Ayatollah Khomeini person
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Ayatollah Khomeini appointed
Mehdi Bazargan documented
“to leave Iran. A few weeks later, after 14 years in exile, Khomeini, with several CIA agents on his staff, returned to Iran, where he appointed Mehdi Barzagan to head the first Iranian provincial government. For the next few months, Carter …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 42:11
CIA installed
Ayatollah Khomeini book_quoted
“in 1964 when the CIA arranged a safe haven for him in Iraq after he had briefly been imprisoned by the Sabah and exiled to Turkey. Now, this is very interesting again. For Helms and Shackley, the CIA agents, one of which posing as the ambas…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Prelude to Terror Chap 23 @ 31:03
Ayatollah Khomeini ordered_assassination_of
William Casey book_quoted
“Most disturbing was the fact that Ayatollah Khomeini had placed a price on Casey's head. The author goes on to say that Bob Woodward would claim in his book, Veil, The Secret Wars of the CIA from 81 to 87, that he was able to penetrate the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government Part 1 @ 38:36
Ayatollah Khomeini member_of
France guest_asserted
“They literally fled, but they were all the same MOs and these highly educated Iranian people. So you can definitely make that analogy. But there is a lot of evidence that suggests that the Ayatollah Khomeini, who had basically been given as…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Deep Dive into @AAnon55_ video post 1030 ET @ 1:23:12
Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew
Reza Pahlavi book_quoted
“on executions out of fear of the prisoner's show of bravado that was impressing large segments of the people. All hope for change was ripped from the hearts of the Iranian people, replaced by poisonous seeds from a bitter fruit, growing slo…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 11 @ 43:07
Maulana Bhashani associated_with
Ayatollah Khomeini host_asserted
“who went by the name Malana Maldudi. He's considered like the godfather of jihad. He's the guy who actually founded the Jamaat-e-Islami movement, which is now in power with Yunus over in Bangladesh. But his family, he actually died in New Y…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Twilight of the Shadow Government #7 @ 1:28:02
Ayatollah Khomeini reassigned
SAVAK host_asserted
“The transition of Savak was a calculated decision at the highest levels of the Mullah regime, including Khomeini himself, who ensured that key intelligence officers were not only spared, but reassigned to critical positions in the Intellige…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO - CHAPTER 60 - 'CIA MOSSAD SO'AK SHAH MULLAHS IRGC' - EP @ 35:13
Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew
Reza Pahlavi host_asserted
“The SABAC, that was basically the terror organization, as we saw the DINA in Chile and everything else. He was installed by the CIA after overthrowing Mosaddegh. So the overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollah, who, by the way, just mysteriou…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:45:43
Israel supplied_arms_to
Ayatollah Khomeini host_asserted
“How the hell did a bunch of dumbass students overthrow one of our embassies with armed guards? And so, again, with our Gladio glasses, when you go back and you look at it, it's completely something. And we know about the October surprise wh…”
▶ The Colonels Corner Cocaine Death Squad & War on Terror Part 10 Final @ 1:47:36
Ayatollah Khomeini removed_from_power
Iran guest_asserted
“And they always said that they missed the shot and how good it was. And then Khomeini came in and destroyed the country. Now they stayed in Germany for six months to a year in this bed and breakfast. And then they all got flown to the U.S. …”
▶ The Colonels Corner Deep Dive into @AAnon55_ video post 1030 ET @ 1:22:44
Mossad supplied_arms_to
Ayatollah Khomeini book_quoted
“the Moscow-controlled regime, which of course we know it wasn't Moscow-controlled. We know how that whole thing went down. The Israelis had been secretly selling weapons to the Shah's regime for years and had no desire to give up the market…”
▶ Operation Gladio Prelude to Terror chapter 18 @ 27:24
Ayatollah Khomeini ordered_assassination_of
Saddam Hussein book_quoted
“which the U.S. CIA set up to infiltrate Iraq and target Saddam Hussein and other regime members for assassination…”
▶ Colonel’s Corner prelude to terror chapter 26 @ 16:17
CIA installed
Ayatollah Khomeini host_asserted
“When the Shah became too difficult, the CIA overthrew him. And this is like the fourth person that I've read this about. I'm going to have to go back and do some further study on this because this is the fourth time I've come across the acc…”
▶ Operation Gladio and a look back at 9_11 @ 53:36
Mentions (59)
▶ 1:12:56
And anyone who's tied to Coach Mel is a suspect individual in the first place. So I'll leave it at that. Thank you. Okay. Carrie, go ahead. Yes. So you're saying Khomeini is the CIA. He allowed the CIA to operate inside of Iran. Yes, he did…
▶ 1:13:59
