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Baztab: Asgari Was Kidnapped

By Kamangir • Mar 10th, 2007 • Category: Iran

Baztab claims that the wife and the children of Ali Reza Asgari, the Iranian General who is missing, are in Iran. Despite previous news that said he and his family are in an unknown place, outside Iran, and that he has surrendered himself to the US, and is cooperating with them, Baztab claims that his family are desperately looking for him. Baztab also claims that the residence of the “retired” general does not show any sign of the will for “immigration”. Baztab concludes that he is most likely to be kidnapped by the Mossad or the CIA.

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  1. Vince P on March 11th, 2007 at 12:08 am:

    I thought the Iranians were bragging about how easy it was for Americans to be kidnapped… people in Iran are being kidnapped, defecting and assainated one after another lately.. i hope nothing happens to that one guy who said that.

  2. Alex Forshaw on March 11th, 2007 at 12:54 am:

    So do you think he was kidnapped?

    I read somewhere that his wife and family were already out of the country waiting for him in Turkey.

    Regardless, I think the Iranians are “negotiating” while they frantically reshuffle the deck of their Hezbollah cells, and their many plants in the Mehdi Army and the Badr Brigades.

    I would think that the Americans would have acted on his information regarding Iran’s plants in Iraqi forces. It could only improve the US’s bargaining position, with the added benefit of giving Ahmadinejad’s domestic opponents (Rafsanjani) a lot of extra grist for impeachment.

    If we don’t see a mass of arrests in the very near future, or American attacks on the Mehdi/Badr forces in the near future, I will begin to doubt the value of Askari’s information. The US has nothing to lose by leveraging it to the hilt…

  3. ella on March 11th, 2007 at 3:49 am:

    yahoo had this information 2 days ago
    According to the London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat on Wednesday, Asgari had been spirited out to a northern European country where he was being debriefed by military experts.

    The reports have not received independent confirmation.
    Whatever, he disappeared and probably is debriefed now, either voluntarily or involuntarily. If he disappeared voluntarily (aka defected) I hope his family got out of Iran.

    As for Baztab article, it may be true or they may try to “limit the damage”. I think there is no point in speculating just yet what really happened because everybody will try to tell different story.

  4. Kashk on March 11th, 2007 at 3:53 am:

    A member of the Norwegian intelligence services said that Iranian agents had gone to Norway in order to find the general Ali Reza Azghari, who seems to have deserted to the West. (Guysen.Israël.News)
    According to the Washington Post, citing highly placed sources, the Iranian general Ali Reza Azghari deserted Iran of his own free will for the West, aided by Israel, and was not kidnapped. His desertion was organized by the Mossad and he is being questioned now by Western intelligence services

  5. Vince P on March 11th, 2007 at 9:30 am:

    I wonder what that Iranian official who claimed how it easy it is to kidnap Americans is thinking. Iran has been having trouble keeping its people from dying or defecting.

  6. Vince P on March 11th, 2007 at 9:31 am:

    oh i didn’t notice my comment number 1 existed, I thought the web ate it. I didnt’ mean to duplicate the message.

  7. Carlos on March 11th, 2007 at 10:10 pm:

    There are some news about Asgari.He was a “mole” from 2003,and now he is in Germany in a NATO base.

  8. ella on March 12th, 2007 at 3:06 am:

    Carlos

    Have just seen the news from Sunday Times, UK
    “AN Iranian general who defected to the West last month had been spying on Iran since 2003 when he was recruited on an overseas business trip, according to Iranian sources.

    This weekend Brigadier General Ali Reza Asgari, 63, the former deputy defence minister, is understood to be undergoing debriefing at a Nato base in Germany after he escaped from Iran, followed by his family.

    A daring getaway via Damascus was organised by western intelligence agencies after it became clear that his cover was about to be blown. Iran’s notorious secret service, the Vavak, is believed to have suspected that he was a high-level mole.”

    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1497034.ece

  9. Carlos on March 12th, 2007 at 9:34 pm:

    Ella
    The desinformation campaign is just start.Do not make a brainstorm on the whereabouts of Asgari.May be will be know soon.

  10. parvaz on May 5th, 2007 at 8:42 am:

    hi!im happy about that some one who care’s about iran and it’s colture.a few people know about iran we should show them what iran is.

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