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2024-10-22 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Tehran tells UN: Biden has signaled US approval for attack on Iran, will bear responsibility
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Posted by trailing wife 2024-10-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 "Iran should stop attacking Ukraine!"
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-22 02:40||   2024-10-22 02:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Trying to prod the White House to explicitly refuse to back Israel before the election.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-10-22 09:14||   2024-10-22 09:14|| Front Page Top

#3 Report: Senior Pentagon employee behind leak of Israeli retaliatory strike plans
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-22 11:27||   2024-10-22 11:27|| Front Page Top

#4 A Known Wolf Whore: The Pentagon has reportedly named Chief of Staff of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Ariane Tabatabai, as the prime suspect for an alleged leak of classified documents, Sky News Arabia reported on Tuesday, citing a senior Pentagon official.
Posted by Frank G 2024-10-22 11:43||   2024-10-22 11:43|| Front Page Top

#5 Lovely
Posted by Frank G 2024-10-22 12:29||   2024-10-22 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 ^^^
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-825701
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-10-22 14:17||   2024-10-22 14:17|| Front Page Top

#7 She was on the FBI radar.

High-Level Iranian Spy Ring Busted in Washington D.C. Posted on 10/3/23 at 6:53 am

"The Biden administration’s now-suspended Iran envoy Robert Malley helped to fund, support, and direct an Iranian intelligence operation designed to influence the United States and allied governments, according to a trove of purloined Iranian government emails. The emails, which were reported on by veteran Wall Street Journal correspondent Jay Solomon, writing in Semafor, and by Iran International, the London-based émigré opposition outlet which is the most widely read independent news source inside Iran, were published last week after being extensively verified over a period of several months by the two outlets. They showed that Malley had helped to infiltrate an Iranian agent of influence named Ariane Tabatabai into some of the most sensitive positions in the U.S. government—first at the State Department and now the Pentagon, where she has been serving as chief of staff for the assistant secretary of defense for special operations, Christopher Maier."
Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-22 15:18||   2024-10-22 15:18|| Front Page Top

#8 WTF? Mossad monitoring Mostafa Zahrani's email? I thought we gave her a block of 'one-time' cover-name email addy's ?

Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-22 15:43||   2024-10-22 15:43|| Front Page Top

#9 If Trump wins, a significant number of senior political appointee and SES pro-Iranian players in the IC/DoD universe are going to be very nervous. Not just about keeping their job but rather, about avoiding prosecution and their future in the classified workplace.

I strongly suspect they know that those institutions have a number of genuine patriots still in place, along with a fair number of "ambidextrous" careerist players who have mastered the defense of their respective rice bowls over the years. Many of both groups have kept "insurance policies" and alibi documents over the past 4 years (or longer). As the cleansing begins at Langley, Nebraska Avenue, Meade and the "E" Ring, I expect the emergence of all sorts of surprises that would never see the light of day if Kamala is installed. Many of those surprises will involve Iran and what was done to support it.
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-10-22 16:12||   2024-10-22 16:12|| Front Page Top

#10 /\ 2016 U.S.–Iran naval incident

The smell still lingers.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-22 16:16||   2024-10-22 16:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Imagine the referrals for action!

Wiki cite: "THE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE POLYGRAPH
A Counterintelligence Polygraph asks the candidate questions limited to those necessary to determine whether the examinee ever had any involvement with or knowledge of espionage/sabotage against the United States, unauthorized contact with representatives of a foreign government, or unauthorized disclosure of classified material. A Counterintelligence Polygraph is the most common polygraph. Within the Department of Defense (DoD), polygraph examinations used to determine initial eligibility for special assignment or special access are limited to counterintelligence questions.

The DoD CI exam questions cover:

Espionage
Sabotage
Terrorist Activities
Deliberate damage of U.S. Government Information Systems
Intentional compromise of U.S. Government Classified Information
Secret contact with a foreign national or representative"
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-10-22 16:28||   2024-10-22 16:28|| Front Page Top

#12 /\ Depends on whom she is working for.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-10-22 16:31||   2024-10-22 16:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Pentagon denies senior staffer investigated for document leak
Press secretary says Ariane Tabatabai is 'not a subject of interest' in the ongoing investigation into how classified documents on Israel's planned attack on Iran, appeared online; says Pentagon is in contact with Israel regarding details of the investigation
Makes sense, she would (did?) inform Iran - not leak to American press.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-10-22 18:24||   2024-10-22 18:24|| Front Page Top

#14 Makes sense, she would (did?) inform Iran - not leak to American press.

Good point. Someone in her office, perhaps? My initial guess was an uber-woke intern somewhere fighting for Paleostinian Justice rather than doing their damn job.
Posted by SteveS 2024-10-22 19:56||   2024-10-22 19:56|| Front Page Top

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