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October 14, 2012

‘Murky Waters’

According to Germany’s Der Spiegel, Iran’s chess masters are plotting their next move against the West, dubbing their secret plan “Murky Waters” (see below).

Those who’ve come to understand the Iranian mindset won’t (and shouldn’t) be surprised by the plan, as it's the kind of devious thinking many of us have come to expect from the Iranians. The Iranian regime comes up with devious plots, and the West comes up with reasons not to worry, as such plots are not in "Iran’s interests."

Of course, this assumes America (i.e., the West) understands the Islamic mindset and what the Iranian regime views as its interests.

Well, look at the recent Benghazi-gate. Here we are in the middle of an Islamic Spring, witnessing barbaric convulsions throughout the Arab/Muslim world. The US Consulate in, of all places, Libya (which since the early 1970s, has been foremost on the list of countries supporting and churning out terrorists) is given minimal, if any security and then attacked on, of all days, 9/11.

The US Ambassador and three other Americans are murdered, the consulate is mostly destroyed, and the American flag is replaced with the black flag of al Qaeda. So what does our Commander-in-Chief and his administration do? They adopt a rallying cry of the Campaign Must Go On(!), and continue doing what they’ve been doing for most of their term, i.e., campaigning for reelection.

Any wonder ally, Israel can't rely on the current American administration? Picture Obama et al saying - to borrow Mark Steyn’s words - “Gee, they nuked Israel. D’you think that will hurt us in Florida?”

Any wonder Americans, who've had their eyes (and ears) wide open, feel extremely unsafe with the current Commander-in-Chief?

Obama's buffoonish Second-in-Command goes around saying, “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!” Perhaps a more accurate statement would be: Osama bin Laden is dead, and so are America's ambassador to Libya and three of his patriotic staffers.

Times of Israel  |  October 14, 2012

Iran May Induce 'Environmental Disaster' In Strait of Hormuz, Der Spiegel Reports

Secret plan — dubbed 'Murky Waters' — would reportedly force West to participate in cleanup, ease sanctions

By Raphael Ahren

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Satellite view of the Strait of Hormuz (photo credit: NASA/Public domain)

Iran is considering the option of artificially producing an enormous environmental disaster that would affect the entire region, in order to punish its enemies and force the West to decrease the sanctions against the regime, Der Spiegel reported on Sunday.

According to Western intelligence agencies quoted by the the German news weekly, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have developed a secret plan to intentionally cause an oil tanker to contaminate the strategically important Strait of Hormuz.

Dubbed “Murky Waters,” the plan is reportedly the brainchild of Revolutionary Guard head Mohammad Ali Jafari and Iranian Navy commander Admiral Ali Fadawi. The purpose of the environmental disaster would be to block the Strait of Hormuz to international oil tankers, and to “punish” states in the area that are hostile to Iran, according to the report. Furthermore, Western nations, forced to cooperate with Iran in efforts to clean the strait, would conceivably be forced to reduce the sanctions currently placed on the Islamic Republic.

The plan is currently in the hands of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who would be the one deciding about its implementation, the magazine said.

On Saturday, Khamenei vowed to defy the efforts of the West and Israel to thwart the regime’s nuclear ambitions. “We should not neglect the enemy,” he said at a public lecture. “One day it’s talk of sanctions. Another day it’s talk of military aggression. And one day, it’s talk of soft war… But they should rest assured that… our enemies will fail in all their conspiracies and tricks.”

One-fifth of the world’s oil transports pass through the Strait of Hormuz, which is why the US has said it would not tolerate the closure of the strait, something Iran has threatened in the past. In July, Adm. Ali Reza Tangsiri, a senior Iranian navy commander, said Tehran had no plans to close the strait.

Original article here.


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