Drop these here as better thread for them.
From Moon of Alabama :
probably the first stage of a large "regime change" operation run by the U.S. and Israel with the help of Iranian terrorist group. … A delegation led by Israel's National Security Adviser met with senior American officials in the White House earlier this month for a joint discussion on strategy to counter Iran's aggression in the Middle East …"[T]he U.S. and Israel see eye to eye the different developments in the region and especially those that are connected to Iran. We reached at understandings regarding the strategy and the policy needed to counter Iran. Our understandings deal with the overall strategy but also with concrete goals, way of action and the means which need to be used to get obtain those goals." …
[current “protests”] a result of the above meeting [?] …
My hunch is that the usual suspects are behind these protests. Note that these started in several cities at the same time. This was not some spontaneous local uproar in one city but had some form of coordination.
Then there is this:
A search in various languages finds exactly zero such "reports". Carl Bildt is a former Swedish prime minister. He was recruited
in 1973 as a
CIA informant and has since grown into a full blown U.S. asset. He was
involved in the Ukraine coup and tried to personally profit from it. ….
Some of these protests have genuine economic reasons but get hijacked by other interests: In the central city of Isfahan, a resident said
protesters joined a rally held by factory workers demanding back wages. “The slogans quickly changed from the economy to those against (President Hassan) Rouhani and the Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei),” the resident said by telephone. …
Purely political protests are rare in Iran [...] but demonstrations are often held by workers over layoffs or non-payment of salaries …
“Some people had came to express their demands, but suddenly, in a crowd of hundreds, a small group that did not exceed 50 shouted deviant and horrendous slogans such as ‘
Let go of Palestine’, ‘Not Gaza, not Lebanon, I’d give my life (only) for Iran’,” Alamolhoda said. …
Two videos posted by BBC Persian and others I have seen show only small active protest groups with a dozen or so people while many more are just standing by or film the people who are chanting slogans.
Videos published by the
terrorist group Mujahedin-e Khalq [MEK],
1,
2,
3,
4,
5, also show mostly small protests …
The MEK, or its "civilian" organization National Council of Resistance of Iran , seem to be most involved in the current protests. … Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, saluted the … chanting “… She said, “Yesterday Mashhad, today Kermanshah, and tomorrow throughout Iran; this uprising has tolled the death knell for the overthrow of the totally corrupt dictatorship of the mullahs” …
This very early engagement of the MEK …
first report … is extremely suspicious.
In 2012 it was reported that Israel had used the MEK terrorist organization to assassinate nuclear scientists in Iran … U.S. officials reportedly confirmed the link between Israel and the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), with one official saying: "All your inclinations are correct.” …
In October a CATO Institute paper
analyzed (and rejected) several options for U.S. handling Iran. Under Option Three: “
Regime Change from Within” it noted:
In this approach, the United States would pressure the Iranian regime and simultaneously back groups that oppose it-whether the exiled extremist National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), pro-democracy Green Revolution factions, or ethnic minorities within Iran-a strategy advocates often compare to Reagan’s support for civil society groups in the Soviet Union. … the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Mark Dubowitz, urged President Trump to “go on the offensive against the Iranian regime” by “weakening the Iranian regime’s finances” through “massive economic sanctions,” while also “undermin[ing] Iran’s rulers by strengthening pro-democracy forces” inside Iran. This option appears to be gaining traction in the Trump administration’s ongoing Iran policy review and has received public support from Tillerson. CIA Director Mike Pompeo also favored such an approach during his time in Congress. …
The White House and the Netanyahoo regime agreed on a strategy towards Iran. Major members of the Trump administration are in favor of "regime change" … A few weeks after an agreement was found, coordinated economic protests start in Iran which are soon hijacked by small groups of very active regime changers. … exile terrorists, well known for deadly collaboration with Israeli spies as well as for having operation cells in Iran, is highly engaged in the protest from very early on. …
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More from
Moon of Alabama:
Iran - Early U.S. Support For Rioters Hints At A Larger Plan
In
Iran - Regime Change Agents Hijack Economic Protests we looked at the developing U.S.-Israeli operation to instigate a revolt in Iran. …
The protests on December 28 and 29 were about …
economic issues. Such protests have
regularly occurred in Iran throughout the decades. But the current ones were soon hijacked by small groups which chanted slogans against the Iranian system and against the strong Iranian engagement in Syria and Palestine. These are
not majority positions of the 80 million inhabitants of Iran …
The small groups that hijacked the protests … were heavily promoted by the usual suspects of U.S. influence operations. Avaaz, the RAND cooperation, Human Rights Watch and others immediately jumped onto the bandwagon. …
In June 2009, Brookings Institute published a manual on how to overthrow the Iranian government or to take control of the country. … The velvet "color revolution" failed in 2009 when the "green movement" could not convince the Iranian people that it was more than a
foreign supported attempt to overthrow their republic.
What we currently see in Iran is a combination of chapter 6 and 7 of the Brookings plan. Behind a somewhat popular movement that protests against the neo-liberal economic policies … a militant movement … is implementing an escalation strategy that could lead to a civil war. We have already seen a similar combination in Libya and at the beginning of the attack on Syria. (Tony Cartalucci at the
Land Destroyer Report has
written extensively on the Brookings paper as a "handbook for overthrowing nations".)
Last June the Wall Street Journal reported that the CIA had set up a special operation cell for such attacks on Iran:
The Central Intelligence Agency has established an organization focused exclusively on gathering and analyzing intelligence about Iran, reflecting the Trump administration’s decision to make that country a higher priority target … The Iran Mission Center will bring together analysts, operations personnel and specialists from across the CIA to bring to bear the range of the agency’s capabilities, including covert action.
Yesterday morning a Sunni terror group blew up a pipeline in south-west Iran near the Iraqi border …
According to the U.S. military Combating Terrorism Center,
Ansar al-Fruqan has grown out of the defeated Jundallah terrorist group which had killed hundreds of Iranian officials and civilians. Jundallah was a Baluch jihadi insurgency fighting for a "Free Baluchistan" in the area of south-west Pakistan and south-east Iran. Its leader was killed in 2010 and it has since split and evolved into Ansar al-Furqan and other groups. Some of these are under foreign influence. Mark Perry
reported in 2012:
A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran.
Mossad agents hired Jundallah terrorists to kill nuclear experts in Iran. It should not be a surprise then that a Jundallah follow-up group is now attacking Iranian economic infrastructure in the very same moment that the Mossad and the CIA
coordinate another campaign to overthrow the Iranian government. This points to a wider and well organized plan.
Last night groups of 20 to 50 young men appeared in some 20 cities and towns of Iran and started
to vandalize (vid) the streets. … The groups, their appearance in some 20 cities and what they did was coordinated. …
Those
U.S. politicians who had called to "bomb, bomb, bomb" Iran (John McCain) or had threatened to wage war against it (Hillary Clinton) issued statements in support of the "Iranian people"- i.e. the rioters in the streets. T
hese are the same people who suffocate the Iranian people by pushing sanction round after sanction round onto them - hypocrites.
Donald Trump and his
State Department issued statements in support of the 'peaceful protesters' who vandalized their cities … The professed concerns for the Iranian people are nonsense. …
The official U.S. uttering comes very early and … exposes these protests as U.S. supported … Why is the U.S. doing this? The plan may well be … to instigate a sharp reaction by the Iranian government against the militant operations … That reaction can then be used to implement wider and stricter sanctions … another building block of a larger plan to suffocate the country and as an additional step on a larger escalation ladder.
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