Trump vroeg Iran toestemming tot bombarderen onbelangrijke doelen, dit in actie: red mijn gezicht

Posted on July 11, 2019June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Het is
Trump werkelijk geheel en al in de psychopathische vrouwonvriendelijke rotbol geslagen, de knurft zou Iran, nadat het een VS drone uit de
lucht haalde in eigen luchtruim, om een paar plekken te mogen bombarderen, plekken die van geen
belang zijn, aldus Elijah Magnier….. (Magnier is een echte Midden-Oosten deskundige en veteraan oorlogscorrespondent) Trump wilde dit om z’n gezicht te redden, zo stelt Magnier, een mening die de Britse ex-ambassadeur in Washington, Kim Darroch*, deelt.

Uiteraard
heeft Iran categorisch geweigerd aan dit verzoek te voldoen en heeft gesteld dat zelfs wanneer de VS een strand van Iran zou aanvallen dit als een
oorlogsdaad wordt gezien, waarop Iran terug zal slaan…….

Het
volgende artikel over het meer dan belachelijke voorstel van Trump werd eerder gepubliceerd op Moon of Alabama en werd door mij overgenomen van Information Clearing House en werd
geschreven door Moon of Alabama:

“Pretty
Please” – Trump Asked Iran To Allow Him To Bomb It

By
Moon Of Alabama

July
08, 2019 “Information
Clearing House” – On June 20 Iran shot down a U.S. spy
drone. U.S. President Trump decided not to retaliate. The White House
and the media claimed that Trump had ordered a strike on Iran but
pulled it back at the last minute. We said that this was
likely bullshit:

The
whole storyline of “a strike was ordered but Trump held back and
saved the day” might well be fake.
…
A strike in
retaliation for the downed drone may have never been on the table. An
alternative interpretation is that the U.S. sought agreement for a
symbolic ‘strike’ from Iran. It would hit some empty desert place to
allow Trump to save face. Iran would have disagreed with that plan.

The
British ambassador to the U.S., who’s briefings to
London leaked yesterday,
agrees with that take:

[Sir
Kim Darroch] questioned Trump’s recent claim that he aborted a
missile strike on Iran because it would have caused a predicted 150
casualties, saying it ‘doesn’t stand up’.

‘It’s
more likely that he
was never fully on board and
that he was worried about how this apparent reversal of his 2016
campaign promises would look come 2020′ – at the next Presidential
election.

Elijah
Magnier reported that
Trump had asked Iran to allow him to strike back, but was rebuffed:

According
to well-informed sources, Iran rejected a proposal by US intelligence
– made via a third party – that Trump be allowed to bomb one, two
or three clear objectives, to be chosen by Iran, so that both
countries could appear to come out as winners and Trump could save
face. Iran categorically rejected the offer and sent its reply: even
an attack against an empty sandy beach in Iran would trigger a
missile launch against US objectives in the Gulf.

An
Iranian general yesterday confirmed Magnier’s
take (also here):

A senior Iranian general has revealed that Washington, through diplomatic channels, recently asked Tehran to allow it to conduct a small-scale operation in the Iranian airspace in order to save its face following the IRGC’s shoot-down of a US spy drone.

Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, the Head of Iran’s Civil Defence Organization, said Iran vehemently rejected the US request, saying that it will respond to any act of aggression.

“The
Islamic Republic of Iran responded that it views any operation as a
war and will give a crushing response to it. You may initiate a war
but this is Iran which will finish it,” he said Sunday.

The
idea that the U.S. would ask Iran to allow it to bomb some targets
without hitting back sounds crazy.

Dear
Mr. Rouhani,

could
you please name me three targets in your country that I am allowed to
bomb?

It
is urgent as I need to look tough on Iran.

Pretty
please!

Donald
Trump

But
this is the Trump White House and the only thing Trump really seems
to care for is his own rating.

Trump
wants a new nuclear deal with Iran. One with his signature, not
Obama’s, on it.

Trump’s
nuking of a deal while pressing for a new one shows that he has not
the slightest idea how Iran, or any other independent country, reacts
to such pressure. There will be no talks unless Trump rejoins the
deal and lifts the sanctions:

The
US sent over 60 diplomatic delegations to Iran as mediators to hold
talks with Iran but the leader of the Islamic Revolution rejected the
US calls for talks and Iran began to scale back its commitments under
the JCPOA.

The
Trump administration seems to have genuinely thought that Iran would
not react to its ever tightening sanctions by exceeding the technical
limits of the nuclear deal, which it now
does.
Back in November Secretary of State Pompeo opinedthat
Iran would not do this:

Asked
what the administration would do if the Iranians restart their
nuclear program, Pompeo replied, “We’re confident that Iranians
will not make that decision.”

That
was of course nonsensical. Why was Iran expected to stick to a deal
it does not benefit from? Such wishful
thinking has
no base in reality:

A
U.S. official familiar with the issue told POLITICO on Sunday that
the Trump team hopes for three things: that Europe imposes some
sanctions on Iran to keep it from further violating the deal; that a
financial mechanism the Europeans have set up to help Iran obtain
non-sanctioned goods succeeds; and that recent U.S. military
maneuvers in the Middle East are enough to deter Iran from further
military escalation.

