Episode 326 – We Need to Talk About the Iran Protests
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Are these protests in Iran spontaneous, or are they the result of another regime change operation? This week on The Corbett Report, James explores the past, present and future of US and Israeli involvement in Iran, and the attempts to foment unrest in the country.
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Late last month reports emerged of a secret deal reached between the US and Israel setting out a wide-ranging plan to confront Iran in a number of different areas.
Reports have just come out claiming that the United States and Israel have signed a secret deal to tackle the nuclear threat from Iran, so it looks like the deal isn’t so secret anymore. The far-reaching Memorandum of Understanding was signed on December 12th at the White House following intense talks between both nations and plans to set up four teams to handle various aspects of the Iranian threat. One team will focus on Iranian activity in Syria and Lebanon, another will deal with both diplomatic and intelligence activities to grapple with Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, a third will tackle Iran’s ballistic missile program and the fourth will oversee preparations for any escalation by Iran or Hezbollah.
And then, just two days after that report broke, just three weeks after the plan itself was agreed, a wave of protests broke out across Iran. These protests, originating in discontent over the performance of the economy under the Rouhani government, soon morphed into rallies, riots and violence aimed against the Iranian republic itself.
Could these protests be the result of the US and Israeli plan to undermine Iran? If these were just two isolated data points, then connecting these dots would be a stretch. But when we put recent events into their proper perspective, there is no doubt that the US, Israel and their allies are actively supporting and fomenting regime change in Iran. And that’s why “We Need to Talk About the Iran Protests.”
This is The Corbett Report.
From the scattered and contextless news reporting of the mainstream media, it might appear that the protests happening right now are, in fact, a grassroots uprising against an unpopular and repressive regime. After all, this is what we are told by US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley.
NIKKI HALEY: Now the Iranian dictatorship is trying to do what it always does, which is to say that the protests were designed by Iran’s enemies. We all know that’s complete nonsense. The demonstrations are completely spontaneous. They are virtually in every city in Iran. This is the precise picture of a long-oppressed people rising up against their dictators.
And surely no one can make the case that the Iranian people do not have valid reason to be upset at their government.
After years of rising unemployment and inflation and dwindling hopes for a foreign investment boom, even Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is upset with the country’s economic outlook under President Hassan Rouhani. The government’s latest budget proposal, sent to parliament just weeks ago, has only made things worse, cutting an extremely popular cash transfer program instituted under previous President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that gave each Iranian a stipend of about $90 per month.
The videos of the earliest demonstrations in this wave of protest, scattered footage of a few dozen protesters in the northeastern city of Mashhad calling for economic relief, are in line with the “spontaneous” uprising being touted by the political puppets and their mainstream media mouthpieces. But those early protests soon descended into chaos, mayhem, violence and death.
Now, with dozens dead and hundreds arrested, the question has to be asked: have the initial, grassroots protests been hijacked by regime change agents?
The question is by no means outlandish. In June of 2017, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson admitted to Congress that the government is actively working with parties inside Iran to help foment regime change inside the country.
Rep. Ted Poe: I’d like to know what the policy is in the US toward Iran. Do we support the current regime? Do we support a philosophy of peaceful regime change?
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Rex Tillerson: Our policy towards Iran is to push back on this hegemony, contain their ability to develop nuclear weapons and to work toward support of those elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of that government. Those elements are there, certainly, as we know.
That same month, it was revealed that the CIA has created a new mission center to focus exclusively on gathering and analyzing intelligence about Iran.
Ramping the tension up even further, it was reported just this past week that the US has given the green light to Israel to assassinate Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, the overseas arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
All of this comes on the heels of repeated warnings by President Trump over the past year that the US was preparing operations against the Iranian government.
Michael Flynn: President Trump has severely criticized the various agreements reached between Iran and the Obama administration, as well as the United Nations as being weak and ineffective. Instead of being thankful to the United States for these agreements, Iran is now feeling emboldened. As of today, we are officially putting Iran on notice. Thank you.
SOURCE: Michael Flynn: We’re Officially Putting Iran on Notice
President Trump: It is far past time for the nations of the world to confront another reckless regime—one that speaks openly of mass murder, vowing death to America, destruction to Israel, and ruin for many leaders and nations in this room. The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of a democracy. It has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose chief exports are violence, bloodshed, and chaos. The longest-suffering victims of Iran’s leaders are, in fact, its own people.
SOURCE: Trump Slams Iran at UN Speech
Colin Bray: Donald Trump made an ominous sounding statement to journalists following a meeting with top US military officials at the White House. He suggested the talks on Thursday, during which North Korea and Iran were discussed, were a prelude to a major event, but then declined to comment further.
Trump: …Could be the calm. The calm before the storm.
Reporter: What storm, Mr. President?
Trump: You’ll find out.
SOURCE: Trump warns he’ll ‘put an end to Iran’s aggression & nuclear ambitions’
But perhaps this is just hot air, political bluster designed to throw the Iranians off balance. Maybe these comments and the sudden wave of violence in Iran are coincidental. Is there any reason to think that the US, Israel and their allies are actually operating in Iran?
To answer this question, we have to see the current unrest not as a spontaneous protest arising in an historical vacuum, but as the end result of a century of interference in Iranian politics.
The modern era of Iranian politics traces back not to last month, but to 1951, when then-President of Iran, Mohammad Mosaddegh, nationalized the Iranian oil industry, revoking concessions that had been made to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (later rebranded as British Petroleum) half a century earlier. This enraged the British and put the Americans—embroiled in the Cold War and worried about Soviet influence in the region—on edge. Together they hatched a plan—dubbed “TPAJAX” and led by Kermit Roosevelt, Jr.—to topple the government and strengthen the rule of the US-friendly Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
The plan was comprised of four main components: The first was to begin a propaganda campaign portraying Mosaddegh as a communist; the second, to encourage the opposition to create disturbances; the third, to pressure the Shah to remove Mosaddegh from power and select a new prime minister; and fourth, to support Fazlollah Zahedi as Mosaddegh’s replacement.
With the propaganda campaign support for the opposition well underway, General H. Norman Schwarzkopf arrived in Iran on August 1st armed with large bags filled with millions of US dollars. Scwarzkopf met with Zahedi and the Shah to assure them of US support. Roosevelt also entered Iran secretly under the alias “James Lockbridge,” and on the same day met with the Shah to discuss the execution of Operation Ajax. The Shah was to issue a decree to dismiss Mosaddegh and replace him with Zahedi.
