PREPARAN GUERRA CONTRA IRAN y VENEZUELA

PREPARAN GUERRA CONTRA IRAN y VENEZUELA

US CONGRESS ENGINEERING CONSENT FOR ATTACKS ON IRAN & VENEZUELA

"Iran is engaged in recruiting young Venezuelans of Arab origin for use in intelligence operations as militants. Some go to Iran for training. Some sources say that Hezbollah is involved in this operation," said the chairman of the subcommittee on Oversight and Homeland Security, Republican Michael McCaul.

ESCUCHAR LOS 4 VIDEOS DEL HEARING DEL SUBCOMMITTEE ON COUNTER TERRORISM AND INTELLIGENCE del SENADO:

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Subcommittee Chairman McCaul questions witnesses at hearing on Iranian terror operations in U.S

Joint Subcommittee Hearing: Iranian Terror Operations on American Soil
Subcommittee on Counter terrorism and Intelligence

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article29545.htm

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AQUÍ LAS ACUSACIONES DEL GRAL JOHN KEANE CONTRA IRAN

http://homeland.house.gov/sites/homeland.house.gov/files/Testimony%20Keane.pdf

Congressional Testimony John M. Keane
General US Army, Retired
House Homeland Security
And House Intelligence Committee
26 October 11. 10 a.m.

Congressional Hearing Testimony
26 October, 2011

The Iranian bungled operation to use proxies to assassinate the Saudi
Arabian Ambassador to the United States and to purposefully plan the
operation inside the United States is a stunning rebuke to the Obama
administration’s policy of negotiation and isolation with the Iranians.
Indeed, Republican and Democratic administrations since 1980 have
failed to deal effectively with the harsh reality that Iran is our number
one strategic enemy in the world. Frankly, the Iranians stated as much in
1980, that the United States was the enemy of the Islamic Revolution and
their intent was to drive the United States out of the region. Therefore,
they have been systematically killing us for over 30 years.

In 1983 their proxies the Hezbollah blew up the American Embassy, the
Marine Barracks in Lebanon and the Embassy Annex the following year
with a total of almost 500 lives lost. We not only had no response to this
tragedy but we pulled our troops out of Lebanon. In 1983 the Iranian
backed Al Dawa extremist groups blew up the US Embassy in Kuwait
and attacked Raytheon’s residential area killing and wounding over 80.

In 1984, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, William Buckley, was
captured and eventually killed, which was the beginning of an Iranian
backed campaign to take high profile hostages over a 10 year period.

This led to the poorly conceived and ill fated operation by the Reagan
administration to exchange arms for hostages with the Iranians. In 1985
TWA flight 847 was seized while enroute to Rome and was forced to
land in Beirut, which led to the killing of a US Navy diver and dumping
his body on the tarmac. Eventually the airplane hostages were released
as the Israelis released hundreds of extremist terrorists from Israeli jails.

In 1996 the US Air Force Kobhar towers barracks in Saudi Arabia was
blown up by the Iranian backed Hezbollah killing 19 and wounding
almost 400. Again, although our intelligence identified the culprits
as Iranian backed Hezbollah, we had no response and eventually shut
down the US military bases in Saudi Arabia.

Since 2003 in Iraq the Iranians have provided rockets, mortars, enhanced
IED’S and money to the Shia Militia who were directly involved in
killing U.S. troops in Iraq. Moreover, the Iraq Shia Militia were trained
by the Iranian special operations force, the Qods force, at training bases
in Iran. While the Iranians were defeated politically and militarily in Iraq
in 2009, the President’s recent decision to withdraw all our troops from
Iraq puts our hard fought gains in Iraq at risk and plays into the hands of
the Iranians. Similarly, the Iranians are supporting the Taliban in
Afghanistan with money and ammunition.

The action arm for Iran’s state sponsorship of terrorism outside of their
borders is led by General Qasim Soliemani, who has been in charge for
over 15 years. General Soliemani has no military or political boss, he
answers to only one person, the supreme leader in Iran, Khomeni. We
must conclude that for General Soliemani to plan an operation inside the
United States that would result in Americans being killed, surely, the
supreme leader at a minimum approved the plan and may in fact, directed
it.

Moreover we must ask ourselves has U.S. policy with respect to Iran
been working? We appear to have a policy of rhetorical condemnation
when the Iranians engage in behavior adverse to the US interests, we also
engage in negotiations, which are on again off again, while the Iranians
continue to pursue nuclear weapons. We have imposed some limited
sanctions on the Iranians and attempt to isolate them in the world which
as best as we can tell also has had no impact on their pursuit of nuclear
weapons or their sponsorship of terrorism.

We also must admit that the Iranians are not without their own
challenges. Having 2 fledgling democracies on their borders in Iraq and
Afghanistan is a huge geopolitical threat to their tyrannical control of
their own population and preservation of their regime. The Arab Spring is
a repudiation of radical Islam, indeed, the people in the streets are
seeking political reform, social justice and economic opportunities which
are the mainstream of western democracies. Certainly the Iranians are
attempting to take advantage of the opportunities the social unrest of the
Arab Spring provides but no one is demonstrating on behalf of their
flawed values. Losing a state sponsored terrorist like Ghadafi is a
setback as is the upheaval in Syria, their number one ally in the region.

All that said, it is time to review our strategy for Iran against the harsh
reality that despite our rhetoric, attempts to negotiate, isolate and
sanction, the fact is the Iranians continue to use their proxies against US
interests and continue to pursue nuclear weapons. Therefore, one must
conclude the obvious that, our policy has failed and failed, miserably.

What can we do? First and foremost begin to treat Iran as the strategic enemy they truly are. And, as such, develop a strategic competitive framework that counters every major interest the Iranian regime engages in.

For example, seize the financial assets which are outside of Iran,
much as we did with the Al Qaeda, limit their ability to trade by denying
their ships, entry to ports around the world, limit the ability of their
central bank to operate effectively, conduct an offensive cyber campaign
against military and economic interests inside of Iran, conduct covert
operations led by the CIA in cooperation with other agencies to target the
Qods force and their proxies. Provide money, information and
encouragement to the dissident leaders inside Iran to use their population
to put pressure on the regime.

In my view, these measures have a realistic chance to compel a behavior
change or possibly even the regime to fall. This much I do know, if we
continue the half measures of the past the Iranians will continue to kill us,
will continue to sponsor terrorism and use their proxies against our
interests and will continue to pursue nuclear weapons.

The next nightmare for the world is around the corner, an unchecked Iran
with nuclear weapons.

Thank you and I look forward to your questions.

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