By Aram Mirzaei for the Saker blog
In the previous article, we examined the prevalence of US/Israeli backed terrorism in eastern Iran where Baluchi Salafists have received arms and funding from the CIA and Mossad. In this second part of the article series we will examine the US/Israeli support for terrorists and separatists in western Iran among the Kurdish ethnic group.
The Kurdish situation in western Iran
The Kurdish question in Iran is a long running one that stretches back to the WWII era. While Kurdish revolts occurred already during the 1920s these were not motivated out of nationalist sentiment but rather out of tribal opposition to the monarchy’s attempts to centralize the state of Iran. The Qajar dynasty and later the Pahlavi dynasty attempted to consolidate power around Tehran in a time when the Iranian nation was fragmented into areas of tribal and ethnic influence. Simko Shikak was one of the powerful Kurdish chieftains that with Ottoman backing led the first revolt in 1918, against the Qajar dynasty, as the Ottoman’s were fierce rivals of the severely weakened Iranian state, attempted to gain influence over western Iran. Another reason for the Ottoman involvement was motivated by the slaughter of the large Iranian Armenian population in the West Azerbaijan province of Iran. But it was not only the Ottomans that backed these separatist tribal ambitions as Tehran repeatedly called out British influence and support for the tribal rebellions. The British role was mainly motivated by their desire to remove the Qajar dynasty from power and install a new Shah that they could more easily control, thus also triumphing over the Russian Empire in the struggle for influence over Iran.
British intervention in Persia was at its height during the coup d’etat of 1921. Although the coup itself was executed by Persians, it received vital assistance from, and was probably actually initiated by, certain British military officers and officials in Iran, most importantly Major-General Sir Edmund Ironside, Commander of Norperforce, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Smyth, who was unofficially and “almost secretly” attached to the Cossacks at Qazvin, and Walter A Smart, the Oriental Secretary.
After the coup, Reza Shah Pahlavi, the new Shah of Iran ultimately crushed the Kurdish tribal rebellion and the subsequent ones imitated during 1929 and 1941. It wasn’t until 1946 when the real danger of separatism became prevalent in Iran with the Iranian crisis of 1946 and the aftermath of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran during WWII. One of the first crises of the Cold War was initiated in 1946 when Stalin refused to relinquish occupied Iranian territory as the Soviets felt that the successor to Reza Shah Pahlavi, his son Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, a staunch anti-communist was a danger to Soviet interests, especially with regards to the Truman doctrine. By mid-December 1945, with the use of troops and secret police, they had set up two pro-Soviet “People’s Democratic Republics” in northwestern Iran, the Azerbaijan People’s Republic headed by Sayyid Jafar Pishevari and the Kurdish Republic of Mahabad under Pesheva Qazi Muhammad and Mustafa Barzani, father to current US puppet Mahmoud Barzani who was the previous president of the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq before last year’s scandalous attempt at independence for the KRG (Kurdish regional government). Though Mustafa Barzani fled Iran and went back to Iraq, so called Marxist oriented parties such as Komala and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDP-I) continued their hostilities not just with the Pahlavi regime but also later on with Islamic Republic after 1979, although these parties moved on from advocating separatism to specific demands and requests. This is due to the relatively low interest in separatism among the Kurdish public in Iran, mainly because of the close cultural, linguistic and historical relations that the Kurdish people and the rest of the Iranian society share.
Kurdish Insurrection after the Islamic Revolution and Israeli activities in western Iran
Since 2004, an armed conflict has been ongoing in the western provinces of Iran between the Iranian government forces and the so called “Party for a free life in Kurdistan” (PJAK). The group is said to be a branch of the PKK terrorist group in Turkey. The group settled in the area controlled by the PKK on the slopes of Mount Qandil, less than 16 kilometres from the Iranian border. Once established at Qandil and operating under the PKK’s security umbrella, the group began conducting sporadic attacks on Iranian border guards and security forces until a ceasefire commenced in 2011.
