Iran Destabilisation - Destroy the 'enemy' from within

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Excellent article:
http://www.corbettreport.com/articles/20090623_destabilization.htm


Destabilization 2.0
Soros, the CIA, Mossad and the new media destabilization of Iran

James Corbett
The Corbett Report
23 June, 2009

It's the 2009 presidential election in Iran and opposition leader Mir-Houssein Mousavi declares victory hours before the polls close, insuring that any result to the contrary will be called into question. Western media goes into overdrive, fighting with each other to see who can offer the most hyperbolic denunciation of the vote and President Ahmadenijad's apparent victory (BBC wins by publishing bald-faced lies about the supposed popular uprising which it is later forced to retract). On June 13th, 30000 "tweets" begin to flood Twitter with live updates from Iran, most written in English and provided by a handful of newly-registered users with identical profile photos. The Jerusalem Post writes a story about the Iran Twitter phenomenon a few hours after it starts (and who says Mossad isn't staying up to date with new media?). Now, YouTube is providing a "Breaking News" link at the top of every page linking to the latest footage of the Iranian protests (all shot in high def, no less). Welcome to Destabilization 2.0, the latest version of a program that the western powers have been running for decades in order to overthrow foreign, democratically elected governments that don't yield to the whims of western governments and multinational corporations.

Ironically, Iran was also the birthplace of the original CIA program for destabilizing a foreign government. Think of it as Destabilization 1.0: It's 1953 and democratically-elected Iranian leader Mohammed Mossadegh is following through on his election promises to nationalize industry for the Iranian people, including the oil industry of Iran which was then controlled by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The CIA is sent into the country to bring an end to Mossadegh's government. They begin a campaign of terror, staging bombings and attacks on Muslim targets in order to blame them on nationalist, secular Mossadegh. They foster and fund an anti-Mossadegh campaign amongst the radical Islamist elements in the country. Finally, they back the revolution that brings their favoured puppet, the Shah, into power. Within months, their mission had been accomplished: they had removed a democratically elected leader who threatened to build up an independent, secular Persian nation and replaced him with a repressive tyrant whose secret police would brutally suppress all opposition. The campaign was a success and the lead CIA agent wrote an after-action report describing the operation in glowing terms. The pattern was to be repeated time and time again in country after country (in Guatemala in 1954, in Afghanistan in the 1980s, in Serbia in the 1990s), but these operations leave the agency open to exposure. What was needed was a different plan, one where the western political and financial interests puppeteering the revolution would be more difficult to implicate in the overthrow.

Enter Destabilization 1.1. This version of the destabilization program is less messy, offering plausible deniability for the western powers who are overthrowing a foreign government. It starts when the IMF moves in to offer a bribe to a tinpot dictator in a third world country. He gets 10% in exchange for taking out an exorbitant loan for an infrastructure project that the country can't afford. When the country inevitably defaults on the loan payments, the IMF begins to take over, imposing a restructuring program that eventually results in the full scale looting of the country's resources for western business interests. This program, too, was run in country after country, from Jamaica to Myanmar, from Chile to Zimbabwe. The source code for this program was revealed in 2001, however, when former World Bank chief economist Joseph Stiglitz went public about the scam. More detail was added in 2004 by the publication of John Perkin's Confessions of an Economic Hitman, which revealed the extent to which front companies and complicit corporations aided, abetted and facilitated the economic plundering and overthrow of foreign governments. Although still an effective technique for overthrowing foreign nations, the fact that this particular scam had been exposed meant that the architects of global geopolitics would have to find a new way to get rid of foreign, democratically elected governments.

Destabilization 1.2 involves seemingly disinterested, democracy promoting NGOs with feelgood names like the Open Society Institute, Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy. They fund, train, support and mobilize opposition movements in countries that have been targeted for destabilization, often during elections and usually organized around an identifiable color. These "color revolutions" sprang up in the past decade and have so far successfully destabilized the governments of the Ukraine, Lebanon, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan, among others. These revolutions bear the imprint of billionaire finance oligarch George Soros. The hidden hand of western powers behind these color revolutions has threatened their effectiveness in recent years, however, with an anti-Soros movement having arisen in Georgia and with the recent Moldovan "grape revolution" having come to naught (much to the chagrin of Soros-funded OSI's Evgeny Morozov).