On August 15th, the commander of the Imperial Guards, accompanied with three truckloads of soldiers, arrived at Mosaddegh’s home to issue his dismissal. Mosaddegh’s guards overwhelmed the soldiers and called for the immediate arrest of Zahedi, who was being hidden by the US in its embassy compound. The Shah, upon hearing of the coup’s failure, fled to Baghdad, and the US began drawing up plans to pulls Zahedi and Roosevelt out of the country. Roosevelt, hoping to make use of the failed coup attempt, hired a large crowd at the cost of $50,000 to pose as communist tutor members and riot through the streets of Tehran, attacking mosques and statues of the Shah. Roosevelt also stepped up the propaganda campaign to link Mosaddegh with the rioting communists. In preparation for the second coup attempt, the CIA began bribing army and police officials. August 19th was the date set by the CIA for its next attempt to overthrow Mosaddegh.
On the morning of August 19th, the same mob hired two days earlier to pose as communist rioters entered the center of Tehran and began threatening and intimidating passers-by and drivers to display pictures of the Shah. The police, having already been paid off, failed to intervene. The mob, then armed with knives, clubs, chains and sticks, began marching on Mosaddegh’s house. The CIA had told the mob to do everything possible to ensure the mob gets as much attention as possible. Taking the advice rather literally, the mob had hired wrestlers, tumblers, jugglers and clowns.
Zahedi came out of hiding from the US embassy and drove to the state radio station to announce his takeover. The Shah’s imperial guards began attacking Mosaddegh’s house with artillery, Sherman tanks and bazookas. Mosaddegh had once again managed to escape over the back wall. The ensuing battle between the Imperial Guards, the hired mob and Mossadegh guards claimed over 300 lives. Among those killed were hired mob members who had been found with money still in their pockets given to them that very morning by CIA agents.
The same day, Zahedi declared himself Prime Minister, and the following day Mosaddegh surrendered himself to the Shah’s forces.
SOURCE: U.S. and Them: Operation Ajax – Iran and the CIA coup
That 1953 coup casts a long shadow over Iranian politics in the modern era. The chain of events that foreign intervention set off led ultimately to the 1979 revolution, when the Iranian people, fed up with a Shah who was seen as an American puppet and who used his secret police to suppress political dissent, overthrew the government and instituted the Islamic Republic. As newly declassified documents reveal, however, even Ayatollah Khomeini, the self-proclaimed enemy of the American empire, was careful to keep an open channel of communication with the American government, extending from his first contact with “The Great Satan” in November 1963 (when he assured President Kennedy he was “not opposed to American interests in Iran”) to the midst of the revolution itself (when he assured President Carter that “You will see we are not in any particular animosity with the Americans” and insisted “The oil flow will continue after the establishment of the Islamic Republic”).
According to the sources of FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, who experienced the revolution directly as a resident of Iran, even the infamous hostage-taking itself was a pre-arranged bit of political theater, designed to play into the anger of the Iranian people at American intervention even as it spared key American personnel from that wrath.
Sibel Edmonds: Fourteen, fifteen years ago, through one of the legal firms that I worked with during my case, I got to know this private part-time investigator the firm had hired. Now this man used to work for the CIA. He was an agent and he spent years in Iran during the Shah’s regime. He introduced himself and he actually spoke Farsi, and I speak Farsi. I said, “Wow! How did you learn?” He said. “Well, I lived in Iran. I worked for the State Department / the agency,” and his cover was [that he was] the radio announcer for the English-language radio in Iran broadcast from the embassy. That’s one of the common covers there.
And he said, “You know the hostage-taking?” That infamous scene that whenever the US mainstream media talk about Iran, guess what they always like to show? They like to show these bearded men going there and taking over the US embassy and they’re taking these poor Americans as hostage. Barbarics, you know. I think that is the most famous scene that has been played billions of times by the US media. Because of their masters wanting that scene being like this thing. You say “Iran,” and the first thing people visualize is that hostage-taking. “Those barbaric animals!” you know?
Well, he was there and he said, five or six days before the hostage taking, “we” (the State Department/CIA special staff members) were given a notice by cable to immediately leave Iran and go. And they gave us options: Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, etc. “Have some vacation time, beach time,” you know? “And then don’t come back to the United States until we got our next assignment for whatever country.” So he said, “I packed immediately.” It was like, “Immediate! Now! You’re leaving Iran.”
All the embassy people who were connected to CIA, anybody high level, were given notice to immediately leave Iran five days before that hostage-taking. So the only ones left there were some administrative people. None of them were CIA, they got all the key staff and they got them out of the country, okay, and they left those poor patsies there to suffer—the administrative people—so that hostage-taking incident would take place.
Now you and I would say therefore it was some sort of a pre-arranged incident. They got heads up that the regime, using rebels, were going to take over the embassy. They were given timelines so that they could take the important steps [to get] the real bad guys, CIA people, out of the country okay, and then leave a few poor Americans in there to go through the staged events.
So you are looking at a false flag. You are looking at a staged event.
But as much as those historical events have shaped the Iranian psyche and the Iranian body politic, the modern era of intervention against Iran began nearly two decades ago in secret planning meetings taking place in the bowels of the pentagon.
General Wesley Clark: About 10 days after 9/11 I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me and he said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in. You’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.”
I said, “Well, you’re too busy.”
He said, “No, no.” He says, “We’ve made the decision. We’re going to war with Iraq.” This was on or about the 20th of September.
I said, “We’re going to war with Iraq. Why?”
He said, “I don’t know.”
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So I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper and he said, “I just got this down from upstairs,” meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office, “today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off with Iran.
SOURCE: General Wesley Clark “Seven Countries in Five Years” [2007]
The invasion of Iraq began in 2003, and by 2007 Seymour Hersh was reporting in the pages of The New Yorker that the Pentagon, living up to the plan revealed by Clark, had begun “The Redirection,” an attempt to refocus attention away from the escalating quagmire in Iraq and toward the neocons’ next target: Iran. This “redirection” involved the US allying with Sunni forces in the region—including radical Wahabi Sunnis and even Al Qaeda-affiliated groups—to sow chaos throughout the Middle East and to undermine the Iranian government and its regional allies.