With the outbreak of the Syrian and Iraqi wars against terrorism, and with Iran focusing heavily on supporting the Syrian and Iraqi governments, the conflict resurged and intensified in 2016, this time with several other Kurdish militant groups also joining in, as US and Israeli support for Kurdish groups across the Middle East escalated. In an obvious show of solidarity with the Zionist state’s growing worries about the JCPOA (Iran Nuclear Deal), the KDP-I stated that it was returning to militancy after two decades of cessation of hostilities: “Since Iran has signed the atomic [nuclear deal] agreement, Iran thinks whatever they do, the outside world does not care. That is why we were forced to choose this approach,” Hassan Sharafi, the deputy leader of the PDKI said. Conveniently for the Zionist state and Washington, PJAK and leftist group Komalah immediately expressed their support for renewed hostilities and began attacking Iranian security forces respectively in the midst of Iran’s struggle against Takfiri terrorists across the region.
The Zionist state has for long had close relations to Kurdish groups across the Middle East as part of their “Alliance of the periphery” doctrine which calls for Israel to develop close strategic alliances with non-Arab Muslim states in the Middle East to counteract the united opposition of Arab states. After the fall of the Iranian monarchy and with Turkey’s recent Islamic resurgence, the strategy is mainly applied towards the Kurdish people, with Israeli government officials providing extensive support to Kurdish political parties and their aspirations for greater self-government and even independence. The government of Iraqi Kurdistan has maintained open ties with Israel and is an influential lobby for the establishment of normal diplomatic relations between Israel and Iraq. Israel remains today the closest regional ally of the YPG forces in Syria as well as the KRG in Iraq.
Documents leaked in 2010 by Wikileaks prove that Israeli Mossad chief Meir Dagan wanted to use Kurds and ethnic minorities to topple the Iranian government. The Israeli spy service wanted to have a weak divided Iran, like in Iraq where the Kurds have their own government, the spy chief told an U.S. official. According to a memo from August 2007, Dagan described to Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns the five pillars of Israel’s Iran policy, among them the desire to spark a revolution. The memo noted, ‘instability in Iran is driven by inflation and tension among ethnic minorities. This, Dagan said, “presents unique opportunities, and Israelis and Americans might see a change in Iran in their lifetimes.”
Dagan noted that Iran could end up like Iraq. “As for Iraq, it may end up a weak, federal state comprised of three cantons or entities, one each belonging to the Kurds, Sunnis and Shias.” He added that Iran’s minorities are “raising their heads, and are tempted to resort to violence.”
“It’s Realpolitik. By aligning with the Kurds Israel gains eyes and ears in Iran,” observed a former Israeli intelligence officer. Interestingly, PJAK themselves claim they receive no support from Washington or Tel Aviv. In an interview with Slate magazine in June 2006, PJAK spokesman Ihsan Warya stated that he “nevertheless points out that PJAK really does wish it were an agent of the United States, and that [PJAK is] disappointed that Washington hasn’t made contact.” The Slate article continues stating that the PJAK wishes to be supported by and work with the United States in overthrowing the government of Iran in a similar way to the US eventually cooperated with Kurdish organisations in Iraq in overthrowing the government of Iraq. Surely by now it is no secret that Kurdish chieftains and officials love to be the staunch vassals of Washington and Tel Aviv.
The KRG has even been so generous to offer its territory as a base for Mossad terrorists to launch operations inside Iran. According to several sources, the Mossad operates in the KRG to launch covert operations inside Iran and acquire intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program. “Israeli drones are said to be operating against Iran from bases inside the KRG,” wrote Patrick Seale, a British expert on the Middle East.
The London-based Sunday Times reported that, according to “Western intelligence sources,” during early 2012 Israeli commandos and special forces members carried out missions in Iran that were launched from the KRG. The Zionist terrorists, dressed in Iranian military uniforms, entered Iran in modified Black Hawk helicopters and travelled to Parchin, the site of an Iranian military complex just 30 kilometres southeast of Tehran, and Fordow, an Iranian military base with an underground uranium enrichment facility. The report claims that these forces utilized advanced technology to monitor radioactivity levels and record explosive tests carried out at the military facilities. Whether this report is true or part of a psychological war, I guess we’ll never know.
