The U.S. Regime-Change Recipe for Iran

[ The Solar charts I compute as part of my Astrology forecasts on the
20th of June had Washington square to the conjuction of Jupiter and
Neptune and interestingly enough has Theran opposite to the same
conjunction. I am not sure what that means but I suspect that a great
many truths will be found as lies......and as an afterthought the economy
will get much worse. But on reading Dr Roberts essay it seems there is
another level at work and I suspect that means that somehow all the evil
the US / Israel did to harm Iran will in ways I have not yet imagined
back fire and hurt them as much if not more.

Jack



Have the Neocons and Israel Won?
The U.S. Regime-Change Recipe for Iran
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

President Obama called on the Iranian government to allow protesters to
control the streets in Tehran. Would Obama or any US president allow
protesters to control the streets in Washington, D.C.?

There was more objective evidence that George W. Bush stole his two
elections than there is at this time of election theft in Iran. But there
was no orchestrated media campaign to discredit the US government.

On May 16, 2007, the London Telegraph reported that Bush regime official
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."

We are now witnessing in Tehran US "attempts to foment a popular revolution"
in the guise of another CIA orchestrated "color revolution." It is possible
that splits among the mullahs themselves brought about by their rival
ambitions will aid and abet what the Telegraph (May 27, 2007) reported were
"CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to
destabilize, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs." It
is certainly a fact that the secularized youth of Tehran have played into
the CIA's hands.

The Mousavi protests have set up Iran either for a US puppet government or
for a military strike. The mullahs are in a lose-lose situation. Even if
the mullahs hold together and suppress the protests, the legitimacy of the
Iranian government in the eyes of the outside world has been damaged.
Obama's diplomatic approach is over before it started. The neocons and
Israel have won.

The US intervention and the orchestrated disinformation pumped out by the
western media are so transparent that it is impossible to believe than any
informed person or government is taken in. One cannot avoid the conclusion
that the West wants the 1978 Iranian Revolution overthrown and intends to
use deception or violence to achieve that goal.

It has become increasingly difficult to believe that facts and truth
motivate the western news media. For the record, I would like to point out
a few of the most obvious oversights, to use an euphemism, in the Iran
reporting.

According to a wide variety of news sources (for example, London Telegraph,
Yahoo News, The Globe and Mail, Asbarez.com, Politico), "Before the
polling closed Mr. Mousavi declared himself 'definitely the winner' based on
'all indications from all over Iran.' He alleged widespread voting
irregularities without giving specifics and hinted he was ready to challenge
the final results." Other news sources, which might not have been aware
that the polls were kept open several hours beyond normal closing time in
order to accommodate the turnout, reported that Mousavi made his victory
claim the minute polls closed.

Mousavi's premature claim of victory before polling was over or votes
counted is clearly a preemptive move, the purpose of which is to discredit
any other outcome. There is no other reason to make such a claim.

In Iran's system, election fraud has no purpose, because a small select
group of ruling mullahs select the candidates who are put on the ballot. If
they don't like an aspiring candidate, they simply don't put him on the
ballot.

When the liberal reformer Khatami ran for president, he won with 70 per cent
of the vote and served from 1997-2005. If the mullahs didn't defraud Khatami
of his win, it seems unlikely they would defraud an establishment figure
like Mousavi, who was foreign minister in the most conservative government,
and is backed by another establishment figure, Rafsanjani.

As Mousavi was seen as Rafsanjani's man, why is it "unbelievable" that
Ahmadinejad defeated Mousavi by the same margin that he defeated Rafsanjani
in the previous election?

Neoconservative Kenneth Timmerman let the cat out of the bag that there was
an orchestrated "color revolution" in the works. Before the election,
Timmerman wrote: "there's talk of a 'green revolution' in Tehran." Why
would protests be organized prior to a vote and announcement of the outcome?
Organized protests waiting in the wings are not spontaneous responses to a
stolen election.

Timmerman's organization, Foundation for Democracy, is funded by the
National Endowment for Democracy (NED) for the explicit purpose of promoting
democracy in Iran. According to Timmerman, NED money was funneled to
"pro-Mousavi groups who have ties to non-governmental organizations outside
Iran that the National Endowment for Democracy funds."

The US media has studiously ignored all of these highly suggestive facts.
The media is not reporting or providing objective analysis. It is engaged
in a propagandistic onslaught against the Iranian government.

We know that the US funds terrorist organizations inside Iran that are
responsible for bombings and other violent acts. It is likely that these
terrorist organizations are responsible for the burning buses and other acts
of violence that have occurred during the demonstrations in Tehran.

A writer on pakalert.wordpress.com says that he was intrigued by the sudden
appearance of tens of thousands of Twitter allegations that Ahmadinejad
stole the Iranian election. He investigated, he says, and he reports that
each of the new highly active accounts were created on Saturday, June 13th.
"IranElection" is their most popular keyword. He narrowed the spammers to
the most persistent: @StopAhmadi,
@IranRiggedElect, and @Change_For_Iran. He researched further and found
that On June 14 the Jerusalem Post already had an article on the new
twitter. He concludes that the new Twitter sites are propaganda operations.

One wonders why the youth of the world, who do not protest stolen elections
elsewhere, are so obsessed with Iran.

The unexamined question is Mousavi and his motives. Why would Mousavi
unleash demonstrations that are obviously being used by a hostile West to
discredit the government of the Iranian Revolution that overthrew the US
puppet government? Are these the actions of a "moderate"? Or are these the
actions of a disgruntled man who kept his disaffection from his colleagues
in order to gain the opportunity to discredit the regime with street
protests? Is Mousavi being manipulated by organizations funded with US
government money?

John Bolton laid out the US strategy. First we try to destabilize the
regime. Failing that, we strike them militarily. As this strategy unfolds,
Iranians will pay in lost independence or in blood for the naiveness of its
secularized youth and for the mistake the mullahs made in trusting Mousavi.

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