Iran - Israel Connections

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Washington Report, November 1986, Page 2

Special Report

Israeli Arms Sales to Iran

By Jane Hunter

In September, when the Israeli government radio accused Iranian troops of training Lebanese Shiite guerrillas for attacks on the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army, and said that Iranians themselves might also have been among those who attacked Israeli positions in Lebanon, the US media reported those charges in great detail. None found the time or space, however, to note how ironic it was for Israel to complain about Iranian military activities.

Iran might have been hard put to continue its costly six-year-old war with Iraq—not to mention simultaneously stirring up followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Lebanon—if Israel had not been willing to sell the Khomeini government great quantities of the weapons Iran desperately needed to keep its army in the field. That is only one of the anomalies of Israel’s booming arms trade. US law and US policy also come in for some stretching and twisting.

Over the course of the Gulf war, Iran’s quest for weapons has become legendary, with many countries and hordes of private arms dealers eager to conclude arms deals and reap the premium commissions Iran offers. Israel, with standing access to the same models of US-made arms upon which the Shah based Iran’s arsenal, and with its desire to build up an indigenous arms industry, has led the pack. The London Observer estimated that Israel’s arms sales to Iran total $500 million annually.

Before 1979, when Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi held power, Iran was the world’s biggest buyer of Israeli arms. The Islamic fundamentalist government which succeeded the Shah militantly damned Zionism up and down and hung a prominent Iranian Jew for “spying for Israel.” In 1980, however, when the Iraq-Iran war began, Iranian representatives met in Paris with Israel’s deputy defense minister and worked out a “Jews for arms” deal. Iran permitted Jews to emigrate and Israel sold Iran ammunition and spare parts for Chieftain tanks and US-made F-4 Phantom aircraft. Channeled through a private Israeli arms dealer, this particular agreement appropriately ended in 1984, when Iran was slow in paying its bills.

Although secrecy is the first principle in the netherworld of arms trading, details of several subsequent major Israeli arms sales to Iran have come to light. In 1981, Ya’acov Nimrodi, an intimate of leaders across the Israeli political spectrum, sold the Iranian defense ministry $135,842,000 worth of Hawk anti-aircraft missiles, 155 mm. mortars, ammunition, and other weapons through his Tel Aviv-based company, International Desalination Equipment, Ltd. From 1955 to 1979 Nimrodi had been Israel’s military attache in Tehran.

**On July 24, 1984, Radio Luxembourg reported that Nimrodi had met in Zurich with the deputy defense minister and the top intelligence officer of Iran and with Rif’at al-Assad, the brother of Syrian President Hafez al-Assad. Swiss government sources said that the meeting resulted in a deal to ship 40 truckloads of weapons a day from Israel to Iran, via Syria and Turkey. **

**On September 15, 1985, a DC-8 cargo plane returning from Iran and supposedly bound for Malaga, Spain, made an emergency landing in Tel Aviv. Investigation revealed that the plane— recently acquired from an obscure Miami firm by a shadowy Brussels-based “Nigerian” company—had been flying Hawk missiles from the US to Iran via Israel. A Boeing 707 registered to the company had been carrying loads of 1,250 TOW missiles from Israel to Iran via Malaga. **

At about the same time the London Observer reported that a ship carrying 25,000 tons of Israeli material was making a rush delivery, sailing directly to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas rather than first going to Zaire where the Iranian buyers would inspect the cargo.

In May, 1986, West German authorities foiled an $81 million ammunition deal and uncovered a tank deal in the process. Charged in the case were an Israeli and a former Israeli citizen. The West German weekly Stern said a telex from the state-owned Israeli Military Industries dated April 1 indicated official Israeli involvement.

In June of this year a Swedish businessman was reported to have acted as intermediary for Israeli sales of explosives to Iran. The shipments went from Israel to Iran via Argentina. In September, 1986, United Press International reported that the Danish Sailor’s Union had logs and records to prove that since May a Danish freighter had taken four 900-ton shipments from the Israeli port of Eilat to Bandar Abbas in Iran. The union was certain the arms were US-made.

