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Wayne Madsen Report (WMR)
January 15, 2007

SPECIAL REPORT

British intelligence and anti-Iran Terrorists/Separatists

By Wayne Madsen
National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Navy. intelligence officer

Washington -- It is not often WMR responds directly to the
correspondence it receives. Some of it is unprintable while other
email provides important amplifying information for which we are
always thankful and committed to protect the source.

However, as the U.S. build up its regular military and special
operations forces against Iran, a recent email received from "Daniel
Brett", Chairman, British Ahwazi Friendship Society - ahwaz.org.uk,
deserves a response. It is not often WMR has such a close encounter
with such an obvious British intelligence operation.

Mr. Brett's email is as follows:

"What is the basis of your claims, published on 12 January, that
British Special Forces and intelligence agents carried out bomb
attacks in conjunction with the Arab Ahwaz separatists that seek to
break the oil-rich off from Iran over the past week?

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Wayne Madsen Report (WMR)
January 15, 2007

SPECIAL REPORT

British intelligence and anti-Iran Terrorists/Separatists

By Wayne Madsen
National Security Agency (NSA) and U.S. Navy. intelligence officer

Washington -- It is not often WMR responds directly to the
correspondence it receives. Some of it is unprintable while other
email provides important amplifying information for which we are
always thankful and committed to protect the source.

However, as the U.S. build up its regular military and special
operations forces against Iran, a recent email received from "Daniel
Brett", Chairman, British Ahwazi Friendship Society - ahwaz.org.uk,
deserves a response. It is not often WMR has such a close encounter
with such an obvious British intelligence operation.

Mr. Brett's email is as follows:

"What is the basis of your claims, published on 12 January, that
British Special Forces and intelligence agents carried out bomb
attacks in conjunction with the Arab Ahwaz separatists that seek to
break the oil-rich off from Iran over the past week?

"The Iranians gave advance warning that they were conducting de-
mining operations near Mohammara/Khorammshahr near the border and the
Iranian media stated that these were controlled explosions of
landmines left over from the Iran-Iraq War.

"Certainly, no Ahwazi group has claimed that they exploded these
bombs.

"As for your earlier claims that the British are involved in
attacks in Al-Ahwaz/Khuzestan, they are completely unsubstantiated.
The Iranians have never supplied any proof to back up such claims,
despite promising to submit documents to the UN Secretary General. And
the Ahwazi group that claimed responsibility for bomb attacks is based
in Canada (and its claims are in doubt), not the UK - all the Ahwazi
groups in London have declared their support for non-violent direct
action. You are probably unaware that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards
have, in the past, conducted terrorist attacks on Iranian civilians in
order to foment hatred for the "enemies of the state". One precedent
for this was the 1978 fire-bombing of Cinema Rex in Abadan in Al-Ahwaz/
Khuzestan, in which followers of Ayatollah Khomenei locked the doors
of the cinema, set it alight and killed dozens of innocent people in
order to encourage unrest against the Shah.

"It looks like your reports are just baseless gossip and you do
not have much grasp of Iran's domestic affairs. You have a political
agenda and that's fine, but please do not continue your lies.

Daniel Brett,
Chairman, British Ahwazi Friendship Society"

***

WMR reported on January 12, 2007 that British intelligence forces have
been behind a series of recent bombings in Ahvaz carried out by
Iranian Arab separatists. We stand by our report. Since Mr. Brett
takes issue with our report, it is important to delve into the history
of British intelligence support for Ahvazi separatists, especially now
that there are military operations underway against Iran.

In 2005, British special operations forces, acting in concert with the
United States and Mojeheddin-e-Khalgh (MEK/MKO/NCR) and Ahvazi Arab
Peoples Democratic Popular Front (ADPF) terrorist forces, launched a
series of bombing attacks in Iran's Khuzestan Province organized from
across the border in Iraq. Struck were an Ahvaz Ministry of Housing
and Urban Development building, the Office of Construction and Civil
Engineering, the house of the governor of Khuzestan, an Iranian State
Radio and TV office, and a shopping mall. Other bombing attempts
against the Abadan refinery and the Kianpars Bridge were foiled,
although attacks on oil pipelines, including the Abadan-Mashuur
pipeline were frequent.

