDs.
The sniper scopes Mr Faulkner tried to smuggle were stopped before they reached Tehran, but his arrest led HM Revenue and Customs to a Europe-wide illegal arms racket.
UK Customs tipped off their Italian counterparts, who began an investigation into claims that people inside - or connected to - Irans Revolutionary Guard were placing orders for explosive fuses and chemical parts, despite an arms embargo against the country.
Iranian Arms Deals
[Spanish police prevent sale of nine military transport helicopters (March 2011)
Israeli commandos intercept a ship which officials say is carrying arms from Iran to militant groups in the Gaza Strip (March 2011)
Italian officials arrest two Iranians and five Italians suspected of trafficking arms to Iran (March 2011)
British special forces seize a shipment of 48 rockets in Afghanistan - thought to be from Iran (February 2011)]
Nigeria seizes a shipment of rocket launchers and grenades, labelled building materials, thought to have originated in Iran (October 2010)
The UN has become so concerned about Iranian links to illegal arms deals - both imports that violate the arms embargo, and exports that violate international sanctions on Iran - it has set up a special panel of experts to advise the Security Council.
Head of that committee is Salome Zourabichvili, who admits diplomatic efforts to halt the deals have not been 100% successful.
It has been clear to us from what weve seen... that [there is a] continuous trend of Iran violating the sanctions and continuing to supply weapons to different non state organisations.
Analysts believe Iran has been offering help and assistance to Hamas and Hezbollah and recent evidence put before the US Congress suggests links with al-Qaeda.
A leaked copy of a report for the panel for the Security Council sanctions committee says: Irans circumvention of sanctions across all areas, in particular the use of front companies, concealment methods in shipping, financial transactions and the transfer of conventional arms and related material is wilful and continuing.
BBC News - Iran's illegal arms trade: 'Hypocritical and dangerous'
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AFP: Ahmadinejad visit to bolster Iran-Sudan ties: envoy
Ahmadinejad visit to bolster Iran-Sudan ties: envoy. (AFP) Sep 25, 2011. KHARTOUM Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is due to arrive in ...
AFP: Ahmadinejad visit to bolster Iran-Sudan ties: envoy
Wikileaks: Iranian weapons pass through Sudan to Hamas - Sudan ...
Dec 19, 2010
December 19, 2010 (KHARTOUM) The United States has attempted to stop Sudan being used as a transit for Iranian arms en route to the ...
Wikileaks: Iranian weapons pass through Sudan to Hamas - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan
Who is arming Sudan?
London Review of Books (subscription) (blog)-Oct 2, 2012
Hes an arms expert, and my friend and colleague. .... Hisein Kombola, the camps chief, told us that in the Nuba Mountains he had been under fire from what he thought were Iranian Shahab rockets, shot from government positions tens of kilometres away. In different places we were shown remnants of the attacks: Claudio said the two-metre-long warhead fragments werent from Shahabs, but Chinese Weishi WS-1 rockets. We later found the catalogue of a company promoting them at an African arms fair. At more than four metres long and with a diameter of 302 mm, they are the largest artillery weapons ever used in Sudan, and according to the catalogue can reach targets up to 45 km away from the government areas of South Kordofan deep into Nuba rebel areas and South Sudanese territory...
In March, on the border in Jaw, Northern rebels shot down an aircraft, a drone that was probably being used to spot future targets. Data observed on the drone suggest it was assembled in Iran, including components from the European Union in spite of embargos on both Sudan and Iran. We managed to see some of the videos shot by its camera: according to a military aviation researcher who joined us for some of our trips, the metadata are identical to those of samples from video recorders made by a known British company.
Who is arming Sudan? « LRB blog
