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Iranian assets positioned in the United States have been activated and are actively working to acquire intelligence and equipment that might be useful in terror attacks, according to a former member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

The information comes after a bus carrying Israeli youths exploded Wednesday in a Black Sea resort in Bulgaria, killing six and injuring 30 others. Fire engulfed the bus after the attack, which occurred as the bus was on its way back to the youths’ hotel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Iran and vowed to retaliate.

Ominously, the attack took place on the anniversary of the Jewish Community Center bombing in Buenos Aires, Argentina that killed 85 and injured more than 100 in 1994. Several Iranian officials were implicated in that attack, including the current Iranian defense minister, Ahmad Vahidi, who has been red-flagged by Interpol.

Assets of the regime have attacked Israeli officials and interests unsuccessfully before, such as in India, Bangkok, Azerbaijan and other places. However, as reported in March, the Islamic regime had warned America and Israel that the next terror attacks would be much more complex and devastating.

A source who served in the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit and has now defected to a European country warned in April that the Islamic regime’s terror cells were on high alert, which includes for attacks in the U.S.

According to that source, and another located in the U.S., the regime’s assets have long infiltrated America and are coordinating operations out of mosques and Islamic centers, such as Imam Ali Mosques and the Iman Islamic Center.

Hundreds of the families of the regime officials who are present in America and Canada, in collaboration with the Iranian Embassy in Canada and Interests Section of The Islamic Republic of Iran out of the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C., are also actively recruiting assets and gathering intelligence.

The relatives routinely travel back and forth to Iran, making it easy to pass on information and transfer cash from Iran to the U.S.

Iran’s intelligence apparatus is specifically wooing Americans who convert to Islam. These individuals are approached with offers of a trip to the city of Qom, the hotbed of seminaries in Iran and the center of Shia theology, where they are brainwashed and then approached for collaboration against the infidels.

Hassan Abassi, a former intelligence commander of the Guards and the current strategist of the regime, has stated that Iranian assets in America who would conduct terrorism are not necessarily Iranian and that many are American, Mexican and of Latin American origin.

The source indicated that the recruiters and the regime’s intelligence officers often gather at mosques and Islamic centers. They identify individuals within the Islamic student associations and others who might sympathize with the Islamic regime and try to recruit them.

The regime’s Islamic foundations, such as Al-Ghadir and AhlulBayt, have set up branches throughout the world, including in America, funding mosques and Islamic centers that gather intelligence, recruit and transfer of cash to the regime’s cells.

Many other assets are already working at high-tech companies in the U.S., according to the source. These assets seek to gain access on communications by Iranians who are active in America in opposing the regime and also to gain technological secrets, which then are passed on to the regime.

Others have been placed in universities across the U.S. to gain critical knowledge to help with Iran’s nuclear arms program, while others promote better ties with Iran through various organizations and think tanks, which also provide the Islamic regime with analyses on the state of American public opinion.

Some assets are used to purchase spare parts that, due to the sanctions, the regime is unable to obtain. Many have been arrested trying to export airplane parts, parts for fighter jets and helicopters and other military and commercial parts.

With the Islamic regime refusing to halt its nuclear program and its looming confrontation with the West, the regime strategy calls for further terrorist attacks by its assets to send a signal to the West that an attack on its nuclear facilities will bear dire consequences, said the source in Europe.

“They are closing in on getting the bomb,” he said. “At that time it will be too late to stop this regime.”

Reza Kahlili is a pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the author of the award winning book, A Time to Betray. He is a senior Fellow with EMPact America, a member of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and teaches at the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy (JCITA).

 

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Britons ‘desire self-sufficiency’

Sunday, 22 July 2012

One in four people are growing their own food, baking bread or making jams, according to a new survey

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Eight out of 10 of Britons yearn to become more self-sufficient, according to a survey.

The poll by speciality cheese maker Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses reveals that a majority of people would prefer a simpler, self-reliant existence – free from the pressures of modern living and consumerism.

Eighty-two per cent of those questioned said they craved a homespun lifestyle, with a third wanting to emulate Tom and Barbara Good from the classic ’70s TV sitcom The Good Life.

One in four claimed to be either growing their own food, baking bread or making jam and chutney in an effort to become more self-sufficient.

The poll also suggested the notion of keeping up with the Joneses has been turned on its head, with 31% saying that their neighbours and friends now liked to boast about how self-reliant they were.

As a result, competitive parents have started exaggerating their own home-making abilities – almost a quarter (22%) saying they had lied about their skills. More than a third (34%) admitted to passing off shop food as their own, with 15% even passing off designer clothes as second-hand or charity-shop bargains.

However, the survey of 1,000 people revealed the economic downturn has led to families making changes to their lifestyle – 45% saying they wasted less food, 43% choosing to eat at home rather than dining out and 33% prepared to fix broken items rather than throwing them out.

Peter Elvin, of Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses, said: “People aspire to make their own foods but not many actually manage it on a day-to-day basis and some foods are perceived as just too hard to make. While people were already making bread, jam and chutneys, only 3% have started experimenting with making cheese.

“We hope that even if most people aren’t yet making their own products that they remain interested in the massive range of foods from small producers that you can now buy on farmers’ markets and in local shops and perhaps this will inspire more people to have a go themselves.”

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