Iran: Was Khomeini CIA?

[oyarde]

A much better question would be..

Has the disgraced agency ever done anything to justify it's existence?

and I would say ,, NO

It has been a liability and a threat since creation..

I have given it a lot of thought . Clearly we would be better off without them. Along with the obvious failings there should be some great successes that are clearly lacking so from a purely professional point of view , like some other agencies ( USDA , FBI , BATFE etc ) they do not perform well enough to merit any investment . I think this is how it should be presented to taxpayers .

[dannno]

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For some reason a video earlier posted in this thread on the Shah claiming that Jews control the USA was deleted by Youtube.
Here’s another (soon to be deleted?) one…

[Brian4Liberty]

CIA has their tentacles everywhere. You can always play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (or CIA).

[Swordsmyth]

CIA has their tentacles everywhere. You can always play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (or CIA).

When there are not many degrees of separation it becomes meaningful.

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Personally I find the war between the US and Iran less than convincing.
The 3 January assassination of General Qasem Soleimani doesn’t really change this: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...pid-as-It-Gets


Current Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is another crooked lawyer.
Not all of the information in the following article is confirmed by the “independent” Wikipedia (and I haven’t been able to confirm everything)….
Rouhani changed his family name from Fereidun (or Fereydoun or Fereydun).

In 1970s, Rouhani was educated in England, learning textile design and English.

In the 1990s, Rouhani studied for 6 years at the privately owned Caledonian University in Glasgow, Scotland, which gave him a PhD in “Islamic law” (in 1999).
This was arranged by none other by Jack Straw (Secretary of various offices in the British government for most of 1997 to 2010): https://www.orient-news.net/en/news_...sham-elections
(http://archive.is/8LDwB)


In 2014, Tehran’s only Jewish hospital, the Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center, received $400,000 from the government of President Hassan Rouhani.
The cash was delivered by Rouhani’s brother, Hossein Fereydoon: http://web.archive.org/save/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/07/world/middleeast/iran-delivers-surprise-money-to-jewish-hospital.html?ref=world&_r=0


During the Anglo-American orchestrated Islamic coup of 1979, the Dr. Sapir Hospital and Charity Center was one of the very few (the only) that helped the wounded “revolutionaries” without reporting them to the notorious SAVAK.
Ayatollah Khomeini himself wrote a personal thank you note to the hospital after the coup succeeded: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Sa...Charity_Center


Mohammad Zarif is another lawyer, who was the Foreign Affairs Minister in Iran from July 2013 to February 2019.
In 1977, when he was a teenager, Zarif left Iran to study in the US. Zarif attended private college-preparatory high school Drew College Preparatory School in San Francisco, California. He later studied at San Francisco State University, from which he gained a Master degree in 1982.

In San Francisco, Zarif joined the Islamic Student Association and made friends who later became political figures in Iran, including the brother of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Iranian president from 1989 to 1997.

Zarif continued his studies at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver, from which he obtained a Ph.D. in international law and policy in 1988: https://www.france24.com/en/20190226...d-nuclear-deal
(http://archive.is/aUuub)


After the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran by Islamist students in 1979, Zarif was sent to shut down Iran's consulate in San Francisco.
Both of his children were born in the United States.

Zarif later protested at the Iranian mission to the United Nations, where the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations offered him a job in May 1982.

Zarif has spent more time with John Kerry than any other foreign minister in the world: https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/03/m...now/index.html


Zarif was Iran's representative at the UN from 2002 to 2007.

In 2016, Zarif with John Kerry shared the Chatham House Prize (awarded by the Royal Institute of International Affairs, a.k.a. Chatham House): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Javad_Zarif


See Bonesmen George W. Bush and John Kerry outside the Skull & Bones crypt, circa 1966.



Qasem Soleimani wasn’t the first high Iranian official that was silenced for knowing too much or being a threat to the Iranian regime.

In 1977, Hassan Rouhani delivered the eulogy for Khomeini’s dead son, who supposedly committed “suicide”.

In 1992, Rouhani’s son reportedly committed “suicide” by shooting himself with his father’s pistol.
According to Seyed Hossein Mousavian, who was very familiar with Rouhani, Rouhani’s son was assassinated on a military base in southern Tehran “on political grounds”.

In June 2001, Leila Pahlavi, daughter of the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi who died in Egypt, also supposedly committed “suicide”.

