fuh!! leave it the arm-chair analyst to rank intelligence agencies based on Hollywood movies and spy-novels. A reasonable search of scholarly sources will reveal that based on budget and technology the Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and National Security is by far the most operationally successful agency since the 80's. Did its part in forcing the most powerful and advance military of middle east(IRAQ) to a stalemate. Agents and operators pretty much spread across the globe slaughtering and maiming Yankees and Zionists as they did with hundreds of American soldiers during 1983 Beirut barracks bombing or killing dozens of isreali intelligence agents and diplomats during the 1992 siege at the fortified Israeli Embassy in Argentina. Successfully supporting proxies in shiite enclaves of Pakistan, Lebanon, Iraq to form the Iranian "shia-crescent" and the list goes on and one. And lets not forget how they captured the west and north territory of Afghanistan in mere days when Pakistan abandoned its ally taliban government in 2001, and provided logistical support to its Persianized allies that are currently in power. In short the did their part in making Iran virtually untouchable despite its vintage air force or dilapidated arsenal.
On and speaking of Pakistan the Irani intelligence have cozy relations with ex-Pakistani Grand Ayatollah Bashir al-Najafi (he and his family were from Gujranwala), he is second in line after Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and to be a future leader of shia-majority in Iraq. Some of my Iraqi-Canadian colleagues tell me that Najafi is a big proponent of the shia-crescent and cares less if Pakistan breaks up as long as the shia majority areas gets annexed in the shia-crescent.
On and speaking of Pakistan the Irani intelligence have cozy relations with ex-Pakistani Grand Ayatollah Bashir al-Najafi (he and his family were from Gujranwala), he is second in line after Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and to be a future leader of shia-majority in Iraq. Some of my Iraqi-Canadian colleagues tell me that Najafi is a big proponent of the shia-crescent and cares less if Pakistan breaks up as long as the shia majority areas gets annexed in the shia-crescent.
cannot be in top 20.
