The planned scenario for a war with Iran is playing out before our eyes at frightening speed now. Unfortunately. as I have frequently said, Iran has a regime that is not only thuggish but controlled by theocratic nutters: the attack on the British Embassy played perfectly into the hands of the neo-cons. William Hague is smirking like the cat who got the cream.
The importance of the Fox-Gould-Werritty scandal is that it lifts the lid on the fact that the move to war with Iran is not a reaction to any street attack or any nuclear agency report. It is a long nurtured plan, designed to keep feeding the huge military industrial war machine that has become a huge part of the UK and US economies, and whose sucking up of trillions of dollars has contributed massively to the financial crisis, and which forms a keystone in the whole South Sea Bubble corporate finance system for servicing the ultra-rich. They need constant, regenerative war. They feed on the shattered bodies of small children.
Gould, Fox and Werritty were plotting with Israel to further war with Iran over years. The Werritty scandal was hushed up by Gus O’Donnell’s risibly meagre “investigation” – a blatant cover-up – and Fox resigned precisely to put a cap on any further digging into what they had been doing. I discovered – with a lot of determination and a modicum of effort – that Fox, Werritty and British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould had met many times, not the twice that Gus O’Donnell claimed, and had been in direct contact with Mossad over plans to attack Iran. Eventually the Independent published it, a fortnight after it went viral on the blogosphere.
The resignation of the Defence Secretary in a scandal is a huge political event. People still talk of the Profumo scandal 50 years later. But Fox’s resignation was forgotten by the media within a fortnight, even though it is now proven that the Gus O’Donell official investigation into the affair was a tissue of lies.
Take only these undisputed facts:
Fox Gould and Werritty met at least five times more than the twice the official investigation claims
The government refuses to say how often Gould and Werritty met without Fox
The government refuses to release the Gould-Werritty correspondence
The three met with Mossad
How can that not be a news story? I spent the most frustrating fortnight of my life trying to get a newspaper – any newspaper – to publish even these bare facts. I concentrated my efforts on the Guardian.
I sent all my research, and all the evidence for it, in numeorus emails to the Guardian, including to David Leigh, Richard Norton-Taylor, Rupert Neate and Seumas Milne. I spoke to the first three, several times. I found a complete resistance to publishing anything on all those hidden Fox/Werritty/Gould meetings, or what they tell us about neo-con links with Israel.
Why? Guardian Media Group has a relationship with an Israel investment company, Apax, but the Guardian strongly denies that this has any effect on them.
The Guardian to this day has not published the fact that there were more Fox-Gould-Werritty meetings than O’Donnell disclosed. Why?
I contacted the Guardian to tell them I intended to publish this article, and invited them to give a statement. Here it is, From David Leigh, Associate Editor:
I hope your blogpost will carry the following response in full.
1. I know nothing of any Israeli stake in the ownership of the Guardian. As it is owned by the Scott Trust, not any Israelis, your suggestion sems a bit mad.
2. The Guardian has not “refused” to publish any information supplied by you. On the contrary, I personally have been spending my time looking into it, as I told you previously. I have no idea what the attitude of others in “the Guardian” is. I form my own opinions about what is worth publishing, and don’t take dictation from others. That includes you.
3. I can’t imagine what you are hinting at in your reference to Assange. If you’ve got a conspiracy theory, why don’t you spit it out?
I can understand your frustration, Craig, when others don’t join up the dots in the same way as you. But please try not to be offensive, defamatory, or plain daft about it.
As I said, it would be honest of you to publish my response in full if you want to go ahead with these unwarranted attacks on the Guardian’s integrity.
Possible some Guardian readers will get drawn to this post: at least then they will find out that Werritty, Fox and Gould held many more meetings, hushed up by O’Donnell and hushed up by the Guardian.
It should not be forgotten that the Guardian never stopped supporting Blair and New Labour, even when he was presiding over illegal wars and the massive widening of the gap between rich and poor. My point about Assange is that he has done a great deal to undermine the neo-con war agenda – and the Guardian is subjecting him to a campaign of denigration. On the other hand Gould/Fox/Werritty were pushing a neo-con project for war – and the Guardian is actively complicit in the cover-up of their activities.
