Rumours from Iran: Government officials may be fleeing the country with its wealth

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Sent from Shabnam, an expat Iranian and who spent serious time in Evan prison in Iran:

Iran: Imam Khomeini International Airport: 7 airplanes, 3 cargo planes, 4 passenger planes filled with gold bars, gold coins, and foreign currency parked at the corner of Imam khomeini Airport awaiting to take off at the last possible minute when is needed.
Since yesterday the regime officials have stalled the Airport activities for preparing these airplanes and we have not been able to go home for two nights. They even took Persian rugs, and paining. If anythings happens, please do not neglect the airports in Iran (meaning watch the planes trying to taking off and leaving Iran) . From a month ago, “secretly” the Iranian officials even issued permits for each airplane to take off any time any minute.

 

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30 Replies to “Rumours from Iran: Government officials may be fleeing the country with its wealth”

  2. Dare we hope this is a good sign for the Persian people? Will Pres. Trump speak out in support for those who want freedom from the oppression of the fundamentalist mullahs?

    This could be a great start for the New Year of 2018!

    • “Will Pres. Trump speak out in support for those who want freedom from the oppression of the fundamentalist mullahs?”

      It’s difficult to imagine that Trump would forego such a golden opportunity. To quote Homer Simpson: “It works at so many levels!“. Let’s examine some of them:

      A.) Merely citing instability within Iranian politics clearly validates decertification of the Iran nuclear deal. Even a remote possibility of newly acquired nuclear weapons (or just highly enriched radioactive materials) falling into the hands of fanatical Shiite opportunists is more-than-adequate justification for further excoriation of Iran. Whips and chains optional…

      B.) While cozening up to the Saudi royals has been one of America’s absolute worst peccadilloes over this past half century, applying pressure to Riyadh’s next door neighbor enemy would be a superbly indirect method of coercing encouraging continued reforms that already are taking place (to whatever extent) within the Magic Kingdom™.

      C.) Just economically crippling Iran would create highly desirable “ripple effects”, in that this would inhibit Russia’s ability to extract much-needed hard currency from Iran (via expenditures related to its nuclear weapons program). Given Russia’s overabundance of fossil fuel energy reserves, Putin would be a total fool to accept payment-in-kind (of Iranian oil exports) in exchange for such complex, high-cost material components, and labor intensive assembly involved with constructing the apparatus required to facilitate Iran’s pursuit of nuclear arms (no matter how much they might expedite the Kremlin’s own policy of global destabilization). A secondary ripple effect would be reducing the financial gain for treacherous EU nations with respect their own continued sale of dual-use technology to Iran.

      D.) Ostracizing Iran would put a damper on its own continued efforts to promote (or participate in) the proliferation of nuclear technology. Given the all-too-intimate relationship that currently exists between Tehran and Pyongyang, just this one objective takes on increasing priority. The ongoing horse-trading of nuclear and missile (i.e., weapons and delivery systems) technology that is going on between North Korea and Iran represents one of the most intolerable threats to global security. Not that Red China, Russia or the EU seem to give a hot damn.

      E.) On a slightly brighter side, paralyzing Iran’s ability to export oil to Communist China—a Sino-spider at the center of this psychotically deceitful web—would place even more pressure upon Beijing to decrease arms sales to sponsors of Islamic terrorism—while exerting additional pressure with respect to The Mainland taking any further initiative about intervening in North Korea. It is imperative to force Communist China to clean up this dog’s breakfast of theirs (otherwise known as North Korea). Forcibly de-linking Tehran and Pyongyang is an integral component of weakening the value that this otherwise puissant collaboration has had in terms of threatening the West. Again, it is exceptionally difficult to think that Trump remains unaware of this fact.

      F.) Altering the strategic configuration of whatever various proposed trans-Arabian pipelines meant to deliver MME (Muslim Middle East) petroleum products directly (i.e., through, curiously enough, war-torn Syria) is one of the least-publicized—yet most significant—and deciding factors in this mare’s nest of foreign entanglements. Anyone here at Vlad Tepes with detailed information about the trans-Syrian pipeline is more than welcome to post some links. The entire Syrian megillah is something that could suck down my entire bandwidth and, ergo, largely has been ignored (although followed at a distance).