In 2011, Alireza Pahlavi, son of the former shah of Iran, also died of a reported “suicide”.
Alireza Pahlavi was also educated in the US. He obtained a B.A. from Princeton University in 1984 and a masters degree from Columbia University in 1992 and later attended Harvard University: https://heavy.com/news/2018/07/rouha...ers-extremism/
(http://archive.is/8OOUW)

[Danke]

For some reason a video earlier posted in this thread on the Shah claiming that Jews control the USA was deleted by Youtube.
Here’s another (soon to be deleted?) one…

Nice find!

[Influenza]

During the Anglo-American orchestrated Islamic coup of 1979

"anglo-american" "orchestrated" "coup"

didn't know it was possible to get so many words factually incorrect in such a short excerpt

[Swordsmyth]

"anglo-american" "orchestrated" "coup"

didn't know it was possible to get so many words factually incorrect in such a short excerpt

You do it all the time.

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Or maybe General Qasem Soleimani was killed as a diversion strategy from the limitless amount of scandals the Trump family is involved in?!?
The Trump Organization, Ivanka Trump in particular, was in business with the Baku XXI Century of the Azerbaijani Mammadov family since 2008. The Mammadovs were in turn business partners of the Iranian construction company Azarpassillo of Keyumars Darvishi (since about 2008).

Azarpassillo’s chairman, Keyumars Darvishi, became the head of Raman after he fought in the Iran-Iraq War. Raman is an Iranian construction firm, controlled by the Revolutionary Guard (that was controlled by Soleimani).

At least 2 of Keyumars’s brothers — Habil and Kamal Keyumars — were (are) also associates of the Revolutionary Guard. Ziya Mammadov conspired with the Revolutionary Guard to make overpriced deals that would enrich them both while using shell companies to launder the money and circumvent sanctions against Iran.

Trump spokesman Alan Garten admitted that the Trump Organization learned in 2015 about “the possibility” that the Mammadovs had ties to the Revolutionary Guard, but the company didn’t end the Baku deal until December 2016 (after Trump was elected US president): http://archive.is/9pqcZ

Azerbaijani partners in crime of US president Donald Trump since 2012, in a project to build a Trump Tower in Baku, also appear in the Laundromat scheme.
The $35 million project was controlled by Baku XXI Century of Elton and Anar Mammadov, the brother and son of the country's transport minister Ziya Mammadov. They hold seats in parliament and have ties to Azerbaijani President Aliyev.
The Mammadovs’ Baghlan holding company is linked to Laundromat transactions.

Ziya also has connections to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard and with Iraq-Iran war veteran Keyumars Davishi, the chairman of a company which Mammadov awarded transportation contracts to in 2008.
In February 2017, defense and intelligence officials warned the White House against designating Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organisation.

Anar founded The Azerbaijan American Alliance. Between 2011 and 2015, he spent almost $13 million for lobbying in the US.
Anar Mammadov lives in London and considers Ivanka Trump a “dear friend” (see them together).


In October 2014, Ivanka Trump toured Trump Tower Baku that was scheduled to open in 2015. Ivanka wrote that she had “overseen” the project. For some reason the hotel never opened despite being almost completed.
In December 2016, before he was inaugurated, Trump cut his connection with the project: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...deal-ever.html

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...rillion-a-year

[Swordsmyth]

Or maybe General Qasem Soleimani was killed as a diversion strategy from the limitless amount of scandals the Trump family is involved in?!?
The Trump Organization, Ivanka Trump in particular, was in business with the Baku XXI Century of the Azerbaijani Mammadov family since 2008. The Mammadovs were in turn business partners of the Iranian construction company Azarpassillo of Keyumars Darvishi (since about 2008).

Azarpassillo’s chairman, Keyumars Darvishi, became the head of Raman after he fought in the Iran-Iraq War. Raman is an Iranian construction firm, controlled by the Revolutionary Guard (that was controlled by Soleimani).

At least 2 of Keyumars’s brothers — Habil and Kamal Keyumars — were (are) also associates of the Revolutionary Guard. Ziya Mammadov conspired with the Revolutionary Guard to make overpriced deals that would enrich them both while using shell companies to launder the money and circumvent sanctions against Iran.

Trump spokesman Alan Garten admitted that the Trump Organization learned in 2015 about “the possibility” that the Mammadovs had ties to the Revolutionary Guard, but the company didn’t end the Baku deal until December 2016 (after Trump was elected US president): http://archive.is/9pqcZ


http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...rillion-a-year

Maybe this has nothing to do with this thread.

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Maybe this has nothing to do with this thread.

My thesis is that the ruthless regime of Khomeini was installed in Iran by Anglo-American intelligence, and that behind the "Cold War like" propaganda between Iran and the "Great Satan" America, the Islamic Iran has continued to be a perfecte little stooge for the major Anglo-American oil corporations (Royal Dutch Shell is Anglo-Dutch by the way).

