Američka zelena revolucija u Iranu

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Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated "Color Revolution?"
Is This the Culmination of Two Years of Destabilization?


by Paul Craig Roberts



A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events.

The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election, because the outcome was declared too soon after the polls closed for all the votes to have been counted. However, Mousavi declared his victory several hours before the polls closed. This is classic CIA destabilization designed to discredit a contrary outcome. It forces an early declaration of the vote. The longer the time interval between the preemptive declaration of victory and the release of the vote tally, the longer Mousavi has to create the impression that the authorities are using the time to fix the vote. It is amazing that people don't see through this trick.

As for the grand ayatollah Montazeri's charge that the election was stolen, he was the initial choice to succeed Khomeini, but lost out to the current Supreme Leader. He sees in the protests an opportunity to settle the score with Khamenei. Montazeri has the incentive to challenge the election whether or not he is being manipulated by the CIA, which has a successful history of manipulating disgruntled politicians.

There is a power struggle among the ayatollahs. Many are aligned against Ahmadinejad because he accuses them of corruption, thus playing to the Iranian countryside where Iranians believe the ayatollahs' lifestyles indicate an excess of power and money. In my opinion, Ahmadinejad's attack on the ayatollahs is opportunistic. However, it does make it odd for his American detractors to say he is a conservative reactionary lined up with the ayatollahs.

Commentators are "explaining" the Iran elections based on their own illusions, delusions, emotions, and vested interests. Whether or not the poll results predicting Ahmadinejad's win are sound, there is, so far, no evidence beyond surmise that the election was stolen. However, there are credible reports that the CIA has been working for two years to destabilize the Iranian government.

On May 23, 2007, Brian Ross and Richard Esposito reported on ABC News: "The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell ABC News."

On May 27, 2007, the London Telegraph independently reported: "Mr. Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilize, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs."

A few days previously, the Telegraph reported on May 16, 2007, that Bush administration neocon warmonger John Bolton told the Telegraph that a US military attack on Iran would "be a 'last option' after economic sanctions and attempts to foment a popular revolution had failed."

On June 29, 2008, Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker: "Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country's religious leadership."

The protests in Tehran no doubt have many sincere participants. The protests also have the hallmarks of the CIA orchestrated protests in Georgia and Ukraine. It requires total blindness not to see this.

Daniel McAdams has made some telling points. For example, neoconservative Kenneth Timmerman wrote the day before the election that "there's talk of a 'green revolution' in Tehran." How would Timmerman know that unless it was an orchestrated plan? Why would there be a 'green revolution' prepared prior to the vote, especially if Mousavi and his supporters were as confident of victory as they claim? This looks like definite evidence that the US is involved in the election protests.

Timmerman goes on to write that "the National Endowment for Democracy has spent millions of dollars promoting 'color' revolutions . . . Some of that money appears to have made it into the hands of pro-Mousavi groups, who have ties to non-governmental organizations outside Iran that the National Endowment for Democracy funds." Timmerman's own neocon Foundation for Democracy is "a private, non-profit organization established in 1995 with grants from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to promote democracy and internationally-recognized standards of human rights in Iran."

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

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Otpor Now in Iran, Courtesy of Uncle Sam



Iranian Coup d'État: Shade of Green and the Same Clenched Fist

We know Washington is orchestrating and funding coup d'état presently taking place in Iran, among else because it was reported back in 2006 that United States decided to use covert means to remove Ahmadinejad from power, from within — it is much cheaper, safer and entirely pain-free for the Empire, in comparison to an open warfare.

We also know pro-US activists in Iran have been receiving "aid from the West" since 2004, when the so-called "Iran Human Rights Documentation Center" based at Yale University, received $1 million from "a smaller American government aid program intended for Iran's opposition inside the country".

In 2006 Bush administration demanded $75 million from the US Congress "to encourage opposition to Iran's ruling mullahs".

Washington also ran and sponsored secret workshops since April 2005 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where paid Iranian "activists" were being trotted for instructions on how to topple Ahmadinejad.

One of the trainers Washington brought over to Dubai to teach young Iranians how to destroy their country and hand it over to the Empire on a silver platter, is no other than the US State Department's traveling revolution salesman, Otpor activist Ivan Marovic.

"The content of the workshop consisted of explaining the principles of mobilizing the population in the situation where fear is high and there are tensions in the society, meaning they are facing a political crisis.

"We discussed how to overcome that crisis without destruction of property and loss of human life. These are nonviolent strategies of civic mobilization. This is a standard workshop based on the examples from Otpor, our fight against Slobodan Milosevic," Marovic said.



Serbian Otpor logo


Now in Iran

Recycling Revolutions, Cutting on Design and Printing Costs
Yet, the U.S. president claims he knows nothing about this.

Obama says he "saw on television" that Iranian protesters, fashioning their "peaceful demonstrations" after Serbian Otpor — trained and financed by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), International Republican Institute (IRI), US Agency for International Development (USAID), Freedom House and other Washington-based institutions specializing in toppling the governments which refuse to be subjugated by the United States — intend to remove Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from power.

