Posted on 05/26/2019 1:02:31 PM PDT by robowombat
Iran's Plans to Kidnap and Kill More Americans by Majid Rafizadeh May 23, 2019 at 4:00 am
A leading Republican lawmaker, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), also the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has pointed out that recent intelligence obtained about Iran's threat was extremely detailed.
These are simply preemptive measures that any rational state would take in the face of those clear threats. They were being taken to save the lives of American citizens and prevent the world's official leading state sponsor of terrorism from destabilizing the region.
What do critics of the Trump administration expect the American government to do...? Do these critics want the Trump administration to ignore Iran and its terror groups until another terrorist act like 9/11 occurs? Or is it possible that these critics, deep-down, do not care about U.S. national security and the lives of ordinary citizens?
According to leaked reports, Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force, the elite branch of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), recently traveled to Iraq and instructed the leaders of Iraqi Shiite militia groups, which operate under the name Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), to "prepare for proxy war". Pictured: Iraqi PMF militia commanders with Iranian advisors during Hawija offensive in Iraq, on September 27, 2017. (Image source: VOA video screenshot/Wikimedia Commons) While plans were being concocted to harm or murder Americans, it is mind-boggling that people -- even entire governments -- were criticizing the Trump administration for preparing preemptive measures against multiple credible threats from the Iranian government and its forces.
While people were squabbling over the choices the Trump administration was making, the Iranian leaders, known to have mastered conducting asymmetric warfare, were giving directives to kidnap and kill American soldiers.
A leading Republican lawmaker, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), also the ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has pointed out that recent intelligence obtained about Iran's threat was extremely detailed.
"To the extent I can discuss it, it was human intelligence," he said, and added that, "One of the Hezbollah cells is known for its kidnapping and killing operations, and their directive was to go in and kill and kidnap American soldiers."
According to leaked reports, Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Force, the elite branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) that is mandated to advance Iran's revolutionary and political interests in foreign nations, recently traveled to Iraq and met with the leaders of Iraqi militia groups that the Iranian regime controls.
Iran's most senior general instructed the Iraqi Shiite militias to "prepare for proxy war". Iran's leaders continue to exert significant influence both directly and indirectly in Iraq through a conglomerate of more than 40 Iraqi militia groups that operate under the name Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF).
Soleimani is also well known as one of the Middle East's deadliest operatives, and is considered by many Iran's most dangerous man. The Quds Force has, in addition, given birth to a variety of designated terrorist groups, including Asaib Al-Haq and Kataib Al-Imam Ali (KIA), which use horrific tactics of torture similar to the Islamic State (ISIS).
Kataib Al-Imam Ali is, like ISIS, known for showing videos of beheadings and burning bodies; Asaib Al-Haq reportedly receives more than $2 million a month from Iran.
A recent report showed that Iran has murdered more Americans in Iraq than was previously thought. This is in addition to the thousands of innocents — including Iraqi children and women — who have been killed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Quds Force, and their militias.
It is not the first time that the Quds Force had prepared militias and proxies to carry out attacks against foreign entities. The Quds Force has been accused of failed plans to bomb the Saudi and Israeli embassies in the US, and to assassinate the Saudi Ambassador to the U.S. at the time, Adel Al-Jubeir. An investigation further revealed that the Quds Force was also behind the assassination of Lebanon's Sunni Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, and implicated in the 9/11 attacks. US Federal Judge George Daniels issued an order stating that Iran, its Lebanese Shiite proxy Hezbollah and Al-Qaeda were jointly responsible for those terrorist attacks.
In Iraq, the Quds Force has been busy stoking unrest by providing deadly, sophisticated bombs such as improvised explosive devices (IEDs) that have killed countless soldiers and civilians, including Iraqis and Americans.
The Quds Force rules over roughly 20,000 members and it can also use forces from the IRGC and Basij paramilitary group in cases that are considered emergencies, or hire fighters from a multitude of countries, including Afghanistan, to fight as proxies.
