The Mosaic of War

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton - the NoisyRoom

My all-time favorite author is Dean Koontz. He has a way of telling a story that is absolutely riveting, humorous and horrifying at the same time. There’s a story here somewhere for Dean – I can sense evil from The Corner of My Eye. And it is fast approaching like a malevolent storm intent on sweeping mankind away with sinister glee bubbling up from its chaotic depths. The story line is unfolding with good and evil lines drawn and the players taking sides with no guarantee of the outcome, but plenty of ensured carnage. Let’s set the stage, shall we?

One of the first things that happens before full-blown war breaks out typically is that embassies are closed and diplomats are recalled or expelled. It is a precursor to the beginning of festivities on both sides.

This past week. Canada found the spine we seemed to have misplaced and declared Iran a terrorist regime. They closed their embassy in Iran and brought their ambassador and diplomats home. They closed Iran’s embassy in Canada and kicked out their ambassador and diplomats. They also issued the strongest travel warning available to their citizens telling them in no uncertain terms, don’t even think of going to Iran and if you are there, get the hell out.

See Sun News Video: HERE or HERE

From Sun News:

Pressed several times by reporters about why Canada was taking this action now, Baird rattled off a long list of grievances Canada has with Iran:

• Iran refuses to comply with the United Nations resolutions pertaining to its nuclear program
• Increasing military assistance to the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad
• Iran shelters and “materially supports” terrorist groups
• Routine threats to the existence of the state of Israel
• Repeated violations of the Vienna Convention which governs diplomatic relations between most countries of the world
• “Racist anti-Semitic rhetoric and incitement to genocide,” Baird said.
• Worst violators of human rights.

“Under the circumstances, Canada can no longer maintain a diplomatic presence in Tehran,” Baird said. “There’s a just a long list of reasons why we’re coming to this decision.”

Baird said all Canadian diplomats have already left Iran.

A worldwide caliphate is forming once again with Iran at or near the center of the vortex. The Muslim Brotherhood is in control, with a great deal of help from Barack Obama while he stays true to his Muslim roots and keeps pushing taquiyya to the infidels in America. The American President is pushing diplomacy between Israel and Iran just long enough for Iran to get fully armed to wipe Israel off the face of the planet. He is clearly anti-Israel (the events at the Charlotte DNC National Convention surrounding the platform make that even more evident.) and pro-Islam. Obama spouts support for Israel while ensuring her demise and propping up her enemies. Talk about two-faced. And Netanyahu has had just about enough of Obama’s lies and deceptions.

Video:  The Story of Obama and Israel

It was reported only once that I heard that platform committee members said the platform changes  at the DNC including the removal of the word God, the designation as Jerusalem was Israel’s capital as well as two other major references to our allegiance to  Israel were purposely removed to align the parties platform with the beliefs of President Obama.

On September 28th, Obama and Netanyahu will meet at the UN. But adding insult to injury, Ahmadinejad will address the UN on Yom Kippur – Israel’s Day of Atonement and their highest holy day. What a monstrous insult to Israel. This whole meeting reminds me seriously of the bar scene from Star Wars. It’s a freakfest that highlights evil everywhere possible. Netanyahu will be a light in the darkness there – may G-d protect him.

Time is very short now and tiny Israel is going to have to decide when to fight. She will not wait for America – she can’t afford to. Her survival is at stake. As Danny Danon, the MK of Israel has said, an ally is someone who takes action. This is laid at Obama’s feet, not the American people:

In fact, Obama’s actions are fanning antisemitism here in the states. Hatred is on the rise against Jews and Christians across the land of the free and the home of the brave. And Obama is stomping on our Constitution and rights every chance he gets.

For those that think this only involves Israel and Iran, or at the most the Middle East, think again. We will be drawn into this war. There is no way we can’t. Not only is Israel our closest ally, Iran is our worst enemy. There is an argument to be made that Obama would love a war to break out as he sees it as a pathway to reelection. Americans should review that scenario carefully. If war breaks out, we would be much safer with Romney at the helm. At least he has a spine and morals.

