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Title: The U.S. Regime-Change Recipe for Iran By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
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Published: Jun 24, 2009
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Post Date: 2009-06-24 08:20:22 by tom007
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The U.S. Regime-Change Recipe for Iran By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS President Obama called on the Iranian government to allow protesters to control the streets in Tehran. Would Obama or any US president allow protesters to control the streets in Washington, D.C.? There was more objective evidence that George W. Bush stole his two elections than there is at this time of election theft in Iran. But there was no orchestrated media campaign to discredit the US government. On May 16, 2007, the London Telegraph reported that Bush regime official John Bolton told the Telegraph that a US military attack on Iran would “be a ‘last option’ after economic sanctions and attempts to foment a popular revolution had failed.” We are now witnessing in Tehran US “attempts to foment a popular revolution” in the guise of another CIA orchestrated “color revolution.” It is possible that splits among the mullahs themselves brought about by their rival ambitions will aid and abet what the Telegraph (May 27, 2007) reported were “CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilize, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs.” It is certainly a fact that the secularized youth of Tehran have played into the CIA’s hands. The Mousavi protests have set up Iran either for a US puppet government or for a military strike. The mullahs are in a lose-lose situation. Even if the mullahs hold together and suppress the protests, the legitimacy of the Iranian government in the eyes of the outside world has been damaged. Obama’s diplomatic approach is over before it started. The neocons and Israel have won. The US intervention and the orchestrated disinformation pumped out by the western media are so transparent that it is impossible to believe than any informed person or government is taken in. One cannot avoid the conclusion that the West wants the 1978 Iranian Revolution overthrown and intends to use deception or violence to achieve that goal. It has become increasingly difficult to believe that facts and truth motivate the western news media. For the record, I would like to point out a few of the most obvious oversights, to use an euphemism, in the Iran reporting. According to a wide variety of news sources (for example, London Telegraph, Yahoo News, The Globe and Mail, Asbarez.com, Politico), “Before the polling closed Mr. Mousavi declared himself ‘definitely the winner’ based on ‘all indications from all over Iran.’ He alleged widespread voting irregularities without giving specifics and hinted he was ready to challenge the final results.” Other news sources, which might not have been aware that the polls were kept open several hours beyond normal closing time in order to accommodate the turnout, reported that Mousavi made his victory claim the minute polls closed. Mousavi’s premature claim of victory before polling was over or votes counted is clearly a preemptive move, the purpose of which is to discredit any other outcome. There is no other reason to make such a claim. In Iran’s system, election fraud has no purpose, because a small select group of ruling mullahs select the candidates who are put on the ballot. If they don’t like an aspiring candidate, they simply don’t put him on the ballot. When the liberal reformer Khatami ran for president, he won with 70 per cent of the vote and served from 1997-2005. If the mullahs didn’t defraud Khatami of his win, it seems unlikely they would defraud an establishment figure like Mousavi, who was foreign minister in the most conservative government, and is backed by another establishment figure, Rafsanjani. As Mousavi was seen as Rafsanjani’s man, why is it “unbelievable” that Ahmadinejad defeated Mousavi by the same margin that he defeated Rafsanjani in the previous election? Neoconservative Kenneth Timmerman let the cat out of the bag that there was an orchestrated “color revolution” in the works. Before the election, Timmerman wrote: “there’s talk of a ‘green revolution’ in Tehran.” Why would protests be organized prior to a vote and announcement of the outcome? Organized protests waiting in the wings are not spontaneous responses to a stolen election. Timmerman’s organization, Foundation for Democracy, is funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for the explicit purpose of promoting democracy in Iran. According to Timmerman, NED money was funneled to “pro-Mousavi groups who have ties to non-governmental organizations outside Iran that the National Endowment for Democracy funds.” The US media has studiously ignored all of these highly suggestive facts. The media is not reporting or providing objective analysis. It is engaged in a propagandistic onslaught against the Iranian government. We know that the US funds terrorist organizations inside Iran that are responsible for bombings and other violent acts. It is likely that these terrorist organizations are responsible for the burning buses and other acts of violence that have occurred during the demonstrations in Tehran. A writer on pakalert.wordpress.com says that he was intrigued by the sudden appearance of tens of thousands of Twitter allegations that Ahmadinejad stole the Iranian election. He investigated, he says, and he reports that each of the new highly active accounts were created on Saturday, June 13th. “IranElection” is their most popular keyword. He narrowed the spammers to the most persistent: @StopAhmadi, @IranRiggedElect, and @Change_For_Iran. He researched further and found that On June 14 the Jerusalem Post already had an article on the new twitter. He concludes that the new Twitter sites are propaganda operations. One wonders why the youth of the world, who do not protest stolen elections elsewhere, are so obsessed with Iran. The unexamined question is Mousavi and his motives. Why would Mousavi unleash demonstrations that are obviously being used by a hostile West to discredit the government of the Iranian Revolution that overthrew the US puppet government? Are these the actions of a “moderate”? Or are these the actions of a disgruntled man who kept his disaffection from his colleagues in order to gain the opportunity to discredit the regime with street protests? Is Mousavi being manipulated by organizations funded with US government money? John Bolton laid out the US strategy. First we try to destabilize the regime. Failing that, we strike them militarily. As this strategy unfolds, Iranians will pay in lost independence or in blood for the naiveness of its secularized youth and for the mistake the mullahs made in trusting Mousavi. Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
In 1848 Abraham Lincoln made a speech on the floor of the House Of Representatives, stating it was the...right and duty of any people to revolt against any government they considered as not representing the people. A few years later when he was in charge, he forgot all of that. Politicians are the slime of society, with lawyers being the lowest of slime.
