Topic: Hostages

Targeting Iran

By Bill Larson | April 2, 2007 |

Remember when we reported on the US invasion of Iran? The article that we wrote about the entry of U.S. troops into an Iranian consulate in Irbil, Iraq, on January 11th. Well, the UK news site The Independent is reporting that our troops missed their real targets, the deputy head of the Iranian national security council, Mohammed Jafari, and General Minojahar Frouzanda, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Chief of Intelligence.

This is as Independent’s author Patrick Cockburn aptly describes it “…as if Iran had tried to kidnap the heads of the CIA and MI6 while they were on an official visit to a country neighboring Iran, such as Pakistan or Afghanistan.”

The attempted provocation of the Iranian government did not stop with that attack. On the fourth of February, Iraqi commandos likely under U.S. Command seized an Iranian diplomat Jalal Sharafi, who was the second secretary of the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad. «Read the rest of this article»

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