The first organization to reject the notion that the attacks came from
outside Iran was the British-Ahwazi Friendship Society (BAFS), which
sent us the email regarding our January 12 report. BAFS spokesman
"Nasser Bani-Assad" stated, "If you want to know who is behind the
attacks, you only have to think about who would benefit the most - and
it is not the Arabs. Certainly, the more extreme hard-line elements of
the Iranian establishment will
benefit greatly from the nationalist
and religious fervor and anti-Arab sentiments that will arise as a
result of these bomb attacks".

However, authorities in Khuzestan and Tehran said the perpetrators of
the attacks were "British spies", "British soldiers", and "British
agents". Mr. Brett echoes the British Embassy in Tehran, which stated,
"There has been speculation in the past about alleged British
involvement in Khuzestan. We reject these allegations. Any linkage
between the British Government and these terrorist outrages is
completely without foundation".

However, in September 2005, the Iraqis arrested two MI-5 agents in
Basra. Iran claimed they were involved in the Ahvaz bombings. Britain
said they were merely tracking Iranian support for insurgent attacks
against British forces in Basra.

The neo-cons have made no secret that their game plan for Iran is to
soften up the borders where ethnic minorities are dominant. This
includes Khuzestan, the Kurdish areas, Baluchestan, Iranian
Azarbaijan, and Turkoman territory. Israeli intelligence is active
with Azari-speaking agents and listening stations on the Azerbaijan
side of the Iranian border. U.S. intelligence is active among the
Sunni Muslim Baluchi tribesmen on the Pakistani-Iranian border. U.S.
Marine Corps Intelligence has developed contingency plans, with the
support of Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC) subsidiary
Hicks & Associates, to arm and provide other support to Iranian Kurds
and Ahvazis in the event of a U.S. ground assault on Iran. According
to the Financial Times, Ahvazis and Iranian Kurds were consulted by
the SAIC contracting team.

The Marine Corps-contracted SAIC study also apparently targeted even
smaller groups in Iran -- groups that might only normally be mentioned
in a National Geographic article: Lors and Bakhtiaris, who also
inhabit Khuzestan; nomadic Ghashghis of Pars province; and the Gilakis
and Mazandaranis on the Caspian coast. Based on previous U.S. attempts
to coordinate their activities with similar tribal groups in
Afghanistan, the Pentagon war planners are in for a crude shock if
they hope to enlist the support of these groups in an Iranian land
assault.

***

The fact that there are renewed bombings in Khuzestan just after
George W. Bush threatened Iran with military action is no mere
coincidence. And the British government is more than willing to use
its old Ahwazi friends in carrying out cross-border operations just as
Michael "P2" Ledeen, Richard Perle, and the other neocons are eager to
use the MEK terrorists to carry out similar actions against Iran.

Mr. Brett is the International & Embassy Receptions Officer of the
Young Fabians, a group which has been at the vanguard for the neo-
imperialistic "New Labor" policies of Tony Blair. He is also a
journalist who specializes in hydrocarbons, security, defense, and the
petrochemical industries in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. The
slick BAFS web site started up in 2005 and all we know about its
backers is that they are from the "Ahvaz diaspora". More likely, the
funders will be found in the same K Street and London Mayfair and
Kensington offices that nurtured the likes of Ahmad Chalabi, Reza
Pahlavi II, Farid Ghadry, and other Middle East tools of the neocon
grand conspirators. Perhaps not coincidentally, the BAFS web site
links to separatists web sites for Iranian Kurds and Turkoman.

While the Ahvazis certainly have legitimate concerns against the
central government in Tehran, Mr. Brett wrote an article for an
Iranian human rights journal in November 2006 that insists that the
only solution for Iran's minorities is a "federal Iran". That sounds a
lot like the neocon "divide and conquer" strategy used to take apart
Yugoslavia and which is now being used to disintegrate neighboring
Iraq and, if the London-based Russian-Israeli gangster Boris
Berezovsky has his way, the Russian Federation.

