United Against Nuclear Iran: The Shadowy, Intelligence-Linked Group Driving the US Towards War With Iran. If any doubt as to what sort of “dramatic response” Wallace wanted..message to Iran’ Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps: “I look forward to seeing U hanged from the end of one of your own ropes.”

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Board members include:

  • CEO Mark Wallace, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and deputy campaign manager for George W. Bush’s 2004 reelection.

  • Chairman Joe Lieberman, former senator and Democratic vice-presidential nominee for the 2000 election.

  • Tamir Pardo, Director of the Mossad, 2011-2016.

  • Dennis Ross, former State Department Director of Policy Planning and former Middle East Envoy under George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

  • Field Marshall Lord Charles Guthrie, ex-Chief of Staff of the U.K. Armed Forces.

  • Jeb Bush, former Governor of Florida.

  • August Hanning, President of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND), 1998-2005; State Secretary at the Federal Interior Ministry, 2005-2009.

  • Zohar Palti, former head of the Political-Military Bureau, Israeli Ministry of Defense; former Director of Intelligence of the Mossad.

  • Frances Townsend, Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush.

  • John Bolton, former U.S. National Security Advisor and former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N.

  • Roger Noriega, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and Ambassador to the Organization of American States.

  • Otto Reich, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and architect of the 2002 U.S. coup against Venezuela.

  • Michael Singh, White House Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs, 2007-2008.

  • Giulio Terzi di Sant-Agata, former Italian Foreign Minister.

  • Robert Hill, former Minister of Defense of Australia.

  • Jack David, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2004-2006.

  • Mark Kirk, U.S. Senator for Illinois, 2010-2017.

  • Lt. Gen. Sir Graeme Lamb, ex-Director of U.K. Special Forces and Commander of the British Field Army.

  • Norman Roule, former CIA Division Chief and National Intelligence Manager for Iran at the Director of National Intelligence.

  • Irwin Cotler, Canadian Minister of Justice and Attorney General, 2003-2006.

  • Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, U.K. Minister of State for Security and Counter Terrorism, 2010-2011.

In addition, notable former board members include ex-CIA Director R. James Woolsey; head of Mossad between 2002 and 2011, Meir Dagan; and one-time chief of British spy agency MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove.

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For such a large, well-financed, and influential organization filled with senior officials, United Against Nuclear Iran keeps its funding sources very quiet. However, in 2015, Clifton was able to obtain a UANI donor list for the 2013 financial year. By far and away, the largest funders were billionaire New York-based investor Thomas Kaplan and multibillionaire Israeli-American casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.

Kaplan, whose $843,000 donation supplied around half the group’s 2013 funding, is a venture capitalist investor concentrating on metals, particularly gold. He is the chairman of Tigris Financial and the Electrum Group LLC.

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A 2010 Wall Street Journal article titled “Tigris Financial Goes All-in on Gold” noted that the company had bet billions of dollars on the price of gold rising, more than the reserves of the Brazilian central bank. As Clifton has noted, both Kaplan and Wallace have marketed gold to clients as the perfect commodity to hold if there is increased instability in the Middle East. Therefore, both Kaplan and Wallace stand to make massive sums if the U.S. or Israel were to attack Iran, making their UANI warmongering a gigantic and potentially profitable conflict of interest.

An ardent Zionist, Adelson bankrolled numerous pro-Israel lobby projects, such as AIPAC, One Jerusalem and Taglit Birthright.

Adelson and his influence have been one of the driving forces of American hostility towards Iran. In 2013, during a conversation with Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, he called for the United States to stop negotiating and drop a nuclear bomb on Iran to show that “we mean business.”

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Iran was recently the victim of a deadly terrorist attack. As mourners commemorated the U.S. assassination of Qassem Soleimani, two bombs exploded, killing 91 and injuring hundreds more. In this context, it was understandable why Iranian officials pointed the finger at the U.S. and Israel.

As Shrub might say, "it's not terrorism when we do it."