As a result, considering these serious threats, the U.S. State Department recently ordered all non-emergency employees immediately to leave Iraq. There are approximately 5,000 American troops in Iraq. The U.S. also took preemptive measures by deploying an aircraft carrier, along with B-52 bombers and other military forces, to the Middle East. In addition, President Trump stated to Iran that if it threatens the US, Tehran would meet its "official end".
These were simply preemptive measures that any rational state would take in the face of those clear threats. They were being taken to save the lives of American citizens and prevent the world's official leading state sponsor of terrorism from further destabilizing the region.
What do critics of the Trump administration expect the American government to do, aside from putting the issue "temporarily on hold"? Do these critics want the Trump administration to ignore Iran and its terror groups until another terrorist act like 9/11 occurs? Or is it possible that these critics, deep-down, do not care about U.S. national security and the lives of ordinary citizens?
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and US Foreign Policy. He can be reached at Dr.Rafizadeh@Post.Harvard.Edu
I don’t believe it. Like all of the fake stuff that led to war-mongering in Iraq and Syria, it doesn’t make any sense. They only ones who benefit are those who want us to fight their enemies. What’s next? Chemical attacks from Iranian terrorists? (sarcasm)
Meanwhile, Feinstein is having dinner with Iran’s Foreign Minister. Then there was her driver who spied for China. Twenty years.
Wanna stop this crap? Two words: American sniper
Wait till they see America’s plan to wipe Iran off the face of the earth.
Should have been done a loooong time ago.
Round up all muzzies for safekeeping to protect all Americans.
Round up all muzzies for safekeeping to protect all Americans. Let’s not allow another 9/11.
I don’t believe it either. I am so sick of the fake Intel to lead us into war.
If “the only democracy in the middle East” wants a war, let them use their nukes against their neighbors and leave the USA out of it.
FYI: Iran formally declared war on the US in 1978 ... Do not discount a nation that sends its youth on motorbikes to clear minefields at full throttle. Al-Quds has troops and bases in Venezuela. Al-Quds troops conducted the attack on the ships in Qatar and Saudi.
Yeah, but here in the USA....
I’m not buying any of it. I’d much rather we refused to sell weapons to anyone in the Mideast and work with other nations to keep everyone within their borders. A nice touch might be a free Kurdistan from their territories within Iraq. We’d do a whole lot of good if we didn’t try to figure out who the good guys and the bad guys are in the Mideast, just oppose anyone who attempts to extend their borders.
Ever since the first Clinton term the democrats have been stuffing every Intelligence related Agency and Department with people loyal to the Democrat/Globalist Agenda first and care about the US somewhere way down their list of other loyalties.
Believe those lying Deep State democrat bastards at your own risk.
Nonsense. Neocons trying to drum up fear in support of yet another war. We are in eight wars now. Why do we need a ninth war? Give me a friggin break will ya.
O OK sounds like you’ve never been in the ME, could be wrong. Ever read the 5 ‘holy’ books of Islam? Ever read the history of the first Islamic conquest of Western Civilization?
We’d do better to nuke Mecca, Medina, and Riyadh now before millions or billions die in this religious war.
I suppose, like many, you just want this war to be over now, but that is not how it works, much as all of us would like it to be. If it lasts only 50 years and the West wins (something very much in doubt at the moment), we should feel lucky. 100 years is the historic average for this sort of war - something few seem to understand; this is not like any war seen since the thirty years war, and before that, the Crusades.
Our problem and Europe’s is that we’re not keeping people who will change us into them out. The more devastation there is in the Mideast, the more refugees overwhelm western civilization. The Mideast, since the beginning of Christianity, has had Christion populations. Look at Syria and Iraq, for instance. It’s our war-mongering that has lead to their destruction.
They are not refugees! That is the media spin by the drive-bys. It is a deliberate, planned “invasion” sanctioned in Islam and is a historical Islamic tactic to conquer other countries. It is called Hiraj, another form of Jihad.
“Our war-mongering”, sort of like the Crusades? 911 and all the other airplane bombings, murders of kafirs was our fault also - we need to acknowledge our dhimmi status or convert, eh?
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