Do you like finding things? I like finding things. Today I found out about an organistion I'd never heard of before. An NGO by the name of "United Against Nuclear Iran".
Whats so special about that? Its just an NGO. They're just like a charity aren't they? Well, kinda, but they're a great way of influencing domestic and foreign policy, and their funding structure is often like that of a Matryoshka doll. Its all transparent as they usually have 501 (c)(3) status, but you often have NGOs donating to other NGOs and then NGOs passing funding on to smaller organisations. Which is how you end up with immigrants washing up on the shores of countries with mobile phones and pre-paid debit cards. Oh, and the intelligence services absolutely love NGOs. Sometimes they love them so much they'll start their own.
Surely this United Against Nuclear Iran is relatively benign? What could they possibly do?
Lets have a look at some of their more notable leadership/members...
Jeb (please clap) Bush - Guac bowl magnate
Mark Wallace - Former UN ambassador
Zohar Palti - Former Director of Intelligence at Mossad
Norman Roule - Former CIA
Dennis Ross - Former National Security Council member
Mark Kirk - 23 years in Naval Intelligence, served in the DIA and retired with the rank of Commander
Dr. August Hanning - Former director of the German Federal Intelligence Service
Frances Hanning - Former US Homeland Security Advisor
Sir Ivor Roberts - Former British Diplomatic Service and Head of Counter-Terrorism
Lord Charles Guthrie - Former Chief of Staff of UK Armed Forces
Sir Graeme Lamb - Former Director of Special Forces and Commander of the British Army
Barry Rosen -
Not an obvious glowie, but look at his priors. He loves subverting muslim countries
Olli Heinonen - Former Deputy Director General of the IAEA
Ray Takeyh - Former Council of Foreign Relations member and former senior advisor on Iran to the Department of State
Michael Singh - Former senior director for Middle East affairs at the National Security Council
Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones - Former UK Minister for Security
Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata - Former ambassador of Italy to Israel (amongst other things)
Robert Hill - Former Australian Minister of Defence
Mark Salter - Former Chief of Staff to Senator John McCain
Jason Brodsky - Member of the
Atlantic Council another glowie NGO
Kasra Aarabi - Former Iran Program lead at the
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (major glowie NGO)
Jemima Shelley - Another former member of Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Dror Doron - 17 years in Israel's government
Michael Pregent - Former US Army Intelligence and DIA
Meir Dagan (now in hell) - Former General Director of Mossad
Richard Holbrooke (now in hell) - Former UN Ambassador to the UN and former US Special Envoy
Yeah, thats great and all, but what do they actually do?
Lets have a quick look at the FAQ...
That doesn't seem so bad. All very innocuous, but wait...
Why would a country add a perfectly harmless and non-partisan organisation like the UANI to their list of terror groups? Lets ask Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (yes, she is, before you ask) what she thinks...
“What I like, is they are in the weeds. You name a sector in the Iranian economy and they have been inside it, putting a lot of pressure on them. We’ve worked with them, especially on embargo and sanctions legislation. So many of the bills had their genesis with them.”
So, you have an NGO doing the dirty work of the state, with a convenient level of plausible deniability which allows them to freely bend international law in ways that normally would certainly result in a diplomatic incident. Or, even worse, you have an organisation that is doing this of it's own volition and is using its money and contacts to shape foreign policy and potentially lead to military action. Either way, its a shitshow, and once again the West gets gayop'd into another war.