“Fundamentally,
we want them to stay in the deal,” the U.S. official said, when
asked why the Trump administration wants the European financial
mechanism, known as INSTEX, to work. There’s no desire to engage in
an all-out war with Iran or see it build a nuclear weapon, the
official said.

Europe
is for now unlikely to
impose sanctions on Iran for a deal that Trump broke. If it does, the
whole JCPOA deal is off. INSTEX is a joke. It ‘allows’ Iran to barter
only something other than oil, and only against humanitarian goods
which are not under sanctions. It is worse than the 1990s oil for
food program that caused major economic destruction in Iraq. Iran
does not fear U.S. military might. U.S. military assets in the Middle
East do not deter. They are targets. Iran knows that Trump wants to
avoid a war.

The
little thought out U.S. policy gives Iran escalation dominance. It
can and will increase its nuclear activities, as it announced, every
60 days. Tankers and other interests of its enemies around the Gulf
will receive more damage. Trump will come under ever increasing
pressure. Iran’s actions, like the sabotage of some ships near
Fujairah, already show results:

[D]emand
for ship fuel at Fujairah, the United Arab Emirates coastal shipping
hub close to the Strait, has waned as some tankers stay away, traders
involved in the regional market said.

The
British ambassador expects
no change in
the confused White House policy on Iran:

One
memo, sent by Sir Kim on June 22, refers to ‘incoherent, chaotic’
US-Iran policy, adding: ‘Its unlikely that US policy on Iran is going
to become more coherent any time soon. This is a divided
Administration’.

But
the British policy on Iran is no better. On one side it is a
signatory of the nuclear deal with Iran and claims that it wants to
uphold it. On the other side it follows orders from the White House
and hijacks
a tanker that
carries Iranian oil which it claims is going to Syria. Britain has
absolutely no
legal basis to
do such. Even the former Swedish prime minister and rumored CIA asset
Carl Bildt finds that behavior too crude:

Carl
Bildt @carlbildt – 9:24
PM – 7 Jul 2019

The
legalities of the UK seizure of a tanker heading for Syria with oil
from Iran intrigues me. One refers to EU sanctions against Syria, but
Iran is not a member of EU. And EU as a principle doesn’t impose
its sanctions on others. That’s what the US does.

Iran’s
Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi called the
British act “robbery” and said that the ship was not
heading to Syria. Its real destination is said
to be “a
new southern European customer” for Iranian oil, probably Italy.
Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier-General Amir Hatami promised to
respond to the British act of piracy.

As
usual the response will be asymmetrical and will come at a time and
place of Iran’s choosing.

This
article was originally published by “MOA”
–

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* Deze Darroch heeft afgelopen week zijn ontslag ingediend bij de Britse regering, nadat hij Trump volkomen terecht o.a. incompetent, chaotisch en onzeker noemde, waarop Trump in een Twittertirade o.a. stelde dat Darroch niet langer welkom is in het Witte Huis.

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‘VS chanteert de wereld: geen olie import uit Iran, anders……..‘

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‘VS verwijt Iran nucleaire chantage, chantage waar de VS zichzelf schuldig aan maakt‘

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‘VS liegt schaamteloos om het westen verder op te zetten tegen Iran……..‘

‘VS bewandelt dezelfde weg richting Iran, als die voor de illegale oorlog tegen Irak in 2003, aldus één van de verantwoordelijken voor die oorlog……..‘

‘Netanyahu vergelijkt Iran met nazi-Duitsland en stelt dat Iran een bedreiging is voor de wereldvrede….. ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Washington uit op oorlog met Iran……‘

‘Oliemaatschappijen weigeren n.a.v. VS sancties de jet van Iraanse minister af te tanken‘

‘Israël bezig met voorbereiding op meerdere fronten oorlog…….. (met hulp van de VS‘

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‘Saoedi-Arabië dreigt Iran aan te vallen voor vanuit Jemen afgevuurde ‘raketten’ op Saoedische ‘doelen……….’‘

‘VS rechter gelast Iran miljarden te betalen aan de families van 911 slachtosoennieten zijnffers…..‘ (terwijl 9/11 niet werd uitgevoerd noch werd geregisseerd door Iran, waar ‘de daders’ ook nog eens soennieten zouden zijn en Iran hoofdzakelijk een sjiitisch land is)

‘Iran moet hangen en Iran-deal moet van tafel……. Israël speelt wolf in schaapskleren‘

‘VS ambtenaren: Israël zoekt steun VS voor oorlog tegen Iran…….‘

‘VS, de werelddictator: Iran-deal is van nul en generlei waarde (op basis van leugens en achterklap)…….‘

‘Iran houdt zich aan de nucleaire deal dit in tegenstelling tot de VS……..‘

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Iran, de protesten en wat de media je niet vertellen………

Posted on January 3, 2018June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

De
protesten in Iran worden met grote graagte door de westerse media en
politici uitgedragen als een welkome opstand tegen de
fundamentalistische heersers, zonder rekening te houden met de
huidige gematigde regering. Iran is fout punt uit!

