U.S. State Department silent on detained CIA assests, question taken?

Missoula, March 7 (Al-Masakin)–Fars News Agency (FNA) reported Jan. 27 that it detained four of a suspected ten member plot in an alleged ‘Velvet Revolution’ to topple the Iranian government and has sentenced the alleged ring leader to six years in prison.  Iran has released the names of two persons alleged to be involved in the plot, Dr. Arash Alaei and Dr. Kamyar Alaei.

“Four persons were put on trial, some others were pardoned, and some others were acquitted due to lack of sufficient evidence…These four persons confessed and videotapes of parts of their confessions will be released soon,” the Tehran Times reported Jan. 20.

“According to Jamshidi, the four were paid by the White House, the State Department and the CIA, to expand their network and topple the Iranian government…the 1981 Algiers Accords signed between the US and Iran in the aftermath of the US embassy takeover in Tehran obliges Washington to refrain from interfering in Iran’s ‘internal affairs’.

“The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran’s internal affairs,” reads Point 1 of the accords, which led to the release of the American hostages.

Despite the 1981 treaty, under the Bush administration the US opened an Office of Iranian Affairs (OIA) in the State Department and tasked the unit with drawing up plans to overthrow the Iranian government,” Iran’s Press TV reported Jan. 17.

According to the Tehran Times and other media sources the plot was organized in Dubai and the ring leaders were to induce individuals associated with labor unions, NGOs, and scientific and cultural organizations to travel to Dubai where they were granted visas to come to the United States and then later returned to Iran to organize civil unrest with the hope of toppling the Islamic regime there.

“[They] wereinvited to the United States in groups of 10-15 people, with visas issued for them in Dubai in the shortest possible time, and according to their professions, they participated in scientific seminars and toured various states, and when they returned home they were asked to write “analyses” of the situation inside Iran,” the Tehran Times reported.

Iranian press broadcast the confessions of three alleged plotters July 21, 2007.

Al-Masakin has noted the State Department’s vocal support for jailed Indy reporter Roxana Saberi and has asserted support for seven jailed members of the Iranian Baha’i community: Mrs. Fariba Kamalabadi, Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mr. Afif Naeimi, Mr. Saeid Rezaie, Mr. Behrouz Tavakkoli, Mr. Vahid Tizfahm and Mrs. Mahvash Sabet; and for three Christians: Jamal Ghalishorani, Nadereh Jamali and Hamik Khachikian, inter alios.

But the State Department remains silent on this current round of arrests, neither denying that they are associated with the CIA nor acknowledging that these people have indeed been detained.

EHC / EHC

RELATED: Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami says US seeks ‘velvet revolution’ in Iran; “In Name of Democracy” reveales US plots; IRANIAN TV BROADCASTS CONFESSIONS BY IRANIAN-BORN US AGENTS

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