US TRAINING MUJAHIDEEN TERRORIST'S IN NEVEDADA.
US Training Mujahideen Terroists in Nevada
There are few things that are inarguably true. One is that Iran’s nuclear program is the single biggest danger to peace in the Middle East. After all, Iran is a rogue state. They’ve been training anti-government terrorists. Oh, wait, that was the U.S. The United States government listed the Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) as a terrorist group in 1997 but then gave them training so they could overthrow the government in Iran. In a 2008 interview on NPR’s Fresh Air, Seymour Hersh said, “We’re funding a group that is on the U.S. terrorist list to work against the Iranian government. They’ve been on the border for years. The enemy of my enemy is my friend (even if they’re on our terrorist watch list). This group has had covert training in America (in Nevada).”
Ok, this might be a little confusing because the US justifies bombing Yemen, Pakistan and Afghanistan because of the terrorist training camps there. But our terrorists are the good ones. Their terrorists are the bad ones. (Here’s the mantra, “We are the good guys. Everything we do is good.” Keep saying that over and over and the confusion will go away.) I’m sure everyone would be very understanding if Iran threatened to bomb Nevada to wipe out those training camps.
But the President of Iran hasn’t threatened to bomb Nevada. He just makes paranoid sounding speeches for absolutely no good reason. It’s not like the United States would overthrow a democratically elected government in Iran and install a brutal dictator. As long as we don’t count the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, Time’s Man of the Year in 1952, and the installation of the Shah, the Iranians have nothing to complain about.
The Shah brought many good things to Iran but he had this little problem with people who opposed him. According to the Federation of American Scientists the Shah’s secret police tortured opposition activists using “electric shock, whipping, beating, inserting broken glass and pouring boiling water into the rectum, tying weights to the testicles, and the extraction of teeth and nails.” And according the Jesse J. Leaf, a former CIA analyst on Iran, the CIA trained the torturers.
But we all know that threat to peace in the Middle East is the current regime in Iran because according to a report by Reuters news in March of 2012, “The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran’s nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead.”
Iran claims capture of US drone
Revolutionary Guards say ScanEagle drone was gathering information over Gulf waters when it entered Iranian airspace
Iranian television shows the US RQ-170 Sentinel drone captured in December 2011. The Revolutionary Guards now claim to have captured a ScanEagle drone over the Gulf. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have captured a US drone flying over the country's airspace, state media has reported.
The Fars news agency said on Tuesday that the Boeing-made ScanEagle drone was gathering information over Gulf waters when it entered Iranian airspace and was subsequently captured by a naval unit of the Revolutionary Guards.
General Ali Fadavi, the Guards' navy chief, was quoted as saying the "intruding" drone was now in Iran's possession.
"The US drone, which was conducting a reconnaissance flight and gathering data over the Persian Gulf in the past few days, was captured by the Guards' navy air defence unit as soon as it entered Iranian airspace," Fadavi said. "Such drones usually take off from large warships."
Fadavi gave no further details of the incident. There was no immediate comment from the US navy's 5th fleet, based in Bahrain.
The seizure of the drone would be the third reported incident involving Iran and US drones in the past year.
Last month, Iran claimed a US drone had violated its airspace. The Pentagon said the unmanned Predator aircraft came under fire at least twice but was not hit and that it was over international waters.
In April this year, Iran claimed it had copied technology from a US drone brought down in December 2011 on its eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Tehran said it recovered data from the RQ-170 Sentinel, a top-secret drone equipped with stealth technology. As proof, Iranian military cited the drone's flight log, saying it had flown over Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout two weeks before he was killed by US special forces.
After acknowledging the loss of the drone, US sources said their software was encrypted and of little intelligence value.
The US blamed the loss of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone on a technical problem, while Iran claimed it brought it down electronically by disrupting its GPS system.
The Fars news agency said on Tuesday that the Boeing-made ScanEagle drone was gathering information over Gulf waters when it entered Iranian airspace and was subsequently captured by a naval unit of the Revolutionary Guards.
General Ali Fadavi, the Guards' navy chief, was quoted as saying the "intruding" drone was now in Iran's possession.
"The US drone, which was conducting a reconnaissance flight and gathering data over the Persian Gulf in the past few days, was captured by the Guards' navy air defence unit as soon as it entered Iranian airspace," Fadavi said. "Such drones usually take off from large warships."
Fadavi gave no further details of the incident. There was no immediate comment from the US navy's 5th fleet, based in Bahrain.
The seizure of the drone would be the third reported incident involving Iran and US drones in the past year.
Last month, Iran claimed a US drone had violated its airspace. The Pentagon said the unmanned Predator aircraft came under fire at least twice but was not hit and that it was over international waters.
In April this year, Iran claimed it had copied technology from a US drone brought down in December 2011 on its eastern borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Tehran said it recovered data from the RQ-170 Sentinel, a top-secret drone equipped with stealth technology. As proof, Iranian military cited the drone's flight log, saying it had flown over Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout two weeks before he was killed by US special forces.
After acknowledging the loss of the drone, US sources said their software was encrypted and of little intelligence value.
The US blamed the loss of the RQ-170 Sentinel drone on a technical problem, while Iran claimed it brought it down electronically by disrupting its GPS system.
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