Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Those Reports of Secret U.S.-Iran Meeting [Michael Rubin]
Danish defense specialist Ali Alfoneh tracked down the Swiss magazine cited in the
Persian-language account of an alleged secret meeting between Secretary Gates and President Ahmadinejad in Qatar. Original (in German)
here. Ali's translation from the German:
...Defense Secretary Gates met Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the latest GCC summit. At the meeting, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and U.S. military signed a secret non aggression pact. Most remarkably, the U.S. war faction had designated the Revolutionary Guards, a military institution parallel with the regular army as a 'terrorist' force." A few hours after the signing of the secret deal, the Pentagon and the CIA had published the hitherto top secret National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran's nuclear program through the media.
I'm not familiar with the Swiss magazine to judge its credibility, and rumors fly around Iran. This doesn't seem all that credible, but rumors are important in their own right in a region where perception means more than reality. Certainly, if the White House had been more consistent and transparent on Iran policy, such rumors wouldn't fly.
01/09 10:52 AM
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