Oh, Those Iranian Terrorists. Never Mind.

Michael Ledeen tells all some:

Sorry to bore you with the endless lies from the drooling left, but a website called "dailykos.com" has come up with the fanciful slander that I am a supporter of the MEK, the terrorist organization that has been based for many years in Iraq. "These guys aren’t really terrorists, says Ledeen, but rather our allies..." I Never said it, don't believe it, always spoke out against the MEK, encouraged my colleagues to avoid them. It's a lie.

And while I'm at it, to put poor J.M. Marshall out of his agony, I had nothing whatsoever to do with the Niger forgeries, as he and his buddies have been whispering for many months. [right, there are a lot of people at these SISMI wingdings...]

Nor was I on the grassy knoll in Dallas...

Nor was I involved in the arms-for-hostages swap during Iran-Contra--whooops, no wait, I was involved in that one. And Juan Cole is "drooling". Totally drooling:

So it transpires that the Iranians were willing to give up 5 key al-Qaeda operatives, whom they had captured, in return for MEK members.

Franklin, Rhode and Ledeen conspired with Ghorbanifar and SISMI to stop that trade. It would have led to better US-Iran relations, which they wanted to forestall, and it would have damaged their proteges, the MEK.

You know who else is a drooling, lying leftie? The damn Jerusalem Post, that's who:

The FBI's investigation of Larry Franklin began not long after it was leaked that the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans sent two Defense officials, one of them Franklin, to Paris to meet with a dissident Iranian arms trader.

The latter, Manucher Ghorbanifar, played a central role in the Iran-Contra affair – in which Israel had a major involvement – in the mid 1980's.

The purpose of the meeting with Ghorbanifar was to undermine a pending deal that the White House had been negotiating with the Iranian government. At the time, Iran had considered turning over five al-Qaida operatives in exchange for Washington dropping its support for Mujahadeen Khalq, an Iraq-based rebel Iranian group listed as a terrorist organization by the State Department.

Franklin met Ghorbanifar through Washington's neo-con guru Michael Ledeen. Ghorbanifar at the time (before the invasion of Iraq), had spun the Pentagon men with unsubstantiated allegations of Iraqi transfers of uranium to the Iranian nuclear weapons program, according to The Nation magazine.

And you know how I encourage my colleagues to stay away from MEK? Some of them don't listen, like that drooly Daniel Pipes. Or, er, Franklin, obviously. Glad we've cleared all that up.

Comments

[gvfdg]

iraian terroerist are gay and so are the people that live in the fucking country. they all suck balls

[Matt Weiner]

Yeah, fuck Iraia.