Re-selling without permission arms acquired from the US and the sale of US weapons to Iran are both prohibited by US law. In separate incidents involving sales negotiated within the US, federal authorities have arrested two Israeli military reservists and a Yugoslav-American, Paul Cutter. Cutter, who has connections to Israeli Minister of Trade and Industry Ariel Sharon, and who also told co-workers he was authorized to sell arms Israel captured in Lebanon in 1982, has been convicted and jailed. The Israeli government disassociated itself from these men.

Now, however, a federal “sting” operation has cracked the biggest arms deal yet. US Customs Service agents drew retired Israeli army general Avraham Bar-Am and 12 co-conspirators (three of them Israelis) into a carefully-laid trap last April, Tapes made by the Customs Service reveal Israeli government involvement in a $2.6 billion conspiracy to sell US-made arms to Iran through third countries.

On recordings made available to the Chicago Tribune, Samuel Evans, a London-based American lawyer who coordinated two separate conspiracies to offer sophisticated aircraft, missiles, and ordnance to Iran, is heard to say that he would be discussing the deal with Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin and that the authority for the transaction went “right through to (Prime Minister) Peres.”

The case is particularly serious because federal authorities presented evidence in their indictment that the deal included phony re-export certificates attesting that Israel was re-selling surplus arms to Turkey, which is legal, rather than to Iran, which is not.

General Bar-Am claimed from his jail cell that he had an Israeli government license to sell arms. Denying any involvement, Israeli officials insisted that the license was only to prospect for sales, one of a thousand distributed to former military officers. The Israelis have worked hard to bolster this contention. In late September Defense Minister Rabin called a press conference to say the permit process would be changed to avoid the appearance of government approval. But an earlier statement by Ya’acov Nimrodi that such sales are government-authorized and that permits come from a special department in the Israeli Defense Ministry and are difficult to get contradicts Rabin—as have many reports over the years that it is common Israeli practice to sell arms through fronts and agents.

The US government has avoided dealing head-on in public with the Israeli government over this issue. When the Bermuda conspirators were arrested it was reported that the Israeli ambassador was called in for a stern warning. It is unlikely, however, that prosecutors will focus on the Israeli government’s role when the Bermuda conspirators stand trial in New York this November.

Over the last six years Washington has several times expressed its disapproval of arms sales to Iran. During the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, Israel was specifically asked to stop deliveries while Iran was holding US hostages and it is possible that Israel complied. At an October I luncheon he hosted, Secretary of State George Shultz assured diplomats from the Arab states of the Gulf that Israel had told US officials it had stopped selling arms to Iran in 1983. Shultz, in fact, accused the Soviet Union of not clamping down on sales by its allies to Iran!

During the Reagan administration US policy has swung through various levels of support for Iraq. Israel’s often-stated policy on the Gulf war is to keep it going as long as possible because the dreadful carnage ties up the combatants and prevents either from attacking Israel.

In 1983, then-Defense Minister Ariel Sharon blurted out duringa US speaking engagement that Israel sold arms to Iran because it regarded Iraq as the greater enemy, and that the sales had been thoroughly discussed with US officials. US officials acknowledged such discussions but denied that Israel had US permission."

Last spring what turned out to be an Israeli disinformation campaign propounded the notion that the US had asked Israel to sell arms to Iran. The tapes in the Bar-Am case are said to suggest that the US was considering shifting its support to Iran while the conspiracy-sting was being hatched.

Jane Hunter is the editor and publisher of Israeli Foreign Affairs, P.O. Box 19580, Sacramento, CA 95819.

source: http://www.washington-report.org/ba…86/8611002.html

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…In general, Iran’s relations with the Arab states have been based on perceptions of each state’s relations with Israel. Thus, Iran has been hostile toward those states it regarded as willing to accept Israel’s existence–Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia–and friendly toward those it regarded as sharing Iranian views–Algeria, Libya, and Syria. Despite its uncompromising position, however, Iran is known to have purchased weapons clandestinely from Israel as recently as 1985.

source: http://countrystudies.us/iran/103.htm

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July 07, 1999

Central Asia/Russia

Caspian oil countries ponder Iran-Israel moves

By Michael Lelyveld

BOSTON - Reports that Iran has been trying to establish contacts with Israel are likely to be followed closely in the Transcaucasus and Central Asia, as well as in the oil industry.