Obama says he's "deeply troubled". So are we.

Kmara, Georgia
Pora!, Ukraine
KelKel, Kyrgyzstan
Oborona, Russia

Following the Same Script
Just like Otpor and so many color revolutions and "popular movements" after October 2000 (which used elections as a trigger), Iranian demonstrators are following a foolproof script — starting massive riots over the claim elections were rigged and they have been cheated ("Where is my vote?")

Eagerly backed by the ready chorus of zealous Western news agencies, with 24/7 media coverage repeating the same scenes over and over, drumming it up in every corner of the world (unlike the popular movements entirely unpopular in the West, such as months-long massive street protests attempting to topple Washington-installed Gyurcsany of Hungary or Georgia's Saakashvili, which received almost no coverage by the Western MSM), Iranian demonstrators are instructed to keep insisting "their" president is not the one who won the elections (Ahmadinejad), but the man Washington wants to install (Mousavi, a US puppet predictably hailed by the Western mainstream media as a "pro-reform" candidate). Like Otpor in Serbia in 2000, they demand recount of the votes or, even better, brand new elections. In either case, an "independent", Washington-funded body will be tasked with declaring preferred candidate a winner.

Although advertising their state coup as a "nonviolent movement", Iranian protesters, like Otpor, Kmara, Pora and others before them, are attacking and provoking security forces, throwing stones at them, ganging up on lone policemen, getting up in their faces, swearing at them and mocking them while on duty, in order to provoke violent reactions in front of cameras and to destroy an aura of respect and authority security forces commonly have among the ordinary people, who haven't been paid by the Washington to demolish every institution of their state under the present government.

And, like many times before, the state — unwilling to use force against the masses — is losing again.







Now, if United States was a democracy and if its media was free, we could hope Obama will eventually be informed about this too by his state television. But as it is, the US president is destined to remain more ignorant about the world he lives in than we are.

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Ma ne,to je samo slučajna koincidencija!

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Neda Death Footage: Poster Child For A Million More Tragedies?

Establishment media falls over itself to broadcast footage showing death of young Iranian protester, yet completely refused to show victims of Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com




Western establishment media organs are tripping over themselves to broadcast tragic footage showing the death of a young Iranian woman allegedly at the hands of pro-Ahmadinejad forces in an effort to rally international opinion against the government of Iran, a stark contrast to their complete and total refusal to broadcast footage of the hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children killed in Afghanistan and Iraq by U.S. and UK troops.

Neda Agha-Soltan has become a poster child for the CIA-sponsored color revolution in Iran after tragic and shocking scenes of her death were uploaded to You Tube the day after she was gunned down in Tehran on Saturday.

Soltan is being hailed as a "martyr" and "the face of the Iranian protests" by major western media outlets in emotional news reports such as the following CNN piece.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDox6Xk2Pss


The hypocrisy is almost impossible to stomach. Hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children have been slaughtered in similar fashion by coalition forces during the bombardment and occupation of both Iraq and Afghanistan, and many of these deaths have been caught on camera. And yet the establishment media has blindly refused to broadcast any of it. Indeed, it could be claimed that the footage of Neda's death has already been broadcast more times by the corporate media than the thousands of victims whose deaths were caught on film in Iraq and Afghanistan over the last eight years.

There's no doubt that Neda's vivid and shocking death is tragic to witness and a terrible loss for her family. However, the repercussions of the video circulating the globe via You Tube and its propaganda-driven exploitation by the west to demonize the Iranian government could have tragic consequences for many more innocent Iranians in the years to come.

The propensity for western governments to manufacture or exploit intensely emotional stories such as Neda's death, and tragic events involving young women and children in general, in order to hoodwink populations into supporting phony wars of "liberation" has been proven time and time again.

One of the stunts used to sell the invasion of Iraq to the American people was the alleged capture and mistreatment of young female POW Jessica Lynch, who the Pentagon claimed went down in a blaze of glory in an attempt to throw off her captors and was subsequently "rescued" by U.S. forces. Lynch later revealed that the Pentagon concocted a Rambo fable around her image and that she actually never fired her weapon and was treated very well by Iraqi doctors who released her back to the U.S. military without incident.

The first invasion of Iraq was preceded by a similarly manufactured fable perfectly designed to tug at the heart strings and create a sense of outrage that won over a hesitant population into supporting a war.

Following the (US approved) Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, an American PR company called Hill & Knowlton was paid $10.7 million by a Kuwaiti front group to devise a campaign to win American support for the war. Stories soon began to emerge of brutal Iraqi soldiers removing babies from incubators in Kuwait hospitals. A firestorm of outrage spread across the western media and the population demanded that something be done, completely unaware of the fact that the whole story had been completely manufactured with the intention of creating that exact reaction.