Door
deze eenzijdige reactie van het westen, krijgen juist de
fundamentalistische heersers op de achtergrond de wind in de zeilen,
immers het westen is allesbehalve een vriend van Iran of haar
burgers. De roep om ingrijpen in Iran klinkt al jaren keihard, niet
bepaald in de laatste plaats door de VS en het grootste deel van de
NAVO leden. Daar deed de handreiking van Obama weinig aan af, een
handreiking die intussen al weer is teruggedraaid door de Trump
administratie……

De VS heeft trouwens al veel langer gewelddadige activisten in Iran gesteund, dit om de regering ten val te brengen (waarin ook Nederland een rol speelde) en reken maar dat de CIA zelf ook actief is in Iran……..

De
huidige demonstranten zijn bepaald niet vreedzaam, zoals dit wel het geval was tijdens het grootste deel van de ‘Groene Revolutie’ in 2009, ze zijn gewapend en brengen grote vernielingen aan, zoals het in brand steken van gebouwen…… De aantallen
demonstranten zijn een stuk minder groot dan men aanneemt in het
westen. Politiebureaus en wapendepots zijn door demonstranten
overvallen om zo aan meer wapens te komen….

Zoals gezegd: de kans is weer levensgroot dat een deel van de demonstranten in Iran is
gekocht door de VS, die een reputatie hebben op het gebied van
opstanden organiseren, opstanden die dan moeten uitlopen in het afzetten van
een VS onwelgevallige regering……. Voorbeelden van het organiseren van dit soort opstanden door de VS (CIA), opstanden die in een coup moesten uitmonden en wat meestal lukt: Libië, Oekraïne, Syrië (in dit land mislukte de coup tegen Assad) en voor Zuid-Amerika Honduras, Brazilië en Venezuela (let wel: dit zijn de laatst bekende voorbeelden). In het volgende artikel kan u lezen dat Rex Tillerson, de VS minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, e.e.a. toegeeft wat betreft Iran, zo bleek uit een uitgelekt memorandum…..

Ook in het volgende artikel (van Darius Shahtahmasebi) o.a. de stelling dat de conservatieve krachten in Iran baat hebben bij deze protesten om zo de gematigde president Rohani onder druk te zetten…… Dat de VS zelfs deze krachten zou steunen is niets nieuws, als de VS een regering ten val wil brengen, schijnt alles geoorloofd te zijn (zelfs samenwerking met terreurgroepen als IS en Al Qaida…)……

Everything
the Media Isn’t Telling You About the Protests Rocking Iran Right
Now

January
2, 2018 at 12:53 pm

Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — Over
the past week, Iran has been hit with series
of protests,
reportedly in relation to the country’s current economic climate.
Where this particular narrative is headed is of major concern because
of the current atmosphere in the Middle East and its deadly dynamics.

Approximately
two weeks ago, the truth about U.S. foreign policy was revealed in a
leaked memo that purportedly coached Secretary of State Rex Tillerson
on how to use human rights as a pretense to attack America’s
adversaries

“Allies
should be treated differently — and better — than adversaries.
Otherwise, we end up with more adversaries, and fewer
allies,” stated the
memo, which was written by Tillerson’s influential policy aide,
Brian Hook. Approximately two weeks ago, the truth
about U.S. foreign policy was revealed in a leaked memo that
purportedly coached Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on how to use
human rights as a pretense to attack America’s adversaries

As
part of the U.S. foreign policy playbook, in June 2017, Tillerson
himself confirmed that official U.S. policy towards Iran included
a regime
change strategy.
He said:

“We
continually review the merits both from the standpoint of diplomatic
but also international consequences of designating the Iranian
Revolutionary Guard in its entirety as a terrorist organization. As
you know, we have designated the Quds [Force]. Our policy towards
Iran is to push back on this hegemony, contain their ability to
develop obviously nuclear weapons, and to work toward
support of those elements inside
of Iran that would lead to a peaceful
transition of that government. Those
elements are there, certainly as we know.” [emphasis
added]

Around
the same time, the Trump administration appointed Michael
D’Andrea, the CIA’s “Dark Prince,” to head the CIA’s “Iran
operations.” Given the CIA overthrew Iran’s
democratically elected government in 1953, relying
almost completely on
one die-hard agent to do so, this program’s trajectory should be
clear.

Barely
days after D’Andrea’s appointment, Iran was
coincidentally rocked by
an ISIS-inspired attack. Republican
congressman Rep.
Dana Rohrabacher suggested the attack was “a good thing.”

In
December, CIA director Mike Pompeo admitted he
sent a letter to General Qassem Soleimani, a stalwart
leader of
the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), saying he will hold
Iran and Soleimani “accountable” for any attacks on Washington’s
interests in Iraq. This is the same IRGC commander who announced Iran
would begin supporting Palestinian forces in the Gaza strip after
Trump’s infamous Jerusalem debacle.

Unsurprisingly,
U.S. intelligence agencies reportedly just
gave the green light to Israel to assassinate this commander, a clear
act of war.

