Whether his denial will carry any weight, however, may be moot, as Iranian media is reporting that Rafsanjani and another candidate, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s handpicked successor, were disqualified from the race.

Iranian media earlier has speculated that would happen, with reports that Rafsanjani and Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei would be rejected by the council that approves candidacies.

Ahmadinejad has warned that if his handpicked successor, Mashaei, was rejected, he will release a tape that proves his 2009 re-election was fraudulent.

In a May 15 exclusive, WND reported that a secret message from Kerry was delivered to Rafsanjani of U.S. support, according to a source affiliated with the office of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The source, who remains anonymous for security reasons and who has provided valuable information before, said that on May 3, Kerry’s letter was delivered via the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh to Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, who arranged through the Saudi Embassy in Tehran to present the message to Rafsanjani indicating support from both the White House and the Saudi monarch.

Over 100 of the regime’s media outlets, including Channel 1 TV, immediately picked up WND’s report, which forced Rafsanjani’s office to post a denial on his official website.

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“After the false publication of internal media quoting American WND regarding a secret letter by John Kerry to Ayatollah Rafsanjani and on the threshold of the presidential elections,” Rafsanjani’s press release said, “some vengeful media in Iran, without considering the national interest of the country and with the goal of character assassination, have expanded on news and rumors of anti-revolutionary foreign media.”

The press release said it’s unfortunate that some “internal media,” based on their political tendencies, have chosen to become aligned with WND’s report.

After a warning that Rafsanjani might reveal some official regime secrets, the release asks, “Are (the media) willing to publish reports against all officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran!?”

The release said Rafsanjani’s office regretted this “anti-human and anti-moral” behavior by the “internal media” that have become the “loudspeaker” of the anti-revolutionaries and he reserved the right to take legal action against those in regime media who expanded on the WND report.

Fars News Agency, the media outlet run by the Revolutionary Guards, published Rafsanjani’s denial under a big headline: “I did not receive a secret message from the U.S. Secretary of State.”

Jamnews, a regime media outlet, not only put up the WND report in full but partly translated it into Farsi.

Another regime outlet, Yjc.ir (Young Journalist Club), also run by the Revolutionary Guards, not only fully translated the WND piece but said the news of U.S. support for Rafsanjani was published at a time when other U.S. officials had stated that Rafsanjani’s candidacy would be their best scenario for the June 14 presidential election.

The outreach to Rafsanjani goes back to what led to the Iran-Contra Affair in the 1980s in which a direct channel of communication was established with Rafsanjani, who was then the speaker of parliament.

Rafsanjani had promised the American administration that once Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution, died, then relations between the two countries could improve, but his promises then and after continued to be hollow as he bought time for the regime to progress in various fields.

Rafsanjani, who portrays himself as a moderate, announced his candidacy just before the May 11 registration deadline, drawing harsh reaction by the hardliners in Iran, who requested that authorities bar him from the election.

Rafsanjani played a major role in the 2009 election by supporting Mousavi, who actually won the vote against Ahmadinejad, whose victory was assured under orders by the supreme leader to add millions to his tally. That fraud touched off days of rioting in which thousands were arrested and many imprisoned or executed and led to the Green Movement, angering the hardliners.

WND reports of April 30 and May 2 revealed that Ahmadinejad had been arrested and detained for several hours recently and warned by regime officials to keep his mouth shut.

As also reported, Ahmadinejad had promised to release a tape that would prove the 2009 election was fraudulent if his handpicked candidate, Mashaei, was denied a spot in the presidential election. That WND report also caused a firestorm in Iran.

The Guardian Council, which must approve candidates, had said its decisions would be announced Wednesday. The source who provided the information both on Ahmadinejad and Rafsanjani to WND said security forces have been stationed around Tehran in anticipation of possible rioting should one candidate or another be rejected.

The source said the WND reports have not only touched off a furor in Iran but have caused grave complications for the regime, which is now confused about what to do in its approval process, fearing instability as the elections nears.

WND’s reports have continuously unnerved the regime in ways that no other reports have done, the source said. This only benefits the Iranian people, he said, who as a majority “want nothing to do with this regime and the so-called moderates (Rafsanjani) who are as much of a criminal as the other officials of the Islamic Republic, whose only goal is for the survival of the regime for a bit longer.”

In an exclusive March 20 report with updates on March 24, March 25 and April 10, WND revealed the vast “Quds” site. Iranian scientists are trying to perfect nuclear warheads at this underground facility previously unknown to the West.

According to WND’s source, an officer who has been assigned to the regime’s Ministry of Defense, the site, approximately 14 miles long and 7.5 miles wide, consists of two facilities built deep into a mountain along with a missile facility housing over 380 missile silos/garages that is surrounded by barbed wire, 45 security towers and several security posts.

The most significant information provided by the source is that the regime has succeeded in not only enriching to weapons grade but has converted the highly enriched uranium into metal.

Moreover, the source said, successfully making this metal neutron reflector indicates the final stages for a nuclear weapons design that would be a two-stage, more sophisticated and much more powerful nuclear bomb. Regime scientists are also working on a plutonium bomb as a second path to becoming nuclear-armed, the source said, and they have at this site 24 kilograms of plutonium, which is sufficient for several atomic bombs. The scientists are at the last stage of putting together a bomb warhead, he said.