On Monday, an Iranian government spokesman quickly denied the reports by the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz and the Financial Times. But it may be too late to stop speculation about the reports and strategic calculations in neighboring countries that have vital interests in the possibility of a change in relations between Israel and Iran.

The newspapers reported that Iran has asked British diplomats to serve as intermediaries with Israel in an effort to ease tensions. The Financial Times pointed toward Iranian interests in arms control agreements and the resumption of oil trade. The British government has officially denied that it is playing a role.

Details: http://www.atimes.com/c-asia/AF25Ag01.html

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2 Januay Al-Zaman newspaper London

Iran Israel oil deal

IranExpert

Some French sources reported that an economic adviser to [Iranian] President Mohammad Khatami visited Tel Aviv during the last ten days. The main objective of his visit was to restart the pumping of oil from Iran to the port of Elat.

A deal on the details of such an operation has been struck. The same sources indicated that this deal would “represent a radical change in the relations between both parties at all levels”. These revelations have been confirmed by Iranian opposition sources in Paris.

Iranian opposition sources in Paris reaffirm that “the secret return of Iranian oil to the Israeli markets will not change the declared political equation between the two parties, at least with regard to the media campaigns”. However, the same sources stressed that Great Britain played an important role in building bridges in Israeli-Iranian relations. On the other hand, the same sources predict an “Iranian quota in the preparation for war in the region”. But they believe that "this new page in the relations with Tel Aviv cannot override such “quota”.

Source: Al-Zaman, London, in Arabic 24 Dec 02 p 1

Details: http://www.iranexpert.com/2003/oildeal2january.htm

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The Israeli Question from an Iranian National Interest Perspective

Iran Israel Relations

With the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war, Israel became the only hidden supplier of arms to Iran. At that time Israel saw Iraq as the main threat and deemed it best to have Iran and Iraq exhaust each other militarily. Iran, while publicly denouncing Israel, would purchase U.S. made weapons from Israel at higher costs and deliver oil to unmarked Israeli tankers in high seas. By the end of the Iran-Iraq war, Israel started to change its approach and started to consider Iran a major threat to its existence.

source: http://freethoughts.org/archives/000768.php

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TIME Magzine said:

“…In late August, Israel sent a planeload of arms to Iran. The cargo consisted mostly of Soviet-made weapons that the Israelis had captured in Lebanon…”

Source: TIME Magazine Article, (http://www.time.com/time/europe/tim…n/ir861208.html)

The Russians sold the Lebanese weapons which were used against Israel. Israel seized these weapons and then gave them over to Iran. What an irony, considering that this was the same time that the Ayatollahs were making public statements lambasting the Israeli presence in Lebanon.

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Nation
From Many Strands, a Tangled Web

The bizarre intrigue was spun out across two continents and several years
By [JACOB V. LAMAR JR.](http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/searchresults?query= JACOB V. LAMAR JR.)

As each day brings fresh revelations about the scheme to skim profits from secret U.S. arms sales to Iran and…

In their hour of need the Iranians looked to Israel, which had also supplied weapons to the Shah.
Throughout 1981 and 1982 Israel provided Iran with modest amounts of spare parts, jet-plane tires and brakes, ammunition and radar equipment. The Israelis reportedly set up Swiss bank accounts to handle the financial end of the deals. Despite its embargo, the U.S. appeared to look the other way. Administration officials seemed interested in Israel’s notion that the arms sales would help foster ties with leaders in the Iranian military who might topple the regime of the Ayatullah Khomeini. But by mid-1982 the U.S. was pressuring Israel to comply with the ban on weapons sales. Israel said it halted its shipments to Iran, but the transactions had created a network of eager arms agents on both sides.

By helping the Iranian army obtain U.S. weapons, Ghorbanifar said, Israel could open a line of communication with the moderates and help them win the battle for succession.