In addition to all of this, Arab separatism is on the rise in the western Khuzestan province where a large Arab minority reside. The 2018 Ahvaz Military Parade terrorist attack where 29 people were killed was evidence of a recent surge in Arab separatist activities. The Islamic Republic suspects that both Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf states offer political and financial support to Arab separatist groups and personalities operating in the West, who in turn funnel the cash to militant networks inside Iran. Suspicions that regional rivals had a hand in the terror attack was intensified by pathetic comments made by Abdul Khaliq Abdullah, a former advisor to the Abu Dhabi Crown Prince, that the Ahvaz attack did not constitute an act of terrorism since it was aimed at a military target. The significance of this inflammatory remark lies in Saudi Crown prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s statement that Saudi Arabia would take the battle “inside” Iran. Since the Saudi monarchy themselves are Zionist agents, we should again look for Washington and Tel Aviv’s hand in this latest campaign targeting yet another minority group in Iran.
The Islamic Republic is under attack from all sides with Washington and Tel Aviv specifically targeting ethnic minorities living in the border areas in the eastern and western regions of Iran. As Washington and Tel Aviv have admitted in the past, a full scale invasion of Iran is highly unlikely due to the size of the country and the large popular support the Islamic Republic enjoys, instead the Zionist Empire has deemed insurgency and fomenting a civil war to be the best way to weaken their adversaries, just like they did in Syria and Iraq. I expect these campaigns to escalate as the Islamic Republic gains more influence across the region and the Zionist Empire growing more and more frustrated each day.
This article, along with his “part one” article, are an excellent reference from Mirzaei. Both provide a useful overview of the current situation and connect it back to related past history.
The Iranians, like the Russians, are very wise in integrating minorities and mixing with them through marriage and social events. It is a very tough nut for the Zionists to crack.
Israel is the precise opposite. A society where even the Jews of Yemen and Ethiopia are treated as an underclass. If ever Israel is under serious attack, the ruling class, which is largely from Europe and the USA, will rapidly evacuate its children. The only ones left to defend the country will be those who are now despised. hardly a stable situation.
There is a documentary from 2004 which outlines the scandal whereby tens of thousands of Arab children, both Palestinian and Arab Jews (Sephardi), the latter of whom were seen by the Ashkenazi Herrenvolk as culturally inferior, were treated for ringworm with X-ray ‘therapy’. Standard treatment at the time was for no more than 0.5 Roentgens, but the children treated in this instance received many times that amount, up to 350 Roentegen, when 200 was considered potentially lethal. Six thousand victims died within one year, and others suffer to today with epilepsy, brain lesions including malignancies, other cancers, infertility etc.
This scandal was only ‘exposed’ in 1994, although it was well known, of course, in communities like the Yemeni Jews. A ‘law’ was passed to ‘compensate’ the victims, but it was a con, with high hurdles to receive a single shekel. Refusal to be compensated also included the removal of any ‘right’ to sue the Zionazi regime. All the Ringworm files were hidden away and remain so to this day. The ‘Supreme Court’ refuses to rule on the scandal. The entire program was financed by the USA, as it wished to have experiments in the effects of radiation undertaken, and the Sephardic and Arab children were considered untermenschen and fit specimens for experimentation. This was undertaken by a Jewish Mengele, Dr. Chaim Sheba, who has a major Israeli medical centre named after him, only a few years after Auschwitz. And the ‘Oriental Jewish’ victims were described by the Ashkenazi ubermenschen as ‘…primitive, superstitious, ignorant, neglectful of their children, passive, lacking drive and the will to change…’. And this is how they treat their co-religionists, and cover-up their crimes. Is it any wonder that they treat the Palestinians with such unbridled brutality?
At least what I was told, as reported in the Zionist propaganda novel Exodus, the zionist brought in the Middle Eastern Jews, and Iranian Jews have also been pressured to return to Israel from Iran where they have lived since the first diaspora. What did they want them for, cannon fodder? and if they didn’t perform up to Ashenazi standards, they would be used for medical experiments?
Really sick.
no mention of the B’ahi or however you spell it -headquarters in Israel
The Islamic revolution is infiltrated to the core by the fabian jews and bahais. They have amassed huge power within industry and political system of the country. There are ministers in Rohani cabinet, that are known to be traitors. It may sound strange to you, that there are know western agents within the iranian government and they are still occupying ministerial posts in Iran. That is the situation in Iran. You wouldnt believe the things, they say and do! And they are being name, called out with proof of their treason. It is my believe and a lot of other iranians, that even the president of Iran is unoubtedly one of them! The iranian foreign minister is an agent of the west and he has been all his life. These are openly discussed in Iran even by high ranking IRGC and politicians and have openly asked for them to be hanged.
