Is Twitter a Tool for US Covert “Black” Operations to Achieve Regime Change in Iran?

Posted June 22nd, 2009 by Anton Molander - (Permalink)

What is really happening in Iran? The official version is that the Iranians are revolting against election fraud. It is repeated constantly on the news. There is talk about how the truth about of these events has been pieced together through reports on social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter in a wave of Iranian citizen journalism — a fantastic example of how these new networks can serve as tools for truth and democracy.

Do we really know this to be true? Aren’t they even better tools for the spreading of rumors and disinformation?

If you look closer you will find no real proof of a large-scale election fraud. Instead, there is hard proof in the form of polls conducted just prior to the election, showing Ahmadinejad had a very substantial lead over his main opponent Mousavi. 1

Ahmadinejad has been portrayed as a vicious enemy of the United States for a long time. The opponent, Mousavi, is favored by the United States. In a country like Iran, where the United States appears to be deeply hated, you would expect it to be very difficult for a candidate favored by the US to win an election.

There is a multitude of reasons for why the US is not very popular in Iran.

In 1953, the United States played a significant role in orchestrating the overthrow of Iran’s popular prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The Eisenhower administration believed its actions were justified for strategic reasons, but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran’s political development and it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.— Madeline Albright, 2000

The democratically elected US-critical Mohammed Mossadegh was overthrown and put in jail for three years, and later died during his house arrest. Instead of the popular Mossadegh, the Iranian people had to suffer under a torturing US puppet for years. Instead of democracy — dictatorship. 2

This rings a bell. It rings several bells actually. We know that President George W Bush recently gave the approval to launch covert “black” operations to achieve regime change in Iran. There are very few reasons for the current administration to scrap those plans, so you would expect them be in place. 3 The recent events in Iran reek of foreign intelligence agency involvement. It as if they are taken directly from CIA instruction manual for when and how to orchestrate a coup.

A CIA RECIPY FOR A COUP

What is the CIA master blueprint for these kinds of operations? There are a number of CIA led coups since 1952 that give us an idea. A good example of how the CIA go about these things is the recent failed coup against Hugo Chavez in Venezuela in 2002: 4

You form alliances with the right interests, bribe media, use established propaganda radio stations to organize and incite protests. You organize demonstrations that you portray as peaceful, even if they are not. If the police do not fire upon your demonstrators, you place a few snipers on the rooftops and shoot a number of your own demonstrators through the head and then you blame the government. Not a nice thing to do, but effective.

Back to Iran and recent events:

There have been reports of plain-clothes snipers firing on protesters in Iran.
Voice of America and the BBC appears to be guiding protests in Iran. 5
There are signs that indicate that the demonstrations are orchestrated by western interests. Demonstrators even carry signs written in English: “Where is My Vote?”
Mousavi, in a strange move, announced himself the winner already on the night of the election.
Already a few weeks before the vote, the Mousavi camp started to say that the election is going to be rigged.
Before the election, Rafsanjani threatened to start a social volcano if Moussavi wasn’t declared a winner.
Rafsanjani’s wife said people should pour into the streets if Moussavi didn’t win.
Moussavi’s wife publicly talked about fraud directly after casting her vote.
Color-coded revolts and the use of modern forms of communications are a sign of involvement of the National Endowment for Democracy, known for interference in foreign regimes that threaten the interests of the United States or certain commercial interests. NED was set up to continue the CIA’s legacy of interference and coups. 6
If NED is using Twitter as a tool for destabilizing Iran, this would explain why the US State Department recently asked Twitter not to shut down services for a scheduled update. 7

OIL AGAIN

Oil was one of the reasons for the last US-lead coup in Iran, in 1953. Now it looks like Ahmadinejad made the same mistake as Hugo Chavez, suggesting less dependence on foreign investments in the oil industry, instead promising to put the income of this industry at the peoples disposal.

