Chalabi and Iran

There really isn't enough information out on the emerging story that Ahmed Chalabi was giving information to the Iranians, and that his "information collection program" was run out of Teheran.
 see here.

But here are some thoughts.  It does seem like it all goes back to Iran-Contra.  The Iranians helped us there and then were "betrayed" when the switch to Saddam happened and we helped him stave off the Iranians.  The Iranians must have been pissed ever since.  

The various theories don't have to be mutually exclusive.  The INC, with help from the Iranians, peddled stuff through the 90's, but no one bought except Trent Lott, Jesse Helms (who got Congress to fund the INC) and the neocons.  The neocons bought because it played into their own fantasy about helping Israel.  (Perle really should get into a warm bath and slit his wrists.)  Cheney bought it because it played into his fantasy of dominating the world with the help of his cronies at Halliburton et al. And Chalabi played it because he really wanted to get back into power in Iraq and rebuild the family fortune.

Meanwhile, the Iranians played their devious game, and they appear to have achieved their objectives.  The US took out Saddam and, in the process, alienated pretty much all of the Muslim world.  And we have so depleted our military forces that an attack on Iran by anything but nukes is impossible now. (We forget that Iran is 3 times the size of Iraq with double the populaiton.  If we can't subdue the one, we certainly can't subdue the other. And Iran probably has enough nukes to take out Israel if we do that.  So it is highly unlikey this is a neocon plot to  attack on Iran.) Yes, there are 150,000 troops next door to Iran, but they won't be there long.

The only remaining question is whether Iran was involved with 9/11 as a way to create the "catalyst" that the neocons had been saying was necessary to mobilize US opinion to move on Iraq.  Certainly bin Laden hated the US, but did he get an assist from Teheran?

One small detail cleared up:  The famous yellowcake forgery came from Iran, via Manuchar Ghorbanifar to Michael Ledeen.  What a tangled web we weave.  Maybe it will now ensnare Cheney and the neocons.  One can only hope.