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2019-02-14 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

US said to widen ‘secret program’ to sabotage Iran’s missiles

[IsraelTimes] Under Pompeo, Washington has intensified efforts to introduce faulty parts into Tehran’s supply chain, New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reports.

Alternate headline: Once Again NYT Leaks Key War Secret. They do love their frissons at the New York Times.

The US has escalated a clandestine program to sabotage Iranian missiles and rockets as part of an attempt to weaken the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s military and cause economic damage, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

Current and former administration officials told the newspaper that it was difficult to quantify the success of the program. However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
in the past two months Iran has on two occasions attempted to launch satellites in failed tests.

The US says that Iran’s plans for sending satellites into orbit demonstrate the country’s defiance of a UN Security Council resolution that calls on Iran to undertake no activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons.

According to the Times, the American program started under the George W. Bush administration, when the US began to integrate faulty parts into Iran’s aerospace supply chains. The program continued under the B.O. regime but gradually tailed off in 2017 when it was revived under then-head of the CIA, Mike Pompeo.

Under Obama, the program was widened to target not only missiles but also space launchers.

Tehran says it has reined in most of its nuclear program under a landmark 2015 deal with major powers, but it has kept up development of its ballistic missile technology.

Experts told the newspaper that not all of Iran’s aerospace failings could be blamed on US sabotage efforts as missiles are prone to malfunction during tests.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
the US was able to see the success of the program in one instance when an Iranian-manufactured rocket landed in Baghdad’s Green Zone and failed to detonate. A former bigwig said that when the projectile was dismantled, sappers found a malfunctioning part which had been fed into the supply chain by the Americans.

The CIA declined to comment on the program. The government asked the Times to withhold some details on the operation so as not to endanger it.

The US last Thursday vowed to remain "relentless" in pressuring Iran to deter its missile program after the Islamic Theocratic Republic unveiled a new ballistic weapon days after testing a cruise missile.

Tehran, which calls for the destruction of Israel, insists that it sees the missile program as crucial to its defensive posture, and says its existence is non-negotiable. It has also maintained that it never intended to develop nuclear weapons and therefore its missile development does not violate the agreement.

However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has presented evidence which he says details Iranian efforts and research programs specifically aimed at producing atomic weapons. In a Mossad operation, Israel last year spirited out a trove of Iranian documentation from Tehran’s pre-deal nuclear weapons archive, which Netanyahu said proved conclusively that Iran is lying when it says it never worked towards a nuclear weapons arsenal.

The Times report comes as Pompeo and Netanyahu were due to meet on Iran at the so-called Ministerial to Promote a Future of Peace and Security in the Middle East. The United States and Poland are sponsoring the conference in Warsaw, which they say is aimed at promoting peace and security in the region but appears to be mainly focused on isolating Iran.

Before departing for Poland on Tuesday, Netanyahu told news hounds that the focus of the conference will be Iran, an issue he said "unites Israel, the United States, many countries in the world."

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File under: Govt of Iran

#1 "The enemy of the people" - they keep trying to prove it more and more correct

Posted by Frank G 2019-02-14 07:39|| 2019-02-14 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 NME - National Media of the Elites
(pronounced ENEMY)

Posted by Waldemar Darling of the Hemps4945 2019-02-14 09:00|| 2019-02-14 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 "The United States and Poland are sponsoring the conference in Warsaw, which they say is aimed at promoting peace and security in the region but appears to be mainly focused on isolating Iran."

except that isolating Iran does promote peace and security (although bombing it would do that even better)

Posted by lord garth 2019-02-14 09:06|| 2019-02-14 09:06|| Front Page Top

#4 "The enemy of the people"

Given that the NYT is a major player in the treason space, as the marketing guys say, seems like we could make use of that.

Putting on my Wild Bill Donovan hat:
Suppose we have a low-level file clerk at "the agency" leak to his reporter bar buddy that Under Pompeo, Washington has intensified efforts to introduce faulty parts into Tehran’s supply chain. It certainly sounds plausible. And after all, a little low-level sabotage never hurts, right?

But even if we're not, now every time a power-supply fails, a program crashes, a machine breaks, a tire goes flat, or a dog farts, people are going to wonder "The Americans again?". And why did this happen *twice* on Mahmood's shift at the lab? Suspicion is a terrible thing.

Posted by SteveS 2019-02-14 09:42|| 2019-02-14 09:42|| Front Page Top

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