The nuclear weapon-effects test expert, who could not be named but who served at the U.S. Defense Nuclear Agency and who inspected more than 200 tunnel structures of Russian nuclear test sites as well as Russian operational facilities and silos, viewed the imagery of Iran’s new secret facility.

“The site is similar to a common approach by several other nuclear-capable countries which have used advanced design in hardening these types of tunnels or garages for a quick deployable system,” he said. “I understand exactly what Iran has at the site … (including) a very important part of the structures … the apparent hardened underground stub tunnels for secure storage of mobile systems which can be quickly moved to launching sites.”

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“… the overheads indicate there are many apparent tunnel portals designed to hold a weapon and/or an operational controlling element (support system) for the weapons, an indication of an advanced design for a quick deployable nuclear weapons system capable of surviving retaliation, very much similar to what the U.S. had in mind in the 1960s in its major confrontation with the Soviet Union. … And it is very scary because its defeat may not be as easy as attacking it with a couple bombers, even if they have nuke weapons. This layout is very scary because it is … ready for the operational weapon systems to be installed, and then they are ready to take on the world.”

The source said there is close collaboration among Iran, North Korea and key figures in China in working on the nuclear warheads and that he will soon reveal detailed information of this collaboration, along with the plans and the timing for both Iran and North Korea to arm their missiles with nuclear warheads. The source emphasized that the world does not have much time but the time for negotiations with the Islamic regime is over.

Other experts also viewed the imagery.

“(The satellite images) suggest the possibility that Iran may in fact be further along in its nuclear weapons program than is generally assumed,” said David Trachtenberg, who for 30 years served in the national security policy field and who, as principal deputy assistant secretary of defense, played a leadership role in nuclear forces and arms control policy. “It is clear they have gone to great lengths to bury and protect high-value assets at this site, which also complicates the possibility of direct military action and illustrates the risks of allowing years to pass while hoping diplomacy will work.

GoogleEarth 12-2012 Image, Quds secret nuclear facility

“An accelerating train is harder to slow and takes longer to stop. These images reinforce my concern that Iranian nuclear progress is accelerating. The more emphatically the U.S. declares its determination to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear weapons state, the harder it may be to ensure that outcome.”

Fritz Ermarth, who served in the CIA and as chairman of the National Intelligence Council, reviewed the satellite photos and said, “(This) imagery strongly suggests that Iran is working on what we used to call an ‘objective force’ … a deployed force of nuclear weapons on mobile missiles, normally based in deep underground sites for survivability against even nuclear attack, capable of rapid deployment.”

“This open-source analysis by itself illustrates that Iran is very serious about building survivable facilities for its nuclear enterprise,” said Dr. Peter Vincent Pry, the executive director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security, a congressional advisory board. Pry, who has served with the House Armed Services Committee and in the CIA, also reviewed the imagery and added, “The location of the site amid an Iranian missile armory, protected by a vast array of defensive and offensive missiles, is consistent with the intelligence reporting that the site is for the final stages of nuclear weapons development. The complex appears to be the most heavily protected site in Iran.”

“Reza Kahlili (who revealed the Quds site) has provided the West with one of the most critical pieces of evidence of the Iranian government’s drive to break out its nuclear development into a fully operational capability,” said Maj. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney (Ret.). “All the red lines have been crossed. Beware America, Israel and the West, a nuclear Iran is here!”

The U.N. nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, said last week that a 10th round of talks with Iran over Tehran’s efforts to develop nuclear weapons had failed.

Tabnak, an outlet of Iran’s Islamic regime, said an unidentified Hezbollah commander, in an interview with the Kuwaiti paper Alrai, thanked Syrian President Bashar Assad for keeping his promise to provide those weapons to Hezbollah.

“The weapons given to Hezbollah will change the balance of power,” he said.

“We have in recent days done extensive operations for reconnaissance on Israel’s central and sensitive military and infrastructural installations in different areas and also on Israel’s commando posts and peacekeeping forces in the Golan Heights,” he said, “to prepare for the coming battle with the occupying regime.”

The commander revealed some of the weapons given by Syria to Hezbollah, including Pantsir (SA-22 Greyhound) surface-to-air missiles, SAM 5 surface-to-air missiles and the Russian anti-tank Kornet missiles. However, the commander also hinted that soon Hezbollah will receive the advanced and dreaded ship-killer Yakhont missiles from Assad.

U.S. officials, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had urged Russian President Vladimir Putin not to go ahead with his arms sales to Syria, including the S-300 antiaircraft system and the feared Yakhont cruise missiles. But despite their pleas, Russian officials said they were honoring contracts with Syria, and those weapons Russia will send to Syria may eventually wind up in the hands of Hezbollah and Iran.

The Hezbollah commander also said that Assad has ordered formation of resistance forces similar to Hezbollah, arming them with various weapons, for the confrontation with Israel.

