Alireza Jafarzadeh

Alireza Jafarzadeh, is an anti-Iran terrorist, and a member of the terrorist group the National Council of Resistance (NCR), an umbrella coalition of which the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) are a member organisation. The MEK/MKO/NCR are all financed by the CIA, the MI6, and the Mossad. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Background

Alireza Jafarzadeh was born in Mashad, Iran and moved to the USA before the 1979 Iranian Revolution. He began there as a student of Civil Engineering. But he soon became engaged with the Mojahedin-e-Khalq terrorist group in the U.S. The Mojahedin-e Khalq is designated by the U.S., UK, EU and many other countries as a terrorist entity in part because of the MEK/MKO's affiliation with the regime of Saddam Hussein. Mojahedin-e Khalq activities include the massacre of Iraqi Kurds and Marsh Arabs in March 1991 after the Second Persian Gulf War, and co-operation with Iraqi Intelligence in hiding WMDs from UN weapons inspectors. Jafarzadeh worked for the Mojahedin-e Khalq in several countries including Iraq. He was promoted to the position of spokesman for the Mojahedin-e Khalq in the U.S. which then gave him a position as member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance (NCR), the Mojahedin-e Khalq's political wing, which is also designated in the U.S. as a terrorist entity.

Jafarzadeh quickly became a devoted member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq and on the order of the organization's Ideological (or cult) Leader, Massoud Rajavi, and married Robabeh Sadeghi of Babol, Iran, after she fled her country in 1986. In 1990, Massoud Rajavi ordered all Mojahedin-e Khalq members to divorce for ideological reasons. Jafarzadeh and Sadeghi, were divorced on his command.

Jafarzadeh was such a committed member that he repeatedly volunteered for suicide operations. In the Mojahedin-e Khalq publication No. 127, he is quoted as saying that he is ready to burn himself in front of the UN's New York office whenever it is needed for the Mojahedin-e Khalq's cause.

In 1988, together with 15 other Mojahedin-e Khalq members in the U.S., Jafarzadeh left for Iraq to participate in the Eternal Light military operation. He served in Hossein Abrishamchi's military unit in Iraq and undertook terrorist training in an Iraqi camp called Zaboli Camp. After the Mojahedin-e Khalq's disastrous defeat in this operation, he was sent back to the U.S.

In a press conference on 24 March 1991, Jafarzadeh explained the details of one particular Mojahedin-e Khalq operation in Iraqi Kurdistan (Operation Morvarid). This was soon exposed, by Human Rights Watch among others, as the deliberate massacre of Kurdish civilians by the Mojahedin-e Khalq on the direct orders of Saddam Hussein.

Some months later, Mojahedin-e Khalq radio announced Jafarzadeh had been made a Deputy Executive member of the MEK/MKO. His name along with his paramilitary rank was also published in Mojahedin-e Khalq newspapers.

In 1992, with the help of Saddam Hussein's Intelligence Service, Jafarzadeh traveled to Pakistan to negotiate and establish new relations between the Mojahedin-e Khalq and one of the war lords of Baluchestan (on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border). The relation was established in order to facilitate sending terrorist teams into Iran for paramilitary terrorist operations. Jafarzadeh was the broker for this deal and in person paid some of the tribal chiefs on behalf of Iraqi Intelligence.

From 1998 Jafarzadeh has been introduced as a member of the NCR Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1992 he took part in interviews (including an interview with Voice of America Radio) as the NCR representative.

Jafarzadeh also attended a meeting in Washington in 2001. The meeting was organized by the Mojahedin-e Khalq to protest inclusion of their name in the U.S. administration's list of terrorist organizations. Jafarzadeh was the Mojahedin-e Khalq's speaker at this meeting to explain their position.

Fox News now introduces Jafarzadeh as either their employee or as the head of a consultancy company. But as recently as 2002 the same man was interviewed by Fox News as the Mojahedin-e Khalq's representative in the U.S. Congress.

There are serious allegations that Jafarzadeh has been involved in illegal deals in the USA, including deals involving chemicals which can be used to produce WMDs. There are also allegations that the Mojahedin-e Khalq, with him as its representative, have been involved in serious money laundering and drug trafficking in the USA. These allegations, as well as his and Fox News' dodgy connections in Washington, are currently under investigation. [7]

Jafarzadeh is a controversial figure in Iranian politics. Some say he is an expert on Iran and a leading dissident, others including the US Department of State and the Congressional Record link him to violent terrorist groups. On August 14, 2002, Jafarzadeh drew worldwide attention when he alleged that Iran was running a secret nuclear facility in Natanz, and a dideuterium oxide facility in Arak. Jafarzadeh has gained a degree of credibility in that some of his claims have been shown to be true. This is not to say that many of his claims are later shown to be false.