That same year, globalist insider and CFR member Gary Hart wrote a warning to the Iranian government about the US government’s ability to use a false flag event to start a war. In Hart’s warning, entitled “Unsolicited Advice to the Government of Iran,†he cites the United States history of using staged and provocateured events as a pretense for attacking their enemies, citing the Gulf of Tonkin, USS Maine, and Pearl Harbor as historical precedents.
Predictably, Hart was never confronted on these statements by the mainstream media, but when confronted by independent citizen reporters at We Are Change, he admitted that he was warning of a possible false flag attack that was being planned at the highest levels of the US government to justify a bombing strike on Iran.
Reporter: Sir, was this not an outright threat, veiled in doublespeak that the United States could stage an event to go to war with Iran?
Gary Hart: No.
Reporter: No? Then what…?
Hart: Well, what I was tongue-in-cheek saying was that we have an administration in Washington that is dying for a reason to bomb Iran. And so, in a mock blog letter to the Iranian government—not the president, but the Iranian government—I just simply said “Unless you people want to be bombed, you better be careful about cross-border incursions.” And I think I explicitly said, “Keep the Republican Guard or the Revolutionary Guard—or whatever it’s called—away from the Iraqi border.
I was trying to communicate to the American people what our own government was trying to plan, and that was to find a reason for bombing Iran. And I was simply saying, in effect, to the American people through this mock letter, “Be very careful about this administration creating a USS Maine incident or a Gulf of Tonkin incident that would justify bombing Iran,” that’s all.
In 2008, Seymour Hersh revealed a plan drawn up by Dick Cheney to build fake Iranian PT boats and to dress US troops as Iranians in order to attack American ships, thus tricking the public into believing that the Iranians had attacked America.
Seymour Hersh: One of the items was…There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war. The one that interested me the most was, “Why don’t we build—we in our shipyard—build four or five boats that look like Iranian PT boats, put Navy SEALS on them with a lot of arms, and the next time one of our boats goes through the Straits of Hormuz, start a shoot-up. Might cost a dozen lives. And it was rejected because you can’t have Americans killing Americans. But that’s the kind of stuff we were talking about.
SOURCE:Â Cheney Considered Killing American Servicemen Dressed as Iran
At the same time, Israel and the US launched a cartoonish Iraqi WMD-like propaganda campaign to convince the world that Iran was developing a nuclear weapons program. And just like Saddam’s “weapons of mass destruction,” the “Iranian nuclear threat” was a deliberate fabrication.
Not only did the IAEA repeatedly confirm that there is no evidence Iran diverted any nuclear material into any military program, but the US intelligence community itself concluded in its own national intelligence estimate in 2011 that Iran was not trying to build a nuclear bomb. Incredibly, even Mossad contradicted its own Prime Minister by confirming in leaked cables that Iran was “not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons.†And, to the surprise of absolutely no one, it was later revealed that the CIA had been running an operation to plant evidence of nuclear weapons involvement on Iran.
But perhaps the greatest irony of all is that there actually is an ongoing terror threat in the Persian Gulf. But that threat does not come from Iran. It is targeted at Iran.
Take Stuxnet, for example. One of the most sophisticated and malicious computer worms ever devised, Stuxnet was discovered in 2010 and was quickly found to be designed specifically to sabotage the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz. It has since been revealed that Stuxnet was only one part of a much larger cyberattack against Iran, jointly launched by the US and Israel and dubbed “NITRO ZEUS.”
Then there is the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or “MEK,” a US State Department-designated terrorist organization that has been responsible for bombings, attempted plane hijackings, political assassinations, and indiscriminate killings of men, women and children in their attempt to overthrow the government of Iran. Naturally, it is openly supported by Rudy Giuliani, Joe Lieberman, Newt Gingrich and a bevy of other politicians who are able to flaunt America’s laws against supporting terrorists because the MEK, being against Iran, are the right kind of terrorists.
Then there are the assassinations of Iranian scientists that were confirmed to have been the work of Mossad.
And the recent Israeli bombing in Syria that was done based on a poorly sourced BBC report that indicated that there may be an Iranian military base near Damascus.
Time and again, the US, Israel and their willing regional ally, the Saudis, have attacked, threatened, provoked and staged events to draw Iran into war. And time and again, these attacks and provocations go utterly unreported in the mainstream press while politicians on both sides of the phony left/right divide allude to nameless transgressions of the Iranians.
It is only in this context that we can possibly hope to come to an understanding of the events taking place in Iran today.
Let’s be clear: This is not to say that the government of Hassan Rouhani is above reproach. This is not to say that the mullahs are brave defenders of freedom and liberty. This is not to say that the actions of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard are always and forever wholesome and virtuous. This is not to say that the Iranian people are all happy with their government and that any and all unrest is only the work of outside forces.
These are the strawman arguments by which defenders of this renewed push for regime change in Iran try to shift the focus and muddy the waters. The point is that any and all decisions about what happens in Iran should be the work of the Iranian people. If Iraq and Libya and Syria have taught us anything, it is that the “humanitarian intervention” rallying cry is a sham, a false pretense used to whip up public support for the next regime change operation.
They cried crocodile tears over the poor, beleaguered people of Libya, but once the love bombs had been dropped and the country was torn apart, not another moment was spent worrying about the country. Today, there are open slave markets operating outside Tripoli, but not one word of remorse from the warmongers whose military intervention brought that about.
They cried crocodile tears over the poor, repressed people of Syria, and then proceeded to fund, arm, train and equip a terrorist insurgency that eventually morphed into ISIS under the careful tutelage of these humanitarian warhawks.
And now, the very same people who have been calling for the deaths of untold scores of Iranians are now pretending to care about the Iranian people.
Bill Kristol: I think the root cause of this, Stephanie, is that the Iranian people don’t have freedom and they would like freedom. I mean, you can get upset about the very minimal sanctions President Trump put on the IRGC. His policies have not fundamentally affected anything, and if companies don’t want to help the IRGC, the ruling regime in Iran, that’s fine with me. Let’s be more respectful of the Iranian people’s desire for freedom.
Trita Parsi: With all due respect, Bill, you’ve been arguing to bomb Iran for so long, so I don’t know if you’re really respecting the Iranian people. You’ve been advocating killing Iranians, so I don’t think you or the Trump administration have the credibility to now say that you care for the Iranian people.
