Report: Iran's New Defense Minister Plotted Terror Attacks [View all]
Source: Israel National News Channel 7
Iran's new defense minister is behind past terror attacks against Americans and Israelis, finds report by Israeli expert.
By Elad Benari
First Publish: 8/13/2013, 6:15 AM
Iran's new defense minister is behind past terror attacks against Americans and Israelis, the Israel Hayom newspaper reported on Monday.
The Islamic Republic’s new president, Hassan Rouhani, has appointed Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan as the new defense minister. Dehgan, according to a report by Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira, a senior research associate at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, was responsible for attacks against U.S. and Israeli forces in Lebanon in the 1980s.
The appointment will become official once it is approved by the Iranian parliament, which began debating Rouhani’s new cabinet on Monday.
Dehgan has reportedly served in the Revolutionary Guard his entire military career, since the Islamic revolution in 1979. According to Shapira's report, as it was cited by Israel Hayom, Dehghan was sent to Lebanon after the beginning of the first Lebanon War in the summer of 1982.
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