There are all kinds of other reasons for the US/NED/CIA to destabilize Iran or to promote another war in a the region, and they have been running a media campaign for a long time to prepare for this, portraying Iran as very active sponsor of terrorism. The US have also claimed that Iran is supporting the Iraqi insurgency and that they are responsible for a large number of deaths of American soldiers in Iraq. It is very hard to judge the truthfulness of these claims, but Iran does put out a lot of rhetoric that on the surface seem to substantiate them. We know they applauded the murder of Anwar Sadat and supported the Fatwah against Salman Rusdie until 1998, but there is no real reliable evidence of the training of terrorists in Iranian camps or that they have aided the Iraqi insurgency. The US claims that Iraqi officials have evidence of Iranian weapons used in Iraq but this evidence seems to have evaporated. Iraqi officials say they have no such evidence. 8 Iran and Iraq have lately established closer connections, and Iran has cooperated in efforts to block any influx of weapons over the border.

A picture circulating on Twitter, supposedly showing a huge protest rally. In reality this is from a pre-election rally in Naghshe Jahan Square, Ishafan. Compare this with the second picture here. BBC published another fraudulent image.

This is a war of information. It would be foolish to trust anything that is not 100% verifiable. Speculations in the media and State Department statements mean nothing. Twitter and Facebook are perfect channels for disinformation. Twitter is a rumor-mill. This post cannot be trusted. What is verifiable is the history of US involvement in the middle east, and it is not a pretty picture.

I don’t think the election was stolen, Ahmadinejad probably won it. With the high voter turnout, it could even be called a more fair election than what has been experienced in most western democracies in later years. If an oppressive regime is taking baby steps towards democracy and freedom of speech, perhaps it would be better to accept the results and wait for the democratic process to work – real lasting change might come in the next election. Channeling the disappointment of the losing side into riots and bloodshed, hiring thugs to stir up violence in an intelligence operation run by USA and Britain, if that is what is happening, is such a badly timed irresponsible strategy that words cannot begin to describe it.

BARACK OBAMA

If the unrest in Iran in part is organized by the CIA, NED, and MI5, this would transform the perception of President Obamas Nowruz message to Iran from a promising step forward towards reconciliation and real dialog into a deceitful effort to manipulate the election in favor of Mousavi and a tremendous insult to the Iranian people and their leaders.

If the right-wing hawks and commercial interests again manage to turn an opportunity for democracy and dialog into oppression and polarization, this time under an US administration that has raised hopes for a change in the foreign policies of old, there is little hope for anything but a continuation of conflict and terrorism for a number of decades.

Why the enormous discrepancy between words and action? Does the left hand know what the right hand is doing? Barack Obama’s connections with right-wing hawks imply that he knows this perfectly well.

Rarely have such high hopes for change been so thoroughly shredded.

One Response to: “Is Twitter a Tool for US Covert “Black” Operations to Achieve Regime Change in Iran?”

Travis, Ancient Wisdom (is a link) responds:
Posted: June 22nd, 2009 at 17:15 →

“Iran” The question is who is creating this madness, Who is behind Twitter?

“The Israelites have ravaged this land (Palestine) through plunder and murder, they have killed their friends with whom they had drunk wine, and they have deceived and misled their fellow believers of the Jewish cult, who are truly not Israelites but merely believers in a cult.

Thus the Israelites betrayed their own friends and murdered them because of their greed, but it shall likewise be done to them by the rightful owners of this land whom they have deprived of their rights and subjugated since ancient times.” - The Talmud of Jmmanuel, the gospel of The Christ manifestation on earth that the Pharisees do not wish for us to read.

Next question; why is this madness being allowed? Is it about greed or power? Or is it part of a perfect plan to restore the service-to-others orientation within the soul of humanity?

If we do not read to understand material outside of the control matrix, we then have nothing to stand on but more of our own speculations based on the disinformation created by the controlled medias, such as Twitter.

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Is Twitter a Tool for US Covert “Black” Operations to Achieve Regime Change in Iran?