{"id":9728,"date":"2019-05-08T10:20:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T05:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/?p=9728"},"modified":"2021-10-02T11:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T07:58:48","slug":"us-acted-on-vague-mossad-tip-off-when-it-sent-strike-group-to-middle-east-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/posts\/9728","title":{"rendered":"US acted on vague Mossad tip-off when it sent strike group to Middle East \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mossad MEK Iran tip-off not trustworthy<\/strong>
\nA US aircraft carrier group and bomber task force were deployed to the Middle East after a tip-off on a \u201ccredible threat\u201d from Iran, which came, conveniently vague and timely, from Israeli spy agency Mossad, it has been reported.<\/p>\n

At an April 15 meeting in Washington, Israeli National Security Council chief Meir Ben-Shabbat passed along a warning to US National Security Advisor John Bolton, senior Israeli officials told Axios. The information Bolton received was left vague: the attack could hit a US target in the Persian Gulf, or maybe Saudi Arabia, or maybe the UAE.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is still unclear to us what the Iranians are trying to do and how they are planning to do it,\u201d one of the senior officials said, but added it was \u201cclear\u201d that an unspecified event would take place sometime in the future, which would have unstated consequences.<\/p>\n

The Axios report was corroborated by a separate report from Israel\u2019s channel 13 journalist Barak Ravid, who claimed that Israel had handed over information to the US about an alleged Iranian plot to target US interests in the Gulf.<\/p>\n

However elusive the bait, Washington eagerly dashed to bite, deploying the USS \u2018Abraham Lincoln\u2019 carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East, in a maneuver that just happens to play right into Israel\u2019s hands.<\/p>\n

Under the Trump administration, the US has been parroting Israel\u2019s hardline policies towards Iran, the Jewish state\u2019s regional archrival, first withdrawing from the landmark 2015 nuclear deal and then hitting Tehran with fresh rounds of sanctions. Last month, Washington went as far as to formally designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a \u201cterrorist organization.\u201d Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu laid bare his relationship with US President Donald Trump, saying the terrorist listing was done at Netanyahu\u2019s \u201crequest.\u201d<\/p>\n

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan did not specify from where he received the valuable intelligence, tweeting only that the deployment of the strike group \u201crepresents a prudent repositioning of assets in response to indications of a credible threat by Iranian regime forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Mossad doesn\u2019t have the most trustworthy record when it comes to intelligence on Iran. It was likely the Mossad who, in 2004, passed fabricated documents to Iranian opposition group the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) which falsely portrayed Iran\u2019s civilian nuclear energy program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Mossad doesn\u2019t have the most trustworthy record when it comes to intelligence on Iran. It was likely the Mossad who, in 2004, passed fabricated documents to Iranian opposition group the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) which falsely portrayed Iran\u2019s civilian nuclear energy program. Mossad MEK Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[85,243,178,20],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[609],"class_list":["post-9728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-proxy-force","tag-mujahedin-khalq-terrorism","tag-treason-mujahedin-khalq","tag-pmoi-iran-people","tag-third-view-mek","module-article","ctype-story","blog-russia-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=9728"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=9728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}