A lot of highranking revolutionary people are talking about the need of a revolution within the revolution. There is a dire need of a bloodbath in Iran to clean up the country.
There is NEVER a need for a ‘bloodbath’ if it can be avoided. That just plays into the diabolists’ hands, because murder and bloodshed is their greatest power and their grandest pleasure. Your recommendation sounds just like a passage from the Book of Joshua and its myriad reiterations and re-enactments since.
I am not the only one saying that there is a need for a cleanup in Iran. As I said, a lot of very important revolutionaries in Iran are saying this openly. And I asure you, that the iranian people will wellcome it.
I read a lot of your western intellectual writings about Iran and have done so for years. There are a lot of things you have no clue about.
Last year trump said, that he will destoy the iranian ecomony within two months, and like clockwork it was done from within Iran and over night 80 000 000 people lost their savings and their ability to have a life! The funny thing is, that usa doesn´t have any banks or exchange offices in Iran, They have no military or industry in Iran, but they were capable of devastating the countrys economy using their assets inside Iran. usa alone has spent 400 000 000 million a year for 40 years to buy iranians to do their bidding, and these bastards have become so powerfull, that they are advocating for implimentation of usa policies openly in Iran.
Let me tell youi what I told the socalled western ideologues and intellectual with regards to the socalled bloodless revolutions of any color you like. There is no such thing. Everywhere in the world, the socalled revolutionaries have allowed their enemies within to go on with their business as usual, they have lost everything. After all what is the point to have a revolution? The prins of darkness brzezinski suggested already in lthe begining of the 70´s for the usa to do revolution business to avoid real revolutions in their vassal countries. It has been done slowly in Iran to a degree, that the revolutionaries have been sidelined in the economic and political system. The bastards have become so emboldened, that they are trying to take over the iranian national bank. They have infiltrated the iranian national bank, which is one of their main weapons, that has destroyed the country.
They are using the old problem reaction solution tactics and you, being in your own minds eye far form reality, with your monsterous good intentions, are blind to see. Revolutions withouit bloodbaths are nothing but a lie. How funny it is, that is the west pushing democracy and color revolutions with worlds like freedom and human rights!
You can sit infront of your computers and play humanitarians, but I rather see a few thouisand bastard errandboy traitors of the west hang and burn, so that 80 000 000 iranians will not wake up one morning again and see that they have lost eveything they have in life! During the last 10 years or so iranian currency has lost 80% of its value due to the activities of these econoimc hitmen working for the west inside Iran.
I am not an intellectual, I despise them with all of my heart. I am a generalist And I will die a revolutionary!
Thank you but no thank you. Keep your degenerate democracy, human right and good intentions to yourself, while your own societies are going the way of down the drain!
[The bastards have become so emboldened, that they are trying to take over the iranian national bank. They have infiltrated the iranian national bank, which is one of their main weapons, that has destroyed the country.]
You (unnecessary personal attack removed – mod) do not make it clear that the Iran fifth column, that you are talking about, are the ‘REFORMISTS’ and agents of the west, including Zarif, Rouhani, and Ali Larijani, the head of central bank installed by TRAITOR Rouhani who has done nothing but PRIVITAZIATION, PRIVITAZATION American Style.
The reason behind the economic crash was transferring economic information, by the traitor Rohani, to US treasury, a criminal Jewish mafia, in order to join FATF. Thus, the Jewish mafia member, Trump, using this information to damage Iran economy. Now, after all these damages, the traitors, Rouhani, Zarif, Ali Larijani, Iran parliament speaker, head of central bank, and traitor kurd like Tajzadeh, pose as ‘human right activist’ and all are US agents, want to honor the demand of the US treasury and Jewish mafia member, trump, to pass FATF. These criminals and enemy of Iran want to stop Iran using any other means for economic activity until Iranians are all dead.
The Iran fifth column, like in other targeted countries, are called ‘reformists’ by the criminal west and zionist Jewish. These people are traitors and must be removed from the government by any means. All options are on the table.
