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Pajamas Media has the story:

[Editor’s note: Pajamas Media has spoken with “Reza Khalili’s” attorney in Washington, D.C. who confirmed Khalili “had a working relationship with a US intelligence agency.” We have also seen a copy of the June 5, 2008 email sent by the agency’s “Manuscript Review” department authorizing the publication of this article.

In an interview with Roger L. Simon, “Khalili” further amplifies his accusation of Iranian involvement in Lockerbie and addresses the controversial question of whether the Shiite mullahs would form alliances with Sunnis. A transcript of the interview is here. More interviews with “Khalili” in disguised video form will be coming in the future from PJM. ]

The men who ordered the destruction of the Pan Am flight over Lockerbie and the bombings of the Marine Corps barracks in Lebanon, the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, and the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia are pursuing the nuclear program in Iran and with one goal in mind: to obtain The Bomb.

And they want to destroy you.

After the Iranian Revolution, I was an officer in the Revolutionary Guards. I was also a spy working for the CIA, code name Wally. My position in the Guards gave me access to the Khomeini regime’s deep secrets and a firsthand look at the unfolding horror: torture, rapes, executions, assassinations, suicide bombers, training of terrorists, and the transfer of arms and explosives to other countries to support terrorist attacks. I risked my life and my family’s trying to expose this regime because I believed it should be stopped. Once again I incur such risks to bring awareness that lack of action endangers the world.

In the mid-80s, I reported to the CIA that the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit had information that Saddam Hussein had made a strategic decision to acquire nuclear arms. I heard this from several sources within the Guards and also in a conversation with a member of the intelligence unit, who told me that the Guards were informed through arms dealers in the black market that Saddam was desperately looking for an atomic bomb. It was then that the Guards’ commanders and Iranian leadership decided to go nuclear and actively shop for components in the black market because they made a determination that the Iran-Iraq war could not have been won without a nuclear bomb. Mohsen Rezaei, then-commander of the Revolutionary Guards, requested permission from Ayatollah Khomeini to make Iran a nuclear power. Khomeini agreed…

Do read the whole thing – most of what is discussed is pretty well known to those who have paid attention over the years, at least in the sense that some of the horrible things which have happened (Lockerbie, eg) almost certainly had an Iranian origin. Its good to get some inside confirmation, but more important is the light this sheds on the attitudes of Iran’s leaders – the people Obama wants to talk to without preconditions, that is.

As Winston Churchill once pointed out, “jaw jaw is better than war war” – let us, indeed, talk to the Iranians till the cows come home (or the 12th Imam arrives, which ever is sooner) but let us also have no illusions: we’re dealing with a hodge-podge of human debris which is cowardly, corrupt, cruel and insane, with the added uncertainty of never knowing which element is predominant at any given time. For our advantage, “cowardly” and “corrupt” work best…dealing with greedy chickens is pretty easy, after all. But given that “cruel” and “insane” can pop up at any time we must keep our minds fixed on this one thing: The current Iranian government must not be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons.

There is no set of circumstances where the world will be safer with nuclear-armed mullahs. There is no set of circumstances where military action to prevent such a thing will be worse than allowing the mullahs to obtain nuclear weapons. It is literally a matter of millions of lives – perhaps tens of millions – being at risk with a nuclear-armed Iran, while the life risk of military action would not run higher than into the tens of thousands, in the worst case scenarios (and, well done, would probably only risk into the low thousands). Do keep in mind that we never, ever have to invade Iran – military action would be naval and aerial, with some special forces work and, perhaps, some temporary landings on the Iranian coast to destroy missile and naval facilities. The bugbear the left throws at us of having to march on Tehran is just bluster designed to scare us off any action at all.

I would have preferred we dealt with Iran back in 2006, or 2007 at the latest – President Bush determined otherwise, and I hope to one day find out whether there was a really good reason for not acting. Be that as it may, its now mid-2008 and the mullahs are tooling along steadily towards a nuclear weapon (and, good people, there is no other possible interpretation on Iran’s nuclear effort – only the willfully blind could consider it as a peaceful use of nuclear energy); the next President will have to deal with this. And in so dealing, the next President – rather quickly in his term, I suspect – will have to decide whether he wants to allow Iran to obtain nukes (and thus place us in a junior-league, but much nastier, Cold War with the prospect of huge casualties if “insane” comes out on top), or if he wants to cut out the cancer by military action with a hope that by the time the mullahs can reconstitute their progam, they will finally have been overthrown by the long suffering – but increasingly restive – Iranian people.