In late August, Israel sent a planeload of arms to Iran. The cargo consisted mostly of Soviet-made weapons that the Israelis had captured in Lebanon. Though the plane landed safely at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, the arms never got to the Iranian army. They were seized by members of the vehemently anti- Western Revolutionary Guards.

In October, John Poindexter, McFarlane’s deputy, secretly met with Iranian representatives. Some contend the meeting took place in Geneva; others say Washington. Then, in November, a ship loaded with parts for American-made F-4 jets and helicopters sailed from northern Italy to Israel. The cargo was transferred to a plane carrying Israeli-supplied Hawk antiaircraft missiles for shipment to Iran. The plane was provided by Southern Air Transport, formerly a CIA proprietary airline. CIA Director William Casey told Congressmen two weeks ago that he had approved the use of the plane but thought that the cargo would be oil-drilling parts. As it turns out, the shipment was returned to Israel in February for unknown reasons.

In the fall of 1985 Iran was presumably making payments to Israel through the Swiss bank accounts set up to handle Israeli-Iranian arms sales in the early 1980s. At the same time, Israel was demanding that the U.S. replace the items that had been taken from Israeli stockpiles and sold to the Iranians. But Washington reportedly grew suspicious about the finances. In asking for fresh weapons, Israeli officials claimed that they could not pay full price, but Washington suspected that Iran was paying the Israeli dealers far more than the arms were actually worth. The U.S. urged Israeli officials to drop the arms merchants from the Iran deal and allow Jerusalem to take over the operation.

In all, four shipments of U.S. arms were made to Iran this year: in February, May, August and October. Amiram Nir, Peres’ adviser on terrorism, coordinated the operation from the Israeli end.

In late July, two months after the McFarlane mission, Father Lawrence Jenco was released, and the arms trade was revived. In August another shipment of 500 TOWs and Hawks was sent from Texas to Tel Aviv and on to Tehran, and the White House told the State Department to expect the release of several more hostages. In the fall three more Americans in Beirut were kidnaped. In October, the U.S. sent yet another arms shipment to Iran; less than a month later, Hostage David Jacobsen was released. But only a few days before his release, a Lebanese Arabic journal, Al Shiraa, broke the story of the Reagan Administration’s dealings with Iran, and the whole scheme began unraveling.
What remains a deep mystery, however, is what happened to the money Iran paid for its arms. Meese said last week that Israel sold Iran $12 million worth of weapons at a price that included a markup as high as 250%, or $42 million. The Israelis in turn, Meese said, paid back to the CIA the “exact amount” owed to the U.S. Government for the weapons plus the cost of transportation, an estimated $12 million. The CIA then repaid the Pentagon. According to Meese, the profits from the deal – that is, the difference between the cost owed to the U.S. and the price charged by the Israelis, which is anywhere between $10 million and $30 million – were deposited into numbered Swiss bank accounts that were “under the control of representatives” of the contras.

source: http://time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,963021,00.html

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Iran Allied with Israel

  • Introduction
    Since the dawn of the so-called “Islamic Revolution” of Iran, the Iranian government has had spiritual relevance to the Shia. Ayatollah Khomeini claimed, using the doctrine of Wilayat ul-Faqih, that he was the sole representative of the Imam Mehdi in his absence. Most Shia alive today revere Ayatollah Khomeini as well as his successors. The question must be asked: are these Iranian leaders such as Khomeini using the Imam Mehdi to help the Muslims as they claim or are they actually enemies of Islam who exploit the imaginary memory of Mehdi for their own political gain?
    The truth is that the Iranian military is allied with Israel. Of course, the Shia lay-person will scoff at this statement and think it absurd. At first glance, we’d be tempted to agree. Admittedly, on the surface it does seem that Iran is a country full of anti-Israeli propaganda. The Iranian Ayatollahs speak out against the Zionist Jews frequently and with full vigor.
    However, those in the intelligence community realize that this is a simple cover. The Ayatollahs are making use of the doctrine of Taqiyyah, which is a part of Shia faith. Taqiyyah is a Shia concept which allows the Shia believer to lie and use deciet in order to further his life or, in this case, his religion.
    Despite what the Ayatollahs claim, the Iranian government is most definitely allied militarily with Israel, and we shall provide the irrefutable proof in this article. Both Israel and Iran are non-Arab states surrounded by “hordes” of Sunni Arabs; this is the uniting element between the two countries, both of which cannot see their neighbors, namely the Sunni Arabs, rise to power and question their hegemony. As such, both Israel and Iran act as satellite nations for the United States, which also fears the rise of an Islamist Sunni rise to power in Arabia. The two non-Arab countries, Iran and Israel, are thus used by the United States to prevent this from happening. To hide this nefarious Iran-Israel-US alliance, public officials on both sides (Iran and Israel/US) have engaged in public diatribes against the other. While their words may seem like their swords are drawn against each other, their actions show that they are indeed allied at the hip.