The ‘hardliners’ are mainly oppose FATF and against the sellouts, the reformists. The criminal west put any one or any organization that pursues Iran’s interest as ‘hardliners’. They want everyone be in the service of the criminal west and zionist baby killers.
Qasim Sulimani, the army General and a patriot, is viewed as ‘hardliner’ so Mr. Khamenei. Israel is trying to assassinate army General, with the green light from the zionist stooge, trump, but we hope themselves go into their graves first. They are nothing but criminal thieves. So their ‘reformists’ in every targeted country.
Iranians are against reformists, the agents of the criminal West, and oppose to ratification of FATF. The criminal trump regime and Jewish mafia gang, the US treasury must know this facts. Iranian students have rallied AGAINST FATF.
Now, ‘minute by minute’ where do you stand? make it clear now. We oppose the opportunists.
Your mistake fifth is, that you think in terms of hardliners and reformists. It is doen´t exist. It is again a problem reaction solution. While in Iran people kept asking me the same as you and I kept telling them, that as long as they play the tree or the forest game, they would´nt be albe to see the whole picture. Believe me there is a lot of credible information about it all over the place with regards to this charade,Sadly it is all in persian. It is a tragedy that a lot of our best and brightest minds are not able to speed the language. As much as I like to remove english from our schools and replace it with chinese, for now we need revolutionaries with this capability.
FATF is only one small part it. it is all done incrimentally and the treason goes all the way back to the Algerian accord. And lo and behold it wa the traitor Rohani and the traitor Zarif negotiating it back then too! These are the bastard sons and daughters of the late presiden Rafsanjani, may he burn in hell for all eternity. In the end had the audacity of litterally saying, that Iran did not need a military and it should be dismantled. Imagine that the president of a wartorn, sanctioned and constantly under the threat of war, would utter these words. He may have been the wests greatest asset!
During the last 40 years only two of Irans presidents can be said not to have been western agents, that is Imam Khamenei and Ahmadinejad.
The currency crash was orchestrated and managed by the west. They have an army of illigal exchangers on the streets, that have helped the west waging their war on the iranian currency. I actually spoke with one of them a couple of days before he scaped to australia. Let say we came close to a fight!
You must understand, that it is not one thing, it is an all out war and it is not just the usa, it is the entire west and nato behind it all.
You ask, what I am. I am a Shia.
Their sacred city, HQ, is Haifa.
https://www.bahai.org
I have many Bahai-Iranian ex-pat friends and cohorts, and without exception, they are the best people, ethical, intelligent, cultured and peaceful. In the quarter century of meeting, working and befriending them, I have nothing but the highest regard for them.
I am sure they are nice towards you. That is because they are not your DECLARED enemy. The british created the religion to destory shia Islam all most at the same time they created the wahabi religion to destroy sunni Islam from within. In some ways the creation of the wahabi religion is by far a less of a joke than than the creation of the bahai cult. The bahai have always been and still are at the service of the british intelligence agencies. And they majority of them are converted jews, that is fabian jews!. And the wahabi religon is the tamudic religoin sugarcoated with islam. Its ideological father was a jew!
That is in a nutshell the history of the wahabi and the bahai for you! It is all historical fact!
For daring to have the courage to want their independence, in a region where the other countries are submissive and compliant, and for speaking up for the Palestinians and demanding that their rights be respected, Iran is villified, sanctioned, threatened and terrorized every day that passes.
And all that is done to Iran in the full view of the world, and with the complicity of many countries.
Lesser countries would have caved long ago, but Iran has gone from strength to strength and is the backbone of the Resistance.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has what it takes to withstand these challenges : courage and principle.
Iran, facing an international arms embargo, survived the 1980-1988 war that was imposed by Saddam, with Saddam enjoying the backing of the US, Europe, and all the Arab countries -except Syria.
Saddam was even aided and abetted by the US and other countries in his use of chemical weapons against Iran, yet despite all that, Iran survived.
How many other countries would have survived a challenge of that nature?
Years from now, Iran will still be standing, when many of these countries and entities conspiring against it, would have long collapsed/ disappeared.
Selah
https://m.journal-neo.org/2019/04/19/syria-a-storm-is-coming/
First they will say peace and safety and then…
Deal of the century is the trigger