Ari Ben-Menashe

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ari Ben-Menashe
Occupation	Businessman
Date Of Birth	Dec 4, 1951(1951-12-04)
Age	73
Birthplace	Tehran
Country	Iran
Birth City	Tehran
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Ari Ben-Menashe Biography

Ari Ben-Menashe is one of the most popular and richest Businessman who was born on December 4, 1951 in Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Ari Ben-Menashe (Hebrew: ארי בן מנשה ; born Tehran, 4 December 1951) is an Iranian-born Israeli businessman, security consultant and author. He was previously an employee of Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate from 1977 to 1987 and an arms dealer. He now lives in Montreal, Canada, and runs an international commodity exporting firm, Traeger Resources and Logistics Inc.

In 1977, Ben-Menashe joined Israel’s Military Intelligence Directorate. He later said “I happened to be the right guy at the right time. I spoke Persian, Arabic, English. I knew the United States.” In his book Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network Ben-Menashe said that following the 1979 Iranian Revolution his Iranian background provided useful connections, with some of his school friends playing roles in the new government. These connections, Ben-Menashe said, led to his playing an intermediary role in the Israeli effort to sell arms to Iran, and close to the Israeli government decision to back the Reagan campaign’s “October Surprise” efforts to ensure American hostages held by Iran and its allies were released on a timetable that strengthened Ronald Reagan and not the incumbent President Carter.

Ari Ben-Menashe Net Worth

Ari Ben-Menashe is one of the richest Businessman from Iran. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ari Ben-Menashe 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Ben-Menashe was born in Tehran, Iran in 1951, emigrating to Israel as a teenager. His parents were Iraqi Jews who settled in Tehran in 1945. He claims to have served in the Israel Defense Forces, in signals intelligence from 1974 to 1977.

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Ben-Menashe first came to public prominence in 1989, when he was arrested in the US on 3 November for violating the Arms Export Control Act for trying to sell three Lockheed C-130 Hercules transport aircraft to Iran using false end- user certificates. According to Ben-Menashe, the Israeli government urged him to plead guilty, with officers of Shin Bet visiting his mother in Tel Aviv telling her that “it would be in my best interests to plead guilty to all charges before the Federal Superior Court [in New York] if I wished to avoid prosecution in Israel.” According to British intelligence writer Gordon Thomas, while awaiting trial at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, Ben-Menashe was visited by Israeli government lawyers, who urged him to plead guilty and in exchange offered him a generous financial settlement that would allow him to live comfortably after his release from prison. After realizing that Israel was not going to support him, Ben-Menashe began to give interviews to journalists from prison, on matters including his role in the October Surprise and its links with the Iran–Contra affair.

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At this point Israel sought to discredit him, with efforts including an “authoritative source” telling The Jerusalem Post (27 March 1990) that “the Defence establishment ‘never had any contacts with Ari Ben-Menashe and his activities’.” These claims were dropped after Ben-Menashe provided Newsweek’ s Robert Parry with employment references from Israeli intelligence sources. After almost a year in prison he was acquitted on 28 November 1990, with a jury accepting that he had acted on behalf of Israel. During the trial, Ben- Manshe’s passport was presented as another piece of evidence that he was more than just a low-level Persian translator for the Israeli Defense Forces. The passport documented travel all over the world including Peru, Chile, Guatemala and multiple points in Asia and Europe. Ben-Menashe’s lawyer asked the jury rhetorically: “They need a Persian translator in Chile?” and then stated “That doesn’t make any sense”. Former Time correspondent Raji Samghabadi, to whom Ben-Menashe had given details on the Iran–Contra affair before they became public, proved a key defense witness. Samghabadi testified that Ben-Menashe told him about the US and Israeli arms deals, which would become the foundation of the Iran–Contra affair, several months before the story broke in the Lebanese newspaper Ash-Shiraa, which indicated he had high-level inside knowledge of Israeli affairs.

Top Facts about Ari Ben-Menashe

1. Ari Ben-Menashe is an Iranian-born Israeli businessman and author.
2. He served in the Israeli military intelligence unit, Mossad.
3. Ben-Menashe was involved in the Iran-Contra affair.
4. He has been accused of being a spy for Israel.
5. Ben-Menashe wrote a book about his experiences, “Profits of War.”
6. He has been involved in controversial political consulting work.
7. Ben-Menashe was arrested for allegedly trying to sell arms to Somalia.
8. He claims to have evidence that could exonerate former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe.
9. Ben-Menashe has made various claims about his involvement in international affairs.
10. His credibility and reliability have been questioned by some sources.