Stephanie Ruhle: Hold on. Hold on.
Kristol: It’s not about me! It’s not about me! It’s about the Iranian people. Do you stand with the Iranian people against the regime?
Parsi: Of course I do.
Kristol: We’re in agreement, then.
Parsi: That’s exactly what I’m advocating. I’m in favor of making sure that they actually move towards a more democratic situation without killing them.
No, this is not about the plight of the poor Iranian people. This is about achieving a key American/Israeli/Saudi geopolitical objective.
As the dust settles on this wave of protests, it is most likely that the Iranian government will not be toppled. The opposition is unorganized, unarmed, and not drawing the masses of crowds that we have seen in previous “color revolutions.” But this is an ominous sign of things to come as the recent American/Israeli agreement on Iran comes to light.
The only question is whether the people of the world are going to fall for yet another regime change operation.
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James !! Yeah and yourgoing to get wet! What can this be but a call to action or a whack a mole for collecting and identifying dissenter among the castrated masses. Yeah ,happens ,and we as a nation don’t care.
Why ? To much too little too late. Try to mobilize the medically stoned mature masses and you know what they will say ” so what?”
I am sorry you waste your talent on this dumb-ass country.
And Yeah, You are going to get wet!
gbw – somewhat hysterical response perhaps?… James is just using his knowledge and research to highlight an obvious situation for many people. Most (if not all) of the citations are to publicly available sources, it’s just about pulling things together.
James is not the only concerned vlogger online:
See the real news – https://youtu.be/FgtIaCfepaw?t=720 and Caleb Maupin – https://youtu.be/0LlfucoX3ew?t=63 for equally concerned voices.
I’m concerned by the “get wet” references, what do you mean?
I’d also like some clarification on the “get wet” embellishment?
UKJC. Colloquial idiom by a colony idiot. Term in gold mining.See askjeffwilliams.com . Double entondra. Yeah, it can’t be spelled that way all I can hope is the use is correct.. Any way , hard work to get down to bedrock where the chunky gold rests. Profoundly true statement,not just conjecture. James is known for his old school integrity in reporting. What is a truth? Pick an angle. Your going to break a sweat getting there.
Don’t worry Nigel and Algorythem o C, Im with MIkey about the hypocracy, not to mention the apathy. Frustrating week of stirring the apathetic masses. Board? Sounds like an exaimation . Humor in light of disturbing truths. The ministry of culture has no humor and a memory like an elephant. And yes I live in America and it seems to be run by a bunch a Nazi psychos. How many stories are out there describing how horrid America is and after awhile you become desensitized. Numbness and sadness. So gentleman of the boards, what do you propose to do about countering the state of affairs Mr. Corbett so eloquently puts forth. Agree, disagree or act. Remember big brother is listening.
The American voice is missing in action. I can only hope Joe Plummer’s new audio reading of his Tragedy and Hope 101 will reach Americans. I gave out 5 copies this Christmas and not one has been opened yet. I feel the American public will remain preoccupied with ‘something other’ even if all the Queens dominion know everything there is to know about the N.W.O. WE will be the last to know and it will be to little too late. So that is why I hate to see pearls of wisdom , real gems of artistic work,factual integrity wasted on such apathetic dumb-asses. I mean info for the masses not the Corbett choir. I rather liked the whack-a-mole analogy , sorry you didn’t understand the black humor.
Your discombobulated post aside, what is your purpose on these boards?
Algo…of cons…, in reply to your query
you ever wonder why you’re the jury?
It may be time to take a look
James Corbett is not on Facebook!
As always, General, I salute you!
Warts and all your wart-play!
even when I don’t compute you
and your wild repartee.
Though I also didn’t get
How you saw James getting wet,
I trusted underneath the surface
lay some general bottle-washing purpose.
And even when I do find you opinionated,
stubborn, ornery and discombobulated,
I do, generally, enjoy your wisdom’s wit,
General, prosaic, rhymed or gnomic,
but, “I’ze born in Telsa, and I ‘member it”
so perhaps it’s something Oklahomic.
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Thanks James, essential viewing. One good thing coming out of all of this is it’s becoming clear to all that the enemies of peace and stability are the US, Israel, and S. Arabia.
Great comment Irazi thankyou,…however I suspect it’s even simpler than this,…& in fact the true “Enemy’s of Peace” are basically only “Team Israel” (& a few others in West making money from these wars of choice)… Seems clear to me that the Global network of “Israel” are driving the “US agenda” via control of Central Banking, Media propaganda & “Political Donations to all “political players”” in our so called Democratic systems…the key is control of capital & politics …as that CONTROLS THE US MILITARY “trump card”!…This coupled with control of US Media/Public Opinion & Academic, & Law “pawns”….along with the US Political/Military threat to “foreign Vassal Nations”……means that it seems Global “Team Israel” is the key to the ridiculous agenda of killing & destruction & shifting of wealth…Seems obvious to me they are a monster global swindlers racket nes’t ce pas?
The media shill Nikki Haley yammers-
“The demonstrations are completely spontaneous. They are virtually in every city in Iran. …”
Oh, sure. Just like the Arab Spring huh? All totally spontaneous, unplanned and without western assistance!
God, does anybody believe her??
You know, until I read “All the Shah’s Men”, where I learned about the CIA overthrowing the democratically elected president of Iran in the 50’s, I believed that Iran was a horrid menace that the Lamestream media portrays it to be. And I’m sure there are bad people in Iran. Just as there are bad people in the US, most of which are in politics.. Since that time, I’ve come to believe that Iran isn’t the largest sponsor or terrorism, nor are they doing all the cyber attacks they are being blamed for. I think this is all an elaborate plot by the intelligence agencies to trick us into a war with Iran. For their daring to defy the US and NATO’s schemes and their refusal to play stooge to the IMF.
Ragnar, hi. No one of any sense believes NH.
I’d agree, I think we have to continuously ignore references to states / countries like Iran, Iraq, Syria, France, the UK etc and remember that we are all mostly immigrants. We are all just humans. Sounding a little Marxist, oops, JCUK
Ragnar,
I agree completely. Nikki Haley is a neocon. It’s hard for me to believe anything that comes out of her mouth. As for her, Trump, and Netanyahu, they are all so certain that this is a grassroots uprising without presumably having much solid information yet. It would be reckless in any other situation to be so adamant without having all the facts yet. But they must let the people know how fair and balanced they are (/eye roll).
