United States
A report by
Brian Ross and
Christopher Isham of
ABC News in April 2007 alleged that Jundallah "has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials" to destabilize the government in Iran,
[23] citing
U.S. and Pakistani tribal and intelligence sources.
[11] The report alleges that U.S. Vice President
Dick Cheney discussed the activity of the group against Iran during his visit to Pakistan.
[11] In a
blog, the network stated that the support was believed to have started in 2005 and been arranged so that the U.S. provided no direct funding to the group, which would require
congressional oversight and attract media attention, drawing parallels between American support for Jundallah and U.S. involvement in
Nicaragua in the
Iran-Contra Affair.
[24]
The report was denied by
Pakistan official sources.
[25] But despite their denial
ABC stood by their claim.
[26] Alexis Debat, one of the sources quoted by Ross and Isham in their report alleging US support for the Jundullah, resigned from ABC News in June 2007, after ABC officials claimed that he faked several interviews while working for the company.
[27] Ross went on to say the Jundullah story had many sources, adding, "We’re only worried about the things Debat supplied, not about the substance of that story." According to Ross, ABC had found nothing that would undermine the stories Mr. Debat worked on. However, he acknowledged that as the stories of fabrications continue to roll in, the network "at some point has to question whether anything he said can be believed."
[28] This caused the network in 2007 to send a second team of producers to Pakistan investigating the original reports.
[26]
Fars News Agency, an Iranian state run news agency, reported that the United States government is involved in PRMI's terrorists acts.
[29]
Gholamali Haddadadel, Iranian parliament speaker in 2007, speaking to reporters said, Jundallah is part of pressure tactics used by United States to subdue Iran and hoped with Pakistani help, Iran would be able to defeat Jundallah.
[30]
On April 2, 2007, Abdolmalek Rigi appeared on the
Persian service of
Voice of America, the official broadcasting service of the United States government, which identified Rigi as "the leader of popular Iranian resistance movement" and used the title of "
Doctor" with his name. This incidence resulted in public condemnation by the Iranian-American community in the U.S, many of whom are opponents of the Iranian government, as well as the Iranian government.
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Investigative journalist
Seymour Hersh revealed another report in July 2008 that US congressional leaders had secretly agreed to former president
George W. Bush's USD 400 million funding request, which gives the US a free hand in arming and funding terrorist groups such as Jundullah militants.
[23]
Iranian speaker of parliament
Ali Larijani, three days after the 2009 terror attack against Zahidan mosque revealed, that
Iran had
intelligence reports regarding the
United States links with certain
terrorist groups operating against Iran and accused the United States, of commanding them. He implicated the United States in trying to start a
civil war between Shia and Sunni segments of Iranian society.
[39][39] Regarding the investigation of the terrorist act he added that Iran would want
Pakistan to cooperate fully and not become a mere part of the designs against Iran.
[40]
According to
The Daily Telegraph Jundallah is just one part of a
Black Operation Plan involving
psychological operations and other
covert operations to support dissents among minorities (Baloch, Arab, Kurds, Azeris, etc.) in Iran, which along with tactics of military posturing, risky maneuvers and occasional conciliatory gestures are designed to improve United States bargaining position in any future negotiation with Iran.
[8][11][11][41] Furthermore these
Black Operations build upon a coordinated campaign consisting of disinformation, placement of negative newspaper articles, propaganda broadcasts, the manipulation of Iran's monetary currency and international banking transactions.
[8][42][43]
Iranian Interior Minister
Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, has said, United States intelligence operatives have been meeting and coordinating with Anti-Iranian militants in
Afghanistan as well as encouraging drug smuggling into Iran.
[39] Jundallah is currently not included in the U.S. State Department’s list of foreign designated terrorist groups. Inclusion on the list would prohibit US citizens, companies, or government agencies from supporting the group, and trigger criminal or civil penalties for doing so.
[44][45] A former
Chief of Army Staff of the
Pakistan Army General Aslam Beg has accused the
Coalition Forces in
Afghanistan of training and supporting Jundallah against
Iran.
