If only the CIA were that good, and that patriotic. In any case, this is just more finger-pointing and conspiracy paranoia, emanating from the fact that the mullahs can never admit, probably to themselves much less to anyone else, that anyone in Iran actually opposes their rule for reasons of his or her own. That would involve indicting Islam itself, and Islam is, as always everywhere, above criticism and critical reflection.
“Iran blames CIA for deadly protests, White House denies having any part,” by Nasser Karimi and Jon Gambrell, Associated Press, January 4, 2018:
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran on Thursday directly blamed a CIA official for a week of protests calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic, as the strength of the demonstrations was uncertain with fewer reports of rallies.
The Trump administration has denied having any hand in the protests, and the CIA declined to comment.
It wasn’t immediately clear if the drop in reports of new demonstrations challenging Iran’s theocratic government meant the protests were subsiding or that the authorities’ blocking of social media apps has managed to stop protesters from offering new images of rallies.
The demonstrations, which began Dec. 28 over the country’s struggling economy, have been the largest in Iran since the disputed 2009 presidential election. At least 21 people have been killed and hundreds arrested.
The CIA accusation came from Iran’s prosecutor general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, in a story by the state-run IRNA news agency. Montazeri alleged the official headed an operation that received intelligence support from Israel and financing from Saudi Arabia — Iran’s two biggest regional adversaries.
Montazeri said the CIA official sought help from exiled Iranian groups and prepared for various scenarios that included protesting the high cost of living and financial demands on the elderly.
The plot focused on fomenting dissent from the countryside to shake Tehran, Montazeri said. He alleged the CIA planned to turn the protest into an “armed” insurrection by mid-February, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The Associated Press is not publishing identifying details about the CIA official because the official may be an agent of its clandestine service.
A senior Trump administration official on Wednesday disputed the notion that the U.S. played any role in the protests, saying it had not expected them to occur.
“The protests were entirely spontaneously generated,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters….
Voytek Gagalka says
Yeah, as I remember well, communist governments in Eastern Block ALWAYS blamed “imperialistic” USA in general and the CIA in particular for ANY appraising, disturbances, riots, food shortages, ANYTHING, for their own failures and crimes against the people. Iranian regime is not an exception to that rule but its latest manifestation.
Darryl Kerney says
yes Voytek,
and for years now Venezuela has been blaming the US for its own inevitable socialist catastrophe.
such fools always blame others for their own failures and the inhumanity of their idiotic systems and policies that cannot bring anything but the poverty and oppression they always do.
terry says
Communism and Socialism always produce these effects; tyrants are but oligarchs determined to rule and lord over as many as they are able.
Darryl Kerney says
indeed Terry,
i have extensively studied socialism/communism,
ie Collectivism,
and the inescapable conclusion is that it is POISON for Freedom and Prosperity.
and clearly so is islamic sharia law.
gravenimage says
True, Voytek
elee says
1979
StellaSaidSo says
In the religion of perpetual infancy nothing is EVER the mullahs’ fault.
underbed cat says
Highly doubt that the all of the CIA would promote freedom protests,. such as Brennen,..if they still listen to the dictates of the word purge. It depends on how you define freedom. Freedom from man made law to bring sharia like the Iranian islamic revolution or freedom from living under sharia totally against sharia. There maybe two protests going on….one more dangerous for the protesters than the other due to the intolerance of sharia law of Islam.
Thomas Kimball says
I blame it on pope Francis and all the terrible things he says about Islam and the Iranian regime! Works for me,sure as hell doesn’t have anything to do with the altruistic Iranian government!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes, how dare infidels have any influence on the internal politics of muslim nations.
It can only be the other way around.
Walter Sieruk says
That’s a lame old worn out ploy that the mullahs are using in trying to shift the blame to something or someone else for the uprising of the Iranian people against this Islamic tyranny which is so very brutal and cruel to the people of Iran. Those corrupt, and wicked mullahs and their like-minded Muslim villains of are in power in this heinously oppressive Islamic regime are the one responsible for the Iranian people turning against them. The gall of the mullahs to even attempt to shift the blame by telling a falsehood that is a very transparent cover-up for the tyrannical evil is a affront to every intelligent person.
Sarah says
Its become a laughable trope these days, hasn’t it?
Oooh the big bad CIA was involved!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m pretty confident the CIA has a marvelous time, with its fingers in many different pies, all around the world. But the CIA is not omnipotent. I think this Mullah has watched Salt or the Bourne trilogy. He’s seen Angelina Jolie running around, wrecking the joint, or Matt Damon going f@cking mental across Europe and seems to think that its some kind of informational documentary.
Dumb@ss.
underbed cat says
Good one Sarah.
DHazard says
Arabs are fond of their conspiracy theories. which is one of several strategies Muslims employ to preemptively silence criticism of Islam. It’s just blaming other people instead of taking responsibility but also makes the “victim” even more “special”. It’s a way of saying that you, as a Muslim, are not only the target of hate speech but also of a much grander scheme against all Muslims by the secret services of other countries usually working with Israel. At no point in the lives of these people does anyone in charge of their education, including parents, actually sit down and tell them how stupid they are for believing bizarre claims that are always devoid of factual evidence or unmanipulated evidence. Pretty much any average imam, mullah, sheik or average Muhammad type Muslim can make any claim they want and, as long as it paints non-Muslims and their governments in a bad light, never be called on it.
Islam turns average people into murderers and moderately intelligent people into morons..
Wherever it dominates it brings with it, discrimination, racism, rage, despair, lies and death.
Muslims living there will inevitably begin to resent all the other people leading happy, prosperous without Shariah to guide them. But instead of learning, they double down and decide that their misery is caused because non-Muslims exist, and never even give a moment’s thought as to how their own ideology and absence of personal responsibility are the real culprits. It’s so much easier just to blame the CIA and Mossad then it is to engage in serious introspection, especially when talking about your introspection is considered to be the “crime” of blasphemy. If the burden of living under the anti-life rules of Islam becomes too much then you can always become a refugee and migrate to a country that will reward you for your ignorance and personal failures. And you don’t even have to stop hating those countries or their native citizens. Just take the free stuff and keep on whining, or take it a step further and kill the people who helped you.
LeftisruiningCanada says
+1
Not only are they so awesome that all the most prosperous nations in the world have to conspire against them, but they are smart enough to figure out all the conspiracies too!
Islam really is full of the best of mankind.
mortimer says
Blah! Blah! They don’t believe their own hot, steaming taqiyya and neither do the Persians.
gravenimage says
🙂
gravenimage says
Iran blames CIA for freedom protests
…………………
Well, of course they do. How could anyone actually object to living in a Muslim sh*t hole?