It’s not like they haven’t done it before. Yesterday, a suicide bomb attack killed over 40 people in southeastern Iran - 5 of them members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard. Jundullah, an Al-Qaeda-affiliated Sunni terror group, has claimed responsibility for the bombing, which took place near the border of Pakistan - an area of increasing Sunni belligerence.
Iran, however, is pointing the finger straight at the West:
The headquarters of Iran’s armed forces blamed the bombing on “terrorists” backed by “the Great Satan America and its ally Britain,” Fars News Agency was quoted by Reuters.
“Not in the distant future we will take revenge,” Iran’s statement read, according to Reuters. Iran’s forces claim the country “will clear this region from terrorists and criminals.”
“The global arrogance [the United States], with the provocation of its local mercenaries, targeted the meeting of the Guard with local tribal leaders,” said the Guard statement read out on state TV.
The typical lunacy of Iranian rhetoric notwithstanding, did Western intelligence have any involvement in yesterday’s terrorist bombing?
Your tax dollars at work.
You don’t have to dig too deep to come up with a conjecture. ABC News and the London Telegraph have both reported in the past that the Jundullah terror group has been funded and steered by the Central Intelligence Agency. These covert actions began under George W. Bush, but don’t think for a second that Hopenchange applies to the clandestine international operations of the CIA.
In 2007, under the headline “Bush sanctions ‘black ops’ against Iran,” the London Telegraph reported that President Bush “has given the CIA approval to launch covert “black” operations to achieve regime change in Iran, intelligence sources have revealed. Mr Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilize, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs.”
The article went on to state that “the CIA is giving arms-length support, supplying money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan.” This was perhaps most plainly illustrated when a senior member of the group, on trial in Iran, testified that Jundullah was a proxy asset of U.S. and Israeli spy agencies.
So, an American intelligence agency is sponsoring an Al-Qaeda offshoot once under the administration of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. This will end well, won’t it?
In May of 2008, as members of the terrorist group were being held by Pakistani authorities, ABC News reported that American intelligence officers “frequently meet and advise Jundullah leaders, and current and former intelligence officers are working to prevent the men from being sent to Iran [for prosecution].”
It seems pretty clear the CIA is at best monitoring and guiding the Iranian destabilization campaign, and at worst actively perpetrating it. It’s a double edged sword being swung about here. On the one hand, the only true “regime change” (much less nuclear reconciliation) can come from within Iran. On the other hand, this kind of meddling in Iran’s affairs, the kind that has been going on for decades, is perhaps the singular most galvanizing element responsible for anti-American sentiment and uncompromising nationalistic bellicosity. The CIA didn’t learn their “blowback” lesson on 9/11, because blowback is never a surprise.
At least, not to those in the know.
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