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On May 9, days after Israeli warplanes struck shipments of advanced Iranian weapons on the outskirts of Damascus intended for Hezbollah, the terrorist group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, boasted that Syria will supply “game-changing” weapons to Hezbollah.

“The attack carried out by the Zionist regime (in Syria) will shorten this fake regime’s life,” Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi warned Israel after the Israeli attack.

Meanwhile, the British Sunday Times reported Sunday that Syria has begun deploying advanced surface-to-surface missiles aimed at Tel Aviv to be launched if Israeli warplanes strike inside Syria again.

According to a source within the Iranian intelligence apparatus, there is now little hope the Assad regime can be saved, hence the panic by Russia in arming Assad with further sophisticated weapons in a warning to U.S. and NATO to stay out of the conflict. He said Iran’s rapid shipment of sophisticated weapons to Hezbollah is part of that strategy. By reinforcing its arsenal, Hezbollah can strike all of Israel and, as a last resort, engage Israel from within Syria, further complicating the already-chaotic region.

Israel, worried about the disintegration of Syria and the further arming of Hezbollah, has warned continuously that giving “game-changing” weapons to Hezbollah is its red line.

Despite the open Iranian threats against Israel, the source said, regime officials have no intention of engaging the Jewish state directly unless America launches a direct attack against Syria or if there is an attack on Iran. In fact, he said, Iranian officials are worried about Israel attacking their nuclear facilities as Iran seeks to create a nuclear-armed state that would then become untouchable.

However, Iranians have devised several plans to engage Israel through their forces in Syria and their proxies, such as Hezbollah, to draw the Jewish state into a wider conflict should Israel continue to attack Syrian armaments facilities.

The source added that the regime also has devised plans for terrorist attacks against Israel, the U.S. homeland and their interests around the world as a warning to leave Syria alone and to stop the pressure on the Islamic regime because of its illicit nuclear program. The fall of Assad, they think, would be a culmination of an effort to then target the clerical regime in Iran.

As reported exclusively on WND on May 13, Iran not only has formed a new coalition of terrorist masterminds among its Quds Forces, Hezbollah and al-Qaida to attack the U.S. homeland, but has also given the go-ahead for three imminent operations within the U.S. to change the perception of security in America, which it believes has helped empower America’s actions in the Middle East.

The source, who remains anonymous for security reasons and who has provided valuable information before, said that on May 3, Kerry’s letter was delivered via the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh to Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, who arranged through the Saudi Embassy in Tehran to present the message to Rafsanjani.

The message said both the Saudi kingdom and the White House would support Rafsanjani in the June 14 elections and that, the source said, Rafsanjani showed the message to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who agreed that Rafsanjani should announce his candidacy.

The message said that both Washington and Riyadh understood Iran’s political landscape and economic situation, the source said, and that they believe that mistaken policies of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad both nationally and internationally have taken Iran further away from better international relations. They believe that with Rafsanjani as president, those problems, including the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program, could soon be resolved.

Rafsanjani, who portrays himself as a moderate, announced his candidacy just before the May 11 registration deadline, which drew harsh reaction from hard liners in Iran who requested that authorities bar him from next month’s vote.

The source added that the approval of Rafsanjani’s candidacy by the Guardian Council will mean that Khamenei is on board and will use Rafsanjani not only to help turn out those voters who believe Rafsanjani offers an anti-regime candidacy but also to start another merry-go-around with the U.S. to buy more time for its nuclear bomb program. The Guardian Council is set to announce the list of approved candidates next week.

The outreach to Rafsanjani goes back to what led to the Iran-Contra Affair in the 1980s in which a direct channel of communication was established with Rafsanjani, who was then the speaker of the parliament. Rafsanjani had promised the American administration that once Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Islamic Revolution, died, then relations between the two countries could improve.

That outreach, as reported before, continued under President George H.W. Bush. At that time Khomeini was dead, and the American administration believed that Rafsanjani, who had become president, could then deliver on what he had promised – normalization of relations – only to find out that the promises were hollow.

Rafsanjani then played a role again in the 2009 elections in a power grab by supporting Mir Hossein Mousavi against Ahmadinejad. Mousavi actually won the popular vote, but on orders from the supreme leader, the election was fraudulently given to Ahmadinejad. That touched off days of rioting in which thousands were arrested and many imprisoned or executed and led to the Green Movement, which angered the clerical establishment.

As reported exclusively on WND on Oct. 4 and in The Washington Times on Oct. 30, a three-person delegation of the Obama administration met secretly in Doha, Qatar, on Oct. 1 with Ali Akbar Velayati, the former Iranian foreign minister and current close adviser to the supreme leader who is also running as a candidate for the presidency next month. Other U.S. and Iranian officials also participated in several similar meetings, which took place from 2009 to 2012 in Turkey, Georgia and Thailand to discuss Iran’s nuclear program as well as regional issues.

The source added that the White House would rather Rafsanjani win than Velayati but has contacts with both. However, he said, to hope that either will change the regime’s policies is delusional because not only are ultimate decisions made by the supreme leader, but that both candidates (and for that matter all those who run for elected office) only serve the interest of the regime and “these games are only to buy time for the system to survive and continue with its evil plans.”