[46]
After Rigi was arrested on 23 February 2010 Iran's intelligence minister
Heydar Moslehi at a press conference in Tehran claimed that Rigi had been at a US base in
Afghanistan 24 hours before his arrest. At a press conference he flourished a photograph which he said showed Rigi outside the base with two other men, though he gave no details of where the base was, or how or when the photograph was obtained. Photographs were also shown of an Afghan passport and identity card said to have been given by the Americans to Rigi. Moslehi also alleged that Rigi had met the then
NATO secretary-general,
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, in Afghanistan in 2008, and had visited European countries. He said agents had tracked Rigi's movements for five months, calling his arrest "a great defeat for the US and UK".
[47]
On February 25 Iranian state television broadcast a statement by Rigi stating he had had American support and that
"The Americans said Iran was going its own way and they said our problem at the present is Iran… not al-Qaeda and not the Taliban, but the main problem is Iran. We don't have a military plan against Iran. Attacking Iran is very difficult for us (the US). They [Americans] promised to help us and they said that they would co-operate with us, free our prisoners and would give us [Jundullah] military equipment, bombs, machine guns, and they would give us a base.
BBC News carried a report on the statements, noting that "It is not possible to say whether Abdolmalek Rigi made the statement freely or under duress." The US has denied having links with Rigi's group, Jundullah.
[48][49]. Reuters also reported that Geoff Morrell,
Pentagon press secretary, dismissed claims by the Iranian government that Mr. Rigi had been at an American military base just before his arrest. Morrell called the accusations of American involvement “nothing more than Iranian propaganda.”
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[edit] Saudi Arabia
Iran considers Jundallah as a group connected to Taliban and their
opium revenues, getting financial as well as ideologic support directly from
Saudi Arabia in collusion with
ISI as well as other hard-line elements within
Pakistan and
Afghanistan. Others point to the fact that United States has for long supported
Low intensity conflict and
assassinations with Saudi money, especially against nationalists, socialists and
Shias.
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[edit] Sweden
American journalist
Dan Rather has traveled to
Pakistan,
United Arab Emirates,
Sweden and
France investigating Jundallah and its funding sources. On the US cable channel
HDnet's television news magazine
Dan Rather Reports, he indicated that support comes from Balochis in Sweden where Radio Baloch FM is broadcast from
Stockholm.
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[edit] United Kingdom
Iranian authorities also blame
United Kingdom for supporting Jundallah.
[56][57] In
BBC production "Panorama: Obama and the Ayatollah", a terrorist organisation which has carried out acts of terror leading to death of civilians and children in Iran is briefly mentioned but not named, with the official prosecution files and their
Interpol warrants blacked out in video. The international warrants call for their arrest under international anti-terrorism laws, which has not happened and Tehran blames western governments particularly British government for protecting them from an international arrest.
[58]
[edit] Pakistan
Hossein Ali Shahriari, Zahedan's representative in parliament, rhetorically asked, "Why does our diplomatic apparatus not seriously confront the
Pakistani government for harboring bandits and regime's enemies? Why do security, military and police officials not take more serious action?".
[59] It has been claimed, Jundallah can not operate with at least some degree of support from within Pakistan and that elements from within Pakistani security establishment, particularly
ISI with financial support of Saudi Arabia and its supplementation through the largest opium black market in the world have woven a complicated web of drug smugglers and terrorists to project power in the region and beyond.
[15] General
Hasan Firoozabadi of Iranian Army said, one of the main bases of Jundallah has been identified and pointed out to Pakistan and Iran is awaiting for Pakistan's action on the matter.
[60] In a rare criticism Iranian
Intelligence minister after the Saravan attack claimed Pakistan is not meaningfully cooperating with Iran on the issue of Jundallah.
[61] At least some Iranian analysts believe this huge transnational web comprising of economic, political and military dimensions is ultimately being run by
CIA (
Special Activities Division), aiming to topple or at least weaken Iranian government; with Pakistan just being a pawn much like the earlier United States support for
Mujahedin against
Soviet Union with collaboration of Pakistan. These analysts believe the ideological element supporting Jundallah and similar groups come from religious
madrassah's of Pakistan supported religiously and financially by
Saudi Arabia.
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American Sponsored Terrorism In Iran
Mr Rigi is said to be behind a series of deadly bombings in south-east Iran
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This just unveils double standards of those who all the time shout from their asses when some alleged Muslim terrorism happens against them and now they are not answering a thread about their own sponsored terrorism and terrorists.
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