Iranian Directorate

Iranian Directorate

The Iranian Directorate or Directorate for Iran is a unit of The Pentagon created in 2006 to deal with intelligence on Iran in the context of diplomatic and military tensions between the United States and Iran.cite news | first=Larisa | last=Alexandrovna | pages= | title=Pentagon confirms Iranian directorate as officials raise new concerns about war | date=June 15, 2006| publisher=The Raw Story | url=http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Pentagon_confirms_Iranian_directorate_as_intelligence_0615.html
accessdate=2006-06-17] Critics compare it with the Office of Special Plans (OSP) which dealt with controversial intelligence reports about Iraq.

Membership

The acting director of the Iranian Directorate is not publicly known but has been reported to be military officer Ladan Archin by the Asia Times Online cite news | first= | last= | pages= | title=Neo-cons take spin to US-backed airwaves | date=June 26, 2007 | publisher=Asia Times Online | url=http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IF26Ak06.html | accessdate=2007-06-10] . Some of the other members are: former director of the Office of Special Plans, Abram Shulsky, Project for the New American Century member Reuel Marc Gerecht, and Defense Intelligence Agency analyst, John Trigilio. cite news | first=Laura | last=Rozen | pages= | title=U.S. Moves to Weaken Iran | date=May 19, 2006 | publisher=Los Angeles Times
url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/1038875801.html?dids=1038875801:1038875801&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=May+19%2C+2006&author=Laura+Rozen&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&edition=&startpage=A.29&desc=The+World |accessdate=2006-06-17]

Aims

The "Los Angeles Times" claimed that the purpose of the Iranian Directorate in the Pentagon is to "undercut the government in Tehran" together with the Office of Iranian Affairs in the State Department.

ee also

*United States-Iran relations

References

External links

* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6108983 Pentagon Iran Office Mimics Former Iraq Office]


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