The Guardian. Whom does it serve?
BBC doc. on Lionel Richie in its ‘America season.’ Richie, you recall, sang the first Noel, ‘born is the King of Israel.’ Guardian describes him as ‘Pop’s chinniest balladeer.’ Very cheerful!
Were you referring to these sentences when you say ‘brilliant link’?
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‘Mr Flynn asked about meetings between Mr Werritty and Mr Samadi. Mr Samadi previously served as a diplomat in Israel and some reports have speculated that he, Mr Werritty and Dr Fox discussed a potential military strike on Israel with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
“I do not normally fall for conspiracy theories, but the ambassador has proclaimed himself to be an Iranian nationalist and he has previously served in Israel, in the service,” said Mr Flynn.’
The Guardian failed to display my comment totally. It was not refused due to their Guidelines, it was not refused for linking to this site, it was just Disappeared, as if it never happened.
There is no difference between that broadsheet and a tabloid, both are led by the nose, in case of the Guardian, the journo’s have yet to realise it, or to stop ignoring it. I suppose having a shitty job is better than to have no job at all.
See how long the Guardian can keep going with such losses mounting up, are they too big for their boots or to big to fail?
I fell for the satire didn’t I?
Clue for those wishing to post comments on CiF – don’t mention Israel by name. Zionist, Gould and Murray probably require circumlocution too. Think at least part of the censorship process involves automatic keyword recognition.
Maidhc Ó Cathail,
The projection sounds really outrageous does it not?
Good work, this genre needs to be explored further.
I enjoyed the replies section, of course Komodo will know Denis MacShane formerly known as Denis Matyjaszek, and Robert Halfon have no Shi’ite equivalents in the parliament.
I see Paul Flynn has been hauled up before the Labour Chief Whip, Rosie Winterton. She ‘voted very strongly for the Iraq war’. Most probably she would vote the same way for one on Iran.
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Paul Flynn is assuaging his critics thus:
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Flynn later released a statement which attempted to clarify these remarks.
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“Today’s accusation that I have made an anti-Semitic remark is ludicrous. I have been a lifelong friend of Israel and Jewish causes.I have visited Israel on four occasions including a private family holiday. (!!!! me)
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“Never before in my long political life has such an accusation been made. But I have been accused of being too friendly to Israel on many occasions.
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“ True. I am strongly prejudiced against a war in Iran and in favour of Israel. That is why I am demanded a legitimate inquiry into the Liam Fox/ Werrity affair by Phillip Mawer to include a full probe into the USA anti Neo-con groups influence in advancing their agenda.
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“The issue is the possibility of the UK stumbling into a war with Iran.
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“It is a disappointing Labour Party colleagues joined in the hysteria without any of them first contacting me. It’s the Ian Gibson syndrome. Attack on the basis of the publicity not on the truth of the issue.”
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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/12/02/paul-flynn-mp-in-anti-semitic-row-91466-29883025/
Of course. For anyone, Komodo, with the well-being of humanity at heart, BICOM cannot possibly be subjected to too much scrutiny. And what about all those ‘young British artists’ blithely in receipt of Zabludowicz blood money?
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PS: I note with interest that in his capacity as chief fund-raiser for Hilary Clinton’s presidential campaign, Apax co-founder Alan Patricof was seeking in effect to emulate his old mucker Sir Ronald’s success as ‘private banker’ to prime minister Brown. Unsuccessfully, as it turned out.
Mary, I’m sure Paul Flynn can handle himself, though it’s not nice being called in for a dressing-down especially when you’re in the right. The newspaper article leaves much to be desired. It contains the rather abbreviaed quote from Forward that described Matthew Gould as “not just an ambassador” full stop. What should have been quoted, if my memory serves is “not just an Israeli ambassador but an ambassador for Israel.” It’s curious how reporters can give a totally different picture by selectively quoting. But on this issue all publicity is good publicity.
Shah of Iran was tyrant who is still hated by majority of Iranians (except small number of elites who were able to benefit greatly from service to Shah).