The
timing of the current protests has coincided
with reports that
the U.S. and Israel formulated a joint plan to specifically target
Iran. This coincides with Nikki Haley’s grandiose anti-Iran
performance, which has been full of deceit
and hawkish propaganda.
Further, Israel hopes these protests will be an opportunity to take
the Iranian government’s attention away from Israel, according to
a top
intelligence expert.

Even
without Iranians taking to the streets, it is clear that the Trump
administration and its regional allies have been planning to take the
fight to Iran.

Discerning
the Truth About the Recent Protests

What
should we make of the recent protests sweeping the country?

Even
according to the mainstream media, the protests are not exactly what
they seem. Iran’s president acknowledged that
Iranians have a right to peaceful protest and that the protesters are
not necessarily guided by foreign elements as “a
number of them are the people who came to the streets because of
their (economic) problems.”

“Criticism
is different [from] violence and destroying public property,” he
also reportedly said.

According
to Haaretz,
the protests were initially riled up by Iran’s conservative
hard-line opposition to
put pressure on the current Iranian president, who is considered a
moderate. The protesters are not necessarily the
democracy-seeking students the media has portrayed them as.

The
mainstream media further acknowledged that the Iranian authorities
are actively trying to avoid a massive crackdown. From Slate:

“It
seems clear that Iranian leaders are trying to avoid a massive
crackdown of the surprisingly
large protests
for now, worried that any huge repression could lead to a crisis
similar to what took place in 2009.”

As
Reuters explained:

“Iranian
moderates are appealing for caution even though some hardliners are
calling for an iron fist to crush one of the gravest threats to
Iran’s clerical leaders, who came to power in the 1979 Islamic
revolution.

“Those
divisions are making it hard for the authorities to defuse
spontaneous demonstration, especially as there are no apparent
protest leaders who can be identified and rounded up.”

The
media is still treating the videos of anti-government protesters
shouting “Death to the dictator!” as “unconfirmed,”
meaning they haven’t been properly verified. Or consider this
recent Reuters report,
which stated the following:

“Mohsen
Nasj Hamadani, deputy security chief in Tehran province, said about
50 people had rallied in a square but most had left after being asked
to by police, while a few who refused were ‘temporarily detained,’
the ILNA news agency reported.”

Carl
Bildt, former Swedish prime minister and co-chair for the
European Council on Foreign Relations quickly took
to Twitter to
state that there were “[r]eports
of signals of international satellite TV networks jammed in large
cities of Iran. Would be sign of regime fear of today’s protests
spreading.” However,
the only reports that can be found online of jammed international TV
networks are from at least five years prior to the current unrest.
Not surprisingly, Wikileaks cables suggested Bildt
served as a U.S. government informant when he was just 27 years old.

In
other words, it would pay to be overly meticulous when following the
reports on this intricate topic.

To
be clear, the protests are not nearly as concerned with Iran’s
foreign policy as much as some media
outlets are claiming they
are. As the Atlantic explained:

“Unlike
what President Trump suggests, the protests aren’t about Iran’s
broader behaviour and foreign policy. And they’re not about the
regime’s support for terrorism…their main concern lies in the
price of day-to-day items and goods, such as poultry and eggs, as
well as unemployment and access to services.”

The death
toll in
the protests and the authorities’ inevitable response quickly grew
to at least 12 — a damning statistic for the Iranian government.
However, whether the following allegations are true or not,
the mainstream
media has
acknowledged that deaths occurred as a result of confrontation,
specifically, the claim that armed protesters began storming military
bases and police stations. Other government compounds were stormed,
as well, with protesters
lighting fires in
government offices.

These
are no longer students who are complaining about the price of eggs or
the right to dress in modern clothing (in a remarkable coincidence,
just before the protests erupted, Tehran’s police stated they
would no longer arrest women for violating the Islamic dress code).
Overrunning military bases and police stations with arms doesn’t
make you a protester, it makes you a militant. As
journalist Ben Norton wrote on
his Facebook page, “If
‘armed protesters’ (quite a phrase) tried to overrun military
bases and police stations in the US, it would declare martial law.”

Things
may not be so dire in Iran to require an armed uprising just yet
(just take a look at the thousands
of pro-government supporters who
have rallied the streets of Iran’s major cities). It would be
disingenuous to pay sole attention to the anti-government protesters
while ignoring the thousands of those who do support their
government. This is not to say that Iranians do not have genuine
cause to take to the streets and protest, but it certainly gives good
cause to the international community that perhaps — just this once
— it would do well to mind its own business.

Even
according to some of the biggest corporate media outlets, there is
likely foul play if people are taking arms against the Iranian
government in the current circumstances. As the New
York Magazine acknowledged:

“As The
Guardian and New
York Times point
out, small
protests focused on economic issues are normal in Iran, but
politically charged protests across the country where people feel
safe chanting ‘death to the dictator’ — a knock on Supreme
Leader Ali Khamenei — are not.
The protests will undoubtedly be an important test for the relatively
moderate Rouhani, who has not been spared as a subject of chanting at
the rallies; in his remarks on Sunday, Rouhani was clearly trying to
walk a delicate line. There
is also apparently suspicion among members of his administration and
other reformers about what forces may be behind the
unrest.” [emphasis
added]

The
West’s Hypocrisy is Staggering

Despite
this, Donald Trump was quick to take to Twitter
to condemn Iran
and voice his support for the protesters. State Department
spokeswoman Heather Nauert also said in a statement that
the U.S. urged “all
nations to publicly support the Iranian people and their demands for
basic rights and an end to corruption.”