Not unlike the Russian revolution's promise of "self determination" for ethnic communities in the Empire - for about two years, then all that was forgot, and the expansions and forced relocations began.
"Satan / Cheney in "08" Possession of power is the most sought after lust, by all men. That possession and its use by evil men, will always be with us.
As long as the Israeli lobby and its associates control Congress and the media and its agents are the most adept at organizing protest rallies there won't be any demonstrations against presidential election irregularities. In America, it doesn't matter which party candidates wins since both are beholden to the Israeli lobby (in order to get Organized Jewry's funding and media support). Encouraging to read that Russia's Foreign Ministry said Monday the the events that occurred in Iran following the announcement of Ahmadinejad's election victory were an exclusively internal issue. A good sign that International Zionism has been marginalized in Russia and that the country does not have to ally itself with Israel's criminal regime against Iran as political toadies in America have to do..
The "Green Revolution" has been short-circuited, and another Zionist operation has gone sour. The world is used to the way Israel and it allies have been winning hand after hand for the last forty years or so, and now it seem a wonder to see how they so badly overplayed this one. It is clear that now they are playing from weakness, and this is just a end of a long string of recent defeats. The wars that they ginned up to remake the ME are mired irretrievably in swamp of stalemate, they have humiliated themselves in Lebanon, in Ukraine and Georgia, and now the long propaganda campaign to force regime change in Tehran is a trainwreck. (Though they will no doubt try to capitalize on the discord remaining in the wake of the Iranian elections.) Someone needs to have a come to Jesus talk with their partners in crime in the US and Europe, because as some analysts claim, the "great game" is in shambles: Reader: "STRATFOR SAYS WESTERN MEDIA HAS TOTALLY MISUNDERSTOOD THE SITUATION IN IRAN" Posted By: hobie Date: Tuesday, 23-Jun-2009 14:16:25 (Thanks kindly, Z. :) (Reader Z. sent us the Stratfor report he mentions but it is not included in this post, since it is a "subscriber only" report.) Reader Z. graciously provides: *************************************************************************** Re: Reader: 'FULFORD SAYS MI6 SAYS IRAN HAS ~N.... Hi Hobie, I just received an excellent update from Stratfor regarding the post-election unrests in Iran. Basically, the North Teheran youth are in an absolute minority and has been played by the political and clerical factions. What it pointed out was that Western Media has totally misunderstood the demographic and social support to the different candidates and while the Mousavi supporters managed to stage minor unrests, it wouldn't have been anything compared to what Ahmadinejad's supporters, IRGC included, would have done if the elections would have been deemed null and void. That is why Khamenei categorically supported Ahmadinejad as he knew that the consequences of going against Ahmadinejad would destabilize the whole country. Khamenei on his hand supports Ahmadinejad, but he is in minority among the clerics as, and this is a major point that Western media totally misunderstood from the reporting, Ahmadinejad is totally hostile towards the clerical class which he thinks have beriched themselves on the revolution and are only out to preserve their personal gains. That might explain Rafsanjani's travel to Qom where he tried to get all clerics on board. Also, the clerics in Qom and the ruling class feels totally threatened by Ahmadinejad as he is a true popular leader with massive support amongst the population and IRGC. So that is why they were out to get his scalp. It is rather interesting to see how Stratfor, which has contact on the "inside", totally tore down the significance of the last two weeks unrest and pointed out that the Twitter revolution was only twitter on the surface, while the real power game were going on behind the scene. Fortunately, the post- electoral unrest has now strengthened Ahmadinejad's hand and new color-coded revoutions seem to be averted for a foreseeable future. But once again, it was quite telling how Stratfor pointed out the total erroneous stance of Western media. MSM didn't get it at all. As for western intelligence and their involvement, the twittering part seems to be only window dressing while one of the behind-the-scene factions had the West's full support. My own assessment for the reason of wanting to change the regime is Nabucco and energy politics. Iran has up until today served as a thankful villain on which most of the Mid-East problems have been blamed. However, a more important reason has surged that outdoes the usefulness of this villain and it spells natural gas. As Russia is the sole supplier to Europe and as Turkmen and very soon Azeri natural gas resources have been tied up for the next twenty years, EU/US/GB desperately needs another supplier, or else the great game is in shambles. Well, it seems that they didn't manage to pull it off this time and SCO slowly but surely is consolidating power on the Eurasian continent. I would say that "the last train has left the Central-Asia" and that it will only be downhill for Western interest in this region for now on. I.e. if the lunatics don't stage a nuclear war. Best Regards, Z. http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=149358
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Encouraging to read that Russia's Foreign Ministry said Monday the the events that occurred in Iran following the announcement of Ahmadinejad's election victory were an exclusively internal issue.
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