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Iran Is Not A Happy Bunny.
#1
With the game of 'Tanker Chess' continuing in the Persian Gulf and the Gibraltar Strait, Iran has upped its
propaganda game with its latest announcement.
It may be time for Gina Haspel to make a phone call.


Quote:Iran claims arrest of 17 CIA spies; some sentenced to death

'Iran's state media claimed Monday that authorities arrested 17 spies recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on
its nuclear and military sites. The semi-official Fars news agency said some of them have been sentenced to death.
It was not immediately clear if all the alleged spies were Iranian nationals.

The Fars news agency published images that Iran's Intelligence Ministry said showed the CIA officers who it claimed were in
touch with the suspected spies. The ministry said the agents had infiltrated organizations and institutions in Iran's private sector.  
There was no immediate reaction from the CIA or U.S. officials about Iran's claim.

The arrests occurred over the past few months and come as Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers is under increasing strain
amid Washington's withdrawal a year ago from the accord and renewal of economic sanctions on Iran.
Tensions between the U.S., Britain and Iran have spiked in the Persian Gulf region near the Strait of Hormuz. 

Soon-to-depart British Prime Minister Theresa May will chair an emergency security session Monday to discuss how to respond
to Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that is vital to the world’s oil supply.

The "Stena Impero" tanker was seized Friday and is now in a heavily guarded Iranian port.
Britain is considering a number of options to raise the pressure on Iran. Officials say military operations are not being considered.
The seizure followed a threat by Iran to respond to Britain's impounding of an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar, in the Mediterranean
Sea, that Britain said was on its way to Syria in breach of European Union sanctions. Iran disputes that its tanker was trying to
reach Syria, a close ally.  

An audio recording released Sunday revealed the tense moments before the "Stena Impero" was seized by Iranian Revolutionary
Guard forces rappelling from helicopters.

State TV in Iran aired a documentary Monday that purported to show a CIA officer recruiting an Iranian man in the United Arab Emirates.
It was not clear if the broadcast was connected to the announcement about the alleged spies. 

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Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Last month, Iran's Intelligence Ministry claimed it "penetrated the U.S. safe system in cyberspace" used by the CIA for communicating
with American agents, according to Press TV, a state-run network that broadcasts in English. The CIA, which rarely publicly comments
on its national security activities, did not respond to the allegation...'
USA Today:


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Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe. 
#2
Old men in fear of losing power, young people who want to be free and like the west. What can the old men do, starting a war is one way of controlling the youth
#3
Take Old Bastards Out, the Revolutionary Guard are not Supermen.

Their Navy and Airforce can not take on the UK or America, the only problem there are the Surface to Air Missiles, which can be destroyed they are not invincible.

I don't think any of their neighbors are going to come to the rescue if Iran.
Again, JMHO
Once A Rogue, Always A Rogue!
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#4
I was surprised that even the Trump-hating BBC had to offer that the 'spy-grab' is dubious in an analysis.
But such is the propaganda today!



Quote:Iranian power struggle?
Analysis by Kasra Naji, BBC Persian

'Many observers of the Iranian political scene view the latest Iranian claim with deep scepticism.
On Monday, Iran's intelligence ministry said it had broken up a spy ring connected to the CIA last month.

But confusingly it added that the 17 alleged spies had already been arrested last year.
Some believe that 17 is the sum total of all those arrested on suspicion of spying over many years.
They are all Iranians.

According to one account from Iran's notorious Evin prison, there are many inmates there accused of spying
for a range of countries.

But why the intelligence ministry is coming up with such a story now probably has more to do with its rivalry
with the intelligence unit of the Revolutionary Guards than with new arrests.

Just two weeks ago Iranian state TV broadcast the last episode of a docu-drama that glorified the intelligence
unit and portrayed the government of President Hassan Rouhani as ineffective and weak in the face of Western
espionage.

Now, the intelligence ministry is hitting back with its own documentary in which it is claiming its own major
successes in tackling espionage. It seems rival intelligence agencies in Iran are engaged in a very public power
struggle for everyone to see on state TV...'
BBC:
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe. 
#5
Gina has already made a call. Quite a few, in fact. I'm confident that they are not the calls that the Iranians were hoping for, and probably not the one you are suggesting she ought to make. Gina is not terribly diplomatic - she's a hot redhead, and therefore one of the most dangerous people on Earth.

The "detainees" in question are all Iranian nationals.

None of them, exactly zero, were working for the CIA.

They are politically inconvenient prisoners. Iran saw an opportunity to get rid of them and at the same time try to give the US a black eye.

There will be no "rescue mission". The US unofficially does not care what Iran does to it's own citizens. Whatever it does will only strengthen our hand.

"Government" sanctioned piracy on the high seas is a very bad business. Publicly admitting it, and posting photos and videos of the piracy, is probably even a worse business. If one recalls, stealing people and boats that were not theirs to steal, in waters that were not theirs to patrol, is what got the Barbary Pirates in such dire straights in the early 19th century... and here we are again. Some folks just cannot learn from history.

The new Marine Corps Hymn may have to mention "to the shores of Te-he-ran" when they update it.

Don't watch this space - the action ain't gonna be here.

P.S. - The Iranians have NOT "penetrated the safe system" used for US clandestine communications. I am EXTREMELY confident that they cannot. Hell, they wouldn't even be able to decrypt my hard drive, much less a CIA communications system. There are ways to penetrate such, but not very far considering all the cut-outs and "firewalls" built in to the system. At most they could compromise one user by using rubber-hose interrogation techniques and beating a password out of him, but that is as far as they would be able to get.

Speaking of rubber-hose interrogations, look up an encryption system called "Rubber Hose". That system is now severely dated, but still works. The CIA has better than that.

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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.

Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’


#6
@"Ninurta" 
"P.S. - The Iranians have NOT "penetrated the safe system" used for US clandestine communications. I am EXTREMELY confident that they cannot. Hell, they wouldn't even be able to decrypt my hard drive, much less a CIA communications system. "

Mr. G. here,,,,,,,,  minusculethumbsup2
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