Stoking fear: New York’s Iran terror

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Published time: February 16, 2012 03:30
Edited time: February 17, 2012 01:15

The Empire State Building (R) stands tall on the skyline of midtown Manhattan in New York (Reuters / Gary Hershorn)

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Big Apple Lawmakers are spreading fear, while the international rhetoric heats up over Tehran's nuclear ambitions and alleged links to attacks on Israeli diplomats.

New York Senator Chuck Schumer told the US State Department it should increase its scrutiny of Iranian diplomats and claimed some were Iranian govt agents.

“With Iran’s increasingly bellicose and threatening behavior it’s imperative that agents of the Iranian government in the United States receive additional scrutiny to ensure that they pose no threat to New York or the rest of the country,” Schumer said.

He pointed to “activities overseas” in which Israeli diplomats were targeted for assassination in Tbilisi, New Delhi and Bangkok, as evidence for the need to closely monitor Iranian “agents” in New York. Iran’s involvement in the incidents has yet to be proven, although Israel immediately concluded that Tehran was behind them.

Schumer also wrote a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton linking the recent blasts to Iran, maintaining that it was “absolutely unacceptable that Iran’s UN mission is permitted to allow officials from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence to live and operate in New York with official diplomatic cover.”

Schumer’s statement followed a warning by the Israeli National Security Service that Jewish cultural centers and synagogues could become targets of a terror plot supposedly organized by Iran-sponsored Lebanese group Hezbollah.

On Tuesday Michael Silber, the New York Police Department’s (NYPD) director for intelligence analysis, called Iran a “front-burner issue,” adding: “I hesitate to say it’s No. 1, because we don’t want to ignore the other threats, but right now, it’s essentially No. 1.”

Silber also published an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal headlined “The Iranian Threat to New York City”. In it, he cites last year's botched plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to the US, as well as two deadly bomb blasts that took place in the 1990s in Argentina as examples of Iranian-directed terrorist activities.

“The NYPD must assume that New York City could be targeted by Iran or Hezbollah.” Silber writes, saying the Big Apple’s large Jewish population could make it an attractive target. He also noted that Iran already has a history of “spying” in New York, recalling a 2004 incident when two security guards attached to Iran’s UN mission were expelled from the country for “conducting surveillance” of the city’s subways and landmarks. The two men had apparently been taking photos and videos of locations deemed “sensitive” by authorities.

In the meantime, Iran unveiled its first domestically-manufactured nuclear fuel rod in a ceremony attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, proving it can create nuclear fuel on its own.

Israel has reportedly been mulling a preemptive strike against Iran, which it most recently blamed for the bombings in Tbilisi, New Delhi and Bangkok. Iran maintains its innocence and accuses Israel of trying to damage its relations with Thailand.

The veracity of the claims brought up by the US authorities against Iran remains to be questioned as it is largely based on speculated links between terrorist organizations and Iran. On none of these occasions has Iran’s involvement actually been proven.

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maes (unregistered) 17.02.2012 00:15

AnAmerican wrote in #2
""""New York should fear Israel more than Iran, at least Israel has launched direct attacks on Americans. (USS Liberty, 1967 false flag operation, tried to get us to attack Iran by attacking our ship...good thing our ships are so strong they couldn't sink it, bad thing they killed 47 sailors and injured 180 more)""""bravo man! this has wipped out of history and i like to add Arien Rachel Corrie and those 3000 americans in sep11just for God sake do you realy think that barbaric and foreign persons can easily hijack a plane and.... in the middle of USA without any aid?! and 10 years! all of Nato seeking them! and killing the only culpirit without any court and evidence!!! I WANT TO SHOUT WE ARE NOT FOO!

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Emilios 17.02.2012 00:07

art wrote in #20
=> Rigby wrote:
//Iran(P ersia) has for 3000 years wanted to destroy western culture.// 3000 years ago, Iranic Scythians in today's Russia had melted away west into Europe, east into central Asia and China and replaced by the primitive White Huns from Siberia. Iranic peoples already in the Iranian plateau had to build the Great Wall of Gorgan in the north stretching from today's Iraq border to Caspian Sea and from the other side to today's Afghanistan border. The purpose of it was to bulwark against random ambushes of the nomadic expanding White Huns from the north. A thousand years later, Chinese found the idea useful to protect themselves from Mongols from the north and built the Great Wall of China. Europe was too disoriented to realize the danger and fortify itself until Attila the Hun took off on conquering the entire continent 1500 years ago. He almost finished the job until he met the Iranic Scythians who had settled in Orleans in today's France. Under their Alan king Sangiban they defeated Attila for the first time in the Battle of Charlons in 541. The event nucleated a total collapse of Hunnic take over attempt of Europe in the following years. Today, the entire Western world is coming under the control of the mongrel generation that Attila's army left behind. This time their cruel hardware is equipped with a powerful software of Judaism which keeps them stealth. This has fooled many, but not Iranians. And eerily it is Iran that has risen again to counter their attempt. Last time Germans and Romans helped Sangiban to defeat the Huns. Hopefully this time Iranians get help too.

Indeed, very truthful and eloquent statement, woe to western world for their greed and evil, they have betrayed their nations for miserable price of fil..y jew money.

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Emilios 16.02.2012 23:42

Plato wrote in #20
@ Stoops I got my "countries right." Either you are thinking of the 1st Gulf War, in which case get your wars right; or you have been grossly misinformed about the causes of the last Iraq war, which means you are an American. If the last part is true, then educating you would be pointless and a huge waste of my time. @ Atossa 1984 is the exact novel that I was thinking of when I read Deborah C's comment. I believe that America is a cross between 1984 and Brave New World: eerily similar to both dystopian novels. Great comment. Indeed American are the greatest victims of Mainstream Media, the Bible, which they never read is being explained by NWO agent, or agenture as stated in the protocols of Zion. They (majority) are hopelessly brainwashed, beyond repair and truly educating them is enormous waste of precious time. The Bible, which is manifestly altered by the Cabbalists and Fareesees albeit so called St. Paul, clearly states how jews have proecuted and killed many profets and messengers, yet american have nerve to lecture us about Devine Right of jews to enslave, rape, plunder the Goyim (including americans and america), yet they think it is just, what a people, God protect me of such ignorance.

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