Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Is What's Happening In Iran A Repeat Of The 1953 CIA Coup Against Mossadegh?

It's hard to know just what the hell is going on in Iran. There's social upheaval over the election, that's for sure, but how much of it is grass roots rebellion and how much is manipulated astroturf is very much in question.

There are some things that tell me the violent situation is being exacerbated. For one, it's no secret that the ziofascists have been very busy fomenting trouble in the country over the years, to put it mildly.

For another I have a real problem with these color coded "revolutions" which seem to be a sure sign of fascist meddling in the internal politics of countries across the globe. The US throws hundreds of millions into these manipulated movements, like in Ukraine, Georgia, Lebanon and Iraq.
In Iran it's green:



And if there's one thing I've learned over the years it's never to trust political movements in other countries that play to american dullards rather than fellow countrymen by carrying signs in english instead of in their own language.




Then there are a lot of reports that social networking has been overloaded by propagandists pretending to be delivering real time news from Iran. Thousands of fake twitter accounts all say the same thing, calling for hackers to bring down Iranian sites and attacking western media for not being more sympathetic to the demonstrators, a sure sign that a coordinated effort is under way :


It's a win - win situation for propagandists who are doing this, because they can hide behind the anonymity of phony "breaking news" bullshit and then act all outraged when Iran bans networking. Unfortunately there are a lot of young people resonating with and falling for the supposed "anti government" demonstrations and rallies in Tehran, go take a look at Reddit. This updated agenda to sieze communications and throw gasoline onto fires of pereived unrest, goes all the way back to the CIA's golden era of coups in the fifties when they overthrew the governments in Guatemala and Iran.

Also, contrary to western MSM spin machine propaganda, pre election polling had Ahmadinejad far in front:

"The election results in Iran may reflect the will of the Iranian people. Many experts are claiming that the margin of victory of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the result of fraud or manipulation, but our nationwide public opinion survey of Iranians three weeks before the vote showed Ahmadinejad leading by a more than 2 to 1 margin -- greater than his actual apparent margin of victory in Friday's election.While Western news reports from Tehran in the days leading up to the voting portrayed an Iranian public enthusiastic about Ahmadinejad's principal opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, our scientific sampling from across all 30 of Iran's provinces showed Ahmadinejad well ahead."

And what about the figurehead of the opposition party?

Mir-Hossein Mousavi's Iran/Contra Connection?

"What do Michael Ledeen (the American 'neo-conservative'), Mir-Hossein Mousavi (the Iranian presidential candidate of 'chagne') and Adnan Khashoggi (the opulent Saudi Arabian jet-setter) have in common?They are all good friends and associates of Manuchehr Ghorbanifar (an Iranian arms merchant, an alleged MOSSAD double agent, and a key figure in the Iran/Contra Affair, the arms-for-hostages deals between Iran and the Reagan administration). In one or two, at most three, degrees of separation, these people hung out in the same circles and very likely drank to the same toasts."

I'll leave the last word to Les over at Axis of logic:

"Before you start connecting the dots, consider this: The attempt to discredit the elections and cause instability in Iran look very much like a scheme we've seen before - directly out of the CIA playbook. We've seen this pattern in so many elections in Venezuela, for example, I swear that even the Chavistas would be disappointed if it doesn't reappear next time around. After all, a little drama does add some excitement in elections where consistent landslide victories are won by presidents like Chavez and Ahmadinejad. So here we go again - the old Langley one, two, three:
*Groom an opposition candidate to run against the guy you hate, pay him well and line up your media to back him.
*During the campaign, sell him as the savior of the bourgeois opposition who lost their money in the revolution. Use your own pollsters and media propaganda to convince his followers that they are going to win by a wide margin.
*When your guy loses, scream "FRAUD!" It's akin to yelling "FIRE!" in a crowded theatre, inflaming all those disappointed bourgeois counter-revolutionaries. Get them out on the street, setting fires, playing the victim, waving flags, ready-to-go placards, banners, women crying in front of CNN cameras and men yelling angrily into Christiana Amanpour's microphone. Only this time, they're ready to burn their own flag instead of the U.S. flag. I tell ya, it makes great TV for a western audience."

3 Comments:

Anonymous nick z said...

This post nails it, Nolo. There's just one tiny detail missing: US-enforced trade sanctions. Such sanctions are designed to deprive countries like Iran of necessities and make the people weak and the government the scapegoat. Combine such sanctions with propaganda pointing directly at the government and it adds up to the grass-roots rebellion we see right now.

Whenever empires enforce trade sanctions on a country, it is a sure sign that they are attempting to weaken its people and its government to prepare it for an internal rebellion abd an ivasion.

16/6/09 8:08 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Excellent assessment Nolo, once again the straight scoop is gleened from the 'hog-pen' that is the corpo-media/Empire propaganda propeller!

Papa Brz also considers Iran in play for an oil pipeline, especially when 'peak oil' is on the table.

16/6/09 8:38 AM  
Blogger nolocontendere said...

Ah the sanctions, nick. Our overlords will decide who lives and dies and does without by bribing and threatening our "allies" to go along with the punishment. The hubris is staggering.
And Ol' Man Brz was sure talking about taking Iran back with his "Grand Chessboard" tome, dad.

16/6/09 10:01 AM  

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