Another source within the Revolutionary Guards intelligence unit, who provided information on Ahmadinejad’s recent arrest and the presence of an audiotape proving fraud in the 2009 elections, informed WND that if Ahmadinejad’s hand-picked candidate to succeed him, close confidant and top adviser Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, was rejected in his attempt to get on the ballot, Ahmadinejad would retaliate. He would not only reveal the tape, causing a major headache for the regime, but also would immediately fire several of his ministers in an effort to disrupt the operation of the government and delay the elections. The sources said that if that did not work, he would resign to further pressure Khamenei before the elections.

Khamenei has warned that no one can delay the elections and that the Guardian Council, the body that approves candidates for office, should not hesitate to reject those not qualified.

Iran has given the go-ahead to operatives of three terrorist groups that have infiltrated the United States to carry out missions, including what is expected to be a Mumbai-style attack on a hotel where innocent bystanders would be killed, WND has learned.

A full report with many details of the missions has been passed on to U.S. officials.

Three targets have been chosen within America for imminent attack, and the terror teams have now cut communications with the operational center in Iran, a sign that they are moving ahead with the attacks, according to a high-level intelligence officer within the Islamic regime.

If only one of the attacks occurs, the regime will consider the operation a success, the source said. Tehran believes, he said, an attack would not be traced back to Iran due to the nationalities of the operators.

One of the planned attacks resemble the Mumbai attack in 2008, the source added, in which a hotel was targeted, hostages were taken and 164 people were killed over several days. India alleges Pakistan used proxies to carry out the Mumbai attack so it wouldn’t be traced back to Pakistan, just as Iran now is using proxies to hide its current terrorism. The information provided by the source provides details of a new jihadist coalition with a focus on creating instability in the U.S.

The source said the regime views the Boston bombing as a successful terrorist attack in which fear was created, U.S. intelligence questioned and a sense of security diminished. There has yet to be any link to a specific group or country.

As WND reported exclusively April 22, the regime’s Quds Forces have done extensive planning on gatherings, events and high-value targets in the U.S., but for two years have focused on events such as the Boston Marathon. The Quds Forces run an extensive network of terrorists out of South Asia.

A Feb. 14, 2010, meeting in Iran either set up the new jihadist coalition or continued the coalition among the Quds Forces, Hezbollah and al-Qaida. The latter coalition was formed years ago by Imad Mugniyeh, the dead mastermind terrorist from Hezbollah, under the direction of Ahmad Vahidi, then the head of the Quds Forces and the current Iranian defense minister, to collaborate on their fight against the U.S.

At the 2010 meeting, Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Quds Forces; Seif Adel, the operational head of al-Qaida; and Mustafa Badr al-Din, the operational head of Hezbollah; devised a plan for operations against the U.S. under a new coalition, dubbed the “Coalition of Muslim Soldiers.” The coalition includes al-Shabaab, an al-Qaida offshoot based in Somalia, and has its central command in the Iranian city of Kerman. Command and control centers are located in the Iranian provinces of Kerman, Khorasan, Khuzestan, Kurdistan, and Sistan and Baluchistan, the source said.

The coalition, led by Soleimani, with Iran the main source of funding, is based on a strategic collaboration and devoid of ideological differences and opinions of Shiite and Sunni Marjas. The main operational commanders, mostly well-known terrorists, are:

1. Gen. Soleimani, the head of the Quds Forces with full power given to him by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
2. Brig. Gen. Abdolreza Shahlabi of the Quds Forces.
3. Brig. Gen. Hamed Abdollahi of the Quds Forces.
4. Brig. Gen. Hossein Movahedian of the Quds Forces.
5. Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr of the Quds Forces.
6. Seif Adel, the operational head of al-Qaida.
7. Abdul Rahman Yasin of al-Qaida operations.
8. Abu Saeed al-Mesri of al-Qaida in Latin America.
9. Adnan ShokriJuma of al-Qaida in America.
10. Hakimalah Masoud of al-Qaida operations.
11. Mustafa Badr al-Din, the operations head of Hezbollah and the brother-in-law and cousin of the dead terrorist Imad Mugniyah, who now serves as Mugnyiah’s replacement as the military leader of Hezbollah and the deputy to the Quds’ Soliemani.
12. Talal Hamieh, the head of the External Security Organization, strategic planning and funding for Hezbollah in Venezuela. He commutes directly from Venezuela to Damascus, Syria, then to Lebanon and back.
13. Fozi Mohammad Mostafa of Hezbollah operations.
14. Mohammad Ali Hamdi of Hezbollah operations in Toronto, Canada. He targets nuclear power plants and other sites in Canada.
15. Ebrahim Saleh Mohammad al-Yaghoub of Hezbollah operations.
16. Mohammad Ahmad al-Monavar, the operations commander for Abu Nidal.
17. Jahad Servan Mostafa, the operations commander for al-Shabaab in Somalia.

Based on intelligence and infiltration by Western intelligence agencies into institutions, operations and cultural centers of radical Arab Islamists after 9/11, the new coalition recruits non-Arab Islamists from many other nationalities and Arabs from countries not on the hot list for American agencies.