      G.) Finally, at an optimum, crushing Iran would send an unmistakable message to the Muslim world that Political Islam is on the ropes. And that any continued application of this barbarically tyrannous Theocracy will be met with crippling sanctions, military force and, if necessary, six-packs of “canned sunshine” (i.e., nuclear bombardment).

      Wolf Woman, I sincerely hope that this bit of scribbling might elucidate—or at the very least disambiguate matters—with regard to your entirely honorable concern for this world’s Persian population.

      Sidebar: Well over a decade ago, I engaged some Iranians—who energetically identified themselves as “Persians”—regarding Iraq’s chemical weapon attacks on its own city of Basra (located on the Shatt al-Arab waterway) and other aspects of the 1980-1988 Iran–Iraq conflict. Such as Iran’s voluntary slaughter of its adolescent male youth as human mine-sweepers (that caused hardened Iraqi veterans to weep in their trenches).

      Needless to say (Then why say it?), they were sufficiently stunned to the point of asking me if I worked for an American intelligence agency.

      I could go on to detail the Islamic policy of “jahiliyyah“, which deals with the period of “confusion” that always, always, always precedes the subsequent arrival of Islam in whatever unfortunate land being invaded by Muslims.

      Think: The Bamiyan Buddhas. Now, add in Jerusalem’s Temple Mount—where the “Palestinian” Waqaf (i.e., “religious” police) are purposefully excavating and destroying all archeological Jewish artifacts to be found there. Even at the risk of geophysically destabilizing the al-Aqsa mosque—one of the most revered Islamic holy sites. As in: Number 20,438 on the list … last time I checked.

      Or, more to the point, how Iran’s Shiite theocrats are bulldozing the tomb of King Cyrus (one of the larger temple complexes in this world), as part of the usual Muslim jahiliyyah that eradicates all previous traces of non-Islamic culture or history.

      This epilogue is meant to demonstrate why smashing Iran is such a crucial priority with respect to the overall maiming of Islam, regardless of sect. This epilogue is meant to demonstrate why smashing Iran is such a crucial priority with respect to the overall maiming of Islam, regardless of sect. Our planet no longer can permit this (however schismed) ideology to wreak such havoc upon the civilized world. Especially not at a global cost of trillions of dollars per year.

      Fighting HIV/AIDS, famine, illiteracy, FGM, nuclear proliferation, polio, cancer, and dozens of other far-more demanding tasks—not to mention mastering fusion power generation that will put the MME out of business forever—totally outweigh Islam’s ridiculous attempts to tax the civilized world with its triumphalist, supremacist, and brutally violent terrorist ideology.

      Soon enough—if Europe’s Muslim woes are any indication—the global Islamic population will permanently wear out its (however tenuous) welcome.

      When that time arrives, woe betide this world’s Mohammedans.

  3. If this becomes a successful revolution against the mullahs, how does it effect Assad?
    It plays straight into Saudi desires and would potentially wreak more havoc in Syria. It also weakens Putin’s hand I would have thought.Any thoughts?

    • If this is successful it will weaken Putin as the power broker in the Middle East, but not as much as most will think, back when the USSR was the big power broker in the Middle East the Shah was in power and they were still strong.

      Will it weaken Assad, no not as long as Putin props him up and with the Syrian oil revenue Putin can hire a lot of mercs.

      Will this help Saudi, yes and possibly destroy the reformation of Islam in Saudi. Without Iran Hezbollah is left hunting for another backer, I don’t know of another rich Shia nation to fund them. This will help Saudi and Israel but how much? We will have to wait to find out.

      If successful it will also help the South and Central American nations that Hezbollah has been pushing around with it cocaine money. It will hurt Venezuela and drive them closer to China and Russia. The big question is how long can the two of them afford to fund two failed communist states when both are in economic trouble?

