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2007-03-12 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Missing Iranian general’s family suspects Israel
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Posted by Steve 2007-03-12 13:59|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Iran’s notorious secret service, the Vavak, is believed to have suspected that he was a high-level mole, the report said.

And yet they let him leave? Sounds mighty suspicious.
Posted by mojo">mojo  2007-03-12 14:12||   2007-03-12 14:12|| Front Page Top

#2  “We were in touch with him until Friday, December 8, but on Saturday, we lost contact. His cell phone was turned off and we started to be concerned,” Ziba said.

Interesting. I thought he disappeared in Turkey on February 8th.
Posted by trailing wife 2007-03-12 14:19||   2007-03-12 14:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I thought it was Savak.
I remember this because all the Iranian kids I went to college with used to accuse each other of belonging to it.
Posted by tu3031 2007-03-12 14:25||   2007-03-12 14:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Savak was the Shah's secret service.
Posted by gromky 2007-03-12 14:37||   2007-03-12 14:37|| Front Page Top

#5 "...Ziba, 46, said the since her husband retired from military positions, he was an olive and olive oil merchant in Syria."

As I recall the Corleone family used the Olive Oil biz as a front.

Posted by mhw 2007-03-12 14:42|| http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]">[http://hypocrisy-incorporated.blogspot.com/]  2007-03-12 14:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Dis-Int is better than a fluffy bunny family in Turki-stan: they all dead, get over it.

Ziba Asgari sure sounds a player, I seriously can't be bothered to wiki/google.
Posted by rhodesiafever 2007-03-12 15:13||   2007-03-12 15:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-03-12 15:52||   2007-03-12 15:52|| Front Page Top

#8 He's an Olive Oyl moichant just like I'm Popeye the Sailor. Arf! Arf! Arf! Arf!
Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-03-12 16:06||   2007-03-12 16:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Blame Canada!
Posted by doc 2007-03-12 17:01||   2007-03-12 17:01|| Front Page Top

#10 If he's gone, and the Mullahs don't know whether he ran - or was snatched - they gotta be lyin' awake nights wonderin'....
Posted by Bobby 2007-03-12 17:10||   2007-03-12 17:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Hmmm...just noticed, her father worked for the regime. I would've used different words - My father worked for his country.
Posted by Bobby 2007-03-12 17:12||   2007-03-12 17:12|| Front Page Top

#12 Either he was a spy/defector and his family got scooped on their way out, or I would guess that we did actualy snach his a*s and the last couple days of "leaks" were part of a cover and breaking him.
Posted by C-Low 2007-03-12 20:16||   2007-03-12 20:16|| Front Page Top

#13 CL: Either he was a spy/defector and his family got scooped on their way out, or I would guess that we did actualy snach his a*s and the last couple days of "leaks" were part of a cover and breaking him.

Another possibility is that they're threatening the wife's family - and the wife is trying to prevent any harm from coming to them by toeing the official Iranian line. A second possibility is that the wife and family weren't in on the thing, and the government is using them to lure Asgari back to Iran, where he'll be hanged from the nearest crane.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2007-03-12 20:21|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com]  2007-03-12 20:21|| Front Page Top

#14 If your marriage becomes boring, and your job dull, I suppose you could always change jobs, and
1. go into the international olive oil business in Syria;
2. go be a bus driver in Baghdad; or
3. go hold tent revival Christian camp meetings in Afganistan.
Posted by whatadeal 2007-03-12 23:54||   2007-03-12 23:54|| Front Page Top

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