It’s also very telling when Trump and Netanyahu are saying they care so much about the Iranian people and they care so much about their freedom and democracy. That is obviously a lie, especially when looking at how Israel treats the Palestinians, and also how the Americans treat the Palestinian situation. To use his silly words, “it’s laughable.†This is in itself an automatic red flag.
Ragnar, we must not leave out the Bank of International Settlements. The India,Pakistan,Iran Pipeline has to be financed by someone?
Say it all together now…Moar War!
As to the un-esteemed Mz, Haley, here is a fitting synopsis,
https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/nikki-haley-asshole/
Great work James, as always… thorough background and precise observations. I for one am greatly pleased that you share your talent on a world seeking to understand the evil that rules us.
Peace.
Nikki Haley’s appointment as the United States’ UN Ambassdor is apparently one of the prices for Sheldon Adelson’s financial support in the 2016 selection.
The fact that she isn’t in any way a proper diplomat seems irrelevent because she supports Israel. Welcome to the mediocracy of the synthetic Trump administration. No teamwork is required.
I thought that Nikki Haley was the well known prostitute who services the U.N.
I keep hearing how she blows.
I guess that is the kind of job she does.
One thing I didn’t see pointed out in this video or any other related to Iran’s potential nuclear program and something I’d like see discussed:
who the fuck gives moral right to a nuclear weapon waving “nation” to ban any other “nation” from enabling its nuclear weapon capacity? If we assume nuclear weapons do indeed exist and ere in fact as dangerous as we perceive them, they are the last line of defense for both North Korea and Iran. The hypocrisy of it all is what’s getting to me.
Japanese post Hiroshima and Nagasaki said it best: after having thousands of towns already razed with bombing runs, what’s the difference of having another one being razed with one really big bomb instead of thousands of small ones?
My comment still awaiting moderation. Be great to know who moderates and what the rules are when one is a subscriber. SEX ROBOTS 🙂
My spam filter moderates and one of the things it flags is multiple links in a single post. You’re just gonna have to post during Japanese waking hours if you want swifter approval times!
Learning James… 07:31 is dedication to the job, I’ll avoid double links in future and use double single links.
Just asking, but what is the rationale for such a rule? might it be deprecated? perhaps more than three links might be better?
In fact, go for it open source brothers and sisters might be posting 10 or more links? You regularly do so…
anyway,
Love/blessings/good thoughts to you & yours, the forum and planet.
If I understand correctly, after his destruction campaigns in Syria and Yemen,the coup d’état in his own country (where cousins et al are Still being held at the Ritz Carlton, no?) you’ve got bin Salman effectively tying Hezbollah’s hands through the whole Hariri kidnapping, forced resignation and finally negotiated return (where Hezbollah reportedly agrees to not “meddle” in the conflicts of surrounding countries ‘Syria, Yemen, Palestine, Iran. i.e. the stated goal of demilitarizing of Hezbollah) and now…this, direct false flag destabilization of Iran… Things seem suddenly stepped a notch…as if they’re behind schedule…no?
On another more incidental note; Since Douglas Valentine made me suspicious of Ellsberg I’ve become suspicious of the whole the Watergate scandal and the journalists involved which is why I retained the following little factoid a few years back:
From the San Diego Reader:
More MEK money fallout: Watergate journalist Carl Bernstein paid $12,000 for speech
By Matt Potter, August 31, 2012
The Mujahadin-e Khalq – an Iranian exile group opposed to the current regime there and backed by Democratic congressman and San Diego mayoral candidate Bob Filner – has returned to the news, this time with a report that ex-Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein was paid $12,000 to give a speech at an event held on behalf of the MEK’s ongoing battle to be taken off the U.S. State Department’s list of terrorist organizations…
…”He (Bernstein) said that stories focusing on speakers at pro-MEK events rather than on ‘the substance of what the controversy is’ amounted to ‘journalistic McCarthyism.'”…
mbp, I got hit by a double link earlier, now sorted. Interesting post linking to MeK in James’ post and others. please would you provide a link?
Agreed. The whole Watergate event was likely a form of a limited hangout operation. A modern equivalent is the Snowjob, where the media could not shut up about Snowden, but legitimate whistleblowers like Bill Binney or Russ Tice were not given the airtime their accounts deserved.
The deep state wanted Nixon removed from office and they did it the soft way by employing fall guys (the “plumbers”) a deep-state informant (“deep throat”) and two media shills (one of which came from Naval intelligence) instead of blowing his head off.
(This is the stuff, Hollywood loves to make movies from. And they did. Because it is such a great fairy tale.)
Nixon was a loyal goon of them for the longest time, after all, and they can’t go around and kill every single one that doesn’t perform as wanted.
Nobody would work for them anymore.
Also Nixon didn’t want to destroy the system or parts of it like JFK.
But for taking the blame he got a full presidential pardon by Gerald Ford in 1974 (the same Ford that allegedly couldn’t chew gum and walk at the same time).
Even the worthless Wikipedia (as far as political things go) has quite some interesting things to say about Nixon that tarnish a bit the picture of a wise elder statesman it tries to paint. If one reads the article of him with “deep state”, “international oligarchy” and “minions” in mind then many things suddenly make sense as this little episode with Deng Xiaoping:
“Nixon visited the White House in 1979, invited by Carter for the state dinner for Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping. Carter had not wanted to invite Nixon, but Deng had stated he would visit Nixon in California if the former president was not invited. Nixon had a private meeting with Deng and visited Beijing again in mid-1979.”
So there: America like most western countries doesn’t imprison its (former) presidents. It either makes them heroes, forgets them or buries them. The latter having come a bit out of fashion in the last decades as the puppets all play ball after the rules have been set in 1963.
Yes, that seems like a pretty plausible picture.
Nothing to do with Iran and though I haven’t been following Carl Bernstein at all (except for the MEK thing when I’d been lookng into Rudy Giuliani) I just accidentally came upon this link this morning that paints a pretty “sprawling canvas” of what Carl Bernstein’s role “on the hill” is…
http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2017/09/24/carl-bernstein-says-russia-probes-deadly-effective.cnnmoney/index.html
Thanks for the link!