  • London Observor
    The London Observer estimated that Israel’s arms sales to Iran total $500 million annually. This is by far a conservative estimate, and this was in the 1980’s. Over time, with inflation, that number has increased. Current estimates range in the billions of dollars.

  • Global Security
    Let us now provide the irrefutable proof. Here is an article from the Global Security website, the respected think tank organization the United States government relies on:
    After the Revolution, Iranians continued to buy arms from the United States using Israeli, European, and Latin American intermediaries to place orders, despite the official United States embargo. Israeli sales, for example, were recorded as early as 1979. On several occasions, attempted arms sales to Iran have been thwarted by law enforcement operations or broker-initiated leaks. One operation set up by the United States Department of Justice foiled the shipment of more than US$2 billion of United States weapons to Iran from Israel and other foreign countries. The material included 18 F-4 fighter-bombers, 46 skyhawk fighter-bombers, and nearly 4,000 missiles. But while the department of Justice was attempting to prevent arms sales to Iran, senior officials in the administration of President Ronald Reagan admitted that 2,008 TOW missiles and 235 parts kits for Hawk missiles had been sent to Iran via Israel.
    Despite official denials, it is believed that Israel has been a supplier of weapons and spare parts for Iran’s American-made arsenal. Reports indicate that an initial order for 250 retread tires for F-4 Phantom jets was delivered in 1979 for about US$27 million. Since that time, unverified reports have alleged that Israel agreed to sell Iran Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, radar equipment, mortar and machinegun ammunition, field telephones, M-60 tank engines and artillery shells, and spare parts for C-130 transport planes
    Source: Global Security Article (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iran/intro.htm)
    We urge our readers to actually view the original articles themselves by clicking on the links above, since no doubt this is a hard idea to pallate. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a well-documented fact that is known in the intelligence community. The alliance between Iran and Israel is an undeniable fact.

  • TIME Magazine
    Here is an article from TIME Magazine about the military alliance between Iran and Israel:
    Or it could be said that the drama started in 1981, just after Reagan came into office, when U.S. officials learned that Israel was ignoring the 1979 American ban on the sale of arms to Iran. At the time Iran badly needed spare parts for the American-made weapons it had acquired during the Shah’s reign. In their hour of need the Iranians looked to Israel, which had also supplied weapons to the Shah.
    The Israelis reportedly set up Swiss bank accounts to handle the financial end of the deals. Despite its embargo, the U.S. appeared to look the other way. Administration officials seemed interested in Israel’s notion that the arms sales would help foster ties with leaders in the Iranian military…
    …In late August, Israel sent a planeload of arms to Iran. The cargo consisted mostly of Soviet-made weapons that the Israelis had captured in Lebanon…
    In the fall of 1985 Iran was presumably making payments to Israel through the Swiss bank accounts set up to handle Israeli-Iranian arms sales in the early 1980s. At the same time, Israel was demanding that the U.S. replace the items that had been taken from Israeli stockpiles and sold to the Iranians. But Washington reportedly grew suspicious about the finances. In asking for fresh weapons, Israeli officials claimed that they could not pay full price, but Washington suspected that Iran was paying the Israeli dealers far more than the arms were actually worth. The U.S. urged Israeli officials to drop the arms merchants from the Iran deal and allow Jerusalem to take over the operation…
    Israel sold Iran $12 million worth of weapons at a price that included a markup as high as 250%, or $42 million…
    Source: TIME Magazine Article, (http://www.time.com/time/europe/timetrails/iran/ir861208.html)
    TIME Archives:
    http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,963021,00.html
    time-proxy.yaga.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,963021,00.html
    The Russians sold the Lebanese weapons which were used against Israel. Israel seized these weapons and then gave them over to Iran. What an irony, considering that this was the same time that the Ayatollahs were making public statements lambasting the Israeli presence in Lebanon.

