Top Level Iranian Defector: I Regularly Saw ‘North Korean Technicians’ in Tehran
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 9, 2010, 9:32 AM
Former Iranian diplomat Mohammed Reza Heydari, seen here in January 2010, says he regularly saw North Korean technicians at Tehran airport between 2002 and 2007. (France 24)
The former Iranian consul general to Norway told reporters on Tuesday that he had regularly seen North Korean technicians at the Tehran airport between 2002 and 2007.
France 24 reported:
A former Iranian diplomat who defected to the West said on Tuesday he had regularly seen North Korean technicians at Tehran airport between 2002 and 2007.
Western intelligence agencies suspect North Korea may be helping Iran to develop long-range ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons technology. Tehran insists it simply wants to develop civilian nuclear power.
Mohammed Reza Heydari, Iran’s former consul general in Norway, defected amid protests in his homeland over Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s disputed re-election. Norway granted him asylum in February.On Tuesday he told reporters at a meeting organised by the Paris-based think-tank the Centre of Political and Foreign Affairs that he had seen North Koreans when he had been a foreign ministry official at Tehran airport.
“I saw them with my own eyes,” he said. “They were treated in a very discreet manner, in order to pass through without being seen.”
Heydari said he was “100 percent certain” that these contacts continue and alleged he had spoken to members of Iran’s hardline Revolutionary Guards Corps who confirmed that Iran plans to build a bomb.
“I was able to confirm that Iran has two goals — to develop the range of its ground-to-ground missiles and to obtain a nuclear weapon with the help of North Korea,” he said.
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Simon commented:
Jim, thanks for all the posts! -And that goes for most others here, too!
save us commented:
Maybe Bush was right about the axis of evil. Too bad nothing has been done about it. Iran has been allowed to grow stronger and increasingly hostile, killing our soldiers without any response. Whenever we get a President with the leadership skills to take action the cost both human and otherwise will be so much greater.
Obama would rather take apart Israel than take on an enemy of the US.
Billy Jack commented:
save us commented:
Maybe Bush was right about the axis of evil.
No doubt about it !! These guys should of been delt with long ago. John Bolton has been saying this for years and no one seems to listen or care.
Neo commented:
Somebody made a big mistake.
Billy Jack commented:
Nothing to see here. Just keep moving along……Nothing to see here………
elhrac commented:
Neo, the 2007 NIE was not a mistake, it was a deliberate coup against George W. Bush and his policies by pro-Iranian elements in the intelligence community.
Ed commented:
I commented on a past post here in GP that Debkafile has reported years ago that North Korea has been collaborating with Iran on nuclear technology. now the proof comes out.
That’s one reason why GW Bush was pushing for a missile defense shield in Europe. Now that Obambi has shot down the missile defense shield just to make himself look good to Russia, I guess the rest of europe can either wake up to the danger and push for their own missile defense shield OR do what they’ve been doing, roll over and wait for the missiles to come down on them.
S. Wolf commented:
Thank Bill Clinton.. that traitorous POS..
‘Where did Iran get such sensitive missile guidance and avionics technologies? Western intelligence services pin the blame on China, which reportedly sold the Mullahs the Nasr-1, -2 and other missile technologies.
These missiles are now mass-produced by Iran, but were “originally developed and built in China, and have been advertised as being in service with the Chinese armed forces.”
Missile technologies are only part of the problem. This is an Iranian defector, the former diplomat Mohammad Reza Heydari. He and others report that North Korea has collaborated with Iran on the design of nuclear weapons, including warhead design techniques.
And where did North Korea get its nuclear- and missile-guidance technologies? Experts point to China, with scientists stating that, “[t]here is no possibility of North Korea achieving what nuclear capability it has without Chinese help.”
In 1998, in an unprecedented repudiation of the wishes of numerous defense and intelligence officials, President William J. Clinton signed a waiver allowing a sophisticated Loral satellite to be launched into orbit by a Chinese rocket.
This is Clinton with the chairman of Loral, Bernard L. Schwartz, who coincidentally was the largest single donor to the entire Democrat Party in 1997.
In short, Clinton and the Democrats allowed sensitive technologies to escape to China. Later they rippled from China to rogue terror states like Iran and North Korea.
Thus, thanks in large part to the wanton greed and criminality of the Democrat National Committee and Bill Clinton, subsequent generations of Americans will be needlessly exposed to the risk of rogue regimes gaining access to America’s most sensitive nuclear and missile guidance secrets.’
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/12/walking-back-wildcat.html
bg commented:
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hah, keep telling you GWB threw a huge monkey wrench into
the NWO agenda, which is why Obama is making everything go
so “crisis and chaos” at warp speed to make up for lost time, ie:
imperative transitioning legislation (ie: ObamaCare)..
(btw, HK lying, we are well into the changes the Elites agenda fully
intend to bring to fruition (ie: S510), of which i repeat, GWB breaked
on down, Obama revved on up)..
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S. Wolf commented:
bg
I agree…
‘Under Bush and the Republican Congress from 2000-2006 federal spending was bad, and many people groused. But Obama has turned it up to 11, running up trillion-dollar-plus deficits that dwarf the worst we saw under Bush and the congressional Republicans, and producing open revolt from Tea Partiers and others.
Under Bush, and previous presidents, government regulation was creeping up steadily, year by year. But under Obama, the regulatory knobs have been turned to 11: New health care laws, a new financial regulation bill, proposals for carbon taxes and new Environmental Protection Agency regulation of carbon dioxide — the list seems endless, made even worse by the near-body-cavity-searching now being done by the Transportation Security Administration. (Tufnel’s grand opus, a bondage-themed album titled “Smell the Glove,” sounds all too close to air-travel reality now. . . .)
Under Bush, the left complained about the U.S. campaign in Afghanistan, which candidate Obama characterized as “just air-raiding villages and killing civilians.” But under Obama, air raids and drone attacks have drastically increased, not only in Afghanistan, but in Pakistan, Yemen and elsewhere. Obama has turned the air-raid knob up to 11.
Under Bush and previous presidents, political friends were rewarded with government money. But under Obama, the cronyism has been turned up to 11, with General Motors and Chrysler bondholders stiffed to reward union members, with massive federal grants (later rescinded) to a voter-fraud ridden ACORN, and with numerous other special carve-outs for Obama-supporting special interests.
Under Bush and previous presidents, the Justice Department was sometimes politicized, but under Obama, the politicization has been turned up to 11, with blatant favoritism in the refusal to pursue voter-intimidation charges against the New Black Panther Party, and with repeated complaints from insiders about the corruption of the Civil Rights Division.
For Nigel Tufnel, turning the knobs to 11 was a way to excite the crowd, and Obama’s approach has certainly done that, if not quite in the way that Obama intended. While many Americans were uneasy about big government before, Obama’s shock-and-awe approach got them downright upset.’
Obama presidency turns government up to 11
southernsue commented:
i do not trust this iranian.
we already know about this thru wikileaks.
no one defects from iran or being a muslim.
i don’t believe anything he says, he is here for a reason. remember how our intelligence people were just duped by an imposter?
bg commented:
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southernsue #11
so ignore him & check out the evidence..
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Bill Rind commented:
it’s all apart of the dysfunctional united crap house in new york city supposedly getting down to the bottom of this. when all along turning their heads away to allow them to build a bomb. they should remove the that crap house from our shores and set it up in the red chinese land commies.
bg commented:
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Bill Rind #13
speaking of China..
“People who abhor the China one-child
policy are dumb-dumbs” ~ Ted Turner
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