According to the ever "reliable" Alex Jones, President Trump was made president with the help of the CIA...
Alex Jones boasts that he was working with the “good elements” in the CIA to get Donald Trump elected president.

Alex also claims that people are “getting out”, “globalism” is “falling”. And that European leaders are asking him to help run major “psy-op operations”.

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It shouldn’t surprise anybody that Donald’s Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross profits from business with a country under US sanctions – Iran.

Wilbur Ross has gotten some adverse publicity for his connections to China and Russia.
Wilbur Ross’s Navigator Holdings is in business with the Sibur in which Vladimir Putin’s “son-in-law” Kirill Shamalov is a stakeholder: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/vie...8&p=4872#p4872


Wilbur Ross’s Diamond S Shipping is also in business with Iran.
One of the main clients of Diamond S was the Russian oligarch controlled Glencore.

And... the Trump Organization has rented space to state-controlled Iranian Bank Melli that, according to the US government, funded the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (controlled by General Soleimani): https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/vie...8&p=5984#p5984


See the countries visited by Diamond S Shipping’s fleet, including Venezuela and Iran.


Most of Diamond S Shipping’s fleet sails under Chinese flags, and is tied to a Chinese investment fund. Its ships have also visited ports in Russian and Iran: https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-11-...ing-investment


Another example of the FBI funding the Iranian regime…

In 2009, the FBI asked Oleg Deripaska to funnel millions of dollars to Iran, supposedly to rescue former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who was captured in Iran in 2007, while working for the CIA.
In 2009, FBI agents courted Deripaska in a series of secret hotel meetings in Paris, Vienna, Budapest and Washington (FBI director at the time was one Robert Mueller).

Andrew McCabe was one of the agents that negotiated with Deripaska, who was fired by President Donald as FBI deputy director. McCabe supposedly played a seminal role in starting the Trump-Russia story.
The FBI rewarded Deripaska for his help. In 2009, Deripaska visited Washington on a rare law enforcement parole visa. Since 2011, Deripaska was granted entry on at least 8 occasions on a diplomatic passport (even though he’s no diplomat).

Some lawyers have argued that Deripaska’s absence from Mueller’s indictments could be related to his connections to the FBI.
According to Melanie Sloan, a “far more significant issue” is that the earlier FBI operation was probably illegal:

It’s possible the bureau’s arrangement with Mr. Deripaska violated the Antideficiency Act, which prohibits the government from accepting voluntary services.

http://archive.is/e2uwc

[juleswin]

Everything is CIA, the chinese are CIA, the Russians CIA, Qaddafi CIA, the shocker is that Trump is NOT CIA

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Everything is CIA, the chinese are CIA, the Russians CIA, Qaddafi CIA, the shocker is that Trump is NOT CIA

There are of course indications that President Donald is especially close to the House of Windsor (Crown Prince Charles was actually at his wedding to Melania), while there is hard evidence that all US presidents descend from the British monarchy: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6644052


Maybe I’m too much of a follower of Lyndon LaRouche, who has argued that British Intelligence controlled by the British Royal degenerates, rules supreme: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6826239


In June 1942, William “Wild Bill” Donovan became director of the Office of Strategic Services (the war-time predecessor of the CIA).
Donovan had been a classmate of Franklin D. Roosevelt in Columbia Law School.

It isn’t widely known that British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, MI6) head in the US since May 1940, the Canadian William Stephenson, exposed William “Wild Bill” Donovan as a British secret agent, recruited during World War I: https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/vie...start=40#p5972

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How gullible do you have to be to believe the silly Iran-Contra tale?!? I mean the US has acknowledged that they were arming the ruthless regime of Ayatollah Khomeini, when at the same time Iran was supposedly the enemy of the USA!
It was John Kerry (of Skull & Bones) that led the committee to “investigate”. In another one of those strange coincidences, none other than Robert Mueller was friends at school with Kerry!

As for the preposterous explanation that the US illegally armed Iran, because US Congress didn’t allow Reagan-Bush to arm those wonderful Nicaragua Contras…
Arming the Contras had nothing to do with the profits from the arms sales to Iran, as the Contras were paying way above the market price in cocaine (that was used to flood black ghettos of the US): http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6451729


In 1953, after leaving the CIA, Samuel Cummings reportedly founded Interarms (a.k.a. International Arms Corporation or Interarmco) in Alexandria, Virginia which sold $80-100 million worth of guns and ammunition to dictators, despots, revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries.
Cummings made millions from the apartheid regime in South Africa, the United States, Britain, Austria, France, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Israel, and other nations in the Middle East and Latin America.

