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Mousavi, Celebrated in Iranian Protests, Was the Butcher of Beirut

By Jeff Stein | June 22, 2009 7:45 PM | | Comments (4)

He may yet turn out to be the avatar of Iranian democracy, but three decades ago Mir-Hossein Mousavi was waging a terrorist war on the United States that included bloody attacks on the U.S. embassy and Marine Corps barracks in Beirut.
 
Mousavi, prime minister for most of the 1980s, personally selected his point man for the Beirut terror campaign, Ali Akbar Mohtashemi-pur, and dispatched him to Damascus as Iran's ambassador, according to former CIA and military officials.

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US-Protected Iran Exile Group in Line for Huge Cash Windfall

By Jeff Stein | January 28, 2009 7:00 AM | | Comments (1)

The controversial Iranian exile organization MEK, which the United States calls a terrorist group, could soon see a windfall of tens of millions of dollars as the result of the European Union's decision Monday to take it off its list of terrorist organizations.

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Ex-Spy's New Book: Iran, Russia Cornering Oil

By Jeff Stein | October 6, 2008 2:28 PM | | Comments (0)

Depressed by the market news? Try this for a quick pick-me-up:
 
"An emerging alliance between Iran and Russia will lead to a stranglehold over Gulf and Caspian oil exports, potentially threatening half the world's traded oil (equal to 24-25 million barrels per day) and Europe's gas supply," ex-CIA operative Robert Baer  says in a new book,  The Devil You Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.

Of course, with oil tumbling below $90 a barrel today on the prospect of a global depression, Iran and Russia could also end up turning on each other in an old fashioned, gas station-style price war.  

Baer, a CIA counterterrorism agent in Beirut, Tajikistan and Paris, among other assignments, also predicts "Pakistan will break apart, as will Iraq, all the more increasing America's need for new allies and a realignment of power."

And those allies would be ... ?  Who's left? 

Baer's first book, See No Evil,  a memoir of his CIA service in the Middle East and elsewhere, formed the basis for the movie Syriana. 

Tags: CIA, India, Iran, Pakistan, Robert Baer, Russia