This
is the same administration that banned the Iranian people from
merely visiting the
United States.

Even
Hillary Clinton voiced
her support for
the Iranian people currently protesting against the government.
Apparently, Clinton has forgotten about the video of her where she
broke into hysterical
laughter while
talking about the U.S.’ desire to launch a war against Iran, which
would undoubtedly kill hundreds of thousands of ordinary Iranians.

We
would also do well to remember that after Donald Trump was elected
U.S. president at the end of 2016, America was inundated with
anti-Trump protests. Los Angeles police arrested at
least 462 people at the time. America’s NATO ally
Turkey arrested,
detained, suspended, and
fired tens
of thousands of
teachers, lawyers, military officers, and court officials (with
at least 249 deaths in total) – and yet Donald Trump has
only appeared
to praise the
Turkish government’s crackdown.

America’s
Middle Eastern darling, Israel, has also been rocked by thousands
of protesters participating
in anti-corruption marches specifically targeting Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel also infamously locked
up a young teenage girl who
was brave enough to slap an Israeli soldier who had invaded her home.

For
the sake of argument, let’s all agree that Iran’s protests are
genuine. That fact alone isn’t grounds for an illegal regime
change operation
given the international standards the rest of the world has been
operating under for years. Allowing Trump to take the protests for a
ride to serve his own ludicrous foreign policy agenda also undermines
the intellect and history of Iran and its people, as
the Atlantic explains:

“Iranians
aren’t ‘finally’ waking up and ‘getting wise,’ as Trump
suggests. Instead, Iran has a dynamic and active civil society, which
has created and embraced opportunities for reformation and progress
for decades…And many Iranians have paid for these ideals with their
lives.”

Don’t
buy into the hypocrisy. Donald Trump does not care about ordinary
Iranians, and he certainly doesn’t care about Iran’s access to
democracy. If Donald Trump cared about the Iranian people’s
economic concerns, the simple solution would be to stop unilaterally
slamming the country with economic
sanctions on a routine basis.

In
the words of the Atlantic, Donald Trump “barely
understands the country he’s repeatedly demonized.”

We’ve
been here before.
The groundwork
is being laid for
a direct confrontation with Iran, and we are naïve at best if we
decide to take the bait. America’s footprint in the Middle East was
never rooted in any concerns for human rights, and believe it or not,
America’s interests and desires are always
rooted in money.

The
last thing Iran needs right now in order to move towards a more
democratic and economically viable country is the direct interference
of the United States, a country that has reportedly killed
over one million Muslims since
the 9/11 attacks.

If
the Iranians want to exact change; they can and will do it
themselves. As stated by
the Tudeh Party of Iran, an Iranian communist party formed in 1941:

“It
should be noted that under the critical conditions of the current
dangerous regional tensions, the regional reaction – supported by
the Trump administration in the US and the right-wing government of
Netanyahu in Israel – is seeking to distinctly impact the
developments in our country and to replace the current reactionary
regime with another reactionary regime.

“The
support of these forces…for the Iranian monarchists and those
political groups whose agenda is to cooperate with the most
reactionary regimes of the region and to persuade the European states
to impose sanctions on Iran’s economy – thereby exacerbating the
misery for the destitute and disadvantaged people of our country –
and to encourage foreign states to interfere militarily in Iran,
leaves no room whatsoever for any optimism regarding the future
designs of such ‘opposition’…We should not let the past repeat
itself whereby the heroic struggle of the nation for freedom,
democracy and social justice is hijacked by a bunch of reactionary
opportunities who do not believe in the people’s rights or
democratic freedoms.”

Correction:
A previous version of this article stated the Trump administration
was behind the arrests of protesters in Los Angeles after his
election in November 2016. It has been corrected to reflect that
while police arrested protesters, they did not do so at the direction
of the Trump administration as he had not yet taken office.
Protesters at his inauguration, however, were arrested and have gone
on to face
charges this
year.