Now we arrive at Destabilization 2.0, really not much more than a slight tweak of Destabilization 1.2. The only thing different is that now Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other social media are being employed to amplify the effect of (and the impression of) internal protests. Once again, Soros henchman Evgeny Morozov is extolling the virtues of the new Tehran Twitter revolution and the New York Times is writing journalistic hymns to the power of internet new media...when it serves western imperial interests. We are being asked to believe that this latest version of the very (very) old program of U.S. corporate imperialism is the real deal. While there is no doubt that the regime of Ahmadenijad is reprehensible and the feelings of many of the young protestors in Iran are genuine, you will forgive me for quesyioning the motives behind the monolithic media support for the overthrow of Iran's government and the installation of Mir-Houssein "Butcher of Beirut" Mousavi.

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Designer Revolutions -- Mark Almond on "People Power" in Eastern Europe

By Karl Naylor - 4 February 2009
http://easterneuropewatch.blogspot.com/2009/02/mark-almond-on-western- double-standards.html

Mark Almond is one of the most underrated historians writing at present. A history lecturer at Oriel College Oxford, Almond these days is often to be found at left wing meetings frequented by leftists and 'anti-war' types such as those in the Stop the War Coalition...

The most important thing Almond brings to light in his journalism is a clear historical sense and the way human rights are cynically used to advance geopolitical agendas that have less to do with democracy and more to do with grubby material interests and money power.

In his book Uprising: Political Upheavals that have Shaped the World ( 2002 ), Almond defines four types of revolts-ideological revolutions, popular uprisings, coup d'etat and national uprisings. The first post-communist uprising of the new NGO kind, the one that overthrew Milosevic gets a brief chapter.

In the light of what Almond has written since about the way Colour Revolutions such the Rose Revolution of 2003 in Georgia, the Orange Revolution of 2004 in Ukraine or the abortive 'Denim Revolution' in Belarus, it would be interesting if he could add another form of uprising.

That is, the Designer Revolution, a combination of admass techniques and the exploitation of the desire for unlimited consumerism as the promise of Utopia with the USA and Washington as a power ever more messianically committed to exporting it than it was even in the Cold War.
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'People power' is a global brand owned by America

The US and the western media back protests over controversial elections when it suits them, but are silent over those in Mexico

Mark Almond - The Guardian, Tuesday 15 August 2006
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/aug/15/usa.mexico
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The price of People Power

The Ukraine street protests have followed a pattern of western orchestration set in the 80s. I know - I was a cold war bagman

Mark Almond - The Guardian, Tuesday 7 December 2004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/dec/07/ukraine.comment

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IRAN PROTESTS - THE FLAG OF THE SHAH

So, whose flag are they flying at the protests?
Judge for yourself.
http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/iranflag.php

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[QuitTheirClogs]

My impression from internet forums is that the masses are not buying it this time. At the height of the anti-Mugabe campaign there was a relentless stream of tut-athons and two-minute hates. But the anti-Ahmadinejad campaign has caused barely a ripple.

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[isfahan]

Here's an unusually good article about Iran from the British mainstream media: http://www.sundayherald.com/oped/opinion/display.var.2516867.0.0.php

[Thermate911]

Yes, a balanced article at last (although to be fair to the Guardian, they did publish something similar - but buried deep in a blog, of course!)

[QuitTheirClogs]

Download this in case it disappears:

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/papers/2009/06_iran_strategy  /06_iran_strategy.pdf

Brookings Publication mentions possibility of ‘Horrific Provocation’ to Trigger Iran Invasion

Jurriaan Maessen - Prisonplanet.com - June 29, 2009
http://www.prisonplanet.com/brookings-publication-mentions-possibility -of-horrific-provocation-to-trigger-iran-invasion.html

In a recent policy paper published by the influential Brookings Institute, the authors propose almost anything to guarantee dominance of Persia by the new world order, including bribery, lying, cheating and mass murdering by an all-out military assault of Iran. The paper ‘Which path to Persia: Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran’ is just one of many recent and not so recent examples of the firm intent of the globalists to engage Iran militarily and acquire its natural resources in the same effort.

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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/obama-the-clock-is-tick ing/

Obama: The clock is ticking


1) US President Obama: By the end of this year there must be some real progress (2 June 2009)
2) US President Obama: The clock is ticking (26 June 2009)
3) US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen: The clock is ticking (7 July 2009)
4) Brookings Institution: Options for a new American strategy toward Iran (23 June 2009)

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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/israeli-ambassador-to-u s-iranian-nuke-could-wipe-off-israel-in-seconds/

Israeli ambassador to US: Iranian nuke could wipe off Israel in seconds


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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097673.html


excerpt from: 'Iran nuke could wipe Israel off map in seconds'

Haaretz, 4 July 2009

[Thermate911]

First off, I for one really appreciate your posts, cem; your format is excellent. Thankyou.

