Manucher Ghorbanifar (Persian: منوچهر قربانیفر; nicknamed Gorba, born May 9, 1945) is an expatriate Iranian arms dealer and former SAVAK agent.
According to the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Ghorbanifar was a double agent for Iran and Israel.[2] The CIA director William Casey believed that Ghorbanifar was an Israeli agent.[3]
He is best known as a middleman in the Iran–Contra Affair during the Ronald Reagan presidency.[4] He re-emerged in American politics during the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq during the first term of President George W. Bush as a back-channel intelligence source "in order to report on any interaction and attempts at negotiations between Iranian officials and US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad".[5]
Prior to the Iraq War, Ghorbanifar had passed allegations to the Bush administration that "enriched uranium was smuggled from Iraq into Iran and some may remain hidden in Iraq" which the CIA later discovered to be a fabrication created by Ghorbanifar.[6][7] Ghorbanifar was linked to the Niger uranium forgeries which were forged documents initially released by SISMI that would later be used partly as justification for the Iraq War.[8]
^Bahram Alavi (April 1988), "Khomeini's Iran: Israel's Ally", Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, pp. 4–6
^"NORTH ON CASEY'S ROLE".
^Laura Rozen and Jeet Heer, American Prospect, 20 March 2005, The Front Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^Larisa Alexandrovna, 20 April 2006, Raw Story, Cheney has tapped Iranian expatriate, arms dealer to surveil discussions with Iran, officials say Archived August 7, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
^Fayazmanesh, Sasan (31 March 2008). The United States and Iran Sanctions, Wars and the Policy of Dual Containment. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781135976873.
^"CIA investigated tip on WMD from previously discredited source".
^America's Alleged Intelligence Failure in the Prelude to Operation Iraqi Freedom: A Study of Analytic Factors(PDF)
and 20 Related for: Manucher Ghorbanifar information
ManucherGhorbanifar (Persian: منوچهر قربانیفر; nicknamed Gorba, born May 9, 1945) is an expatriate Iranian arms dealer and former SAVAK agent. According...
meeting was ManucherGhorbanifar. According to the report of this meeting that Shackley sent to the State Department, Hashemi said Ghorbanifar had "fantastic"...
in the arms-for-hostages exchange along with Iranian arms dealer ManucherGhorbanifar and, in a complex series of events, was found to have borrowed money...
role in the Iran-Contra Affair, introducing Theodore Shackley to ManucherGhorbanifar and Hassan Karroubi (brother of Mehdi Karroubi). The Iranian, 11...
Bakhtiar's liaison with the conspirators in Iran was the businessman ManucherGhorbanifar, who headed the logistics branch of the Niqab network which organised...
Hashemi introduced Shackley to ManucherGhorbanifar stating that Ghorbanifar's contacts in Iran were "fantastic". Ghorbanifar, known to the CIA as a person...
an Iranian middleman named ManucherGhorbanifar, stating, "Mr. Ghorbanifar took me into the bathroom, and Mr. Ghorbanifar suggested several incentives...
Americans were captured in Beirut during the Reagan Administration. ManucherGhorbanifar, a former Savak agent, was an information seller, and was discredited...
uranium purchases. The agent was thought to be Iranian arms dealer ManucherGhorbanifar. The intelligence reportedly later proved to be fabricated. *Write-in...
to sell munitions to Iran, using contracted Iranian arms broker ManucherGhorbanifar. The Reagan administration circumvented the law by using Israel and...
Ledeen vouched for Iranian intermediary ManucherGhorbanifar. According to Adnan Khashoggi in 1985, Ghorbanifar was the head of Iranian Prime Minister...
Republic Ghermezian family – billionaire shopping mall developers ManucherGhorbanifar – former SAVAK agent, central figure in the Iran–Contra affair Kamran...
Americans were kidnapped in Beirut during the Reagan administration. ManucherGhorbanifar, a former Savak agent.[sentence fragment] He was an information seller...
Furmark introduced Khashoggi to ManucherGhorbanifar, after which Khashoggi abandoned Hashemi and worked with Ghorbanifar to arrange the arms deals, and...
government-authorized meeting he and Larry Franklin had in Rome in late 2001 with ManucherGhorbanifar, who was part of the Iran-Contra scandal. Evyatar, Ilan. "From the...
1984, p. 94. One of those arrested in New York on 22 April 1986 was ManucherGhorbanifar, later of Iran–Contra fame, but his incarceration was short lived...
meetings with Iranian dissidents, including Paris-based arms dealer ManucherGhorbanifar, a key figure in the Iran–Contra affair. These Pentagon-approved...
had discovered that Hashemi was meeting with Adnan Khashoggi and ManucherGhorbanifar, and that Hashemi's efforts to arrange a deal collapsed in August...
provided to Weldon originally came from Iran-Contra arms dealer ManucherGhorbanifar.[citation needed] The CIA and former intelligence officers vehemently...
Global Information