{"id":16164,"date":"2012-10-15T16:39:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16164"},"modified":"2012-10-15T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T20:59:27","slug":"in-iran-a-blueprint-for-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16164\/in-iran-a-blueprint-for-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"In Iran, a Blueprint for Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Der Spiegel <\/em>today carries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/world\/iranians-planning-to-create-environmental-catastrophe-in-hormuz-strait-a-861343.html\" target=\"_blank\">a chilling profile<\/a> of General Mohammad Ali Jafari, Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, that includes this provocative piece of intelligence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; [Amongst Iranian hardliners]\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Jafari, 55, is seen being particularly unyielding. In 2009, for example, he declared that Iran would fire missiles at Israel&#8217;s nuclear research center in Dimona if the Israelis attacked Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities &#8212; knowing full well that such an attack would result in several thousand deaths on both sides.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18px;\">Now Jafari and his supporters are allegedly preparing new potential horrors. Western intelligence agencies have acquired a plan marked &#8220;top secret&#8221; and code-named &#8220;Murky Water.&#8221; Together with Ali Fadawi, an admiral in the Pasdaran, Jafari is thought to have proposed a senseless act of sabotage: to intentionally cause an environmental catastrophe in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18px;\">The goal of the plan seems to be that of contaminating the strait so as to temporarily close the important shipping route for international oil tankers, thereby &#8220;punishing&#8221; the Arab countries that are hostile to Iran and forcing the West to join Iran in a large-scale cleanup operation &#8212; one that might require the temporary suspension of sanctions against Tehran.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: 18px;\">I don&#8217;t know which is the more disturbing thought: that a senior official in the Iranian military would be willing to consider such gratuitous environmental destruction &#8212; or that it might be the only thing that gets the left interested in the evils of the Iranian regime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Der Spiegel today carries a chilling profile of General Mohammad Ali Jafari, Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, that includes this provocative piece of intelligence: &#8230; [Amongst Iranian hardliners]\u00a0Jafari, 55, is seen being particularly unyielding. In 2009, for example, he declared that Iran would fire missiles at Israel&#8217;s nuclear research center in Dimona if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[216,130,3888,731],"class_list":["post-16164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-foreign-policy","tag-iran","tag-mohammad-ali-jafari","tag-national-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16164"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16175,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164\/revisions\/16175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}