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BUT current regime of ayatollahs mixed with charismatic leadership of Iranian president is NO better than tyranny of Shah. Opponents to the regime have been killed and tortured under Shah and they are being tortured under current regime. What Iran needs is secular opposition to the current regime. Will current regime allow such opposition?
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Majority of Iranians I met in the UK are smart people who came here to study, some of them on a scholarship. They have clear knowledge in their fields and quite open minded. They are not post Shah elite but ordinary people. Most of them told me openly that after finishing their degree they will try to stay here. WHY? Because for what it takes they cannot realise their potential, their knowledge and expertise back home where everything is under strict scrutiny of the regime. For what it takes Iran should allow such smart people to be able to realise their potential and benefit Iran and Iranians. But current regime is no much better than Shah.
PPS:
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Hilary’s successful rival was of course already well covered. As ‘Obama’s Middle East policy’ has since spectacularly confirmed, despite naive hopes to the contrary, David Axelrod, Rahm Emmanuel & the other good ole boys from Chicago made very sure of that.
Uzbek in the UK – It seems you have believing to much what BBC and other western mainstream media controlled by Zionist Rupert Murdoch and Israel Lobby. Iran is the ONLY true democracy in the Muslim world and Dr. Ahmadinejad is one of the few fearless and honest world leaders. Here is what American writer and blogger, John Kamenski, wrote about Ahmadinejad in his article “The beautiful Iranians”.
I don’t know how many times I’ve said to my friends — and they can verify it — “I wish we had a president as decent as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the current and outspoken president of Iran.
“I mean, just compare the two men as human beings. Mr. Ahmadinejad seems like a decent guy from the neighborhood, trying to tell the truth while being trampled by the demonic Jewish spin machine. And here is George W. Bush (interchangeable with Barack Obama, as have been all American presidents since U.S. Grant), revealing himself to the world as a lying, pathological killer. Hey, which one would you choose?”
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/ahmadinejad-beyond-the-zionist-propaganda/
Just some links :
As far as there being any “war” on Iran, one could say that it has already been declared, just a more covert policy (which dovetails nicely with the Obama administration’s policy of covert war-making and general global counterinsurgency – which is shaping up to look a little like a new type of cold war between US and Russia/China regarding Iran and Syria) :
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2011/11/harper-is-war-against-iran-already-underway.html
Involving cyber warfare as well :
http://www.symantec.com/business/outbreak/?id=stuxnet
See Alex Fishman at 6:25 : “How else do you pressure the Americans to raise sanctions?” :
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=7640
It’s strange though, to see the in-fighting between the Israeli security-military-intelligence apparatus (who prefer to carry on a more covert campaign, as they have been doing, see all the recent declarations by Dagan) and the three hardliner clowns Netanyahu, Barak and Liberman, who seem to be ramping up pressure more for domestic, political reasons (although Liberman is probably a true believer and fanatic).
The basic tactic though seems to be to convince the Americans that they are so irrational and dangerous (see Moché Dayan’s “mad dog” quote) that they just might go through with it – in order to leverage more sanctions. All of the press releases, discussion of Iran’s nuclear program, fear mongering Op Eds, etc. seem to be just that ; after all, Israel has most often gone to war and bombed without much discussion beforehand.
@Rehmat.
Iran is not a democracy at all. The Iranian regime is brutal to its people and that is not some spin from Jews or the BBC,it is well documented by many human rights organisations. Uzbek in the UK is correct that the regime in Iran is no better than the Shah.http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/iran
Uzbek,
Put a sock in it! You are an Uzbeck, and no Persian to understand the nuances.
Because for what it takes they cannot realise their potential, their knowledge and expertise back home where everything is under strict scrutiny of the regime.
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Trouble that these acquaintances of yours have is the fierce competition in Iran from other highly educated people, and the scramble for good jobs thereof. Your condescending “regime”, “ayatollahs” did you write these originally or has someone else thought them out, for you?
