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Al-Watan al-Arabi uncovers secrets from meetings of Khamenei’s chamber
Is there an Iranian plan to force the Americans out of Iraq before November?

What Lies Beneath The Reformist & Hardliners Conflict?

Several weeks ago, Khatami’s threat of resignation overshadowed everything else that was happening in Iran. The threat was issued as a response to the Council of Guardians’ decision to disqualify several thousand reformist-bloc candidates in the forthcoming parliamentary elections.

At the same time, the battle over the control of Iran has captured the interests of security forces throughout the Arab world, who are occupied with more than just the clash between Khatami’s reformist supporters and the followers of Supreme Leader Khamenei. According to most reports, the hardliners are on the rise and all of Iran’s internal problems stem from a plan concocted by the hardliners to use the elections to change the face of reality: the outcome of the elections will restore the hardliners’ power and bring an end to the age of the reformists. Indications to that effect may be witnessed in a reception held for Hassan Rowhani, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme Security Council, during his last visit to France. According to western sources, this is an indication that Rowhani, who is closely associated with Hashemi Rafsanjani (Chairman of the Expediency Council), is the candidate best poised to succeed president Khatami, which would bring an end to the age of the reformists.

According to information received by Al-Watan al-Arabi, Iran’s two-faced policy (on issues such as the production of weapons of mass destruction) is a cover up for a secret plan concocted by the hardliners to go against the American Middle-Eastern program and thwart it before it can reach Iran and change the regime.

Al-Watan al-Arabi’s sources indicate that as of last summer, a series of secret meetings has been taking place in the chamber of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. These meetings were attended by the Supreme Leader’s political and security advisors and, most notably, by figures of historical renown who were involved in exporting the Islamic Revolution and monitoring the so-called “liberation movement” in the world, and who held key positions in the Iranian intelligence headquarters, the Revolutionary Guards and other security organizations.

These sources speak of an entire strategy planned on the basis of Khamenei’s personal counsel; according to this strategy, it is necessary to confront the US, whose invasion to Iraq was motivated, among else, by a desire to reach the Iranian regime. The US, who has placed Iran on the axis of evil, will not back out of its scheme to topple the Iranian regime despite Iran’s best efforts and despite the problems that the US has run into in Iraq. Iran is carefully observing recent developments in Iraq, being especially interested in the relationship forming between the occupation forces and Ayatollah al-Sistani, a cleric wielding vast influence among Iraqi Shiites. According to Khamenei’s worldview, a transfer of Iraqi political power to the Shiites will not be considered an Iranian victory, as he considers it part of the Americans’ plan to bring the Iranian regime to its knees by instating a Shiite regime in Iraq. Khamenei’s opinion is based on al-Sistani and the Iraqi Shiites’ resistance to the establishment of an Islamic state similar to Iran. He realizes that al-Sistani has set out to establish a regime completely opposed to the current regime in Iran, that he rejects the principle of wilayat al-faqih [rule by men of religious authority] and has made it his goal to remove the clerics from politics. Khamenei is therefore concerned about the possibility of the triumph of the Najaf school of thought over the Qom school of thought, and the spread of the Arab Shi’ah to the detriment of the Iranian Shi’ah.

25 Million Dollars

Al-Watan al-Arabi’s sources indicate the existence of a plan designed to foil the American program by using all means available to replace the current American leadership and prevent Mr. George W. Bush from being elected to a second term, which would herald the fall of the Islamic Republic. According to the sources, a sum of $25,000,000 has been allotted for the purpose of bringing this Iranian plan to fruition.

The sources speak of an intent to revitalize a plan carried out in the 80s; that is, to support any armed Islamic groups. The purpose of the plan is first to drive the Americans out of Iraq; then—out of the Persian Gulf; and ultimately—out of the Middle East.

One of the objectives of the plan is to escalate the resistance in Iraq along lines similar to the actions that were taken against the Americans in Lebanon in the 80s that led to the deaths of hundreds of Americans.