Here is another example from Brian Stelter’s “Reliable Sources” (LOL – reliable to the deep state!):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yROUFCx_Smc
David Frum (look up his deeds on Wikipedia) puts out an enormous amount of *unbelievable* nonsense regarding journalism with a Gish Gallop that pretty much boils down to “people should trust the media BECAUSE it makes mistakes” and journalists only “approximate the truth”.
Not entirely surprising by a three-time Bilderberger participant, though.
Bernstein on the other hand, who helped getting the WP the Pulitzer for their Watergate reporting, should know a thing or two about journalism, right? (the “trustworthy” Pulitzer!? Yeah right ;))
But you only get crickets from him.
Perhaps this says something about the pecking order in Washington when a second-rate spindoctor, who is affiliated with several prominent think tanks, gets to utter his nonsense freely while a controlled “investigative journalist”, who had more news with his love affairs in his life than with his “accomplishments”, has to shut his yap.
Jimmy Dore and Lionel Nation of course had a field day with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQi2B_cwsZs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnqc-2z2-s8
Wow, calibrator, gotta thank you! I really needed a good laugh! Though I love Lionel’s jewish New Yorker style, Jimmy Dore was particularly side-splitting here.
It would all almost make you forget that we’re not really talking about “mistakes” at all ov course, but carefully crafted outright emotionally manipulating propagandistic lies and that Trump is no victim but an accomplice in this bread and circus act of hypnosis as the controlled destruction of the old rags-to-riches paradigm continues in favor of the sustainable BRICS in KGB shades who are building the new politically correct face of the rising technocratic order.
Sorry, don’t know if that makes sense, I’m super late as usual, just wanted to acknowledge I saw your links and really enjoyed them. Off to a comic start as I scurry back into the hamster wheel. Be reading you again soon!
Excellent report James, you nailed it. Brock did an awesome job on the video editing. Overall a really well made report at the right time.
Nicely presented podcast, James. The CIA probably have got provocateurs inside Iran to foment the riots and rallys. To the trained eye it’s obvious that these kinds of riots are not spontaneous. Wouldn’t be surprised either if their president had some kind of foreknowledge. Wasn’t he pictured meeting(and shaking hands with) high level UK diplomats only a few weeks ago.
Looksee, Iran have never attacked any of their neighbours in the past. Yes they had to defend themselves against Saddam Hussein when he invaded their turf in 1980. Another dirty 8 year war that was. Apparently it’s one of the last countries on the planet not to have a Rothschild controlled central bank… Couldn’t that be a factor?
Nigel, correto-mundo mi amigo. Glad you mentioned Prof. Roth… Like many a fine cheese I smell a French one stinking it up in this picture, where is their involvement?. Sometimes the silent ones have the most to say.
Insane-meter is going towards red area.
So many many ominous things at the same time.
Some of them that should not come under your radar.
WSJ (and usual billionaire suspects) is promoting Basic Income.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJYLSrjFUxk
New vulnerabilities of computers, exploits on Hardware level with names: Spectre and Meltdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7ILCoU9d4k
New German law against hate speech, to boil German multicultural pot
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/05/tough-new-german-law-puts-tech-firms-and-free-speech-in-spotlight
Well a good thing for the end:
ZuckerBorg (eng. SugarBorg) said, fixing his hiving tools will be his personal challenge in 2018.
Better conditions for few billions in the swarm?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdVpW_JBptg
Thank you for this report James.
It was well-rounded, conveying important historical political contexts of modern Iran, and of that nation’s subjection by the Anglo-American Empires.
Tillerson’s reference of Iran’s “hegemony†made me laugh – obviously a pretty funny guy.
The Operation Ajax documentary you highlight is also an essential source.
Its specific description of the “execution of Operation Ajax†is a precise example of how the current situation should be understood.
The US corporate media’s exploitation of the “spontaneous uprisings†that are being spun currently is something to be studied in itself.
It is just one more example of one of the most discouraging aspects of how easily humanity of any nationality can be manipulated.
Most Americans that would support a regime change in Iran are dupes, not consciously malicious imperialists (even when they may be pretty ethnocentric and myopic in their general knowledge and views).
Sibel’s description of how the U.S. Embassy’s legitimate staff were used as unwitting pawns should give all citizens that are too afraid to do anything but passively go along with the criminal agenda of our Empire a certain amount of pause regarding their priorities.
Oddly, I find Gary Hart’s explanation regarding his motivations believable – if a conflict was desirable by the powers that shouldn’t be, then threatening/warning Iran would be counter-effective.
Remember, nobody warned Saddam Hussein – quite the opposite; April Glaspie in fact pretty much gave him a green light on his invasion of Kuwait after years of carefully choreographed provocative actions against his regime by Kuwait. Once he had invaded H.W. Bush immediately broadcast his response that “this will not stand.†The U.S.’s military’s action against Saddam Hussein’s forces was already largely in place, poised for action.
Yes, Hart’s a “CFR insider†meaning he was successful enough a politician to be invited in, but is he a core insider? The world is a dirty place and it’s hard to be totally unassociated with its filth.
I myself worked for nine year for a globalist financial firm (their media division!), and did so earnestly, actually trying to do a “good job†as was commensurate with my work-ethic, and regardless of my longstanding anti-corporatist political leanings.
Ultimately the poor fit resulted in conflict, whistleblowing, infiltration of my personal life by corporate spies, and literally direct threats regarding the corporation’s use of ex-CIA agents against employees like me – that message delivered to me by an “objective mediator†sent to oversee my case by corporate-central.
My leaving there, about ten years ago, was the beginning of much more robust political activity on my part, in part possible due to my continued unemployment because of a very effective blacklisting and COINTELPRO actions against me.
So the clandestine operations used against other nation’s people should not be seen as a distant problem. The same heinous globalist tactics are used everywhere against all adversaries, especially if you effectively stand against the bankster-military-industrial complex.
This last Tuesday I managed to dodge someone trying to run me over.
Gary Hart: “There is a chance for the president of the United States to use this disaster [9/11] to carry out what his father–a phrase his father used I think only once and hasn’t been used since–and that is a New World Order.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTOCRa9lTZc
Thanks – intriguing clip. Is there an unedited version?
I’m not really sure how you mean this to weigh-in – damning evidence against Hart?
The clip as presented is ambiguous in that way (as such it neither damns nor exculpates).
Personally I’m not rooting either way; I just want to avoid simplistic judgments. I’m not a Hart supporter. In fact I would guess there are significant differences in my views from his, but I don’t even know enough about him to be specific about that.
