Reza Kahlili, pseudonym for a former CIA operative in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard penned an article in The Daily Caller.  He states Gen. Mohsen Rafiqdoost, a founder of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards admits that Iran was seeking nuclear weapons.  It’s the first time a regime official has admitted a long time assertion by the West.

Rafiqdoost said in the Mehr News that “We pursued ways in order to gain nuclear arms,” and then added that “I asked Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] what his opinion was. He said do not pursue atoms, and we stopped.”

The claim doesn’t ring completely true.  In the late 1980s, Mohsen Rezaei, the chief commander of the Guards, wrote a letter to the Ayatollah asking Khomeini, for approval of the nuclear bomb program.  The letter revealed the Khomeini had approved of seeking nuclear weapons.

The article lays out how Iran initially secured centrifuges and nuclear know how from Pakistan.  The author wrote the award-winning book “A Time to Betray” and serves on the Task Force on National and Homeland Security and the advisory board of the Foundation for Democracy in Iran (FDI). 

I sense this news will not be welcome considering the headlong rush by the administration to get an agreement with Iran to slow its nuke program.  The agreement is highly controversial as the language and details of what the agreement actually means has been contested by both sides.  It doesn’t sound like much of an “agreement”.