For years right wing extremists have been bucking to have a confrontation with Iran. Had McCain won the election we’d likely be at war with them now, or at least making a military stand. It’s no surprise he now calls on Obama to publicly give America’s official support to the uprising in Iran. But as Obama has explained, doing so would exacerbate the problem and motivate the Iranian government to cite America as the force behind the uprising.
Interestingly, it may well be a fact that America is the force behind the uprising. Maybe not Obama. But America is a complicated place these days. We “elected” a president twice under highly questionable circumstances, a corrupt Supreme Court, corrupt election officials, a governor of Florida who used his authority in miscounting votes to see that his brother was elected, and hacked election machines in at least two recent presidential elections. We committed an illegal international act in a preemptive war, a racist genocidal war with a military that dehumanizes all Muslims, disdainfully calling them “Hajjis” as a matter of policy to better help our troops deal with killing innocent people. These are facts reported by veterans in the Winter Soldier testimonies.
Then there’s America’s example of free enterprise, or as it’s better known, the socialist corporate welfare state. In America the biggest banks and auto companies are goverment owned, at least in part. Government officials are bought and paid for by corporations like the military industrial complex, which could sure use another war in Iran. Bush and Cheney immediately upon taking office in 2000 changed laws so that the monopolistic energy industry, with Enron as it’s poster boy, was given great tax breaks (Worse Than Watergate, John Dean, Warner Books 2005, p75-76)
So now McCain and others cry to Obama to stand up to Iran and tell them how to run a “democratic” election? What a comedian. We’ve got some cleaning up to do before we can go around telling people how to be a democracy.
But how is America behind the uprising? With all the right wing sentiment and misplaced power, likely in places like the military, Wall Street, corporate America, and the CIA (who have fronted for the corrupt Bush and Cheney regime) it’s not much of stretch to consider that the Iran uprising was indeed orchestrated by these underground right wing U.S. powers. Pakistan Daily reports in two separate articles, and you won’t find this in the U.S. corporate media:
CIA has Distributed 400 Million Dollars Inside Iran to Evoke a Revolution.
Former Pakistani Army General Mirza Aslam Beig claims the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has distributed 400 million dollars inside Iran to evoke a revolution. In a phone interview with the Pashto Radio on Monday, General Beig said that there is undisputed intelligence proving the US interference in Iran. “The documents prove that the CIA spent 400 million dollars inside Iran to prop up a colorful-hollow revolution following the election,” he added.
Pakistan’s former army chief of joint staff went on to say that the US wanted to disturb the situation in Iran and bring to power a pro-US government. He congratulated President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his reelection for the second term in office, noting that Pakistan relationship with Iran has improved during his 4-year presidency.
“Ahmadinejad’s re-election is a decisive point in regional policy and if Pakistan and Afghanistan unite with Iran, the US has to leave the area, especially the occupied Afghanistan,” Beig added.
So then Ahmadinejad’s re-election is a threat to America’s war machine?
You mean they might stop us from bombing Afghanistan? The CIA will have none of that.
US Official: The CIA bribed Iranian government officials, businessmen, and reporters, and paid Iranians to demonstrate in the streets
Stephen Kinzer’s book, All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, tells the story of the overthrow of Iran’s democratically-elected leader, Mohammed Mosaddeq, by the CIA and the British MI6 in 1953. The CIA bribed Iranian government officials, businessmen, and reporters, and paid Iranians to demonstrate in the streets.
The 1953 street demonstrations, together with the Cold War claim that the US had to grab Iran before the Soviets did, served as the US government’s justification for overthrowing Iranian democracy. What the Iranian people wanted was not important.
Today, the street demonstrations in Tehran show signs of orchestration. The protesters, primarily young people, especially young women opposed to the dress codes, carry signs written in English: “Where is My Vote?” The signs are intended for the western media—not for the Iranian government.