More interestingly, in 2005, London sponsored a "Congress" of Iranian
nationalities that called for a the same type of "federal Iran" called
for by Mr. Brett. Present at the London "Congress" were Ahvazis,
Kurds, Baluchis, Turkoman, and Azaris, the very same groups involved
in the SAIC/Hicks/Marine Corps project. Another conference comprising
the same nationalities was held in Washington, DC in early 2006. It
would appear that SAIC's previous role in propaganda (Psyops)
activities in Iraq are made to order for Iran. And the activities of
various London-based Iranian ethnic groups are certain to be funded by
the CIA, Pentagon, and MI-6.

The history of Western support for indigenous groups is rife with
examples of independence movements being used for covert operations in
larger game plans of geopolitical influence building. Past CIA support
for the Tibetans, Kurds of Iraq, Hmong of Laos, Katangans, southern
Sudanese, and Nicaragua's Miskito Indians are but just a few such
cases. All of these groups were manipulated and disposed of in the end
by their CIA handlers. Iranian ethnic groups should learn from the
histories of these used and abused groups when signing a Faustian deal
with the devil.

In the November 3, 2005 edition of Asia Times, Mahan Abedin and Kaveh
Farrokh cited past British support for the dismemberment of Iran. They
point to a November 2, 1944 editorial in the Times of London, which
proposed Iran's dismemberment by having Britain take over one of its
most important provinces. Which one? Oil-rich Khuzestan, of course.

In 1980, Iraqi intelligence figured that their British friends were
correct when they surmised that an Iraqi invasion of Iran through
Khuzestan would result in the Iranian Arabs rallying to the Iraqi
side. They were wrong. The Iranian Arabs resisted the Iraqis as much
as did their Persian colleagues.

However, some Ahwazi exiles did support British covert actions against
Iranian interests abroad after the Ayatollah Khomeini Revolution of
1979. On April 30, 1980, Iraqi-backed Ahvazis seized the Iranian
Embassy in London. Two Iranian diplomats were killed by the Ahvazis
before Britain's Special Air Services stormed the building (it is not
known what crypto machines and code books left the embassy along with
the SAS), killing most of Ahwazis and eliminating any future witnesses
who could finger the role of British intelligence in the seizure.

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Neo-con plans for an attack on Iran still include stirring things up
in Iran's Khuzestan Province.

During the 1980s, British intelligence worked closely with the Ahvazi
exiles in Britain and even provided their services to Saddam Hussein's
intelligence services against the Iranians. In 1985, British
intelligence used Ahwazi agents to penetrate the Iranian consulate in
Manchester and the National Iranian Oil Company office in London.

With all this rich history of the Ahvazis being used by British
intelligence, we are now told that we "lie" about British involvement
in covert operations inside Khuzestan. Lies are in the territory of
the perfidious British neo-colonialists, who still cling to the notion
that the "sun never sets on the British Empire".

We also stand by our previous reports on Ahvaz/Khuzestan, which have
much more relevancy with Bush's current plans to attack Iran:

August 10, 2005 -- U.S. prepared to grab Iran's southwestern majority
Arab and oil-rich province after saturation bombing of Iranian
nuclear, chemical, and command, control, communications & intelligence
(C3I) targets. According to sources within the German Federal
Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst - BND), the Bush
administration has drawn up plans to hit Iran's nuclear, other WMD,
and military sites with heavy saturation bombing using bunker buster
bombs and tactical nuclear weapons. The attack will be coordinated
with urban and rural critical infrastructure sabotage carried out by
elements of the People's Mujaheddin (MEK), Pentagon Special Operations
units, and other Iranian dissident groups. The German intelligence
comes from classified briefings provided by elements within the CIA
that are concerned the neocons in the Bush administration will, in
attacking Iran, set off a chain of events that will lead to world war.
Intelligence on U.S. plans to attack Iran has also been passed by CIA
agents to counterparts in France, Britain, Canada, and Australia.

