Published: August 15, 2005
Op-Ed Contributor
Crossfire War: Middle East; Irans War Cabinet in Step with Supreme Leader
By Willard Payne
Night Watch: TEHRAN - Iran’s new President has announced his new cabinet and by all accounts it seems to have been chosen by Iran’s Spiritual Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei for the sole purpose of executing the war.
AP reports that the new Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has openly criticized Iran’s negotiations with the EU and advocates that Iran takes a more combative position in the nuclear negotiations. The new Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar served as a member of the Revolutionary Guards for 25 years and was in command of guard acitivity in the entire Middle East. I assume the Revoultionary Guards control the launching of Iran’s missiles.
This should be no shock. As Iran completes the development of its delivery systems, missiles, for their nuclear warheads, Tehran’s position and policies are to become more frank. While their preparations were still under way for all out war with the West, India and Russia, Tehran adopted a more moderate stance in order to give the false impression it was willing to work with the international community, up to a point.
That point has now been reached so Tehran wants to see a successful return on its investment in its massive war industry operating from facilities constructed by Bechtel Group employing Chinese technicians, consultants and Russian scientists. These missiles and satellites were not constructed to be paraded on some national holiday or for Khamenei’s birthday. They are intended to reduce the West’s influence in the Middle East and to assist Pakistan in its usual conflicts with New Delhi. Tehran also wants to see if further Russian moves to the south can be delayed.
At this moment Iran’s former President Mohammad Khatami is using his new title, head of the Central Council of the Majma’ Rowhaniyoun Mobarez (Association of Combatant Clerics), not only to explain is new role in international affairs to his host, King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia, but he is probably also describing some of the new personalities in the cabinet. Two of whom Riyadh may already be familar with.
The new Foreign Minister Mottaki and Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najjar have probably been members of delegations under the previous administration and therefore no stranger to governments in the region. The new Minister of Intelligence Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejehei is probably on a first name basis with Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, Riyadh’s new Ambassador to Washington and formerly to the Court of St. James. Prince Faisal was also head of Saudi Intelligence until August 2001. Along with Iran he took an active role in planning 9/11. 15 of the 19 participants in the attacks were Saudi nationals.
The news has also announced that Iran’s new President is to be allowed to attend the UN opening sessions in New York in September. He may be instructed to make a similar hint as did his predecessor Khatami at the UN opening in Sept. 2000 when he stated that 2001 is the year of the dialogue.
I knew the war would then become more obvious in 2001 as it now will with each passing month.
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