Ex-Cia agent: 'We have no clue what's going on in Iran'
source: http://www.examiner.com/x-2086-NY-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m6d28-ExCia-agent-We-have-no-...
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Robert Baer is a man you've seen on your TV screens before; he's not ubiquitous, but recognizable enough as an authoritative voice on world events. He's an ex-CIA operative, now living in California, and provided some insight on Iran today in a conversation with Fareed Zakaria.
Read Robert Baer's piece in Time Magazine: Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.
His assessment of what has happened in Iran is what he calls a military coup d'etat by the Revolutionary Guard against the clerics. The Revolutionary Guard has kept its activities within Iran's border for the last thirteen years; it is nationalistic in nature, hardline and boast a terrorist past, and at the moment, they represent the ultimate authority in Iran.
Read Robert Baer's piece in Time Magazine: Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, The Devil We Know: Dealing with the New Iranian Superpower.
His assessment of what has happened in Iran is what he calls a military coup d'etat by the Revolutionary Guard against the clerics. The Revolutionary Guard has kept its activities within Iran's border for the last thirteen years; it is nationalistic in nature, hardline and boast a terrorist past, and at the moment, they represent the ultimate authority in Iran.
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