very different than what's going on today. So there's a lot of things that has changed, especially, you know, and that's why I'm very careful about saying if Khomeini is actually CIA, then he won't change. But there are people like Trump.…
▶ 15:48
and his relationship with Adem and Shackley to be suspicious. Within a few months of the new Islamic government, assumptions of power in Iran, cross-border attacks and attempts to export religious quote-unquote warriors into Iraq began. The…
▶ 23:04
Garo was the name of Sarkis' son. That's how he started the conversation. I need your help. Washington came in with Iraq to help take care of this old Khomeini bastard. Sarkis understood that when Kamal Adem called, it was a Saudi royal fam…
▶ 53:36
When the Shah became too difficult, the CIA overthrew him. And this is like the fourth person that I've read this about. I'm going to have to go back and do some further study on this because this is the fourth time I've come across the acc…
▶ 34:33
Khomeini's offensive against America and Lebanon began in earnest, but it was not his offensive. More to the story. Ames' close relationship with Ali Hassan Salameh, a senior PLO figure. Now, again, Israel created and funded Hamas to fight …
▶ 16:05
So religious leader Khashoggi had split from Mossadegh and basically they had used calling Mossadegh a communist as the reason for that perceived split. But newly released documents showed that Khashoggi wasn't just opposed to Mossadegh. He…
▶ 16:35
And this is very important to this whole story. It's going to illustrate that there is no difference between the mullahs and the Shah. And this is going to be throughout the entire show. He was in close communication with Americans througho…
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This financial assistance had not previously been known until some recently declassified information came out. On the make or break day of August 19th, Khashoggi was critical, said Milani. On that day, Khashoggi's forces were out in full fo…
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that a filmmaker said, quote, Savak had 11 divisions. Only one was dismantled after the revolution. The rest remained intact and pledged allegiance to Imam Khomeini before the fall of the Shah. This claim corroborates multiple sources sugge…
▶ 35:13
The transition of Savak was a calculated decision at the highest levels of the Mullah regime, including Khomeini himself, who ensured that key intelligence officers were not only spared, but reassigned to critical positions in the Intellige…
▶ 30:23
that they were monitoring it when Omar Sadat came to the Camp David and that the Iranian leader Khomeini was being listened on, as well as Omar Gaddafi, blah, blah, blah. So I found that incredibly interesting. Okay, so we got both of those…
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basically come out against the Zionists in Israel. So the entire Middle East became a balancing act. Adem fighting the fundamentalists through the Iraqi surrogates in the Iran-Iraq war and tying up Moscow in Afghanistan by assisting the Muj…
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Again, a lot of people believe that the fall, the quote unquote fall of the Shah was all planned as well, that he had outlived his usefulness, the installation of the Ayatollah Khomeini, the October surprise that eventually comes that ends …
▶ 1:18:27
citing ultimatum to Khomeini stating that he had 24 hours to release the hostages unharmed or Tehran would be erased from history, end quote. Two issue orders to my unit, sealed orders that weren't to be open until we were, that weren't ope…
▶ 1:45:43
The SABAC, that was basically the terror organization, as we saw the DINA in Chile and everything else. He was installed by the CIA after overthrowing Mosaddegh. So the overthrow of the Shah by the Ayatollah, who, by the way, just mysteriou…
▶ 1:47:36
How the hell did a bunch of dumbass students overthrow one of our embassies with armed guards? And so, again, with our Gladio glasses, when you go back and you look at it, it's completely something. And we know about the October surprise wh…
▶ 1:48:33
meme for the Iran-Iraq war. We were literally funding both sides. And so the support of the Iranian government over the years when supposedly it was under the control of the Ayatollah is on its face not believable anymore. In addition to th…
▶ 2:08:05
But they were, like, basically the guys who created, like, radical Islamist, like, jihadist political thought. And just for reference, you know, Khomeini, before he was the Ayatollah, he used to go to listen to Maldudi speak. And Maldudi wo…
▶ 2:04:18
And she kept going on and on about, well, hominy this and hominy that and hominy this other thing. And finally, I mean, it was driving us nuts. And maybe it's because I'm a linguist, but one of my linguists stood up and said, are you sure i…
▶ 2:04:45
So, I mean, even in the intelligence community, you'll see so-called experts that don't know the language, can't pronounce people's names correctly. I mean, how you can be a subject matter expert in Iran and not know the Ayatollah's name. I…
▶ 58:41