The Bush war plans for Iran also entail quickly seizing Iran's
southwestern Khuzestan Province, where most of Iran's oil reserves and
refineries are located. Khuzestan has a mix of Shia/Sunni Persian/Arab
population and some of its Arabs have close links with their ethnic
and religious brethren in Iraq. The Bush plans call for a U.S.
military strike across the Iraqi border and from naval forces in the
Persian Gulf in answer to an appeal for assistance from the Al Ahwaz
Popular Democratic Front and Liberation Organization rebel forces in
Khuzestan, which will declare an independent Arab state of the
Democratic Republic of Ahwaz and receive diplomatic recognition from
the United States and a few close U.S. allies.

There are also plans to incite rebellions among Iran's other
minorities, including Azaris and Turkmenis in the oil-rich Caspian Sea
region. Other minorities targeted by the neo-con planners are Iranian
Kurds along the Iraqi and Turkish borders and Baluchis along the
border with Pakistan.

The neo-con plan seeks to separate Iran from its oil resources and
create an "Irani triangle" centered around Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, and
other historically Persian centers. In anticipation of the U.S.
attack, the spy sub USS Jimmy Carter has placed taps on undersea
communications cables in the Persian Gulf that carry Iranian
commercial, diplomatic, and military traffic. In addition, Task Force
121 covert paramilitary forces have scouted Iran using the cover of
journalists and businessmen to pinpoint military targets".

September 13, 2005 -- The Bush administration continues to back the
Khuzestan separatist movement in the oil-rich southwestern province
the Arab population calls Ahvaz. As reported by WMR last month, the
backing for the Shia Arab separatist movement involves direct support
by U.S. intelligence operatives. However, this support primarily
involves support from the parallel intelligence operation established
in the Pentagon under intelligence undersecretary Stephen Cambone and
Undersecretary for Policy and Plans Eric Edelman (the successor to
Douglas Feith who was, most recently, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey).
the CIA largely remains outside of the anti-Iran operations.

In fact, an Arabic speaking Iranian-American from Khuzestan who works
for the Department of Defense has been assigned to the Pentagon's
Office of Northern Gulf Affairs office within the Policy and Plans
Directorate's Near East and South Asia (NESA) division to help
coordinate activities with the Ahvaz separatist groups -- some of whom
have committed terrorist acts in the province. The Gulf Affairs office
replaced the infamous Office of Special Plans (OSP) that crafted the
phony intelligence in the lead up to the war in Iraq.

In addition, U.S. intelligence sources report that the State
Department, through the active support of new International Public
Diplomacy Undersecretary of State Karen Hughes, is actively supporting
clandestine radio broadcasts to Iranian Arabs in Khuzestan. These
broadcasts are conducted by the Voice of the Ahvaz Revolution and are
transmitted from Basra, Iraq. The clandestine radio broadcasts
complement the very public Radio Farda (broadcasts to Iran in Parsi)
and Radio Sawa (broadcasts in Arabic throughout the Arab world). Both
stations are operated by the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, a
State Department entity headed by "Norman Pattiz", the owner of radio
syndicator Westwood One who has strong ties to the right-wing
government of Israel.

The Pentagon and State Department are also jointly supporting other
propaganda activities aimed at stirring up rebellion among Iranian
minorities, including Iranian Kurds, Baluchis, and southern Azaris. In
addition to the Ahvaz Arabs, the U.S. actions are having their
greatest impact among the Kurds. The U.S. is also supporting
clandestine radio broadcasts to incite Iran's Baluchi minority in
eastern Iran. These broadcasts are also transmitted from Iraq
(Sulaymaniyah, in northern Iraq). Other clandestine broadcasts are
aimed at Iranian Azaris and Kurds. U.S. efforts to stir up Iran's
Turkmen population along the Caspian Sea have been totally
unsuccessful, according to U.S. intelligence sources. "The Iranian
Turkmen are only interested in caviar and tobacco", said one U.S.
intelligence source.

* Wayne Madsen was a communications security analyst with the National
Security Agency (NSA) in the 1980s, and an intelligence officer in the
U.S. Navy.
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