Jundallah is one of several groups that have been conducting
bombings and other violent attacks against Iran’s Islamic regime with
the aim of knocking it off balance.
In a
July 7, 2008, article for The New Yorker magazine, investigative
journalist Seymour Hersh quoted Robert Baer, a former CIA clandestine
officer who worked in South Asia and the Middle East for nearly two
decades, as saying that Jundallah was one of the militant groups in
Iran benefiting from U.S. support.
Hersh also reported that President
George W. Bush signed an intelligence finding in late 2007 that
allocated up to $400 million for covert operations intended to
destabilize Iran’s government, in part, by supporting militant
organizations.
Hersh identified another
one of the militant groups with “long-standing ties” to the CIA and the
U.S. Special Operations communities as the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK,
which has been put on the State Department’s list of terrorist groups.
But Jundallah has been
spared that designation, a possible indication that the U.S. government
views it as a valuable asset in the face-off aga… >>>