But all this points to yet another very intriguing problem: the problem of deciphering exactly what this or that politician is actually up to (the “deeper†analysis, if there might be one!).
All sorts of stories can be imagined about the motivations of people like Hart. The fact that they don’t speak as plainly as they could about such things because to do so means to not have a voice at all in our mainstream media culture is a very damaging limitation.
It is frustrating for people that are more focused on the plain and direct principles of political matters, as I suppose I sometimes tend to be, although I also try to apply a more sophisticated outlook to my analyses.
That’s the main issue with R2P. Some people I’ve engaged in conversation about this issue are deeply offended by my view that much of this type of organizing of public opinion about the need to help certain populations is just hype and a foot in the door to totally destroy those people’s autonomy, and eventually even perhaps to outright kill them because they are in the way of some globalist development project.
Most people just have a hard time recognizing and accepting this level of corruption. And of them a smaller number of people who do finally see the seemingly hopeless corruption become cynical and entirely removed from political action, with even fewer taking on a formalistic political philosophy which actually requires that they remain aloof in the face of atrocities – something that I don’t think is advisable nor necessary for any of the agnostic or anarchic or meditative traditions.
This site is a good example of what I mean – people here seem to understand the complexity of issues, allowing them to avoid the pitfalls of many of the mass-manipulation programs in place, but also still feel connected enough to try to contribute in some constructive fashion.
The claim from “viable†politicians who might in some way still be in earnest pursuit of justice and fairness is that in the “real world†that is a naïve approach.
To them, whether we like it or not, the issue is how to herd the masses, not if one is going to base oneself to that level of play. And it’s not hard to understand how the stupidity of the mass-culture that influences all and strongly shapes most of our lives requires being reckoned with as a practical matter.
Deep change is cultural over political.
Well said VoltaicDude! Boards aside. ” cultural…”
Operation Boot was the UK version of Operation Ajax
Here are some other bits of history in regards to Iran/US and Israel. Many mention by James in his piece but maybe a few you did not know about…. 1) Bush’s National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft pointed out in the 1999 book “A World Transformedâ€, co-authored with George H.W. Bush, when Iran’s Rafsanjani personally facilitated the release of the Lebanon hostages in late 1991, the Bush administration “didn’t do anything.†Goodwill, as it turns out, did not beget goodwill (In other words, Bush welched on a promise to Iran, and there goes the trust)……2)May 2nd 2003, Iran, through the Swiss Ambassador, presents the US State Dept. with a “Roadmap†to mending Iran/US relations. Everything for both sides was on the table to be negotiated. US Top State Dept. officials decided not to reply (Ignored) to Iran’s offer to normalize relations…..3) The downing of Iran Flight 655 in July 1988 by the US Navy…… 4) 1953 overthrow of their democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh complements of the CIA’s Operation Ajax…. 5)Multiple times sanctions place on Iran lead by the US…….6)November 2001, Iran assisted the USA (via the 6+2 meeting at the UN) in the taking of Kabul with a plan of freeing up the Northern Alliance. Iran’s plan succeed for the US to take Kabul from Taliban. Then in a January 29th 2002 speech George W Bush labels Iran a part of the “Axis of Evil†thus worsening relations….7)2017, Iran is found to be certified by the US government to be COMPLIENT with the multination nuclear agreement, yet more sanctions are imposed on Iran by the USA. JCPOA, noting that “according to Article 29, the US is committed to refrain from any policy intended to affect ‘the normalization of trade and economic relations with Iran.” Also, President Donald Trump is reported to dissuaded other foreign leaders from doing business with Iran at the 2017 G20 summit, thus a violation of the agreement…….8) 2010 to 2012, Israeli Intelligence assassinates 5 Iranian scientist. Oct 2011, Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich supported “taking out [Iranian] scientists,” and presidential candidate Rick Santorum called the killings “A wonderful thingâ€â€¦â€¦..9)Four fairly recent wars just outside Iran’s borders, twice in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria…..10) Continued bad mouthing by the goons in the Trump administration……11)December 2011 US CIA Drone flying in Iran airspace then falls out of sky..….12) 2010 Cyberattack called “Stuxnet†on Iran by Israel and the US July 18th…..13) The US has up to 42 military installations surrounding Iran (My count, I could be wrong). I provided a link for a map to verify, or do your own search: https://www.juancole.com/2012/02/ring-of-iranian-bases-threatens-us.htmlthis does not count Israeli military or ships at sea in the area..…. Now who are the real terrorists? (As I study this, the list keeps getting bigger and bigger)…..14) US support of SADAM’S INVASION of Iran in Iran/Iraq war (Sadam used chemical weapons on Iran and no world condemnation)……..15)On March 14th, (2016) Iran announced that it will never pay the $10.5B that a U.S. court demanded it pay for the 9/11 attacks. The same Bill-Clinton-appointed judge who had ruled, on 29 September 2015, that Saudi Arabia has sovereign immunity for 9/11 and so can’t be sued for it, ruled recently, on March 9th that Iran doesn’t have sovereign immunity and fined Iran $10.5 billion to be paid to 9/11 victims and insurers; but, on March 14, Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Iran won’t pay, because, as the Ministry’s spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari put it, “The ruling is ludicrous and absurd to the point that it makes a mockery of the principle of justice while [it] further tarnishes the US judiciary’s reputation.†Source: by Eric Zuesse March 16th 2016……
Have yet to mention Operation Susannah and Operation Merlin
James and Broc… Niiccceee work…
How long does it take to organize a revolution??
About six month… (some of you will wonder why six months!!)
here is the answer:
The “Dark Prince” AKA the “Ayatollah Mike” and the “Undertaker” Was appointed around June 2017 to take care of business. check https://en.radiofarda.com/a/cia-iran-operations-dandrea-antiterror/28526129.html
Now… the objective is not to take Iran out, as Iran is good for business for the time being, as Iran is the only scarecrow in the region that will force my idiot nations to buy weapons from USA and Europe to “defend” themselves.
so, the objective Now is to say to Iran.. “don’t go any further”…
Long term objective is as follow: We will see the same thing happening in Russia around April/May of this year, and after that work is done, maybe come back to Iran for round two and execute “regime change”, as then Russia will not be there to defend Iran.
