[Marxism] Dutch withdraw spy from Iran because of 'impending US attack'

[Greg McDonald]

Telegraph.co.uk

Dutch withdraw spy from Iran because of 'impending US attack'

The Dutch intelligence service has pulled an agent out of an "ultra- 
secret operation" spying on Iran's military industry because  
spymasters in Netherlands believe a United States air attack was  
imminent.


By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Last Updated: 9:24AM BST 01 Sep 2008

According to reports in the newspaper De Telegraaf, the country's  
intelligence service, the AIVD, has stopped an espionage operation  
aimed at infiltration and sabotage of the weapons industry in Iran.

"The operation, described as extremely successful, was halted  
recently in connection with plans for an impending US air attack on  
Iran," said the report.

"Targets would also be bombed which were connected with the Dutch  
espionage action."

"Well placed" sources told the paper that a top agent had been  
recalled recently "because the US was thought to be making a decision  
within weeks to attack Iran with unmanned aircraft".

"Information from the AIVD operation has in recent years been shared  
with the American CIA secret service."

Brig Gen Seyyed Massoud Jazayeri, deputy chief of the Iranian armed  
forces, warned at the weekend that military attacks against Iran  
would trigger a Third World War.

"The exorbitant demands of the US leaders and the global Zionism  
which have created the current situation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan  
and Caucasus are gradually directing the world to the edge of the  
cliff," he said.

The US has refused to rule out a military attack against Iran if its  
government continues to enrich uranium as part of its civilian  
nuclear programme, which the West suspects has the clandestine  
objective of developing atomic weapons.

Iran has warned it would close the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the  
entrance to the Gulf and a major oil shipping route, if it is attacked.

On Friday, the Israel newspaper Ma'ariv reported that Israel has  
stepped up preparations for a contingency plan to attack Iran, should  
diplomatic efforts, via the United Nations, fail to derail Tehran's  
suspected nuclear weapons programme.