As pointed out in this post by Rasmus Christian Elling of the University of Copenhagen, the UGGs
Sheepskin Cuff Boots Treasury – notably Stuart Levey, whose zeal in trying to make it difficult for
Iranian banking interests to do business outside their borders has been widely remarked – just
designated the Free Life Party of Kurdistan (PJAK) a terrorist group, or, more accurately, a group
controlled by the better known Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of Turkey. PJAK, of course, was named by
Seymour Hersh, among others, as a likely beneficiary of alleged UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots covert aid
designed to harass the Islamic Republic two years ago after it claimed responsibility for a number of
deadly attacks against Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and other regime targets. Tehran itself has long
claimed that PJAK is supported by the UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots and Israel. Like the PKK, it is based
in Iraqi Kurdistan.
While designating PJAK a terrorist group is unlikely to have any immediate practical impact on its
operations, it raises the question, as noted by Dr. Elling, whether this marks the first concrete
gesture – or token of good faith – by the UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots administration toward Iran or
whether this was simply the coincidental fruition of a bureaucratic process that may have been set in
motion by the publication by the New York Times of a front-page article on the relationship between
PJAK and the PKK back in October, 2007. I don’t have a clear answer as yet, but the timing and the
fact that Levey, who is being retained by the UGGs Sheepskin Cuff Boots administration in his current
position as Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, has strong political instincts
argues in favor of the more purposeful interpretation.
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