Supposedly, Vice President Bush had a secret meeting in Europe and promised the Iranian government, who is supposedly the radical Islamic Ayatollah Khomeini that had just overthrown our embassy and supposedly hostile force, that they would …
▶ 1:22:44
And they always said that they missed the shot and how good it was. And then Khomeini came in and destroyed the country. Now they stayed in Germany for six months to a year in this bed and breakfast. And then they all got flown to the U.S. …
▶ 1:23:12
They literally fled, but they were all the same MOs and these highly educated Iranian people. So you can definitely make that analogy. But there is a lot of evidence that suggests that the Ayatollah Khomeini, who had basically been given as…
▶ 1:02:49
And we have this false now, the Shah of Iran becomes a victim of a false flag. And what the CIA does is it imports the Ayatollah Khomeini from Paris on a CIA transport. Nobody can dispute that. I mean, that happened. And therefore, we can m…
▶ 29:07
And at the time, it did look like that from the outside. In a matter of months, the island would begin falling apart. In mid-78, the Shaw-sponsored newspaper campaign against the Ayatollah Khomeini triggered riots in Qom, Q-O-M, that's the …
▶ 30:35
by Major General Schwarzkopf, Arnold's dad. The people that ran it were hand-selected by the CIA. So this is the CIA being involved in a crisis in Tehran. For Helms and Shackley, a chance to influence the Ayatollah Khomeini had come many ye…
▶ 31:03
in 1964 when the CIA arranged a safe haven for him in Iraq after he had briefly been imprisoned by the Sabah and exiled to Turkey. Now, this is very interesting again. For Helms and Shackley, the CIA agents, one of which posing as the ambas…
▶ 31:34
brought him out of Iran, placed him in Iraq after the Savak. Hold on. I'll bring you back up, cousinette. So that's very, very interesting. And the fact that he was originally exiled to Turkey is very, very important because I sent you the …
▶ 32:46
and teeming with CIA people everywhere. The CIA arranged for the Iraqi regime to let Khomeini move to the holy city of Najjar, where he directed his campaign against the Shah. When Saddam Hussein came to power in Iraq as vice president in 1…
▶ 33:13
to place a number of Iranian-born agents all around the Ayatollah. From the huge and beautiful gold-domed mosque, Khomeini was the most influential cleric in the region protected by the CIA. So he becomes almost like the mafia that we've ta…
▶ 33:42
Just keep that in mind. I'm just giving you analogies here. Then, in October of 77, Khomeini's beloved son, Mustafa, was found dead in his bed. Because Islam does not permit post-mortems, the death of Mustafa remained a mystery. But many su…
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And Khomeini presented a threat to Saddam's secular government. And so Saddam was receptive to the Shah's request that his guest might be happier outside of the country. In October 1978, which is later that year, Khomeini moved from, so the…
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So you always have to keep that in the forefront of your mind, especially once we realized how infiltrated these unions overseas are with American agitators, also CIA assets that we just exposed through several threads of the AFL and their …
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to leave Iran. A few weeks later, after 14 years in exile, Khomeini, with several CIA agents on his staff, returned to Iran, where he appointed Mehdi Barzagan to head the first Iranian provincial government. For the next few months, Carter …
▶ 46:04
The hand of Shackley and von Marbog was all over what may have been the first contact with the so-called Iranian moderates, Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Beheshti, one of the most powerful clerics in the revolution and a disciple of Khomeini's…
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He decided to become basically a double agent to the Reagan-Bush campaign. Casey asked the Shahimi brothers to arrange a meeting with someone in Iran who had the authority to deal on the hostages. The Shahimi connection did not reach to Kho…
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Chi Chi Quintero and Douglas Flatter told the FBI that both men had been meeting with George Bush on a regular basis because they're arranging their own October surprise, which is to basically ensure that the hostages don't get released. Me…
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Casey said that he had no objection if the Iranians continued to deal with the Carter administration, but he personally had washed his hands of Carter. Hashimi said that Karubi ended the meeting by saying in Persian, I think we are opening …
▶ 1:15:29
This time, the news he carried was electrifying. According to Hashimi, Khomeini had agreed to Casey's terms. The hostages would be released on the day of Reagan's inauguration, though the Iranians would continue to go through the motions wi…
▶ 1:27:00
Bonnie Sautter. In his book, My Turn to Speak, I ran the revolution and secret deals with the U.S. This is a quote from his book. I have proof of contacts between Khomeini and the supporters of Ronald Reagan as early as the spring of 1980. …