Iran believes that the perception of security in America that has helped empower its actions in the Middle East must be turned 180 degrees, not only to defeat and derail all U.S. calculations based on gathered intelligence but to destabilize the political, economic and social conditions in America, the source said.

Based on that understanding, he said, the U.S. through its military might has kept the fight in the Islamic region and away from its homeland and its allies’ turf. Now continuous operations must be conducted in the U.S. homeland to change that equation, they believe.

More than 2,600 targets, including public places, government buildings and military installations, have been chosen for attack, and reconnaissance has been done. Information about some of the targets, based on direct knowledge of the source, has been given to U.S. officials to neutralize the threat and confront the terrorists. They include specific government buildings, news networks, malls and sports events.

This new coalition has also prepared for a major attack to avenge al-Qaida leader Osama Bin Laden’s killing to satisfy Seif Adel, the operational head of al-Qaida, for his collaboration with the Iranian regime.

The radical regime ruling Iran has set up several channels for financial support of the new coalition with its terrorist activities. Multiple commerce, cultural and financial institutions in the U.S. are part of that network. The connection includes individuals running businesses in Damascus and its connections to al-Qaida operatives in America.

Since 2001, more than $270 million has been invested in the expansion of mosques and Islamic centers in America by institutions in the Iranian city of Qom. As part of the coalition’s plan, some 27 mosques and Islamic centers in America are their target for collaboration, infiltration and recruitment of sympathizers for various missions, including reconnaissance and terrorist acts.

The source said the new coalition, due to its composition of different people in Central Asia, is a very complex organization.

The publication of a limited version of the full report is an intention to put the Islamic regime on notice that should it go ahead with its planned attacks in the U.S. homeland, it will be held responsible, the source said.

WND reported exclusively on April 30 that Ahmadinejad had been detained for seven hours and warned to shut his mouth over his claim of having embarrassing documents on several regime officials.

WND’s story, from a source in the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit, soon became international news, with several media covering the story, including Shepard Smith of Fox News, The Guardian Express, Britain’s Daily Mail, the Jerusalem Post, Turkish Hurriyet, Alarabiya and the American Jewish newspaper Algemeiner, forcing the regime to react.

The Islamic Republic News Agency Wednesday assailed WND, stating that the “U.S. news website World Net Daily, which had a record of publishing anti-Iranian news items, among its Wednesday news claimed baselessly that … President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested temporarily by some Iranian security forces.” It claimed WND and its author, Reza Kahlili, were engaged in counterintelligence and anti-Iran projects.

Turkish media outlet Haber and Memleket reflected the report run by a major Turkish outlet, Hurriyet, on Friday: “Ahmadinejad was allegedly detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard chief of intelligence for seven hours, according to former CIA agent Reza Kahlili.”

The report said there were documents that proved Ahmadinejad was fraudulently elected as president in 2009 by having millions of votes added to his tally and that now the president was blackmailing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over the document if his candidate, close confidant and adviser Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, was not allowed to run in the presidential elections in June.

Turkish media said there has been visible tension between Khamenei, the supreme leader, and Ahmadinejad in recent years and that the president’s detention was a warning to him that he either shut up or face consequences.

The WND report, which was posted on over 400 Iranian sites, has created a headache for a regime that is already dealing with international sanctions over its illicit nuclear program and the tension over its upcoming presidential elections.

The Iranian Embassy in Ankara attacked the Turkish media in a press release for picking up the WND story. According to the regime’s media outlet AsrIran, the embassy denied that Ahmadinejad had been arrested, accused the Turkish media of being “under the influence of foreign news sources” and asked them to cover Iranian news only from the regime’s official media.

AsrIran said the embassy’s press release started with the Quran’s Surah Hajarat, Verse 6: “O you who believe, if a state of perverse rebellion, brings you news, search for it in detail. Otherwise the result of ignorance, a people give to evil deeds will regret later.”

It urged the Turks to pay attention to recent statements by Khamenei for the need for unity in the Islamic world.

Relations between Iran and Turkey have been souring because Turkey has called on Iranian ally Bashar Assad to step down as Syrian president and because of the recent reconciliation of the Turkish and Israeli governments.

Ahmadinejad recently stated publicly he had been warned that if he released information embarrassing to the regime, he would be taught a lesson. He said he won’t back down and that he has files that, if revealed, would implicate certain officials and they would have no place to hide.

As reported exclusively on WND on May 2, the source provided detailed information on a taped phone conversation between Ahmadinejad and Vahid Haghanian, the head of the supreme leader’s office. During that taped call, the two argued as Haghanian told Ahmadinejad what Khamenei expected of him. Haghanian then told him that they had to add millions of fake votes to declare him the winner despite having all Guards and Basij personnel to vote for him.

Earlier, the regime’s media outlet, Baztab, reported on the existence of the tape and the threat by Ahmadinejad’s camp to release it. The Baztab site, after publishing that news, was immediately taken down by security forces. In an interview today, Baztab reporter Fouad Sadeghi said the news came directly from Ahmadinejad associates.