In 1950, Cummings began his career by joining the Central Intelligence Agency. For four years, Cummings was the CIA's most cunning arms dealer. He snapped up $100 million worth of cheap German arms and sold them to Chinese Nationalist forces in Taiwan.

In 1954, the CIA staged a coup in Guatemala and used Cummings to arm the new Government.
Later that decade, Cummings sold arms both to Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista and his successor, Fidel Castro.

The reported world's biggest small-arms dealer, Sam Cummings, died on 29 April 1998 in Monaco: https://unblinkingeye.com/Guns/Interarms/interarms.html
(http://archive.is/vbXTL)


The story gets even better…
In reality Interarms was set up and controlled by the First and Citizens National Bank of Alexandria that was owned by Albert V. Bryan, Jr. and his family since 1864. Bryan coordinated this operation with the Washington Post, CIA, and British Defence Ministry.
Bryan's bank put up the money to buy half a million rifles from the British War Ministry for Argentina.

The first big Interarms CIA project was arming Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro. The Agency for International Development took the arms, rifles, machine guns, and ammunition from Alexandria to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland for shipment to Central and South America, for untraceable delivery to Cuba. After Castro seized power, Interarms armed his government openly, until Castro publicly became an enemy of the US government and Interarms supplied the Cuban exiles for the Bay of Pigs invasion (which of course did nothing to harm Castro’s popularity).

In contrast to the official story, Bryan's Interarms company also armed Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi for the coup in Libya. In 1976-77, when George Bush Sr. was CIA director, CIA employees under Edwin Wilson trained and armed Gaddafi's terrorists and assassins, in North Africa, Europe, and in Virginia.
CIA man Frank Terpil, a top Gaddafi supplier, was arrested in England on his arms dealings with the Interarms company. The CIA claimed that the Gaddafi operation was "unauthorized"; and now Gaddafi was "like Hitler".

From 1979 to 1986, Albert V. Bryan, Jr. had become a judge at the top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court operated by the Justice Department, "legalizing" wiretaps and mail intercepts within the United States.
Judge Albert V. Bryan, Jr. also sat on key parts of Frank Terpil's case.

The same Albert V. Bryan, Jr., as Federal Judge, jailed US whistleblower Lyndon LaRouche and 6 associates on trumped up "conspiracy" charges: https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1...che_ran_gu.pdf


Now the story turns into something of a genuine “conspiracy”...
Senator John Tower was in Paris for the infamous 19/20 October 1980 meetings in Paris between George Bush Sr. and representatives of Ayatollah Khomeini.
See the 1988 FBI memo about allegations that Senator Tower had been negotiating with the Khomeini regime in 1980 on supplying Iran with replacement parts for planes.


John Tower was married to none other than Samuel Cummings’s sister, Lilla Burt Cummings.
Representative Tower helped the Interarms company in their arms deals.

Who do you think President Reagan selected in 1986, for a commission to “investigate” the so-called Iran-Contra affair?!? John Tower...
In 1989, Tower was nominated for Secretary of Defense by President Bush Sr., rejected by the US Senate!

Frank Sturgis bought large numbers of weapons through Interarmco for Fidel Castro. According to Sturgis’ testimony before the Rockefeller Commission, he learned that Interarmco’s “owner”, Sam Cummings, was a CIA agent: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archiv...n-contra-cove/
(http://web.archive.org/web/201907210...n-contra-cove/)


In the spring of 1989, Robert Maxwell and his daughter Ghislaine hosted a party on his yacht in the presence of Donald Trump, former US senator John Tower and ex-navy secretary John Lehman: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9383...ne_maxwell_on/

See Donald showing his thumb, John Tower to his right and Robert Maxwell on the far right.

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Apparently Adnan Khashoggi was one of the most important merchants to arm the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini.

Khashoggi was even present at the notorious 19/20 October Paris meeting where George Bush Sr. made a deal with representatives of Khomeini to not release the American hostages.

In 1985, Mahfouz's Saudi National Commercial Bank (NCB) loaned Khashoggi $35 million dollars to finance the illegal sale of weapons to Iran, at the behest of Oliver North.