Americans should also consider the very real possibility of an attack on the US. Last week, Iran stated that shortly they would be stationing their navy just outside of US waters. All the better to hit us with an EMP or 3. But, they don’t need a navy… a cargo ship would do nicely.

Then comes the warm and fuzzy news that Iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks from South America against us. You know, that land mass we have been studiously ignoring and hoping it would just go away… Well, it didn’t. From WND:

As reported earlier this year, terror cells have been placed on high alert to attack targets in the U.S. and Europe should Iran be attacked. Hundreds of terror cells have infiltrated America and, in collaboration with Hezbollah, are awaiting orders to strike American targets.

Thousands of cells have also been placed in Latin America.

“The Quds Force has established a command and control center in both Bolivia and Venezuela,” a former Iranian official with knowledge of the regime’s terror network recently revealed. “Though it has presence in Europe and other parts of the world, it has focused on Latin America. Thousands of such cells have been placed in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Venezuela.”

A recent report from within Nicaragua indicated that Iran has established a training base in the northern part of that country, where operatives, including Hezbollah terrorists, are being readied for an attack on U.S. and Israeli interests should a war break out with Iran.

Hassan Abassi, a former Guard commander and a current strategist, has stated that many of the cells are of Latin American origin, including from Mexico, and that several hundred targets have been identified in the U.S. for a possible attack.

Yep, the Twelvers are gearing up to play RISK and we are embroiled in a political reality show. Remember, we are the Great Satan and Israel is the Little Satan. Guess who is number one on the radical Islamist apocalyptic dance card?

Video: The Coming is Upon Us

A multitude of geopolitical tiles compose the mosaic of war… are we prepared for the fight of our lives? As the final “work of art” takes shape, and the seemingly unrelated squares of color and hue, of darkness and light, of hope and despair take their places in the greater picture, and the image begins to coalesce from a thousand apparently isolated dots, what is it we see when the rendering is complete?

Welcome to the beginning of World War III.

*And if this were not frightening enough, many people who do not really follow politics or even the news, at least not from any credible sources, will not realize that if this happens in October, before the election, that Obama had his hand in this, and will then naively not want to change presidents during a new war or major threat of our involvement in a new war.  Plus the left will push the ridiculous notion that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan don’t have enough experience in foreign policy… as if President Obama had any.  Wakeup… It is getting very dark out there and Obama-Biden are not the answer!  M~

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EXCLUSIVE: The Iconoclast - The Voice of Make-Nice-to Dictators VOA’s Persian Service is going off the deep-end… again

Once again, there is bad news out of Voice of America’s Persian Service – so much so, that many advocates of freedom in Iran believe the service should be shut down, or the U.S. Congress should pass a new law to ban non-U.S. Citizens from working there, since we have more  than 2 million native Farsi speakers who are now Americans...

Here’s the news you won’t be reading from the mainstream media:

Tuesday, 01 November 2011

EXCLUSIVE: The Voice of Make-Nice-to Dictators VOA’s Persian Service is going off the deep-end – again.  -  The Iconoclast

The big news out of the Voice of America’s Persian News Network (PNN), the much troubled broadcasting service you would think would be bringing the “voice” of America to Iran, was the firing ten days ago of CNN/FoxNews broadcasting star Rudi Bakhtiar.

Just a few months ago, Ms. Bakhtiar was considered a treasured catch. Lured away from a prominent position as a public affairs spokesperson for a human rights campaign, she was escorted out of the Cohen building on a Friday afternoon by VOA security guards. It was a humiliating end to a short-lived career where by all accounts she succeeded in raising moral and raising the profile of this much troubled U.S. broadcasting service.

What happened? For now, Ms. Bakhtiar is keeping mum – understandably so – as she undoubtedly consults lawyers and considers taking legal action against VOA.

But PNN has been roiled by a seemingly incoherent set of personnel changes ever since Ramin Asgard, a former State Department diplomat, took over the reins earlier this year after a long search for a new director.

Asgard, granted many visas to suspect Iranian nationals as a U.S. consular officer in Istanbul and Dubai, seemed intent on accomplishing two goals from the outset of his directorship: insulating his leadership from Congressional challenge, and using PNN as a vehicle to enhance U.S. relations with Tehran.

