ISSUE #119: Analyzing the Iran protests amid the Western media smokescreen.
Organic revolution or color revolution?
Iran’s Guidance Patrol, commonly known as the “morality police”, which is tasked with enforcing the country’s strict dress code on women, arrested a 22-year-old girl named as Mahsa Amini as she was not wearing the head scarf outside which is mandatory in the Islamic Republic. She fell into coma in the police custody due to reasons currently unknown and was immediately admitted to the hospital, where she died three days later.
Her mysterious death sparked national outcry as people started gathering in the streets demanding an end to the country’s hijab law and accountability for those who allegedly killed her. Videos of the Iranian women throwing their head scarfs into fire and cutting their hairs went viral on the social media. It’s understandable for people to get desperate when they get the sense that somebody else is telling them how to live their lives, what kind of clothes to wear, and this was the sentiment among the public during the initial phases of the protests.
The mainstream consensus in the West is that it’s an organic revolution led by the brave women of Iran against a tyrannical government, but when you look a bit closer you begin to feel that something else is brewing in the name of protests that the Western media is reluctant to report on.
It can be argued that the protests started organically but one thing that should make anyone suspicious is how quickly the public attitude started transforming from peacefully asking for the justice for Mohasa Amini into more like anti-Islam or anti-government which lead to violent riots and clashes between the demonstrators and the security forces.
The rioters started burning down public places, such as mosques and the statue of Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei. As the people were being killed and the public property was being destroyed, the Iranian government started cracking down on the protesters and the service of Internet was shut down across the country to re-install order.
Although there was no evidence, the Iranian police was accused of beating and torturing her by the online bozos, and as the rumors were rising, the police released a CCTV footage of her collapsing due to natural causes while being in custody.
Al Mayadeen reported that “According to the Director General of Forensic Medicine in Tehran, there were no signs of skull fracture, bleeding, or rupture of Amini's internal organs, refuting the media reports which stated that the journalist was brutally beaten while being arrested, which led to her death.”
The propaganda around her death was spreading on the Internet, and so was the violence in the country.
Seeing the peaceful protesters suddenly turn into violent rioters led the Iranian authorities and many around the world to believe that there are some foreign elements involved in the protests to destabilize Iran as a sovereign country by overthrowing its Islamic government.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani accused the US, EU, and other countries of meddling in Iran’s affairs and advised them to avoid “opportunistic behavior” and using the issue of human rights for political gain.
One thing that shouldn’t be too difficult for anyone to identify is that the Western governments and the media don’t give a damn about the women rights, for if they did, there would be a similar outrage among the Western media organizations when the French senate passed a bill outlawing the wearing of hijab for the minors in the public places, or when the Palestinian women get constantly humiliated by the occupying Israeli forces.
The US inserted itself into the matter almost instantly by sanctioning Iran’s morality police as if it was initially planned, and no one in the same US condemned, let alone sanctioned, the Israeli forces when they deliberately killed journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May of this year. Speaking at the UN General Assembly president Joe Biden expressed solidarity with the uprisings, stating the US “stands with the brave citizens and women of Iran who right now are demonstrating to secure their basic rights,” as he turned a blind eye to the human rights violations in Yemen carried out by its ally Saudi Arabia.
This kind of hypocrisy is expected when the US in particular, and the West in general lectures foreign governments on the issue of human rights and it should make you question the whatever narrative they are trying to promote about whichever government.
Hell, if the US cared about Iranians, it would have lifted sanctions placed on the country, which are modern day equivalent of the seize warfare and literally kill people.
What is it about?
If this is your question, then most likely the US-led regime change is the answer. If there is one country on the planet that has mastered the art of overthrowing foreign governments that don’t bow down to the imperial interests of the US empire, it’s the US itself.
But you don’t have to trust me on this even a bit because historical evidence shows that the US was preparing for this moment for a long time.
The year was 2009 and the US government- funded think tank Brookings Institute published a 156 pages long report by the name “Which path to Persia?: Options for a new American strategy toward Iran” which focused entirely on how the US could overthrow the dissident Iranian government and install its puppet regime which would prioritize the interests of the American corporations and plutocrats.
It’s not a coincidence that one of the options it put forward discussed what’s happening in Iran today and we’re going to discuss what the report said in that chapter:
“Because the Iranian regime is widely disliked by many Iranians, the most obvious and palatable method of bringing about its demise would be to help foster a popular revolution along the lines of the Velvet revolutions that toppled many Communist governments in Eastern Europe beginning in 1989.”