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Do try and learn; Iran is not a religious apartheid of the kind of Isreal. Iran is not a plutocracy of the kind of US, UK, et al. Iran is not a dictatorship of the kind of Saudi, Uzbekistan, UAE, Bahrain, etc. Therefore Iran is closest to the model of the “democracy” you are so hung up on. However, your notions of a “secular Democracy” not being accepted, and or entertained by the Iranians somehow does not make their choice of the mode of governance invalid, in other words Uzbek you best take heed of the Scottish proverb; “everyone is oot of step except oor Jock”. You the foreign guy evidently know what is best for Iranians, and keep on whining about it too.
Rehmat,
this Ken character is outed as a troll further up the, don’t feed the wanker.
John Goss: “It’s curious how reporters can give a totally different picture by selectively quoting.”
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Indeed. The example I use to illustrate the power of selective quoting is:
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‘Socrates proclaimed “Life is not worth living”, shortly before he killed himself in front of his distraught companions.’
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This makes him sound like a suicidal depressive, yet it is perfectly accurate. Of course the complete phrase (which itself is only part of a sentence embedded in a discourse about an imagined scenario) is: “The unexamined life is not worth living”. Moreover Socrates had been sentenced to death by drinking poison, and he was carrying it out according to the law. So quotes can be literal and accurate but truncations can change the intended meaning drastically.
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The MSM employs even more overt tactics, omitting key words, replacing phrases with ellipses, changing voice, substituting pronouns, and quoting out of context. (Witness today’s Clarkson furore.)
Nextus: The MSM employs even more overt tactics, omitting key words, replacing phrases with ellipses, changing voice, substituting pronouns, and quoting out of context. (Witness today’s Clarkson furore.)
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Yeah, this is true. It turns out that Clarkson was “innocent”. We don’t have to like him to realize that the way he was quoted was completely dishonest by anyone editing the quotes.
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That said, I think this Stewart Lee comedy clip which I’ve already linked to is more than apt when it comes to Clarkson and his fans (including Richard the Hamster Hammond).
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0i0RXMvzMs
@passerby..
It sure looks like none of you people can post anything without insulting people. That says a lot about you not me sunshine. My link to Amnesty proves my point,if you want to disagree with the Amnesty report on Iran then go a head,list some points that they are wrong on and put forth your argument why they are wrong. Just calling people names makes you look foolish.
It might be nothing but this link contains something about Tony Buckingham and financial dealings (or misdealings) but I can’t get the link to work. Can anybody else?
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http://pubsub.com/Turkish-oil-boss-hit-by-record-insider-dealing-fine_Guardian-Financial-Services-Authority-FSA-Regulators-cDHRaZWZZ3S,bPBWrbm9mVZE
passerby – you believe Ken is “troll” forchallenging “British Friends of Israel” – and I believe William Hague is a “troll” for licking Israel Lobby’s shoes.
Haque told British Friends of Israel in May 2010: “I am a natural friend of Israel. It would be a mistake to ever rule out military action against Iran,” reported by the ‘Jewish Chronicle’.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/hague-i-will-fight-iran-for-israel/
Ken, From an Iranian who is totally against this regime, but I should say it is a lot better than Shah’s regime. In Shah’t time nobody dare to talk about him or insult him, these days in Iran, people openly talk and at least let off steam. In my highschool we had secret security people, 16, 17 years old for heaven’s sake. Also this regime has done a lot for the poorest in the society, South of Tehran which was the home of Cave people, is now a bustling place with a park in every corner. Yes they are ruthless to their opponent, but not any more than Egyptian Mubarak was..Somebody once said a revolution needs maturing, so we can only hope.Iran needs an evolution not another revolution and it definetely does not need any western power to intervene.,It will change gradually, Mullah are crafty if nothing else, and they know the young want the change, it will .. inshallah
It’s OK thanks it’s a link to an old Guardian article, but worth a read.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/feb/16/genel-enerji-record-fine
The above link shows the nature of the slimy nasty creatures involved with Heritage Oil and its partner-companies. I can’t wait for the authorites to deal with Tony Buckingham, Adam Werritty and all these other slimepots!
@Azra
In Shah’t time nobody dare to talk about him or insult him, these days in Iran, people openly talk and at least let off steam.