Despite the fact that the Neda video shows nothing other than the sudden death of the woman after she was shot in the heart, the BBC, which the Iranian government has repeatedly accused of fomenting riots by means of bias and false reporting, quotes in a report today the woman's fiance Caspian Makan, who states;

"Eyewitnesses and video footage of shooting clearly show that probably Basij paramilitaries in civilian clothing deliberately targeted her."


The unedited video offers no evidence whatsoever for who killed Neda. For all we know it could have been the Al-Qaeda terrorists that the CIA has been funding to destabilize Iran. It has not even been established whether Neda was killed by a rooftop sniper or a passing motorcyclist, and yet the BBC is carrying matter-of-fact explanations of her death based on nothing more than conjecture without any clarification whatsoever.

This follows an embarrassing faux pas last week when the BBC was forced to issue a retraction of a photo they originally claimed represented a pro-Mousavi rally, when in fact the image was taken at a pro-Ahmadinejad demonstration.

The tragic death of Neda Agha-Soltan and its vivid capture on film is already being used as a propaganda tool by American, British and Israeli media outlets to harden western opinion against the Mullahs in Iran and grease the skids for a future invasion.

If we don't heed the lessons of history and understand how sophisticated PR campaigns are routinely crafted around such events by western governments in collusion with their establishment media fronts, then the tragic death of Neda will be the catalyst for a million more tragedies in the years to come - the only difference being that you won't see the deaths of those victims being broadcast on the BBC, Fox News or CNN.

The unedited video of Neda's tragic death can be viewed below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Fte41Af6o

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Who Put the 'green' in the Green Revolution?

Posted by Daniel McAdams on June 19, 2009 05:35 AM The United States, of course.



The United States, of course.

As in the previous "color revolutions" that seem to tirelessly capture the romantic imagination of US journalists, elites, and the propagandized population, the warm embrace of the US empire is firmly guiding the "spontaneous" Iranian uprising against last week's election results. While I do not and should not– nor should any other American — care in the slightest who rules a country some seven thousand miles away, when the fingerprints of the US empire show up on these dramatic events overseas it is very much my business.

Several commentators have already dredged from the memory hole press reporting at the time on a presidential "finding" on Iran, which is the formal method for the president to initiate covert actions against another country. Back in 2007 — plenty of lead time for this election — the president met with the Congressional Star Chamber, the "gang of 8″ House and Senate leaders, and was granted the authorization to use some $400 million for among other things, as the Washington Post reported, "activities ranging from spying on Iran's nuclear program to supporting rebel groups opposed to the country's ruling clerics...."

Arch neo-conservative Kenneth Timmerman spilled the beans on activities of the other arm of US meddling overseas, the obscenely mis-named National Endowment for Democracy, in a piece written one day before the election, stating curiously that "there's the talk of a 'green revolution' in Tehran." Interesting. I wonder where that "talk" was coming from. Timmerman did not appear to be writing from Iran.

Timmerman went on to write, with admirable candor and honesty, that:

"The National Endowment for Democracy has spent millions of dollars during the past decade promoting 'color' revolutions in places such as Ukraine and Serbia, training political workers in modern communications and organizational techniques.

"Some of that money appears to have made it into the hands of pro-Mousavi groups, who have ties to non-governmental organizations outside Iran that the National Endowment for Democracy funds."

Yes, you say, but what does a blow-hard propagandist like Timmerman know about such things? Well, he should know! His very spooky Foundation for Democracy in Iran has its own snout deep in the trough of NED's "open covert actions" against the Iranian government.

How does the "Foundation for Democracy in Iran" seek to "promote democracy" in Iran with our tax dollars? Foundation co-founder Joshua Muravchik gives us a hint in his subtly-titled LA Times piece, "Bomb Iran."

Frankly, what I find more disturbing than the fact that the US government continues meddling in this new magical era of Obama is how many in the United States continue to be taken in by these events color-coordinated from afar. Pundits have turned their websites green in "solidarity" with this "green revolution." Self-described "libertarians" have thrown all critical thinking aside to embrace their inner green. As if hoping, somehow, that this time it will all be true. That the "people power" really is on the march. That it is a binary world where there are evil incumbents — the old guard — oppressing thrusting "reformers" who are Twittering away toward the bright tomorrow of a world where everyone wants to be just like us! Democracy!

At times like these, I turn to the great Matt Taibbi, who has written the best piece of all time on how the US has morphed into the USSR:

"Modern observers look back at the early Soviet days and wonder how it is that people could possibly have believed those fantastic tales they read about in the state papers–the lurid descriptions of fascist terrorists and wreckers who conspired to poison reservoirs and turn up rails and put broken glass in sausage in the most faraway, seemingly irrelevant places in Siberia and the far north. The answer probably is that they wanted to believe them. Because that was what was in their hearts. It wasn't a lie that was being put over on them. It came from them."

And on it goes...

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S'tim što im TO u Iranu neće proći...

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Sine,moram da te podsetim n ono što je rekao Vuk Branković na Kneževoj večeri kada u ssrpski velikaši hvlili pred Knezom šta će sutra da urade Turcima na Kosovu.Rekao je :"No,to još bumo vidjeli.!