More evidence of orchestration is provided by the protesters’ chant, “death to the dictator, death to Ahmadinejad.” Every Iranian knows that the president of Iran is a public figure with limited powers. His main role is to take the heat from the governing grand Ayatollah. No Iranian, and no informed Westerner, could possibly believe that Ahmadinejad is a dictator. Even Ahmadinejad’s superior, Khamenei, is not a dictator, as he is appointed by a government body that can remove him….
It’s interesting how transparent and open to the media this Iranian uprising is. It seems like a well coordinated media campaign, complete with an official color (green), and the latest Web 2.0 social network technology. The Huffington Post is live blogging the Tweets and videos. Twitter is inundated with second by second accounts of the happenings in Iran. They even have little green overlays for Twitterers to place on their icons, in a showing of “solidarity”. The BBC and CCN have almost complete access, compared to the Iraq War. But is this solidarity and access contrived and seeded by the CIA?
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are quite the opposite in transparency. No moment by moment updates on Twitter. No green overlays. No inundations of on the spot photographs, and videos of people dying in the streets of Baghdad. The BBC doesn’t find a way to break through the censorship in Iraq or Afghanistan with their news satellites. Yet 1.5 million innocent Iraqis are known to have been killed since America’s occupation. Iraq War veterans say that most of those deaths are due to our bombs and bullets. The U.S. notoriously censors every bit of media of these wars. No pictures, no video. Only a very few officially Pentagon approved pictures and videos get through. It’s all way too curious how easily we see everything that’s going on in Iran, but absolutely nothing of Iraq or Afghanistan. Meanwhile, the Congress this week, passed 106 billion more dollars in war funding. Is this all coincidence? There’s a saying in the law enforcement community, “There are no coincidences”.
From the CIA’s book review of All the Shaw’s Men ( New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2003. 258 pages):
All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror
At an NSC meeting in early 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower said “it was a matter of great distress to him that we seemed unable to get some of these down-trodden countries to like us instead of hating us.”1 The problem has likewise distressed all administrations since, and is emerging as the core conundrum of American policy in Iraq. In All the Shah’s Men, Stephen Kinzer of the New York Times suggests that the explanation may lie next door in Iran, where the CIA carried out its first successful regime-change operation over half a century ago….
….The CIA’s covert intervention—codenamed TPAJAX—preserved the Shah’s power and protected Western control of a hugely lucrative oil infrastructure. It also transformed a turbulent constitutional monarchy into an absolutist kingship and induced a succession of unintended consequences at least as far ahead as the Islamic revolution of 1979—and, Kinzer argues in his breezily written, well-researched popular history, perhaps to today….
For most of us, these facts only come to light and are admitted to, years after the fact. It seems then, more likely than not, that the CIA is now behind the uprising in Iran. The CIA is defending it’s setting up the Shaw for Nixon in this book review on it’s own website. But the fact that the CIA has to have a review of this particular book indicates they are concerned about their image. People don’t normal look to the CIA for literary reviews and guidance.
This recent Iranian uprising is a little too convenient for Republicans and right wingers looking for a new emergency situation that will give them the right to exercise their military industrial complex to secure and control Mid-Eastern oil, and boost Shell, Exxon, General Dynamics, Lockheed-Martin and KBR to boot. That’s been their plan all along, and Obama is messing it up.
Anyone who accuses Republicans and the CIA of such things could easily be labeled as, now famously, a conspiracy theorist (as if that were a lunacy, considering co-conspirators Bush and Cheney), or anti-American, anti-democracy, and siding with “the enemy”, that is, if you’re one of those authoritarian half-wits who can’t think for themselves. Thinking people, like President Obama, know that getting into this mess is the worse thing Americans could do, unless of course we want to have another war, or maybe want to protect our investments in Lockheed-Martin.
References include Worse that Watergate, John Dean; Conservatives Without Conscience, John Dean; and The Three Trillion Dollar War, Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Blimes; and ReThink Afghanistan, among others.
