The Iranian quisling continues his treasonous activities

TEHRAN, Jan. 12 (MNA) -- The recent ruling by a court in the United States claiming that the Iranian government was involved in the 9/11 attacks is the final straw, and now the country’s judicial system has been totally discredited and its reputation for impartiality has been utterly ruined. Federal Judge George Daniels has ruled that Iran and Hezbollah are responsible for 9/11. He has concluded that 9/11 happened due to the fact that Iran and Hezbollah provided direct support to the plotters, and especially the hijackers, and probably would not have happened without this support. The court ruling even went further, saying that 9/11 was a joint operation carried out by Al-Qaeda and the Iranian government. The ruling provided scholars around the world with more evidence that the claims that the U.S. judicial system is impartial are completely false. From its inception, Al-Qaeda has called Iran’s government and its majority Shia population its archenemies. Moreover, after 9/11, then Iranian president Mohammad Khatami expressed condolences over the death of the victims of the terrorist incident and condemned Al-Qaeda for undermining world peace and global security. This stance has been repeated by other Iranian officials over the years. At the time, the U.S. government thanked Iran for its expression of condolences over the incident, even though the two countries were in an adversarial stance since diplomatic relations were cut in 1979. According to reports, the court ruling was based on testimony provided by people who falsely presented themselves as defectors from Iran’s intelligence services. Hamid Reza Zakeri Kouchaksarayi, one of the false witnesses, claimed that he drove Saad bin Laden, Osama bin Laden’s oldest son, to a meeting with Iranian officials on May 4, 2001. Interestingly, Zakeri is a prominent member of the Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) and the director of the Information and Security Committee of the National Council of Resistance. Both groups are on the U.S. government’s list of terrorist organizations. Zakeri is wanted by Iran’s intelligence Ministry for his role in the murder of more than 15,000 innocent Iranians over the past 20 years. He and a second unnamed individual, who is also believed to be associated with the MKO, have provided false testimony to courts on numerous occasions. However, the third false witness, Abolghasem Mesbahi, is an interesting case. Identified as Witness C by the court, Mesbahi is known in Iran and many other countries as a traitor who earns a living by providing false information to courts and intelligence agencies. He is, by no exaggeration, Iran’s Quisling. The son of a Church of Norway pastor, Vidkun Quisling was put on trial during the post-war legal purge in Norway and found guilty of high treason, among many other charges. For aligning with Hitler during the German occupation of Norway, he was executed by firing squad at Akershus Fortress, Oslo, on October 24, 1945. During World War II, quisling became a synonym for traitor. The term was coined by the British newspaper The Times in its leader of April 15, 1940, entitled “Quislings everywhere”. The noun has survived, and for a while during and after World War II, the back-formed verb to quisle was used. One who was quisling was in the act of committing treason. Over 70 years later, there is now an Iranian quisling. Mesbahi actually has the worst record of treason and providing false testimony against his own country in all of history. Wherever a file is opened against Iran by any court in the world, Mesbahi is the first one ready to be called a defector and former intelligence agent and to provide false testimony to the court. Maybe The Times of London should write an article entitled “Mesbahi everywhere”. Mesbahi escaped Iran via the Pakistani border in 1996 after his company went bankrupt, and he is now on Interpol’s wanted list. He met Abolhasan Banisadr in Paris, and through his connections with the Germans, he got an opportunity to accuse Iranian officials of being involved in the Mykonos case. In the case of the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires, he was also the number one witness and played an important role in the court’s final ruling, which claimed Iranian officials were involved in the incident. Over the past two decades, he has made a great deal of money from giving false testimony. In various court cases, Mesbahi has given false testimony claiming Iran was involved in the Lockerbie bombing, the murder of the CEO of French car manufacturer Renault, the bombing of an aircraft in Panama in 1994, and the 1992 attack on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires. Thus, he is clearly an Iranian version of Quisling. Accusing him of high treason is not the only thing we can do. Like what happened to the Norwegian politician, his name should be added to the Persian lexicon, with the definitions liar, betrayer, and treacherous and disloyal person.