However, this present nonsense must surely make any awake person's blood boil:-

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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/biden-us-wont-stop-isra el-attack-on-iran/

US Vice President Biden: US won’t stop Israel attack on Iran



1) US Vice President Biden: US won’t stop Israel attack on Iran (5 July 2009)
2) US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen: The clock is ticking (7 July 2009)

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http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=8002421

excerpts from: 'This Week' Transcript: Exclusive: Vice President Joe Biden

[transcript of ABC-TV's ‘This Week with George Stephanopoulos’ programme on 5 July 2009]

ABC News website, 5 July 2009

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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/israeli-ambassador-to-u s-iranian-nuke-could-wipe-off-israel-in-seconds/

Israeli Army to train overseas for Iran strike operation


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http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443724418&pagename=JPos t%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

excerpts from: IAF to train overseas for Iran strike op

by Yaakov Katz and AP, Jerusalem Post, 5 July 2009

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http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=44374


excerpts from: Transcript: Admiral Mullen, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff speaks at CSIS about Iranian nuke threat and Israeli response

Independent Media Review Analysis (IMRA) website, 7 July 2009

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http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE5663EC20090707

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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/israeli-ambassador-to-u s-iranian-nuke-could-wipe-off-israel-in-seconds/

Israeli ambassador to US: Obama’s end-of-the-year deadline to Iran has been moved up to September



http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/16/fzgps.01.html

excerpt from: Interview With Israeli Ambassador to United States

CNN web site, 16 August 2009

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http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/ahmadinejad-some-neighb ouring-countries-are-at-the-service-of-zionism-in-the-name-of-islam/

Ahmadinejad: Some neighbouring countries are serving Zionism in the name of Islam



1) Iran Lambasts Policies of Certain Neighboring States (16 August 2009)
2) Tenth ‘Reliant Mermaid’ Joint Naval Exercise (11 August 2009)
3) [from the archives] Turkey and Israel Strategize (Winter 2002)

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http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8805251405

excerpt from: Iran Lambasts Policies of Certain Neighboring States

Fars News Agency, 16 August 2009


We are sorry for those countries around us and those neighbors which are at the service of the Zionists in the name of Islam and are providing means of their hegemony over the world. They don’t understand so they provide the Zionists with their possibilities, we hope that they wake up.

[Iran’s President Ahmadinejad, speech to commemorate the World Mosques Day, Tehran, 16 August 2009]

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http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/updates/09/08/1101.htm

excerpt from: Tenth ‘Reliant Mermaid’ Joint Naval Exercise

Israel Defense Forces web site, 11 August 2009


Reliant Mermaid X, which is a live, Combined/Joint Search and Rescue exercise, will be conducted by the participant elements of Israeli, Turkish and United States Naval and Air Forces between 17-21 August 2009. Turkey is the host country of the event and the exercise will take place in the Turkish Search and Rescue area in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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from the archives:


http://www.meforum.org/128/turkey-and-israel-strategize

excerpts from: Turkey and Israel Strategize

by Mustafa Kibaroglu, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2002


Turkish air space borders that of Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Were any of these countries preparing to launch missiles against Israel, Israel might come to Turkey with a request to fly through Turkish air space to deliver pre-emptive or preventive strikes against ballistic missile launching sites. […]

Israel might call on Turkish space for another purpose. Because Israel is so small, it needs off-shore strategic depth to sustain a credible and secure second-strike capability. In the event of a crisis, it will need foreign safe havens for its submarines and surface ships—and Turkey is perfectly positioned to provide them.

The basis for this kind of cooperation has already been laid. According to the 1996 agreement of military cooperation, each country can deploy or temporarily station its land, air and naval force units in the other country’s territory. For that purpose, they can use one another’s air space, airports and naval ports.

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related links:


Israeli Air Force to train overseas for Iran strike operation (5 July 2009)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/israeli-ambassador-to-u s-iranian-nuke-could-wipe-off-israel-in-seconds/


Obama: Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat to its neighbors (6 April 2009)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/us-ambassador-iran%e2%8 0%99s-pursuit-of-nuclear-weapons-is-a-great-danger-to-turkey/


CSIS report: Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran (16 March 2009)

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/csis-report-turkey-woul d-be-the-optimum-route-for-a-possible-israeli-attack-on-iran/

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