Jafarzadeh is a Foreign Affairs Analyst for Fox News and is often a guest on Voice of America, and ABC Radio Network's John Batchelor Show. He has spoken at Georgetown University and the University of Michigan. He currently heads Strategic Policy Consulting and is reportedly writing a book on Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

Since 1997, Jafarzadeh has also been one of the spokesmen for Mujahedin-e Khalq group, which is regarded as a terrorist organization by the United States.

Jafarzadeh's status as a "Scientist" is a subject of dispute. Jafarzadeh has no known scientific training, degrees, or positions that suggest a strong scientific knowledge or range of experience. On Jafarzadeh's own web site he writes, "Jafarzadeh earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, and his Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas, in Austin".

Fox News Analyst

Alireza Jafarzadeh, frontman for the MEK/MKO and the NCR in the United States, is still being introduced by the Fox News Network as their independent Iran analyst. Fox News' insistence on using this individual has prompted ridicule by many in the media and in political circles. Fox News has clearly decided that using this notorious man is more important for their pay masters than maintaining their reputation as a serious broadcaster. Or it could be that the Network has no other choice in its decision making except to consent to this scandal. Whatever the reason, Fox News has refused to answer any questions about it. The company is already under investigation about its code of conduct and connections with terrorist organizations. [8]

Alireza Jafarzadeh and the Intelligence Summit 2006

Jafarzadeh was a speaker at the Intelligence Summit 2006. While looking at the latest status of Iran's nonexistent nukes, Jafarzadeh examined the shortcomings both in the way the intelligence community has conducted its work on this issue, as well as how the U.S. policy has affected the quality of information now available on Iran's nuclear program. Jafarzadeh looked at ways to improve the quality of intelligence as well as ways to contain Iran's nonexistent nuclear threat. [9]

This event, which was billed as a non-partisan, non-profit, neutral forum that uses private charitable funds to bring together for the first time the intelligence agencies of the free world and the emerging democracies, took place at the Hyatt Hotel in Crystal City, Virginia over the weekend of February 17-20, 2006. [10]

The stated purpose of the summit was to provide members of the intelligence, espionage, counter-terrorism, and counter-intelligence agencies from the so-called free world an opportunity to compare notes and develop strategies to stay in power and defeat those that oppose them.

The quasi-private nature of the event appears to be merely a pretext for the individuals attending to keep some kind of legal separation from any policy-making powers they might have. In other words, as long as the event is nominally unofficial, the attendees are free to make statements and deals that they could not make in a more official arrangement.

The list of speakers and board members is almost one hundred names long and includes such well known empire builders like former CIA Chief James Woolsey; another former CIA Chief John Deutch, Washington insiders Michael Ledeen and Richard Perle; and lesser known imperial cheerleaders such as Colonel Oded Shoham of the Israel Defense Forces, Yoram Hessel of the Mossad, and retired U.S. Army General Paul Vallely, who currently provides analysis for FOXNews and has decades of experience in military PSYOPS and counter-intelligence.

Lieutenant General Tom McInerney, director of NetStar Systems, and a Fox News pundit. He advocates military-led regime change in iran, and is a member of the Iran Policy Committee (IPC). NetStar Systems is a supplier of secure intranet and knowledge base systems to the Defense and Intelligence sectors. Yossef Bodansky, director of congressional task force on terrorism, Dame Pauline Neville-Jones of the British MI6, Steve Pomerantz of FBI, and Rachel Ehrenfeld of the American Center for Democracy.

Titles of the seminars include "Business Intelligence in Latin America: The Case of Venezuela, Brazil, and Mexico", "Eyewitness to Terror: Islam's Holy March Against The West", "Identifying and Protecting Trade Secrets in Public, and Private Sector and Electronic Surveillance Systems".

The summit's sponsors include various internet companies hoping to make a buck off the growing market in homeland security and anti-hacking technologies, as well as companies involved in private security operations around the globe. The primary sponsor, however, is the subject of controversy and is currently denied entry into the United States because of his indictment on various charges in Russia and Israel. His name is Michael Chernoff (or Cherney) of the Michael Cherney Foundation. [11]

Michael Cherney is well-known among supporters of Israel and has contributed millions of dollars to various organizations on the right end of Israel's political spectrum, as well as several thousands to the U.S. Republican Party. Cherney's sponsorship is obviously important to the summit's organizers, as they are urging attendees to lobby the U.S. State Department and get Michael Cherney [12] a visa so he can accept an award that weekend in February.

Like the governments and organizations most of these people are connected to, the intent of the military members, businessmen, spies, and their apologists attending this summit is not democracy but the maintenance and expansion of the US-Israel-Britain axis of greed.

It's quite unlikely that one would find much opposition to NSA warrantless surveillance controversy or Gitmo torture at the Intelligence Summit 2006. One gets the feeling that the attendees won't be discussing multilateralism or transparency at this gathering. Openness is not a priority among these folks. [13]

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Alireza Jafarzadeh and the Intelligence Summit 2006

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