So, for people who are too far away from the action… here is what the average person living in the middle east “thinks”.
Iran is not the enemy (in fact, Iranian people have been great nation and neighbor for thousands of years.)
Jewish nation is not the enemy. (in fact, they are much closer to us in almost everything than the average western person) – also, some of us Arabs are Jews and i am proud of them.
The enemy is . The Zionist states, including Israel, US of A, UK, France and other parts of Europe, and of course Majority of Arab Governments.
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I would’ve included a 1-min compilation of all the calls for bombing Iran from the US and Israel over the last 30 years — culminating with John McCain’s infamous musical performance — for those to whom the Anglo-American-Zion-Wahhabi targeting of Iran is still not glaringly obvious. There’s plenty of material from about 5 years ago, when
And then there is that thing about the Iran hostage deal being called off by Reagan as soon as he got into office (IOW, it was basically setup to prevent Carter from getting reelected).
Excellent report! Here’s a bit of ancient history you might find to be revealing. There’s just no end to the betrayal and abuse suffered by the iranian people at the hands of western intelligence:
http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2014/06/ancient-history-cia-helped-install-khomeini-in-iran/
Thank you David and Andre, rich3. Now your talking sense !
Further analysis of the issue:
TheRealNews
Trump’s Call for Regime Change Could Sabotage Iran Protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgtIaCfepaw
Fara Mansoor has done some of the best work on the real October surprise. It was far more complex that we really know.
” THOUSANDS OF DOCUMENTS IN SUPPORT
With thousands of documents to support his position, Mansoor says that the “hostage crisis” was a political “management tool” created by the pro-Bush faction of the CIA, and implemented through an a priori Alliance with Khomeini’s Islamic Fundamentalists.” He says the purpose was twofold:
To keep Iran intact and communist-free by putting Khomeini in full control.
To destablize the Carter Administration and put George Bush in the White House.
“The private Alliance was the logical result of the intricate Iranian political reality of the mid-70s, and a complex network of powerful U.S.-Iranian ‘business’ relationships,” Mansoor states. “I first met Khomeini in 1963 during the failed coup attempt against the Shah. Since that time I have been intimately involved with Iranian politics. I knew in 1979 that the whole, phoney ‘Islamic Revolution’ was ‘mission implausible’.”
Mansoor was frank. “There is simply no way that those guys with the beards and turbans could have pulled off such a brilliantly planned operation without very sophisticated help.”
Mansoor has spent 10 years researching the issue. “I have collected enough data to yield a very clear picture. Mr. Bush’s lieutenants removed the Shah, brought Khomeini back to Iran, and guided his rise to power, sticking it to President Carter, the American people (52 in particular), and the Iranian people.” he stated with boxes and boxes of evidence to support his contentions.
“My extensive research has revealed the heretofore untold truth about this episode. This is not another ‘October Surprise’ theory purporting how the hostage crisis resulted in some Khomeini-Republic better deal. That theory puts the cart before the horse. Its absurd premise is that a major international deal was initiated and consummated in three weeks. Give me a break! Bill Casey didn’t have to go to Paris to play lets-make-deal. The ‘deal’ had been in operation for at least two years. This game of blind-man’s-bluff around Casey’s gravestone was more disinformation, damage control.”
http://dmc.members.sonic.net/sentinel/1earth2.html
“Introduction:
In numerous programs, we have discussed what Peter Levenda has termed “weaponized religion.†In particular, we have examined what Peter termed weaponized Islam. With the recent Iranian nuclear deal and the lifting of economic sanctions against Iran, the history of U.S./Iranian relations has attained greater relevance.
In that context, we present the first of several shows revisiting Fara Mansoor’s landmark research on what we have termed the “Deep October Surprise.†Usually, the term “October Surprise†refers to an alleged deal between the Reagan/Bush campaign and the Khomeini regime in Iran to withhold the U.S. hostages taken from the American Embassy until after Jimmy Carter’s humiliation and consequent election defeat were assured.
Fara’s research goes farther and deeper, suggesting that the CIA learned of the Shah’s cancer in 1974 (from former CIA director Richard Helms), withheld the information from Jimmy Carter, installed Khomeini’s Islamic fundamentalists as an anti-communist bulwark on the Soviet Union’s Southern flank and then micro-managed the hostage crisis to insure the ascension of the Reagan/Bush/Casey forces. What has become known as the Iran-Contra Scandal was an outgrowth of this dynamic.”
You can listen to the interviews Dave Emory has done with Mansoor:
http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/ftr-896-fara-mansoor-on-the-deep-october-surprise-part-1/
Excellent, excellent report. So well researched, written and portrayed. Your historical references – to set the context and educate the viewer – are very professional. Fantastic graphics..
I only wish the MSM was still willing and able and courageous enough to report intellectual FACTS like you have done, rather than perform low level thought shaping propaganda for the sheep. It is sad that so few of us are paying attention to – and resisting – the evil forces that seek to destroy rather than build..
May God, Truth and Justice Prevail.
With mid term elections in the US fast approaching this fall, look for the right wing in Israel and Trump to ratchet up destabilization in Iran (overthrow), before the Democrats retake either the Senate, the House, or both.
General Wesley Clark said: “We’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.”
1)Iraq – check
2)Syria – check, sorta (Assad still in power)
3)Lebanon – check, sorta, infrastructure was destroyed in 2006 war, but Hezbollah successfully defended Lebanon from Israeli invasion)
4)Libya – check
5)Somalia – don’t know!?
6)Sudan – don’t know!?
7)Iran – seems like Iran is in for a rough 2018, at least until the mid term elections are over, assuming the Democrats do actually win and neuter Trump’s agenda.
My prediction for 2018: If the Republicans pull off another upset (vote fraud) and win the mid terms this November, and Iran still hasn’t been overthrown, I believe we we could be in for false flag attacks to be blamed on Iran, followed by large scale warfare between the US/Saudi Arabia and Iran before the year 2020.
As much as I mistrust the deep state in the West, we cannot forget the longer picture of political Islam in almost all of its versions waging war in the past against the west.
All Islamic countries, including Iran, need continual opposition to the tendency to return to the ways that prevailed in Islam from 600 AD until the last century, and to some extent to the present.
https://goo.gl/6DZbqP
Replace the word Islam with Christianity (plus few minor changes) and you will get something that is having the same level of truth.