“Ramin thinks it would be a cool thing to have an office in Tehran,” a knowledgeable insider who has known Asgard for several years told me. “He has been very eager to diffuse criticism from people like Sen. Tom Coburn and Enders Winbush,” a Republican appointee to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, PNN’s ultimate supervisor.

Among Asgard’s first acts as head of Voice of America’s Persian service was to fire controversial managing editor, Seyed Ali Sajadi, the son of a senior cleric in Tehran. Sajadi had become notorious for single-handedly preventing PNN from broadcasting exclusive video footage of the murder of Neda Agha-Sultan, the beautiful young Iranian woman who became the face of the anti-government Green movement after she was gunned down by pro-regime thugs on the streets of Tehran during the June 2009 protests.

So far, so good. Next, Asgard brought onto the air one of VOA’s fiercest critics, a self-proclaimed student leader named Amir Abbas Fakhravar, who had become a source of insider information to Sen. Tom Coburn and others in Congress about anti-American material sent out over the VOA airwaves.

Fakhravar, the darling of a handful of Washington, DC neo-cons, has succeeded in just five years in the United States in alienating every Iranian-American activist and legitimate student leader who has recently left Iran, usually through scurrilous – and often obscene – slanders he penned against them on Persian language blogs.

On April 6, 2011, Fakhravar testified before a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee about the shortcomings of PNN, skipping over Mr. Sajadi (for whom he has expressed sympathy) and instead firing full bore at Ahmad Batebi, the Tehran University student pictured on the cover of the Economist during the July 1999 student uprising holding up a bloody t-shirt.

Mr. Batebi, who had shared a prison cell briefly with Mr. Fakhrevar back in Tehran and knew his secrets, came to the United States three years ago and has been working for VOA ever since, interviewing dissidents inside Iran. Mr. Fakhravar’s accusations that Mr. Batebi was collaborating with Iranian intelligence were so scurrilous that he (thankfully) left them in his written testimony and did not voice them out loud.

Richard Perle, the former Reagan Pentagon official who helped Mr. Fakhravar come to this country in 2006, tells me he is “sick of the whole lot of them” and feels that the current crop of Iranian exiles would put the Romanian, Hungarian and other refugees of the Cold War to shame. He recently  resigned along with the entire Advisory Board from Fakhravar’s “Iranian Enterprise Institute.”

Others, such as Michael Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, have publicly called for ridding VOA of all foreign nationals and turning it over to American citizens, a proposal that has significant support in Congress and from the American Federation of Government Employees that represents most VOA employees. Ledeen has also resigned from Fakhravar’s advisory board, which has been taken down from his website. An archived version is here).

Exile communities historically have a tendency to bicker. In the case of the Iranians, they have good reason to do so, since the Iranian regime has spared no effort to recruit agents in their midst and to sow discord, making it virtually impossible for them to speak with a single voice.

But the rot at VOA goes well beyond a squabble among exiles, however important that may be: it touches core issues of American policy toward Iran, and how we view our public diplomacy.

In one recent staff meeting, Mr. Asgard instructed his work force to keep all anti-regime criticism off the air, because he wanted VOA “to serve as a bridge between the United States and the Iranian governments,” according to two sources familiar with the meeting.

Since issuing that edict, Mr. Asgard has fired top broadcasters who were in touch with Iran’s disenchanted youth, such as Mr. Batebi, Kianoush Sanjari and Kourosh Seyhati, as well as well-respected veteran Jamshid Charlangi. Several of them were escorted out of the building by VOA security personnel on October 7, victims of an earlier Friday night massacre. (Mr. Batebi was fired in July; Ms. Bakhtiar was given the axe this past Friday, Oct. 21).

In their place, Mr. Asgard has hired a group of young protégés of pro-Tehran activist Trita Parsi, the president of the National Iranian American Council, NIAC.

Mr. Parsi has reliably defended the Islamic Republic of Iran leadership through thick and thin, always managing to find excuses for their bad behavior (hint: it’s America’s fault), while urging the U.S. government to just “reach out their hand” to the Iranian regime and lift sanctions. As Herman Cain would say, How’s that workin’ for ‘ya?