The man who beat Ahmadinejad in 2009, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has been under house arrest since Feb. 2011. Millions of Iranians took to the streets after that election, calling Ahmadinejad’s reported 62 percent tally of voters (he actually received only a third of the vote) a fraud and demanding a free election. Thousands were arrested, with many tortured and executed.

The source for the reports, a member of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit, hopes to provide WND with a tape that proves Iranian officials admitted the truth about the level of fraud in the 2009 elections.

That revelation, should it happen, could potentially destabilize the regime right before the new presidential election, scheduled for June 14.

The source for this report, a member of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit, hopes to provide WND with a tape that proves Iranian officials admitted the truth about the level of fraud in the 2009 elections.

The source said the taped phone conversation, a bit longer than 11 minutes, is between Ahmadinejad and Vahid Haghanian, the head of the supreme leader’s office. The two discuss the fraud in which Haghanian said election officials added millions of votes to Ahmadinejad’s tally to declare him the winner.

During that phone call, the two argued as Haghanian told Ahmadinejad what the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, expected of him. Haghanian then told him that they had to add millions of fake votes to declare him the winner despite having all Guards and Basij personnel voting for him.

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Here are the actual results of the election, as provided by the source:

• Mir Hossein Mousavi won the election with over 19,250,000 votes.
• Ahmadinejad was second with a little over 13,000,000 votes.
• Mohsen Rezaei had approximately 3,700,000 votes.
• Mehdi Karoubi had approximately 3,200,000 votes.

Millions of Iranians took to the streets after the 2009 election results were reported, calling Ahmadinejad’s reported 62 percent tally of voters a fraud and demanding a free election.

Thousands were arrested, with many tortured and executed. Mousavi and Karoubi have been under house arrest ever since.

Meanwhile, Iranian media attacked WND Thursday for its report this week on the temporary arrest of Ahmadinejad and accused the news website of counterintelligence activity against the Islamic regime.

The exclusive WND report on Wednesday said Ahmadinejad, after visiting Tehran’s 26th international book fair Monday, was arrested and held for seven hours and warned to keep his mouth shut about matters detrimental to the Islamic regime before he was released, according to the same source.

The Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) Wednesday assailed WND, stating that the “U.S. news website World Net Daily, which had a record of publishing anti-Iranian news items, among its Wednesday news claimed baselessly that … President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested temporarily by some Iranian security forces Wednesday evening (sic).”

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IRNA misstated the day of the arrest, which, as WND reported, occurred on Monday night.

“It seems as if the publication of such false news items at the present time is in the framework of a counterintelligence, anti-Iranian project that is aimed at influencing Iran’s upcoming presidential elections, which will take place in less than two months, and is aimed at conveying the idea of the existence of a dual-governance tendency idea within the structure of the Iranian political system,” IRNA said.

The official state news agency blamed certain media outlets inside Iran that are close to political opponents of the Iranian government for publishing false news items against Ahmadinejad within the framework of an “internal counterintelligence project.”

WND reported Wednesday that the regime’s media outlet Baztab had reported that with just days remaining for the registration of presidential candidates, Ahmadinejad warned associates that if his handpicked candidate to succeed him, close confidant and top adviser Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, was rejected as a candidate, he would reveal tapes that show the regime defrauded voters in the 2009 presidential election. The regime quickly took down the Baztab site but not before the source captured the screen and the image was posted on WND.

Besides IRNA, other regime media outlets continued to attack WND. Tabnak, in a report today headlined “Where did the news on Ahmadinejad’s arrest initiate?” said that as the date for the Iranian elections becomes closer, elements inside and outside the country will increase pressure to affect the elections.

Tabnak blamed other regime media such as Baztab for picking up the story on the 2009 fraud tape, which now has become an international embarrassment for the nation, and warned of efforts to influence the presidential elections next month.

The WND report was picked up by many other outlets, including Britain’s Daily Mail, which said U.S. and British diplomats are aware of the reports and are viewing them “with interest.”

“It is potentially of considerable significance given the on-going internal political struggles as the election approaches,” one diplomatic source told the Daily Mail.

The Islamic regime’s media have attacked WND and its author, Reza Kahlili, on several occasions for revealing their secrets.

Most recently, much of Iran’s media, reflecting a state of panic, attacked WND for a report over the Islamic regime’s involvement in the Boston Marathon bombings, claiming Washington is behind the WND reports so the U.S. can attack other countries, presumably Iran and Syria.

WND’s source on the bombing provided information early on that those involved were Islamists and that they did not act alone. The source traced that assistance to Iran’s Quds Forces and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah with operations out of South Asia. The source will soon reveal to WND significant information linking the Islamic regime to the Boston bombings.

Regime media also have attacked the WND report on Iran’s latest secret nuclear site. The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, in an unusual press conference, denied the existence of the uranium-enrichment site, dubbed “Quds,” at which the rogue nation is making great progress in creating nuclear warheads for an array of long-range missiles stored underground nearby. However, he failed to state what the site is, and it is quite clear from satellite images that it is heavily fortified with underground entrances into a mountain.

WND, the “biggest cyber news outlet in the United States,” is initiating psychological warfare against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear activity, Iran’s Golpanews charged in relation to that report.