  • MSNBC
    Here is an excerpt from MSNBC:
    Reagan would wait and disclose his intentions in private. So it was with the disputed decision in August 1985 to condone arms sales by Israel to Iran. “He called and said, ‘I think we ought to get on with that. Let’s go ahead with that,” McFarlane told the commission.
    Source: MSNBC Article,
    (http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5165237/site/newsweek/)
    This is all very strange, because at this exact same time, the Ayatollahs are publically condemning both Israel and America. And yet, they were actually having heavy arms dealing with their supposed enemies? In fact, we often see Israel publically decrying Iran and then Iranian leaders retorting back, but this is all one big facade to hide the truth: Israel and Iran are very much allied militarily, with the Zionist Jews providing advanced weaponry to the Shia in the hopes of empowering them against the Sunni Arabia.

  • History
    Historically, the Kufaar (infidels) have always sought alliances with the Shia nations against the Sunni majority. During the Crusades, the Shia Fatimids were providing material aid to the Crusaders against the Sunni majority which held the Holy Land. The Shia Fatimids thus facilitated the take-over of the Holy Land (al-Aqsa) by the Crusaders. Then arose Salahuddin Ayyoubi (Saladin), the great leader of the Ahlus Sunnah, who first had to crush the Shia Fatimids before he could focus on the Crusaders and liberate the Holy Land.
    The Shia also helped the Mongols, allowing the Mongol hordes to loot and pillage the Muslim lands. The Mongols were invited to attack the Sunnis by the Shia, and the sack of Baghdad consequently ended the Golden Age of the Muslims and heralded the rise of Europe. When the Ottoman Empire rose to power, again the Shia plotted and planned against the Muslims; the Safavid Empire was backed by the Western powers who sought to keep it as an ally against the more powerful Ottoman Empire. Once again, the Shia were allied with the West against the bulk of the orthodox Muslims.
    This alliance between the Kufaar and the Shia continued with the Shah of Iran. He was no doubt an agent of America, and Iran became a key ally of Zionist Israel against the majority Sunni Arab countries. Many people thought that this status of Iran as Israel’s stooge ended with the Iranian Revolution and the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini. But the truth is, Iran’s alliance with Israel continued in full force.

