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| DEBKA: Iran's confessed Israeli spy really an IRGC bully boy | |
| 2011-01-20 | |
| The young Iranian man who "admitted" on Iranian TV last Tuesday, Jan. 11 that he had acted for the Israeli Mossad in the murder of Iranian nuclear scientist Massoud Ali-Mohammadi is revealed in real life by debkafile's Iranian sources as a member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' secret reserve death squad of brawny sportsmen used to cut down opponents of the regime and break up protest rallies. debkafile's Iranian sources had uncovered the real Majid Jamali Fashi - a champion kick boxer, a professional terminator and an ardent fan of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. As a sportsman, his face is familiar to people in Iran from the media and the Internet. Until late 2009, he represented his country in international kick-boxing contests.
If Majid had really been recruited by Mossad, this would have been a feather in the cap of the Israeli spy service -- not Tehran. It would have told the television audience that Mossad's tentacles had not only reached into Iran's nuclear program but also the elite clandestine ranks of the Revolutionary Guards, the IRGC. So why make it the subject of a boast? Majid Jamali Fash's real persona is disclosed here by our Iranian sources: He was born in Tehran in 1978 and after completing his military service with the IRGC, took up kick boxing while continuing to serve the Guards as a reservist. He and hundreds of his fellow champion sportsmen belong to a unit which is regularly called up for undercover work such as liquidating enemies of the regime and breaking the heads, arms and legs of regime opponents. In the summer of 2009, the young sportsman was employed in the brutal break-up of the mass street rallies protesting the rigged election which gave Ahmadinejad his second term. Tehran's practice of employing national sporting talent as IRGC hatchet men in "crowd control" has drawn angry protests from the international federations of Taekwondo, Judo, Karate, Kung fu and other martial arts. Because of his fame, Iranian audiences found it hard to revise their view of Jamali-Fashi as a Mossad agent. Many decided his performance was faked by Iranian intelligence. However, opposition circles did believe in his role as assassin of Prof. Mohammadi, though not in the service of Israel but his IRGC masters because the late professor supported the opposition's cause. | |
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| #3 Either way, Iran loses in my eyes. |
| Posted by: Uleatch Dribble8106 2011-01-20 22:42 |
| #2 But whoever taught these guys top skills is in dutch in their fraternity, and at the next opportunity, they will probably take him out. There's always the Mossad. Perhaps this is how they did it... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-01-20 18:32 |
| #1 Martial artists are something unto themselves, and have their own rules about life and things. While they are willing to train government thugs and soldiers up to a point, this doesn't mean that they let them in their fraternity; nor does it mean that they will teach them mastery in the art. A lot of this can be attributed to the efforts of governments in past to wipe them out. It didn't work, and they went underground. Even at the worst part of the Stalin years in the Soviet Union, martial artists were still training. Those that were caught were killed. But whoever taught these guys top skills is in dutch in their fraternity, and at the next opportunity, they will probably take him out. Could be an African, American, Korean, South American, Australian, Chinese, who knows? |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-01-20 18:04 |