That belief follows WND’s exclusive reports of April 16, 19, 22 and 23 on Iran’s involvement in the attack and its relation to the terrorist groups Hezbollah and al-Qaida, which provided training and logistical support to the bombers.

The most important fact is that through new collaboration between Russia and America, the Boston bombings can become another Sept. 11 scenario leading up to a confrontation with Iran, said Dr. Motahreh Hosseini, a researcher and analyst of the Islamic Republic. This collaboration will have grave implications for the world, he said.

In a report published Monday by the regime’s media outlet Tabnak, Hosseini, Iran’s expert on Russia and the northern Ghafghaz region, which includes Chechnya, expressed deep concern over the possibility of a confrontation with Iran and blamed America for the Boston attack.

Tabnak reported that Hosseini believes that the area of activity by the jihadists in the northern Ghafghaz region does not extend outside of Russia and that there are no documents proving otherwise.

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“My personal belief is that such activity (terrorism) is not possible but with the collaboration of elements in America,” said Hosseini, who added that America’s own security organizations must have played a role in the bombings.

“If we look at it with an international view … this scenario (Boston bombings as a pretext) is designed for the purpose of buying Russia in a collaboration against Syria and Iran,” Hosseini said. Its main goal, he said, was for America to target Iran and put the revolutionary Middle East in a tight spot, have a U.S. presence in Russia’s backyard and further pressure China.

The Quds Forces media site Amarion last week published images of the Boston bombings, blaming Israel for the attack and claiming the FBI disregarded evidence of Mossad agent activity and just focused on the Chechen brothers. In another article published on the same site a day earlier, a stern warning to America said, “Support of al-Qaida = Sept. 11, support of Chechens = Boston incident, Support of Iran opposition = ?”

In a lengthy analysis, the site reviewed America’s support of various elements in recent history and pointed to the 9/11 and Boston attacks as the result of that support. It warned that America should expect more terrorism soon because of its support of regime opposition.

Meanwhile, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, spoke at the inauguration of the Islamic Awakening and Ulama Conference held in Tehran on Monday, promising victory for Islam throughout the world.

“Today the subject of Islamic Awakening (the Arab Spring), which you will discuss in this conference, tops the list of the issues of the Islamic world and the Islamic Ummah, an amazing phenomenon that will result in the re-emergence of Islamic civilization – for the Islamic Ummah and then for all of the world – in the not too distant future providing that, with Allah’s permission, it stays healthy and continues,” he said.

Khamenei said that based on the promise of Allah as stated in the Quran, victory will come and Islam will conquer.

WND’s source warned that negotiations with the regime and sanctions against it for its illicit nuclear program have been complete failures and that soon the regime will arms its missiles with nuclear payloads and that the world will become chaotic beyond imagination if nothing is done to stop the radicals ruling Iran.

The source will soon reveal significant information linking the Islamic regime to the Boston bombings, he told WND.

Information provided by the source on April 19th indicated that the two brothers who set off the bombs at the Boston Marathon were assets of a bigger network out of South Asia and were set up to be burned so there would be no link back to their handlers – and Iran.

Reports today indicate that three more suspects have been taken into custody in Boston bombing case.

After his visit to Tehran’s 26th international book fair Monday, the source said the head of Ahmadinejad’s security team informed the Iranian president that he had been asked to appear at the supreme leader’s office for an urgent matter.

On the way to the meeting, contact between the security team within the president’s convoy was disconnected while three other cars joined the convoy, instructing the lead car to take a different direction. Ahmadinejad, instead of being taken to the supreme leader’s office, was taken to a secret location in one of the buildings belonging to the Foreign Ministry, which is under the control of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit.

As soon as Ahmadinejad exited the car, he and his security team were involved in an altercation with Guards’ members in which his team was disarmed and communications equipment confiscated. Ahmadinejad was then forced to enter an office belonging to Hossein Taeb, the head of the Guards’ intelligence, located underneath the building.

As this was happening, the source said, hundreds of other Guards’ members from the intelligence unit sought out Ahmadinejad’s associates throughout Tehran and questioned them on the existence of documents detrimental to the regime.

Ahmadinejad was questioned for hours in a meeting with Taeb; Asghar Hejazi, the head of intelligence at the supreme leader’s office; Mojtaba Khamenei, the supreme leader’s son; and Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei, the attorney general. He was warned to back down from his claims against regime officials and given an ultimatum. The source added that Ahmadinejad was released back to his security team at 11:45 p.m. Monday, Tehran time.

Earlier, the regime’s media outlet Baztab reported that with just days remaining for the registration of presidential candidates, Ahmadinejad warned associates that if his hand-picked candidate to succeed him, a close confidant and a top adviser, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, was rejected as a candidate, then he would reveal tapes that will show the regime defrauded the voters in the 2009 presidential election.

One tape reportedly quotes officials as telling Ahmadinejad in 2009 that they will announce his total winning tally as 24 million votes where the real number was 16 million. In the same tape, Ahmadinejad insisted that the officials not do that. The Baztab site was immediately taken down by the regime’s security forces and is still offline.

