I don’t know how true this is, but if it is, Iran is crapping bricks, sweating bullets, and otherwise extremely unhappy about the general who defected. Because he may have brought with him the smoking gun.
Former Iranian General and assistant defense minister Ali Rez Asghari left Iran using a new passport and pseudonym and managed to smuggle important intelligence documents, according to a report published Friday morning by London based newspaper Asharaq Alawsat.
According to the report, the missing Iranian general was carrying documents and maps of Iran’s military and intelligence infrastructure as well as information regarding the relations between the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hizbullah and the Islamic Jihad.
In addition, the general was reported to possess information regarding the Iranian nuclear program as well as information about Iran’s strategic military plans.
Again—don’t get your hopes up too high. I have no way of knowing how true this is. But I’m passing it on just in case.
I find it quite fitting that all this came to light on Purim. Think of this as a prize Purim gift basket.
Remember that Iran and Israel had a warm relationship with the Shah of Iran and the Iranian military until the late seventies. Then worst president ever Carter allowed the Shah to be overthrown by the Islamic extremists.
The current Iranian leadership is still paranoid about any covert relationships underway between Israel and Iranian contacts. Hopefully, this coupled with Iranian unrest is just the beginning of the end of this Iranian Islamofascist regime.