My sources at VOA tell me that Asgard is hoping to fire more anti-Tehran regime journalists, while taking on board more NIAC members, to complete the VOA's transformation into a U.S. taxpayer-sponsored “Make Nice to Dictators” channel.

A recent evaluation of VOA broadcasting that gave support to Asgard's makeover was authored by Hooman Majd, an Iranian-American "scholar" who has worked as Ahmadinejad's "voice" during his visits to New York. Hooman Majd has also taken Trita Parsi under his wing and appeared at events with him.

But the plot gets thicker still. In addition to using its lackeys here in the United States, the Iranian regime has also been using its English-language propaganda network, PRESS TV, to spread lies and rumors to smear the reputation of anti-regime broadcasters. Mr. Charlangi was the victim of a particularly vicious – and totally spurious – claim by Press TV that he was under investigation for sexual harassment that ultimately contributed to his dismissal.

Since the Justice Department revealed the Iranian terror plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the United States in Washington, DC, the Tehran regime has been desperate to deny it had anything to do with the blown plot.

Their latest gambit has been to offer up the IRGC intermediary in the plot, claiming he was an infiltrator from the MEK, the Marxist Islamist group that once was part of the Khomeinist regime but later had a falling out with them over power-sharing 30 years ago.

As I explained here, if only their U.S. agent had picked the right Mexican to execute the terror plot, the headlines would have read “MEXICAN DRUG WAR COMES TO WASHINGTON, DC,” not “Iranian Terror Plot Foiled.”

Today, Trita Parsi, NIAC, and other regime apologists are going out of their way to cast doubt on the FBI’s allegations in the terror plot, and to “warn” the United States not to over-react. And Ramin Asgard’s Voice of America is going along with them.

The Iranian regime is not to blame for plotting a terrorist attack on the United States, in Mr. Parsi’s view. At worst, they were attempting to “provoke” the Obama administration. “[T]he Obama administration should be careful not to walk into such a trap,” he wrote the day the indictment was unveiled. “We must work to prevent such a disastrous outcome” through “restraint and de-escalation.”

Let’s see: the Iranian regime has just tried to blow up scores of people with C-4 explosives at a Washington, DC restaurant, and the United States is the one that should show “restraint” and “de-escalation?”

VOA’s coverage of the terror plot was considered so favorable to the Tehran regime’s narrative that Iranian an state-sponsored website picked excerpts of VOA interviews with five “scholars” and “experts” who cast doubt on the FBI’s evidence in a recent documentary aimed at debunking the U.S. government account of the plot. At one point, the narrator in regime documentary says, “See, even American government television says the case [against the Iranian regime] is a lie.”

Another “expert” Iranian state television quoted in its documentary on the Arbabsiar terror case was Trita Parsi (although they picked footage from an interview he gave the BBC’s Persian service, not VOA).

The Voice of America’s Persian service should be telling Iranians the stories about their own lives they cannot get from their own media because of censorship. It should not be in the business of giving airtime to apologists for the Tehran regime or making excuses for regime terror plots. 

PNN’s new director, Ramin Asgar, seems to think that the true vocation of the Voice of America is to become the Voice of Tehran.

Enough.

By Kenneth R. Timmerman - the President and CEO of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (Www.iran.org), and author of Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America and Countdown to Crisis: The Coming Nuclear Showdown with Iran among other works.

Source: New English Review  - h/t to TMH of the NoisyRoom

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Rumors of War examines the current leadership of Iran, Ahmadenjiad, Khameini, who are part of a radical Muslim sect that believe it is their duty to hasten the return of the 12th Imam,  a Jesus-like figure who will wipe the planet clean of Iran’s enemies, of which Israel and the United States rank 1 and 1a.  They believe, and have stated publically that by initiating worldwide chaos they can bring about his return.

There is irrefutable evidence that they have already taken steps in that direction through terrorist groups Hezbollah and Hamas – adding nuclear weapons to the equation would literally put the entire world at risk.

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