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I don't have any proof of it at all. There are a lot of people that believe that it was not unknown to the U.S. or to Israel what was going on inside of Iran that results in the Ayatollah coming to power. So we'll just leave that at that. S…
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Very suspicious that and that's what caused me to dig more into the Shah, because I had always thought that the Ayatollah coming to power was kind of a rebel group within Iran, basically overthrowing the CIA stooge. I've now learned better …
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was as much a part of this chessboard as the Shah, because the Shah had become grossly unpopular in Iran. Instead of losing Iran, they kind of come up with a middle, what they were considering a compromise of it being, and although it was p…
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I just want to know if there, and I think that's part of, you know, the Shah and the Ayatollah. So I am wondering if we have some specific data on the ties of the CIA to the Ayatollah. Thank you. Sure. We talked about it when we were talkin…
▶ 1:33:46
I'll take a note on that because it comes up in a bunch of different books, anecdotally. So I will take a note of that. Am I mistaken or is there some weird Catholic connection to him? Am I losing my mind? I don't know what you were referri…
▶ 53:22
that the American policymakers decided early to throw in their lot with Khomeini, expecting that the Muslim fundamentalism would be the best defense against the communism in the Middle East, which again is corroborated by the continued supp…
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recounts that William Casey went to Ronald Reagan in September of 81 with a dual-track program. The president approved a tryout. The CIA would fund Iranian exile groups while maintaining the United States, excuse me, while simultaneously th…
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This included $20,000 to $30,000 for equipping him with new radios and creating a radio liberation, which broadcast four hours a day in anti-Komeini programming from Egypt. Oh, so we've got an Arabic version of Air America or of Radio Free …
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The CIA eventually provided miniature transmission equipment that made the disruption and substitution possible. At the same time, Langley curried favors with Khomeini. In late 82, a Russian agent in Iran defected to the British, soon to be…
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Rafi Zadeh, the CIA, did the same to some of the exile groups, passing their contacts to Iran for the Khomeini security service. As a result, Rafi Zadeh reports more than a thousand people were arrested and executed. So they're basing every…
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Thoughts in Reagan's White House turned towards getting Khomeini to influence the Lebanese Shiites. An interagency study completed in October 1984 concluded that a new relationship could be forged only by Khomeini's successors. In April of …
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Germany, where the steady flow of Iranian workers and migrants made it possible to access people without suspicion. Some hold this to have been strictly an espionage ploy. Others claim that the CIA attempted to set up a stay behind group to…
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on executions out of fear of the prisoner's show of bravado that was impressing large segments of the people. All hope for change was ripped from the hearts of the Iranian people, replaced by poisonous seeds from a bitter fruit, growing slo…
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It was not an accident that the Shah didn't clamp down on the clerics. As a matter of fact, we know that Khomeini was in France when he made his infamous return in 1979. And there's a lot of convincing arguments that that was just another c…
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asset creating listening posts so we could spy on all of the northern area which included the Soviet Union and all of the military industrial complex breaks in big bucks because we basically created their military which then of course we kn…
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on how to do it because we wanted to co-op that too. And that in fact happened in, they knew exactly who they were gonna bring back in the country because the French intelligence had been monitoring the Ayatollah the entire time he was ther…
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who went by the name Malana Maldudi. He's considered like the godfather of jihad. He's the guy who actually founded the Jamaat-e-Islami movement, which is now in power with Yunus over in Bangladesh. But his family, he actually died in New Y…
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This is a quote. As Casey lay dying in the hospital, death threats from radicals and bizarre individuals convinced he was controlling the globe continued to come into the CIA. And that's the reason why they had the round the clock security.…