Opinion
By Ken Timmerman’s Threat Watch
10/10/24
Usually I don’t contact you in between my weekly emails, but today is special.
My new book, The Iran House: Tales of Revolution, Persecution, War, and Intrigue, is now available from Amazon. This link below will take you there directly. Plus, anything you buy on Amazon in the 30 minutes after you click on the link will earn me a commission. (That helps pay the rent….)
If you don’t like clicking on links, just go to Amazon and search for The Iran House and you’ll find it. My publisher, Bombadier Books, has recently published books by Miranda Devine, Dan Bongino, and others.
The Iran House reveals how an investigative reporter came to assist several U.S. intelligence agencies in their efforts to thwart Iranian regime terrorism against the United States. It is unusual – to say the least – for a reporter to work with intelligence services. Even less so, to break cover and talk about it openly. In my case, it usually began with a knock on the door, the showing of creds, and the question: are you willing to help your country in the war against international terrorism? Well, duh! The first of these contacts happened shortly after the 9/11 attacks, when the FBI approached me for information about an Iranian they believed was in contact with al Qaeda operatives living in Iran before the attacks. That soon morphed into an effort to recruit the former commander of the Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezai. (Rezai’s son defected to the U.S. in 1998 and learned English in my basement in Maryland watching Jackie Chan movies). Rezai became an Iranian regime vice president in 2021. The FBI recruitment effort, which ultimately failed, has never been made public. A second series of contacts was initiated by NCIS, following the publication of an article of mine in Newsmax about an Iranian regime naval contingency plan. NCIS agents wanted to meet my Iranian defector source – and ultimately did. But they were rank amateurs and the two chapters I devote to them are called “The Boobs at NCIS.” A third series of contacts began in 2017, when FBI agents from the Iran squad at the Washington Field Office showed up on my doorstep in Maryland, seeking my cooperation in terrorism and money-laundering cases. This effort was far more successful for the U.S. government, and led to several thwarted terrorist attacks. The FBI used me to run a network of Iranian sub-agents, and eventually brought me to a secure location in the United States for a dedicated three-day training session to enhance my survival skills. This collaboration ultimately led to the killing of Quds Force commander Qassem Suleymani on January 3, 2020, in which I played a minor supporting role. The book gives a blow-by-blow account of the information I was receiving over the 2019-2020 New Year’s holiday from a subagent who had direct access to Iranian regime communications about the assault on the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad then underway. That information was relayed “all the way to the top,” according to my FBI handler, and ultimately helped President Trump and the White House team make the decision to take out Iran’s top terrorist. Later, I learned from a different Iranian source that the Baghdad embassy attack was not just an Iranian operation. It had been motivated – indeed, solicited – in large part by a senior advisor to former vice-president Joe Biden, who was seeking ways of destroying Trump’s chances of re-election in 2020. This is one of the big scandals of the 2024 election campaign. The Biden advisor eventually asked the Iranians to “do the same thing in Baghdad that you did with our embassy in Tehran” in 1979. Democrats have been obsessed with the 1979 Tehran hostage crisis ever since that time, and to this day many believe that Ronald Reagan and his campaign made a deal with advisors to Ayatollah Khomeini to hold onto the hostages until after the 1980 election. This is the origin of the well-worn phrase, “October surprise.” The Biden campaign was hoping the Iranians could help them pull off an “October surprise” against Donald Trump, except that they would start their assault on his credibility as commander-in-chief in January 2020, giving Democrat operatives and their allies in the media ten full months to hound Trump, just as Ted Koppel hounded Jimmy Carter throughout the 444 days of the Tehran hostage crisis in 1979 . The book describes in detail how my source gained access to the classified file containing the Biden-Iran communications in the Supreme Leader’s Office in Tehran, and how he communicated elements from that file to me. It also contains a damning chronology of the Biden-Iran back channel provided directly to me by the Iranian intelligence official who photographed the documents in Tehran. Make sure you order an extra copy of The Iran House for your Member of Congress. I can tell you this: the FBI and the NSA well aware of the Biden advisor’s communications with Tehran, and have kept them quiet. Congress should subpoena these records and make them public. When I was a younger man we had a word for this, and it starts with T…. Get your copy now before Amazon runs out of copies! Yours in freedom, Ken PS: A special prayer to those in North Carolina who are still suffering the impact of Hurricane Helene, and to our friends in the Tampa Bay area who are bracing for Milton. May the Lord God extend his hedge of protection upon you – and upon Donald Trump! |
Ken Timmerman’s 12th book of non-fiction, AND THE REST IS HISTORY: Tales of Hostages, Arms Dealers, Dirty Tricks, and Spies, can be ordered by clicking here or by viewing my author’s page, here. Raising Olives in Provence, can be ordered by clicking here. – Senior Fellow, America First Policy Institute (current) – Republican nominee for Congress, Maryland District 8 (2012) – President & CEO, Foundation for Democracy in Iran, www.iran.org – Nobel Peace Prize nominee, 2006 Cell: 904-817-8584 NEW NUMBER Follow me on Twitter @kentimmerman Facebook: ken timmerman New personal email: [email protected] Website: kentimmerman.com |
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