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Iran: Much Ado About Nothing?

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Iran: Much Ado About Nothing?
By William Blum

So why the big international fuss over the Iranian election and street protests? There's only one answer. The obvious one. The announced winner, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is a Washington ODE, an Officially Designated Enemy, for not sufficiently respecting the Empire and its Israeli partner-in-crime.
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6 comments // Iran: Much Ado About Nothing?

  • maof4brats
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      maof4brats [removed]  
    • I think the Israelies want him there so there is a reason to attack and then America can help them. Let me tell you that if God forbids happen I will show allengence to Iran. I have many family members there. I have done this during the vietnam and Iraq war and I do it again,nobody not even my family wouldn't expect anything else from me. If there is a draft, my boys are gone from here.

    • 2 years ago
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  • Eleganza
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      Eleganza  
    • High , you clearly have am allegiance to islam and the nations that are founded on it's principles, your continuous posts defending and praising them stand witness to that...this is America and of course you are free to express whatever you wish...but pal, I have to tell you something, you are as likely to persuade us to adopt their point of view as they are to adopt ours...
      A little suggestion, think about this old adage.." When in Rome, do as the Romans",,capice?

    • 2 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  
    • American Lies ?

      In recent years, the United States has been patrolling the waters surrounding Iran with warships, halting Iranian ships to check for arms shipments to Hamas or for other illegal reasons, financing and "educating" Iranian dissidents, using Iranian groups to carry out terrorist attacks inside Iran, kidnaping Iranian diplomats in Iraq, kidnaping Iranian military personnel in Iran and taking them to Iraq, continually spying and recruiting within Iran, manipulating Iran's currency and international financial transactions, and imposing various economic and political sanctions against the country.4

      "I've made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not at all interfering in Iran's affairs," said US President Barack Obama with a straight face on June 23. "Some in the Iranian government [have been] accusing the United States and others outside of Iran of instigating protests over the elections. These accusations are patently false and absurd."5

      "Never believe anything until it's officially denied," British writer Claud Cockburn famously said.

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    • 2 years ago
  • Highr0ller
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      Highr0ller [removed]  
    • The classic "outside agitators" can not only foment dissent through propaganda, adding to already existing dissent, but they can serve to mobilize the public to strongly demonstrate against the government. In 1953, when the CIA overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, they paid people to agitate in front of Mossadegh's residence and elsewhere and engage in acts of violence; some pretended to be supporters of Mossadegh while engaging in anti-religious actions. And it worked, remarkably well.1 Since the end of World War II, the United States has seriously intervened in some 30 elections around the world, adding a new twist this time, twittering. The State Department asked Twitter to postpone a scheduled maintenance shutdown of its service to keep information flowing from inside Iran, helping to mobilize protesters.2 The New York Times reported: "An article published by the Web site True/Slant highlighted some of the biggest errors on Twitter that were quickly repeated and amplified by bloggers: that three million protested in Tehran last weekend (more like a few hundred thousand); that the opposition candidate Mir Hussein Mousavi was under house arrest (he was being watched); that the president of the election monitoring committee declared the election invalid last Saturday (not so)."

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    • 2 years ago
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