“For many proponents of regime change it seems self-evident that the US should encourage the Iranian people to take power in their own name, and that this would be the most legitimate method of regime change. After all, what Iranian or foreigner could object to helping the Iranian people fulfill their own desires?”
In this paragraph, the think tank tried to pretend as if it cares about the Iranian people, but the true intentions of the US behind pushing for a regime change were revealed later in the chapter.
“The true objective of this policy option is to overthrow the clerical regime in Tehran and see it replaced, hopefully, by the one whose views would be more compatible with the US interests in the region. The policy does, in its own way, seek a change in Iranian behavior, but by eliminating the government that is responsible for that behavior without the use of American military forces.”
That’s what it’s all about. They planned to use Iranians as cannon fodders to push for the US interests in the region by instigating and promoting such violent riots. The US gets to achieve what it wants without having the American boots and its blood on the Iranian soil.
The chapter continued by saying that the US can help bring a regime change by “funding and helping organize the domestic rivals of the regime,” which would create an “alternative leadership to seize power.”
One of the ways the US helps anti-government rioters organize is through social media giants like Twitter, Facebook, etc.
When the anti-government violent rioters start taking to the streets, the governments usually respond by shutting down the Internet to disrupt the riots, and in order to help the rioters transcend those difficulties, the US-based social media giants and the Internet service providers like Elon Musk’s Starlink puts forward their helping hand which helps the US interests more than the people of the country.
“The outreach [ regarding the increase in funding of the tech companies] is part of a US government programme dedicated to internet freedom that supports dissident pressure inside Iran and complements America’s policy of “maximum pressure” over the regime.,” read a 2020 FT article.
That’s why they were so quick in responding to the Iran shutting down the Internet during the most recent riots.
They try to frame it as if it’s free speech vs. censorship, when in reality it’s about Iran trying to control its information space to restore order vs. the US trying to hijack it to maintain chaos.
“The US should turn to Iranian opposition groups that already exist, that already have demonstrated a desire to fight the regime…. The US could work with Iraq-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its military wing the Mujahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), helping the thousands of its members who, under Saddam Hussein’s regime, were armed and had conducted guerilla and terrorist operations against the clerical regime.”
Without a doubt, the MEK is a terrorist organization and that’s why the US government put it on the list of foreign terrorist organization in 1997.
The 2009 report suggested that “in order to work more closely with the group at least in an overt manner, Washington would need to remove it from the list of foreign terrorist organizations.”
That’s exactly what happened in 2012:
Do you see how the US has been implementing the suggestions made in a 2009 report?
On September 23rd, Iranian security forces foiled an attempt to smuggle weapons near the border with Azerbaijan. Iranian Border Corps officers arrested two individuals confiscating advanced night vision goggles and military attire along with hand grenades, remote controlled explosive devices, handguns, and rifles from two cars in the Khoda Afarin region.
The organizations which are well-known for carrying out regime change operations around the world such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which the Grayzone described as “America’s meddling machine”, and George Soro’s Open Society Foundation are backing the rioters in Iran.
Democracy Digest, a news outlet for the NED, openly called for the overthrow of the Iranian government in one of its articles.
“I’m leading this movement,” said an exiled Iranian Masih Alinejad who has been living in NY since 2014.
According to the New Yorker, “Since 2014, she has worked a simple formula to devastating effect. She has called on women inside Iran to record themselves defying the hijab rule and to send her the evidence.”
But what the Western media knowingly hides from the public is that an Iranian expat who has been promoting regime change in Iran was contracted to the CIA propaganda outlet Voice of America in 2016.
If conflict of interest is a thing, anyone taking her seriously is an idiot.
Her acting sucks.
Along with the violent riots, Iran has also been witnessing pro-government crowd protesting against the riots, and of course, it’s missing on the Western mainstream media channels. These people know that everytime the US intervened in any country’s internal affairs by giving people the false hopes of democracy and freedom, that country ended up being in worse conditions. Look at Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yugoslavia, etc. before and after the US meddling.
When you zoom out and observe the changes happening on the geopolitical level, you’d see that the world is transforming from the US-dominated unipolar world into a multipolar world where no one nation will rule the world. At the front line of such transformation stands Russia and China - the two countries that pose no threat to the US except its hegemony.
Iran is contributing to that shift by forming close ties with both countries and it has recently signed on to joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the BRICS alliance.
The US will no longer be able to bully other nations and exploit them if this transition meets its end. So, it’s doing everything it can to crackdown on those who are carrying this transformation.
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