New at Reason

March 15, 2007

Michael Young, Reason's man in the Middle East, speculates on the meaning of Iran's possible defectors.

Comments

Bramblyspam|3.15.07 @ 12:46PM|#

The article seems to assume he defected. Given what we know about the current administrations in both Israel and the United States, I wouldn't be so quick to rule out the kidnapping scenario.

Either way, I get the feeling we haven't heard the last of this case. The story is big news either way, it'll be interesting to eventually find out the circumstances behind his disappearance.

TeX Metafont|3.15.07 @ 1:45PM|#

I wish there was a place that our high level bureaucrats would defect to.

|3.15.07 @ 2:06PM|#

Well, there is Dubai... :)

|3.15.07 @ 2:07PM|#

And lobbying firms...

Guy Montag|3.15.07 @ 2:34PM|#

It isn't the Illuminati? How come it is never them and the first accusation is always us?

|3.15.07 @ 3:15PM|#

If we did not have Cold-War-esque espionage hijinks, we would have to invent them.

|3.15.07 @ 8:59PM|#

Ummm.

It's spring break.

I'm thinkin they might be at the beach hittin the houka and ogling the tramps in the micro mini burqas

|3.16.07 @ 2:10AM|#

If the U.S. played a role in Asgari's defection, it will boost morale in Washington after the intelligence debacle in Iraq.

Can you purposefully create a debacle?

The moral of the story is that if the U.S. wants to deal with Iran successfully, it has to do so as much in the darker recesses of state interaction than from the top of aircraft carriers.

Yeah, all the US government needs to be is more opaque and mysterious in its war of terror and we'll be one more step to victory.

Another pulitzer for Mr. Young please.

Guy Montag|3.16.07 @ 1:57PM|#

Maybe he wanted to get out of town before the critical mass of UN Security Council resolutions against Iran reached critical mass?