Julia Murray,
NIAC
Washington
DC - NIAC held a briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill to shed light on the risk of
a possible proxy war between the USA and Iran through various sectarian and
political groups in Iran and Iraq, including the
Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK).
The event featured Col. Sam Gardiner (Ret.), an expert on strategy and military
organizations.
Gardiner spoke of the clandestine support offered
by Iran for groups in Iraq and by the USA for entities using violence against
Iran.
He argued that the proxy war is already well
under way, even though it contradicts the diplomatic approach currently
propagated by the US military and state department, and even though some of the
possible groups supported are designated by the
US State Department
as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
The proxy war has created an atmosphere, in
Gardiner's view, in which incidents that otherwise could be handled could now
ignite a much larger conflict.
Gardiner's presentation took place against the
backdrop of recent media reports pointing towards a US-Iran proxy war with
clandestine US support for militant groups fighting Tehran and vice versa. The
briefing provided lawmakers and staff in Congress an opportunity to look more
deeply into this issue.
The event is part of NIAC's US-Iran Policy
Program, which is funded by the
Ploughshares Fund, the Kenbe Foundation, the
Pluralism Fund,
the Colombe
Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund
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Acts of War
By Scott Ritter, TruthDig.com
The war between the United
States and Iran is on. American taxpayer dollars are being used, with
the permission of Congress, to fund activities that result in Iranians
being killed and wounded, and Iranian property destroyed. This wanton
violation of a nation's sovereignty would not be tolerated if the tables
were turned and Americans were being subjected to Iranian-funded covert
actions that took the lives of Americans, on American soil, and
destroyed American property and livelihood. Many Americans remain
unaware of what is transpiring abroad in their name. Many of those who
are cognizant of these activities are supportive of them, an outgrowth
of misguided sentiment which holds Iran accountable for a list of
grievances used by the U.S. government to justify the ongoing global war
on terror. Iran, we are told, is not just a nation pursuing nuclear
weapons, but is the largest state sponsor of terror in the world today. |
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