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Funny but the Amnesty report states that people are being sent to prison for openly talking about the regime. You can read about it here.
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Freedom of expression, association and assembly
The government entrenched the severe curbs on freedom of expression, association and assembly it had imposed in 2009. The security forces were deployed in force to deter or disperse further public protests. Scores if not hundreds of people arrested in connection with the mass protests in 2009 continued to be held, most of them serving prison terms, although others were released. Scores more were arrested throughout 2010.
Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who had stood against President Ahmadinejad in the June 2009 presidential election, continued to face severe restrictions on their freedom of movement. Government supporters attacked them or their families, and newspapers were instructed not to report about them or about former president Mohammad Khatami. Two major political parties opposed to the government were banned while others remained prohibited.
The government purged universities of “secular” teaching staff and imposed education bans on students engaged in campus protests.
The authorities continued to restrict access to outside sources of information such as the internet. International radio and television broadcasts were jammed. In January, the authorities banned contact by Iranians with some 60 news outlets and foreign-based organizations. Those willing to speak to the few large Persian-language media outlets on human rights issues were threatened or harassed by security officials. Many Iranians turned to social networking websites to express their views.
The authorities banned newspapers and student journals and prosecuted journalists whose reporting they deemed “against the system”. Wiretapping and intercepting of SMS and email communications were routine. A shadowy “cyber army”, reportedly linked to the Revolutionary Guards, organized attacks on domestic and foreign internet sites deemed to be anti-government, while other sites, including some associated with religious leaders, were filtered.
http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/iran/report-2011#section-64-3
Arbitrary arrests and detentions
Security officials, generally in plain clothes and without showing identification or arrest warrants, continued to arrest arbitrarily government opponents and people seen to be dissenting from officially approved values on account of their views or lifestyle. Among those arrested were human rights activists, independent trade unionists, students and political dissidents.
Those arrested were often held for long periods during which they were denied contact with their lawyers or families, tortured or otherwise ill-treated, and denied access to medical care. Some were sentenced to prison terms after unfair trials. Others sentenced after unfair trials in previous years remained in jail.
In February, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention declared that three US nationals detained in July 2009 while hiking near the Iraq-Iran border were held arbitrarily. In August, it concluded that Isa Saharkhiz, a journalist and member of Iran’s Committee to Protect Freedom of the Press, held since July 2009 and sentenced in September 2010 to three years’ imprisonment for “insulting the country’s leadership” and “propaganda against the system”, was also being arbitrarily detained and should be released.
Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on 4 September. She remained held at the end of 2010, on trial on security charges relating to her peaceful human rights activities and defence of her clients.
@ Rehmat
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For several reasons it is fallacy to call current regime in Iran democratic. Powers of the president in Iran are limited by the supreme leader and even so candidate for president has to get approval of the supreme leader. Whether Iranian people elect president or not their choice is limited by supreme leader from the beginning and thereafter. There is no way to define such system as democracy or even so called Muslim democracy.
John Goss
Check this out and see if it is of any relevance:
Complaints Reviews Scams Lawsuits Frauds Reported
Also there is this;
Genel, a privately owned company, is Heritage’s partner in the Miran field in Kurdistan. The Jersey-based explorer, run by former mercenary Tony Buckingham, shared information about the find with Genel before informing the market.
you will find here
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Are these any help?
Just a question :
Is posting several links in one comment a problem here?
Thanks
@Rob.. Yes. I think they get caught up in the spam filter.
@ Azra
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Evolution only happens there where system is prepared for change and allows this change to happen. China can be given as an example of evolutionary development something that failed to materialise in the USSR. Communist rulers of China at the same time allow considerable freedom to a capital and entrepreneurship that is benefiting China. One can say that at present Chinese system is developing evolutionary, but the question is whether communist rulers of China will allow this evolutionary development to the completion of whether after few decades of such development new Chinese elite will revolutionary change the government.
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That is what I was saying earlier that Iranian government both political and spiritual has to allow more freedom to people. They have to respect that not all Iranians are agree with the policy of their rulers and that some different ideas would probably benefit Iranians more. Ask yourself WHY current Iranian regime does not allow opposition?