Op-ed
/ Creative
Commons / Anti-Media / Report
a typo

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Zie ook:

‘Rutte
3 heeft begrip voor de moord op Soleimani en hoopt dat de VS zich niet
terugtrekt uit Irak, een soeverein land >> westerse
propaganda……‘

‘KLM vliegt na ‘risicoanalyse’ niet meer in luchtruim van Iran en Irak‘

‘Oorlog tegen Iran: VS heeft lak aan democratie >> Irak wordt gedreigd met sancties en ‘herstelbetaling’‘

‘VS moord op Qasem Soleimani is een oorlogsverklaring aan adres van Iran…….‘

‘Iran stelt terecht dat het VS leger een terroristische organisatie is‘

‘Iraakse regering pissig over VS beschuldiging dat Iraanse bewind corrupt is‘

‘Trump volgt het scenario van deep state: oorlog met Iran ‘is onvermijdelijk….’‘

‘Rudy Giuliani viert het sterven van Iraniërs en stelt desondanks dat het Iraanse bewind door de VS geweldloos zal ondergaan…….‘

‘Jeremy Bowen (BBC correspondent) vindt Iran een gevaar voor het Midden-Oosten‘

‘Iraanse protesten gezien door de propaganda bril van de VS en de rest van het westen……..‘

‘Protesten Iran opgezet door de VS en Israël‘

‘Iraanse protesten allesbehalve compleet spontaan (zoals VS ambassadeur bij de VN Haley durfde te stellen…)….‘

‘Rudy Giuliani viert het sterven van Iraniërs en stelt desondanks dat het Iraanse bewind door de VS geweldloos zal ondergaan…….‘

‘US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya, Syria‘

‘Nikki Haley (VS ambassadeur in de VN) bedreigt sjiitisch Iran met militair ingrijpen……‘ (klik ook op de links onder dat bericht)

‘VS liegt schaamteloos om het westen verder op te zetten tegen Iran……..‘

‘Reagan middels manipulaties tot president gekozen; waarom de gijzelaars in Iran moesten wachten op hun vrijheid….‘

‘Saoedi-Arabië beschuldigt Houthi’s en Iran van raketbeschieting en noemt dit een oorlogsverklaring…………‘

‘CIA 70 jaar: 70 jaar moorden, martelen, coups plegen, nazi’s beschermen, media manipulatie enz. enz………‘

‘Israelische officier met de koperen fluit waarschuwt voor Iraanse expansie…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Iran: moderne oorlogspropaganda ingezet door VS tegen ‘ongehoorzaam land…’‘

‘Iran houdt zich aan nucleair verdrag, ondanks VS agressie‘

en zie:

Warmonger Called Out on Live TV After Pretending to Care About Iranian Protesters

Protesten Iran opgezet door de VS en Israël

Posted on January 2, 2018June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Moon
of Alabama bracht afgelopen vrijdag een bericht over de protesten in
Iraanse steden tegen de slechte economische omstandigheden. Volgens
de schrijver van het artikel is het duidelijk dat deze protesten
onderdeel uitmaken van een door de VS en Israël opgezette operatie
die in Iran tot een verandering van regime moet leiden. Gezien de enorme
kritiek, bol van leugens van deze 2 landen, overigens in samenspraak en innig overleg met de reli-fascistische dictatuur van
Saoedi-Arabië, is de kans bijzonder groot dat deze schrijver gelijk
heeft…….

Vergeet
niet dat dit de beproefde manier van werken is, die de VS al
meermaals heeft gebruikt, al is het succes ‘niet altijd even groot’,
neem Syrië……. Overigens een methode die veelal wordt
voorafgegaan door een economische oorlogsvoering van de VS middels een boycot en sancties tegen het
door de oorlogshitsers aangewezen doel, zie: Libië en Venezuela…… Daarmee krijg je uiteindelijk de mensen wel op
straat. Neem het gebrek aan medicijnen in Venezuela, deze is puur en
alleen aan de VS te danken en aan haar vazalstaten die aan Venezuela
grenzen…….

Hetzelfde geldt voor levensmiddelen: een paar grote supermarktketens in Venezuela zijn in handen van VS ondernemingen, deze stopten al onder druk van ‘vredesduif’ Obama met het bevoorraden van de winkels……..

Terug naar Iran: de
schrijver van het artikel hieronder, ‘b’ stelt dat de protesten terecht zijn vanwege de zoals
deze het noemt (neo-) liberale koers die de regering Rohani vaart.
Wat deze b vergeet is de volkomen onterechte economische boycot tegen Iran, ingegeven door de VS, een boycot die z’n sporen nog steeds
dwars door Iran trekt….. Deze (VS) boycot werd eerder deels opgeheven onder Obama (n.a.v. de nucleaire deal met Iran), maar is intussen al weer ingesteld
door dezelfde VS (uiteraard onder de junta van het 666 beest Trump), de VS ofwel de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde…..

De
gematigde krachten in Iran hebben de laatste verkiezingen gewonnen en
het zou ons in het westen sieren, deze krachten de kans te geven om
langzaam veranderingen door te voeren. Als dit te snel gaat, grijpen
de fundamentalistische krachten de macht en moet ‘het spel’ van voren
af aan opnieuw gespeeld worden, zoals we eerder al gezien hebben, bijvoorbeeld in 2009 met de zogenaamde ‘Groene Revolutie….’ Logisch dus, dat Iraniërs die
verandering willen, allesbehalve geholpen zijn met een snelle omwenteling……

De
zogenaamde ‘arabische lente’, was dan ook in landen als Libië en
Syrië, een door de VS gecreëerde ‘lente…’ (nou zeg maar gerust: een zware, ijskoude winter…)