      It will help Erdogan leaving him as the only government that currently has aspirations to become Caliph.

      I am not sure this will help or hurt Europe, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Something in the back part of my brain is trying to tell me that it will help China but I am not sure why.

  4. How curious. I was just scribbling at length about 2007 capital flight from Iran and the continuing fragile state of that nation’s economy. Here is a link to my comment in the “Anti regime anti Hizb’allah protests spread to Iranian major cities” thread.

    Wouldn’t it be farking hilarious if much of the wealth on those airplanes was derived from that $1.7 billion bequest that traitor 0bama sent Iran’s way? Few things would please me more than knowing 0bama’s not-so-little New Year’s gift has trickled through the fingers of this hyper corrupt regime.

    • We can ask Mr. Trump to re-do our US currency, which would make those $’s worthless — worth the sacrifice.

      • Dear Malca, due to laws related to treason and other such niggling details, 0bama made sure that the $1.7 billion transferred to Iran was in Euros and other non-American currencies.

        That’s just how EVIL 0bama is and will continue to be. Only Hillary Clinton’s possible attainment of the Oval Office could have transcended the profoundly vile nature of 0bama’s virulent anti-Americanism.

        May both of these abject traitors rot in everlasting, eternal hell.

          • That depends on how fast the EU falls apart. I would like to think the Europeans would witness what is happening and follow suit in their nations but it is the wrong time of year for massive protests in Europe. The weather is too cold for the protesters to remain outside and active.

        • 0bama made sure that the $1.7 billion transferred to Iran was in Euros and other non-American currencies.

          Also known as money laundering.

          • Thank you, Babs and Richard. The blatant treason involved would have been breathtaking if it weren’t so insanely offensive.

            A sane world would see 0bama in Supermax solitary confinement, yesterday.

            • In a sane world he would have never been elected, of course then we would have had John McCain as President and that would have been bad. not as but but bad.

  5. All that money and nowhere to go. Where are they going to go? Will Qatar take them in? I doubt it.

      • I hope those planes never take off, and the Iranian people keep their own money and make those blood-sucking governing bastards pay the ultimate price. And a very good point to you, Vlad. How will Little Potatoe Boy square this one? (This is how the Chinese refer to Trudeau).

        • “I hope those planes never take off, and the Iranian people keep their own money and make those blood-sucking governing bastards pay the ultimate price.”

          As Old Bill would say, “Therein lies the rub.”

          The “Iranian people” have ZERO chance of keeping “their own money”. If “those planes never take off”, all that wealth will fall back into the clutching hands of Tehran’s hyper-corrupt mullahs.

          If that capital flight does happen, the Iranian people STILL LOSE. As I have noted elsewhere, the only benefit of this potential monetary outflow would be whatever subtraction of benefit from 0bama’s sickening infusion of $1.7 billion of wealth into Iran’s diabolical power structure.

          Without any wish to cynically dismiss your admirable optimism, in order for, “the Iranian people [to] keep their own money and make those blood-sucking governing bastards pay the ultimate price”, would require a comprehensive overthrow of both Tehran’s mullahs and the IRG (Iranian Revolutionary Guard).

          However desirable that most certainly is, the likelihood of this is less-than-ZERO. Just like the EU, Iran’s citizenry has been stripped of its arms and faces little chance of opposing even a weak form of the Autocratic monolith that now confronts it.

          How to create an atmosphere which encourages violent reprisal against the twisted oppression that Iran’s mullahs have kept in place for decades is something that demands courage well-beyond what can be expected of ordinary people.

          One might hope that a few-dozen-tons of small (and medium-scale) arms shipments by the CIA might help to bolster Persian repulsion of their historical Shiite oppressors.

          If you examine some of my other related comments, the notion of any swift or (even relatively) non-violent resolution to this typically, well-planned, Islamic bloodbath is nowhere in sight.

          As has always been the case, Islam routinely makes any hope of its defeat reliant upon unimaginable amounts of human slaughter. It’s what Muslims have done from T=0 and will continue to do until the civilized world depopulates every last Muslim nation to the point where they are no longer capable of imposing jihad or any other form of Islamic opposition.

