“A former Iranian deputy defence minister and Revolutionary Guard general has disappeared in Istanbul, amid reports that he has defected to the west and counter-claims from Tehran that he has been abducted … The head of the Iranian police force, General Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam, said that Gen Asgari had been abducted because of his experience as deputy defence minister, but gave no further details … [But] Menashe Amir, an Israeli analyst of Iranian affairs, said he had information suggesting Gen Asgari’s family had been with him when he vanished … ‘It’s very possible that he decided to defect.’ “

From The Guardian, here.

Posted Thursday, March 8th, 2007 @ 12:22 pm
Filed in middle east, politics

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