The sources speak of a plan conceived by Khamenei’s followers to escalate hostile actions against the Americans and the allied forces, thus achieving a state of guerilla warfare that will include, in addition to suicide bombing attacks, sniper shooting and even kidnapping of American hostages with the purpose of putting them on display on global television networks and making it into a hot pre-election issue in the US. The sources indicate that this is one area of expertise that the Iranians do not lack in: the hostage situation in the US embassy in Tehran that led to President Carter’s downfall is one example; the western hostages incident in Beirut is another.

Al-Qaeda and other Islamic groups

The sources indicate that recently, the Iranians have successfully created groups of supporters not only among the Iraqi Shiites but also among Kurdish and Sunni groups that smuggle arms and explosives to Iraq with the purpose of carrying out hostile operations.

Most surprising is the Iranians’ success to break into the Al-Qaeda organization and its related Islamic groups, not all of which are Sunni fundamentalist organizations.

According to information received by Al-Watan al-Arabi, there has lately been a surprise as a former Iranian agent in Khamenei’s chamber, Hamid Reza Zakeri, admitted in Germany that the Iranian intelligence collaborated with the Al-Qaeda cells that perpetrated the September 11 attacks in Washington DC and New York. Ali Akbar Nateq Fawri had a hand in this by calling, in May 2001, for the “destruction of the image of the US and its economy.”

Several intelligence reports are unanimous with regard to Iran’s significant success in its unprecedented infiltration into the Al-Qaeda organization. Intelligence reports recently received by Al-Watan al-Arabi indicate a change in the ranks of Al-Qaeda’s leadership. One of the reports indicates that senior Al-Qaeda figures have escaped from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Iran and that they reside in one of the Shah’s palaces, guarded by a special force of Khamenei’s Revolutionary Guards. This has given rise to a new echelon in the Al-Qaeda leadership, including Sa’ad Bin-Laden, Sayf al-Adl, Abu Hafs al-Mawritani, and Suliman Abu Ghith, as well as the leader of Ansar al-Islam, Abu Mus’eb Zarqawi.

Perhaps the most troubling aspect revealed by the report is that the new Al-Qaeda leadership in Iran does not plan to restrict itself to perpetrating acts of jihad in Iraq alone (drawing, for that purpose, on Ansar al-Islam, a radical Kurdish Islamic group with close links to Al-Qaeda). It is planning to carry out operations throughout the Persian Gulf area and in Turkey, as demonstrated by the recent terrorist attacks in Istanbul (it has become known that the recent terrorist attacks in Istanbul were perpetrated in collaboration with Al-Qaeda cells in Iran).

According to the report, the success demonstrated by the Turkish Hezbollah organization in perpetrating the terrorist attacks in Istanbul has brought about intelligence investigations into the Iranians’ success in infiltrating Al-Qaeda and achieving cooperation between Al-Qaeda and various other Islamic organizations throughout the Persian Gulf region (known as Hezbollah of the Persian Gulf), thus uniting them under a single banner. Among the leaders are Imad Mughniya, Sa’ad Bin Laden, and Sayf al-Adl; the leadership carries out orders given by a special Iranian apparatus acting on Khamenei’s behalf to implement his plan against President George W. Bush.

It appears that this new leadership is a Trojan horse that Khamenei has decided to use from within Iraq. It is Iran’s Supreme Leader’s desire to draw upon this group to carry out his plan against President Bush. The intelligence reports speak of an infiltration from Iran into Iraq, as well as smuggling activity that encompasses a wide variety of arms and explosives yet to be employed by the Iraqi resistance, suggesting that grave acts of violence are in store for the future. The month of March, according to the report, is going to be especially taxing, plagued by an outburst of devastating suicide bombing attacks, abductions, and acts of murder that will only grow worse as the elections in the US approach.

These acts will be perpetrated by various organizations belonging to a multitude of streams in order to make it impossible to recognize them for Khamenei’s work.