          Again, Johnnyu, it’s always a pleasure (no matter how disheartening) to share ideas and strategies that might dislodge Islam from its current position of ridiculously exaggerated power.

          HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU AND YOURS!

          • One might hope that a few-dozen-tons of small (and medium-scale) arms shipments by the CIA might help to bolster Persian repulsion of their historical Shiite oppressors.

            The Revolutionary Guard are one of the sticking points, there are ways around it and a shipment of weapons by the CIA or some other source would help. If there are enough trained people who can lay their hands on the police weapons they might be able to seize the Guards arsenals but don’t hold your breath.

            The fact that the police in one location have been reported to have refused to obey the order to fire on the protesters is a good sign. This doesn’t necessarily mean the protesters are going to win but it does mean their chances are above 0. Not much above, at least based on what we think we know, but still above 9.

    • Where will they go?

      Several African Countries would welcome them, so would some South American Countries.

      • China. Putin might be willing to give them shelter, or maybe not that would depend on his calculations about which way the political winds are blowing in the Middle East.

  7. NR- I shoot from the heart and you from the head. Your analysis strikes me as bang on. Sorry to say.

    • “Your analysis strikes me as bang on. Sorry to say.”

      Johhnyu, there’s nothing for you to apologize for. As if!!!

      Both of us are equally repulsed by these events (if not most of recent history).

      Let’s please work together towards constructing a new Conservative (i.e., Constitutional) narrative that demolishes this entire Antifa, or Postmodernist, load of rubbish sewage (rhymes with “New Age”).

      Between your admirable eloquence and my (occasionally) articulate identification regarding the ongoing deconstruction of Western Civilization, we might be able to produce a new and convincing dialogue that helps young minds (or those of any age) to reconsider their currently toxic brew of entitlement and unthinking political allegiance.

      Regardless, you are one of my most favorite contributors at Vlad Tepes Blog and I would be severely remiss if I didn’t wish you and your loved ones the most happiest sort of New Year.

      All the very best,

      NorseRadiish

      • Much thanks, NR. Yes, we haven’t a choice but to keep moving forward. All the best to you and yours!

        • Forgot to add: you’re the only writer I know who can make 100 words dance on the head of a pin with none falling off.

  8. If this revolt fails (and the odds are it will) it will unleash a new wave of refugees upon the west, this time refugees who are opposed to the Islamification of the world. This will aid in the fight against the Islamic Invaders and possibly create a chance that President Trump can find enough non sewer rats in the Intel services to build a bigger and better revolt over the next 3 years. This will be difficult because the sewer rats are going to be busy trying to block all actions like that because it would destroy one of Obama’s actions, that of helping the Iranian hardliners remain in power.

    This will also help President Trump in his quest to rebuild the US Military by showing that we need a military large enough to respond to matters such as this one while remaining on guard several thousand miles away in Korea.

    If/when the revolt fails it will hurt Iran because the crackdown will further damage its economy. As I have stated before wars are fought with money as well as with guns and people.This damage to Iran’s economy will make it harder for them to get enough money to spend on their nuclear and missile development programs. It will also leave them with less money to give to the North Koreans in exchange for the missile and bomb tests that have been carried out over the last couple of years. It will hurt us in other ways including the propaganda that will be spread about the US fomenting the revolt and then not supporting it with men and guns.

    It will further hurt Iran because the revolt will scare a lot of people who will start moving capital from Iran to other locations that they think will be safe from both the Iranian government and the revolutionaries.

    The success of the revolt would probably hurt the Islamic Reformation that is being attempted in Saudi, its failure will show the need for the reformation and will help further it.

    • “Forgot to add: you’re the only writer I know who can make 100 words dance on the head of a pin with none falling off.”

      From you, Johnnyu, that’s, “praise from the praiseworthy”. As in, the very finest kind. Thank you so much. Your kind words mean a lot to me.