One of Kamel Adham's close contacts, Adnan Khashoggi, is among the richest men in the world. Khashoggi was the arms merchant at the centre of the whole Iran-Contra scandal, and a long-time friend of the bin Laden family.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6618606


Adnan Khashoggi has also been named a business partner of Mohammed Sacirbey (and the widow of Prince Friso, Mabel) in arming Bosnian Muslims: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6890356


Khashoggi was also close to one-time Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

There is an even closer connection between Manafort and Khashoggi through his representative in Spain - Abdul Rahman Al Assir from Lebanon. Al Assir was once brother-in-law of Adnan Khashoggi. He arranged big weapons sales to African armies.
The London-based Sourakia once wrote:

The miracle of Al Assir is that he will have lunch with Don Juan Carlos [king of Spain], dinner with Hassan II [king of Morocco], and breakfast the next day with Felipe González [prime minister of Spain].

In the late 1980s, Manafort became friends with Al Assir. In 1989, Manafort took Al Assir as his guest to George H.W. Bush’s inauguration.

https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/vie...8&p=5274#p5274


It is no secret that Donald Trump has boasted on buying the world’s “greatest yacht” from Adnan Khashoggi.

A bit more difficult to find is that Adnan Khashoggi was also at Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples in New York on 20 December 1993: http://web.archive.org/web/20130616115704/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/21/nyregion/vows-it-s-a-wedding-blitz-for-trump-and-maples.html


Donald Trump has also tried, but failed, to set up Members Service Corporation.
In early 1994, Donald Trump involved Adnan Khashoggi in setting this up: https://www.browardpalmbeach.com/new...beach-10266479
(http://archive.is/iYNSI)


Adnan Khashoggi’s lieutenant Ramy El-Batrawi said he introduced Donald Trump to Adnan Khashoggi Olympic Towers in New York in the early 1990s.

See Ivanka Trump with Ramy El-Batrawi (second from right) at an event hosted by former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling


El-Batrawi was also in business with Trump’s friend, the billionaire Carl Icahn.

See 4 photos of El-Batrawi with the rich and famous.
In the picture with Trump, El-Batrawi is in the back right.

https://www.businessinsider.nl/yayyo...onal=true&r=US
(http://archive.is/ktsul)

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October surprise – bribing Ayatollah Khomeini
While the US military was preparing another rescue mission, the Reagan-Bush team sabotaged the efforts by making this plan public.
William Casey and other members of the Reagan-Bush team met secretly with Iranian factions, offering bribes if the Americans remained hostage until after the November 1980 elections. The $40 million bribe money came from the Committee to Reelect the President (CREEP)

Richard Brenneke testified that he saw George Bush and Donald Gregg in Paris on the weekend of 19 October 1980.
Russbacher said:

On the flight deck were pilots Richard Brenneke, an Air Force pilot, and I was the command pilot. In the cabin were George Bush; William Casey (who would be appointed director of the CIA); Robert Gates; Donald Gregg (who at that time was a member of President Carter's National Security Council) and others.

Russbacher stated that other passengers included George Cave (former CIA Iran expert and translator); Richard Allen; Senators John Tower and John Heinz; Congressman Dan Rostenkowski; and Jennifer Fitzgerald of the State Department.
Russbacher also saw Adnan Khashoggi and Hashemi Rafsanjani (Ayatollah Khomeini's second in command) in Paris.

Ari Ben-Menashe stated that he was a member of the Mossad's advance team working with the French government, which arranged the meetings on the 19 October 1980 weekend in Paris.
Oswald LeWinter stated that he saw George Bush, Donald Gregg and William Casey at the Paris meeting.
Alexandre de Marenches said that he organised the meeting, on the request of his friend, William Casey, but that he did not attend it.

This 20 September 1985 document describes the arms-for-hostages scheme showing Israeli involvement; identifying Gunther Russbacher and Robert Hunt (2 of Stich’s sources); and names Oliver North.


The initial meeting was held in Geneva on or about 14 March 1980, between Ahmed Heidari and Mohammed Hussein Behishti with Cyrus Hashemi and Ari Ben-Menashe (of the Mossad).

At a second meeting in Barcelona at the Pepsico International Headquarters Building, William Casey, Robert McFarlane and Peter Van Tyne (executive vice-president for Pepsico) met with the Iranians Hushang Lavi and Rogovin.

Russbacher described how the CIA’s Valley Bank in Phoenix played a key role in moving money for the October Surprise.

This 27 May 1986 document from John Poindexter to Bill Casey lists the bank account number of a CIA proprietary, for money for the arms. Also listed are Khashoggi, Gunther Russbacher and Robert Hunt. Vice President Bush apparently received a copy of this document.


(...)

Rodney Stich – Defrauding America; Encyclopedia of secret operations by the CIA, DEA, and other covert agencies (1993) – 98.5 MB!!!: https://the-eye.eu/public/concen.org...ies%20-%20.pdf

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthr...=1#post6881338