Een
herhaling van wat de VS in 1953 heeft geflikt, door de Iraanse
(destijds nog Perzisch genoemd) democratisch gekozen regering Mossadegh af te zetten
en een VS vriendelijke dictator in het zadel zetten is al zeker geen
oplossing*. Het is dan ook meer dan duidelijk, ook gezien de smerige
oorlog van het soennitische Saoedi-Arabië (met de volledige steun en
deels medewerking van de VS en GB) tegen de sjiitische moslims in Jemen,
dat de strijd van de VS, Israël en Saoedi-Arabië tegen Iran, vooral
een strijd is tegen de sjiieten, waar de VS haar eigen belangen in
het Midden-Oosten wil verstevigen, na het debacle in Syrie, waar de
VS een blauwtje liep met haar (terreur-) tactiek……

De
VS tactiek is het opzetten van een opstand tegen een regering, zoals
in het geval van Syrië, tegen het bewind Assad, een zaak waar de VS al
vanaf 2006 mee bezig was. De VS en Saoedi-Arabië hebben zelfs een
heel groot deel van de ‘gematigde rebellen’ (psychopathische
moordenaars en verkrachters) bewapend en vervoert richting Syrie,
zoals IS en Al Qaida leden vanuit Libie, dat onder VS terreur
(gesteund door de meeste NAVO landen en de NAVO zelf) meer dan 50
jaar in tijd werd teruggebombardeerd en werd veranderd in één grote
chaos, waar nu zelfs openlijk slavenmarkten worden gehouden…..
Libië, het eens rijkste land van Afrika is door ingrijpen van de VS
en een deel van het andere westen, veranderd in één van de armste
landen in Afrika…….

Intussen hebben zich al schotenwisselingen voorgedaan tussen de door het westen genoemde ‘vreedzame demonstranten’ en de politie…… Deze ‘vreedzame demonstranten’ zouden één of meerdere legerdepots hebben geplunderd……. In het nieuws van 12.00 u. op WDR 5 werd gemeld dat (‘vreedzame’, toevoeging Ap) demonstranten politiebureaus overvallen om zo aan meer wapens te komen…..

Iran
– Regime Change Agents Hijack Economic Protests

December
29, 2017

Yesterday
and today saw some small protests in Iran. They are probably the
first stage of a large “regime change” operation run by the
U.S. and Israel with the help of Iranian terrorist group.

Earlier
this month the White House and the Zionist prepared for
a new assault on Iran:

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, a senior U.S. official confirmed to Haaretz.

Another
report about the meeting quotes Israeli
officials on the result:

“[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.“

This is
probably a result of the above meeting:

Hundreds
took to the streets of Iran’s second largest city of Mashad on
Thursday to protest over high prices, shouting slogans against the
government.

Videos
posted on social media showed demonstrators in Mashad in northwest
Iran, one of the holiest places in Shia Islam, chanting “death to
(President Hassan) Rouhani” and “death to the dictator”.

The
semi-official ILNA news agency and social media reported
demonstrations in other cities in Razavi Khorasan Province, including
Neyshabour and Kashmar.

A video of
that protest in Mashad showed some 50 people chanting slogans with
more bystander just milling around.

Protests
against the (neo-) liberal economic policies of the Rohani government
in Iran are justified. Official unemployment in Iran is above 12% and
there is hardly any economic growth. The people in the streets are
not the only ones who are dissatisfied with this:

Iran’s
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has repeatedly criticized
the government’s economic record, said on Wednesday that the nation
was struggling with “high prices, inflation and recession”, and
asked officials to resolve the problems with determination.

On
Thursday and today the slogans of some protesters turned the call for
economic relief into a call for regime change.

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:

Carl
Bildt‏ @carlbildt – 9:38
PM – 28 Dec 2017 from
Rome, Lazio

Reports
of signals of international satellite TV networks jammed in large
cities of Iran. Would be sign of regime fear of today’s protests
spreading.

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.

The
only response to Bildt’s tweet was from one Riyad
Swed‏ – @SwedRiyad who
posted several videos of protests with one of them showing burning
police cars.**

I
am not sure the video is genuine. The account has some unusual
attributes (active since September 2016, 655 tweets but only 32
followers?).

Just
yesterday one
lecture at
the CCC “hacker” congress was about the British GHCQ Secret
Service and its sock-puppet accounts on Twitter and Facebook. These
are used for acquiring human intelligence and for running “regime
change” operations. Page 14-18 of the slides (11:20 min) cite
from obtained GCHQ papers which lists Iran as one of the targets. The
speaker specifically notes a GCHQ account “@2009Iranfree”
which was used in generating the protests in Iran after the
reelection of then President Ahmedinejad.

Today,
Friday and the weekly day off in Iran, several more protest took
place in other cities. A Reuters reportfrom
today:

About
300 demonstrators gathered in Kermanshah after what Fars called a
“call by the anti-revolution” and
shouted “Political prisoners should be freed” and “Freedom or
death”, while destroying some public property. Fars did not name
any opposition groups.
…
Footage, which could not be
verified, showed protests in other cities including Sari and Rasht in
the north, Qom south of Tehran, and Hamadan in the west.