Millions of Iranians took to the streets after the 2009 election results were reported, calling Ahmadinejad’s 62 percent tally of voters a fraud and demanding a free election. Thousands were arrested, with many tortured and executed. Ahmadinejad’s opponents, Mir Hossein Moysavi and Mehdi Karoubi, have been under house arrest ever since.

Under the constitution of the Islamic Republic, the 12-member Guardian Council decides the eligibility of who can run for office in the country, and anyone with any history of opposing the regime is barred from participation. The council is made up of six Islamic faqihs (experts in Islamic law) appointed by the supreme leader and six jurists nominated by the head of the Judiciary (who is himself appointed by the supreme leader), and then approved by the parliament.

Ahmadinejad had previously warned that he would release documents not only on high-ranking Guards officers but also on leading members of parliament and the Justice Department that prove financial fraud.

The source added that it will be interesting to see if Ahmadinejad takes the warning or if he creates more problems with the regime, but one thing is sure: He could end up dead if he doesn’t.

The public relations office of the Iranian president subsequently issued a press release rejecting the existence of such a tape that points to fraud in the 2009 elections. In its release, it stated that publishing such news, by the regime’s media Baztab, is only with the intention of creating instability before the upcoming elections.

The UK DailyMail reporting on this WND story added that U.S. and British diplomats in the area are said to be aware of the reports and are viewing them “with interest.”

“It is potentially of considerable significance given the on-going internal political struggles as the election approaches,” one diplomatic source said.

WND’s source for the report regarding Iran’s involvement in the bombings, a member of the regime’s intelligence services, said today regime officials fear a campaign in the United States for a retaliatory attack on Iran similar to what happened to Afghanistan after 9/11.

The fact that the regime’s media reflected the same report shows that panic, said the source, who added that Iranian leaders are furious about the WND reports.

In another sign of panic, another source said, Revolutionary Guard members, fearing a war or uprising, are distancing themselves from their commanders.

The headline “New Accusations by the West: The Boston Bombing Is Work of Iran,” was reflected on hundreds of the regime’s media sites, particularly the official site of the Revolutionary Guards’ Basij forces and Bultannews, which is run by the regime’s intelligence services.

An April 16 exclusive on WND reported that the Boston bombings were tied to the regime’s Quds Forces and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah. The source added that the regime from its operational centers in South Asia is actively recruiting a new wave of terrorists from non-Arabs and from Islam’s Sunni sect to avoid any trace back to Shiite Iran and Hezbollah and to either present an apparent link to al-Qaida or individuals acting on their own.

Two U.S. officials today told The Associated Press that the preliminary investigation suggests that the Boston suspects were motivated by religion and that it appears they acted alone.

The April 16 report also reflected WND reports of Dec. 11 and Feb. 28 in which sources within Iran said the Quds Forces were preparing for terrorist attacks within six months in the United States in collaboration with al-Qaida factions and that an operational team was on its way to the U.S.

Basij News, in covering the WND reports, said the West is accusing Iran’s highest political figures of ordering the Boston attack, supervised by the Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah.

The “conservative” website WND, Basij News said, cites a Khorasan video one of the bombers had uploaded to YouTube on the ideology of “Mahdaviat,” the Shiite belief in the coming of the last Islamic messiah, the 12th Imam, Mahdi

WND, it said, referred to the hadiths in which Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is the mythical figure who will raise the flag of Islam and hand it over to Mahdi when the 12th Imam returns to Earth at the time of Armageddon.

WND has reported that the clerics ruling Iran are trying to create that environment.

Basij News accused the West and WND of blaming Iran for the bombings so corporate America can benefit from insecurity in the country as Americans buy more guns.

But the bigger intention for blaming Iran, Basij News said, is so the United States has a reason to interfere in other countries, as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq in the aftermath of 9/11.

Basij News said that looking at different dimensions of the Boston bombings and the mercenary behavior of Western politicians, the most logical explanation for WND’s reports is that Washington was aware of the planned attack and is trying to take advantage of it.

According to another source, a former member of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards intelligence unit who defected to a Scandinavian country, Guard members are also panicked as the regime continues to defy international demands to end its illicit nuclear program and continuously prepares for war. The Guard forces believe that war is inevitable, and despite harsh statements by their commanders against the U.S., the source said, many know that in any war the regime will fall and the Iranian people, most of whom resent the regime and the ideology it represents, will take revenge on its loyalists.

Many of the Guard forces are telling family members and neighbors that they do not support the regime any more to remedy their pro-regime status. The regime has also taken steps to stop any high-ranking officers from leaving the country, even on pilgrimage, fearing defection.

The same source reported last year that the Islamic regime’s agents were active in the U.S. and were working to acquire intelligence that might be useful in terror attacks. The agents work on Americans who have converted to Islam with offers of a trip to the Iranian city of Qom, the site of hotbed seminaries and the center of Shiite theology, where they are brainwashed and offered collaboration. The agents also use Islamic centers and mosques in the U.S. and other countries to recruit assets.

Meanwhile, reports surfaced today on another terror plot in which two individuals with links to al-Qaida elements in Iran were arrested. The plot, according to reports, called for attacking a commuter train traveling between Canada and the United States.

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