  • Irangate: The Israel Connection
    The book “The Iran Contra Connection” discusses the relationship between Iran and Israel:
    The Israeli Interest in Iran
    … Though Israel, along with the United States, suffered a grievous loss with the fall of the Shah, its leaders concluded that lasting geo-political interests would eventually triumph over religious ideology and produce an accommodation between Tel Aviv and Tehran. The onset of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980 gave Israeli leaders a special incentive to keep their door open to the Islamic rulers in Iran: the two non-Arab countries now shared a common Arab enemy.** As** Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon told the Washington Post in May 1982, justifying Israeli arms sales to Tehran, “…we hope that diplomatic relations between us and Iran will be renewed as in the past.” Four months later he told a Paris press conference, “Israel has a vital interest in the continuing of the war in the Persian Gulf, and in Iran’s victory.” Such views were not Sharon’s alone; Prime Ministers Itzhak Shamir (Likud) and Shimon Peres (Labor) shared them too…
    The Arms Channel Opens
    Israel lost no time supplying the new Khomeini regime with small quantities of arms, even after the seizure of the U.S. embassy. The first sales included spare parts for U.S.-made F-4 Phantom jets; a later deal in October 1980 included parts for U.S.-made tanks…
    Notes Ha’aretz correspondent Yo’av Karny “The cloak of secrecy that surrounds Israeli arms exports is so tight that one can compare it to the technique for smuggling hard drugs.” When caught in the act, Israeli officials maintained they were simply selling domestic arms, not embargoed U.S. weapons. “Whenever we would get word of shipments,” one American official explained, “the State Department would raise the issue with Israel, and we would get the standard lecture and promises that there were no U.S. weapons involved.”
    …[The Israelis] signed a deal with Iran’s Ministry of National Defense to sell $135,842,000 worth of arms, including Lance missiles, Copperhead shells and Hawk missiles…
    In November 1981, Israeli Defense Minister Sharon visited Washington, shopping for approval of similar arms sales [to Iran]. His U S. counterpart Caspar Weinberger, flatly turned him down. Sharon then went to Haig, hoping for acquiescence from the State Department. Again, McFarlane handled many of the discussions with Sharon and Kimche; this time Haig unequivocally opposed any violation of the embargo.
    Yet as in 1979-80, Israel pursued its policy anyway, in flat violation of its arms re-export agreements with the Pentagon. In a May 1982 interview with the Washington Post, Sharon claimed that Israeli shipments had been cleared “with our American colleagues” months earlier and that details of all the shipments were supplied to the administration. Later that year, Israel’s ambassador Moshe Arens declared that Israel’s arms sales were cleared at “almost the highest levels” in Washington…
    And those shipments would continue to be enormous in size, estimated by experts at the Jaffee Institute for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv at $500 million in value from 1980-83. Other arms market experts have put the total value at more than $500 million a year, including aircraft parts, artillery and ammunition.
    (Source: p.169, “Irangate: The Israel Connection” excerpted from the book The Iran Contra Connection by Johnathan Marshall and Peter Dale Scott, South End Press, 1987, paper)

  • **Today **
    Iran continues to recieve support from Israel. On the one hand, the Iranian Ayatollahs make vociferous condemnations of Israel, but on the other hand, they are secretly allied with the Israelis. This all in the name of religion, in the name of Taqiyyah, and in the name of some Hidden Imam who has made the Ayatollah his sole representative on earth, who has made him the Absolute Authority of Allah Himself.
    Ayatollah Khomeini and his government were allied militarily with the likes of such Zionists as Ariel Sharon, the killer of Muslims in Palestine. The truth is that the Shia have always been allied with the enemies of Islam, which gives away their origins from Abdullah ibn Saba who supposedly converted to Islam from Judaism. Abdullah ibn Saba sought to create a group that would forever fight the Muslims from the inside, and we see this role being fulfilled by the Shia who claim to want unity with the Ahlus Sunnah but then they betray the Ahlus Sunnah whenever and wherever they can. The Shia fear that if the Ahlus Sunnah awakens to this threat, then they could easily crush the Shia everywhere due to the overwhelming numbers of the Ahlus Sunnah. So the Shia have adopted the policy of publically asking for unity and privately waging a war against the Ahlus Sunnah.
    It is a huge fraud that the Iranian government claims to be enemies with Israel and yet is supplied arms from this same enemy. The Shia may claim to be allied with the Muslims, but they are secretly allied with the Zionist Jews and the Crusading Christians. The Quran says: “Of the people there are some who say: ‘We believe in Allah and the Last Day,’ notwithstanding their unbelief. Fain would they deceive Allah and the believers, but they only deceive themselves, and realize it not. In their hearts there is a disease, and Allah permitted this disease to increase. Grievous is the penalty they incur, because they are false.” (Quran, 2:8-10)

Article Written By: Sidi Javadi ibn Tauseef al-Hashimi, www.ahlelbayt.com

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so what is your opinion about all these news articles?

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very interesting articles

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I don't want to impose my opinion on readers at the first place, I want them to make their own judgment.

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^ your opinion is REQUIRED when you post articles/news, otherwise the thread will be closed... and I am not asking to "impose" your opinion, just "sharing" will be enough.

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My opinion in this matter is quite evident as I myself have launched this thread, and I work in my own way, you or anyone else can't dictate me what to do or how to do, I am going to proceed in this thread with relevant sources and evidences, and in the end the conclusion or my opinion would be there to see, inshaAllah.

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