Report: Iran's New Defense Minister Plotted Terror Attacks

[Ian David]

Source: Israel National News Channel 7

Iran's new defense minister is behind past terror attacks against Americans and Israelis, finds report by Israeli expert.
By Elad Benari
First Publish: 8/13/2013, 6:15 AM

Iran's new defense minister is behind past terror attacks against Americans and Israelis, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported on Monday.

The Islamic Republic’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has appointed Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan as the new defense minister. Dehgan, according to a report by Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira, a senior research associate at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, was responsible for attacks against U.S. and Israeli forces in Lebanon in the 1980s.

The appointment will become official once it is approved by the Iranian parliament, which began debating Rouhani’s new cabinet on Monday.

Dehgan has reportedly served in the Revolutionary Guard his entire military career, since the Islamic revolution in 1979. According to Shapira's report, as it was cited by Israel Hayom, Dehghan was sent to Lebanon after the beginning of the first Lebanon War in the summer of 1982.

Read more: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170861

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. So what?

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Did not Rumsfeld and the USA supply Iraq with biological weapons and more to use against Iran in the 80's?

And Rummy ends up being the SOS in 2002 or so . . .

and the source of the news article

"Israel National News"

NSA comes to mind

same old, ...

same old.

(sigh)

CC

[Alamuti Lotus]

2. Seriously do not care what Israeli generals think about Iran's leaders

That said, if Dehgan was indeed active in Lebanese resistance activities against foreign occupation forces in the 1980s, he deserves a medal. This medal will not be given to him by Israeli Brigadier General Shimon Shapira, of course.

[Ash_F]

3. Any other media outlets covering this?

I've never heard of Israelnationalnews but perused some of the articles there and it looks like the Jewish Drudge Report.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

4. More from this "news" site.

Birther leader Dr. Orly Taitz Esq talks to Tamar about a new birth certificate that has surfaced which says that Obama was born in Mombasa, Kenya. Is it real, or is it a fake? Also, death threats, and even an attempt on Dr. Taitz's life. Why? An intriguing interview to try to find the truth if the U.S. president is elligible to serve as the Commander in Chief. Plus: Dr. Stern continues to expose little known details about the agenda behind wanting to force vaccinations on the world's population. Does the Vatican have any hand in this? You decide.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1302#.UgsYN5J_4wc

[Ian David]

5. I missed that. I may have accidentally stumbled upon the Israeli version of "Natural News."

I'll see if I can find a different source. Thanks.

[Ian David]

6. Better links: Iran’s New Defense Minister: Behind the 1983 Attack on the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks

Iran's new defense minister orchestrated attacks on US, Israeli forces

Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs reports that Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, slated to be Iran's new defense minister, was responsible for building Hezbollah and was behind the suicide bombing at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Marines.

More:
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11311



Iran’s New Defense Minister: Behind the 1983 Attack on the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut
Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira


The newly-elected president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani, has appointed Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan as the new defense minister in place of Brig. Gen. Ahmad Vahidi. The appointment will take effect as soon as it is approved by the Majlis.

Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan spent his entire military career in the Revolutionary Guard, which he joined immediately after it was established in the last months of 1979. He came to the capital, Tehran, from his hometown of Shaharda in Isfahan Province, and until 1982 was commander of the Revolutionary Guard in the capital.

After the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the summer of 1982, Dehghan was sent to Lebanon. He served as commander of the training corps of the Revolutionary Guard, first in Syria and soon after in Lebanon. This role made him responsible for building up the military force of Hizbullah, which also was established at that time. After most of the Revolutionary Guard force returned from Lebanon to Iran, and the force’s commander, Ahmad Motevasselian, was kidnapped along with three other Iranians in the summer of 1982 by the Christian militia – the Lebanese Forces, Ahmad Kanani was appointed commander of the Revolutionary Guard force in Lebanon.

About a year later Hossein Dehghan replaced Kanani in that position. One of his first goals was to set up a central command for the Iranian force, which at that time was scattered among small towns and villages in the Baalbek region. At the beginning of September 1983, Hizbullah, with the help of the Revolutionary Guard headed by Dehghan, took over the Sheikh Abdullah barracks, which was seized in the course of a procession led by three Hizbullah sheikhs: Abbas Mussawi, Subhi Tufayli, and Muhammad Yazbek. It had been the main base of the Lebanese army in the Beqaa Valley and now became the Imam Ali barracks, the main headquarters of the Revolutionary Guard.

More:
http://jcpa.org/irans-new-defense-minister-behind-the-1983-attack-on-the-u-s-marine-corps-barracks-in-beirut/

[Ash_F]

7. The article still lacks confirmable citations for such a serious allegation.

I don't know of Dr. Shimon Shapira but would be wary of taking one man's claims at face value, especially when he does not say how he came about such info.

[Ash_F]

8. Also it's not really a better link.

Because it is the original article cited in the OP. So it is the same really.

[JackRiddler]

9. This is an abuse of the language.

"US and Israeli forces in Lebanon."

Terrorism might be a meaningful term if applied to attacks on civilians.

Attacks on forces in a warzone are acts of war.

Certainly there could be no "terror" attacks on the uniformed Israeli military invaders and occupiers of Lebanese territory, these are by definition acts in war.

Anyway, thanks for the daily dose of Israeli state propaganda. At least you're not linking to Press TV, that would be terrible!