US Secretly Funding Iranian Insurgency?

A new investigative piece from the Telegraph suggests that the endless harping on Iran from the Bush administration is about more than saber rattling, but is in fact an explanation for a covert war against Iran that has already begun.

America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme.

In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran's border regions.

The operations are controversial because they involve dealing with movements that resort to terrorist methods in pursuit of their grievances against the Iranian regime.

In the past year there has been a wave of unrest in ethnic minority border areas of Iran, with bombing and assassination campaigns against soldiers and government officials.

Such incidents have been carried out by the Kurds in the west, the Azeris in the north-west, the Ahwazi Arabs in the south-west, and the Baluchis in the south-east.
If this is true, it smacks of the cold war zero-sum-game mentality that allowed for the creation of organizations like al-Qaeda in the first place (Western backing of Afghani militia groups as proxies against the Soviets provided them the expertise and equipment to later terrorize Western interests.) One would hope that the US had learned that lesson the hard way, but apparently not.

Secretly financing and helping violent groups within Iran could also subvert ongoing diplomatic efforts to reach a peaceful consensus on the question of Iran's military status. With a meeting coming up that will likely pit the US against Iran in a standoff over its desire to process nuclear fuel for what many, including the US, believe is for weaponizing purposes, evidence that the US is covertly attempting to sabotage Iran would certainly seem to cede the moral high ground, or whatever is left of it after Iraq.

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