Mohsen
Nasj Hamadani, deputy security chief in Tehran province, said about
50 people had rallied in a Tehran square and most left after being
asked by police, but a few who refused were “temporarily detained”,
the ILNA news agency reported.

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 and people who hold deposits in
non-regulated, bankrupt financial institutions.
…
Alamolhoda,
the representative of Ayatollah Khamenei in northeastern Mashhad,
said a
few people had taken advantage of Thursday’s protests against
rising prices to chant slogans against Iran’s role in regional
conflicts.
…
“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 despite the MEK’s claim of Tens
of thousands of people chant “death to dictator”.
The MEK, or its “civilian” organization National Council of
Resistance of Iran , seem to be most involved in the current
protests. Its website is
currently filled with the protest issue with a total of ten reports
and its head figure issued a
supportive statement:

Mrs.
Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, saluted the
heroic people of Kermanshah and other cities who rose up today
chanting “death or freedom”, “death to Rouhani”, “death to
the dictator”, and “political prisoners must be freed”, and
protested against high prices, poverty and corruption.

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, and is the rise of
democracy, justice and popular sovereignty.

This
very early engagement of the MEK -its first
report was
published yesterday at 10:26 am- is extremely suspicious.

In
2012 it was reported that Israel had
used the
MEK terrorist organization to assassinate nuclear scientists in Iran:

On
Thursday, U.S. officials speaking to NBC news claimed that Mossad
agents were training members of the dissident terror group People’s
Mujahedin of Iran in order assassinate Iranian nuclear scientists,
adding that the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama was
aware of the operation, but had no direct link to them.

The
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.
…
[A] proponent of
“coerced democratization,” 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
MEK/NCRI noted that
Senator Tom Cotton, who will likely replace CIA chief Pompeo when
Pompeo moves to the State Department, issued a supportive statement
for the protests.

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” by “pro-democracy forces” in
Iran. 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. A group of Iranian 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.

If
this the “regime change” operation I presume, the protests
will soon get bigger. When the people need money a few thousand
dollars are enough to create a large crowd. Small groups will riot
while hiding within the larger protests of maybe genuinely concerned
people. The “western” media will engage with their usual
pseudo liberal humanism and concern trolling. When the police in Iran
tries to arrest those rioters who are raising havoc the media will
scream “brutality”. Some “martyr” will be created
and iconified. Rumors of censorship and suppression will be raised
(see Carl Bildt above), fake news will come from everywhere and
hundreds of sock puppet Twitter and Facebook accounts will suddenly
be “Iranian” and breathlessly report “from the scene”
of their Langley offices.

For
the Iranian politicians and police the issue is tricky. Economic
protests are clearly justified with even Khameni voicing support for
the issue. But rioting in the streets must be suppressed before it
further escalates and becomes uncontrollable. Weapons on the
protesters site firing in all directions may soon become a problem.
The Mossad and the MEK are not shy of killing random people.

But
the Islamic Republic in Iran has genuine support in large parts of
the society. There are big civil organizations that support the
government – not on every issue but in its general framework. Most
Iranian’s are proud nationalists and will be difficult to divide. If
this is indeed the “regime change” attempt I suspect, I
predict that it will fail.

Posted
by b on December 29, 2017 at 02:45 PM | Permalink

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* Hier tekst van Wikileaks over Mossadegh: ‘Mohammad Hedayat Mossadeq of Mossadegh was de premier van Iran van 1951 tot 1953. Zijn regering introduceerde een reeks progressieve sociale en politieke hervormingen zoals sociale zekerheid, huurbescherming en landhervormingen‘. Je ziet meteen waarom de VS destijds heeft ingegrepen, immers een regering die kiest voor het volk en niet voor (grote) bedrijven en welgestelden, is automatisch een vijand van de VS (althans als de president, premier of dictator niet een volgzame pion is van de VS, al zullen volgzame pionnen van de VS het wel uit het hoofd laten, bijvoorbeeld landhervormingen of nationalisaties door te voeren….)

** Hier volgt een video, die ik niet kan overnemen, zie de link naar het origineel.

Zie ook:

‘Groot-Brittannië saboteert de Iran deal en de belofte van de EU de VS sancties te compenseren: Iraanse olietanker werd op verzoek VS overvallen‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht, anders dan de hier getoonde)

‘De VS en niet Iran is een schurkenstaat‘

‘Iraakse regering pissig over VS beschuldiging dat Iraanse bewind corrupt is‘

‘VS, Saoedi-Arabië en Israël willen Iraanse bewind verdrijven met terreur, moord, sabotage en manipulatie van het nieuws…‘

‘Frankrijk beschermt Iran tegen de ‘politieagent’ van de wereld, de VS‘

‘The New Tyranny of the Dollar‘

‘VS vermoordt Iraniërs met sancties, EU doodstil…….‘

‘With Veiled Regime Change Threats, Trump and NeoCons Blasted for Exploiting Iran Protests‘

‘US Empire Is Running The Same Script With Iran That It Ran With Libya, Syria‘

‘Trump volgt het scenario van deep state: oorlog met Iran ‘is onvermijdelijk….’‘