Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated "Color Revolution?"

Is This the Culmination of Two Years of Destabilization?

by Paul Craig Roberts

A number of commentators have expressed their idealistic belief in the purity of Mousavi, Montazeri, and the westernized youth of Terhan. The CIA destabilization plan, announced two years ago (see below) has somehow not contaminated unfolding events.

The claim is made that Ahmadinejad stole the election, because the outcome was declared too soon after the polls closed for all the votes to have been counted. However, Mousavi declared his victory several hours before the polls closed. This is classic CIA destabilization designed to discredit a contrary outcome. It forces an early declaration of the vote. The longer the time interval between the preemptive declaration of victory and the release of the vote tally, the longer Mousavi has to create the impression that the authorities are using the time to fix the vote. It is amazing that people don’t see through this trick.

As for the grand ayatollah Montazeri’s charge that the election was stolen, he was the initial choice to succeed Khomeini, but lost out to the current Supreme Leader. He sees in the protests an opportunity to settle the score with Khamenei. Montazeri has the incentive to challenge the election whether or not he is being manipulated by the CIA, which has a successful history of manipulating disgruntled politicians.

There is a power struggle among the ayatollahs. Many are aligned against Ahmadinejad because he accuses them of corruption, thus playing to the Iranian countryside where Iranians believe the ayatollahs' lifestyles indicate an excess of power and money. In my opinion, Ahmadinejad's attack on the ayatollahs is opportunistic. However, it does make it odd for his American detractors to say he is a conservative reactionary lined up with the ayatollahs.

Commentators are "explaining" the Iran elections based on their own illusions, delusions, emotions, and vested interests. Whether or not the poll results predicting Ahmadinejad's win are sound, there is, so far, no evidence beyond surmise that the election was stolen. However, there are credible reports that the CIA has been working for two years to destabilize the Iranian government.

On May 23, 2007, Brian Ross and Richard Esposito reported on ABC News: “The CIA has received secret presidential approval to mount a covert “black” operation to destabilize the Iranian government, current and former officials in the intelligence community tell ABC News.”

On May 27, 2007, the London Telegraph independently reported: “Mr. Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilize, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs.”

A few days previously, the Telegraph reported on May 16, 2007, that Bush administration neocon warmonger 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.”

On June 29, 2008, Seymour Hersh reported in the New Yorker: “Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.”

The protests in Tehran no doubt have many sincere participants. The protests also have the hallmarks of the CIA orchestrated protests in Georgia and Ukraine. It requires total blindness not to see this.

Daniel McAdams has made some telling points. For example, neoconservative Kenneth Timmerman wrote the day before the election that “there’s talk of a ‘green revolution’ in Tehran.” How would Timmerman know that unless it was an orchestrated plan? Why would there be a ‘green revolution’ prepared prior to the vote, especially if Mousavi and his supporters were as confident of victory as they claim? This looks like definite evidence that the US is involved in the election protests.

Timmerman goes on to write that “the National Endowment for Democracy has spent millions of dollars promoting ‘color’ revolutions . . . Some of that money appears to have made it into the hands of pro-Mousavi groups, who have ties to non-governmental organizations outside Iran that the National Endowment for Democracy funds.” Timmerman’s own neocon Foundation for Democracy is “a private, non-profit organization established in 1995 with grants from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), to promote democracy and internationally-recognized standards of human rights in Iran.”

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

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Comment by Jeff on June 22, 2009 at 7:13am
You aren't wrong and they aren't wrong. We're both warning you not to have great expectations here based on previous and consistent historical events. That's the unfortunate truth. The US is a brutal country and most US citizens have little knowledge of our true history but we have raped, pillaged and plundered almost every country on the planet.

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Comment by TheLasersShadow on June 22, 2009 at 4:30am
There is nothing any human can do lay down give up go home we all are useless ??? I don't get this thought process. The CIA might have been involved in getting the initial protests going but what would you have the Iranian people do? Give up because the CIA is involved? I really don't understand this view point that its bad for them to protest and try to change their country.

No one whos talking to me right now is making sense just telling me I'm wrong. That anything the Iranians do is futile or counter productive? Explain what you think they should do.
Comment by Marklar on June 22, 2009 at 3:18am
The CIA and it's efforts can only bring about a deeper tyranny - this has been the case in every CIA sponsored coup and is unlikely to change. If the Iranian people want a freedom based revolution that's great but they had better shed the CIA backing at the first opportunity or daily terrorism, starvation and death squads will be all the freedom they will ever know.

If $350,000,000 dollars funneled into Iran destabilization plus Mousavi's ties to both the CIA via Iran-Contra and as his ties to terrorist organizations are not enough to convince you that this is a CIA driven coupe likely to bring nothing but misery to the Iranian people then I assume nothing will.

Overthrowing democracies to install brutal dictators that are more easily controlled by the US corporatocracy may be the CIA's job but it doesn't make it right.
Comment by TheLasersShadow on June 21, 2009 at 11:30pm
When you look at this the way it should be seen you have to say #1. yes the CIA is very capable of doing this and has major history doing this type of thing #2 Its in the USA's interest to have this revolution.

I haven't been presented any evidence as of right now that the current situation has been orchestrated by the CIA and even if this was a total fabricated event by the CIA for once I'm with them on this idea it benefits the people to throw off the tyranny.

This thinking of it must be a planed situation is nuts because they called it a "green revolution" I was apart of the Ron Paul Revolution and we didn't riot... there was no plan to do so at anytime. This isn't a valid argument, but I do acknowledge the fact that the CIA might be involved, as is their job and they should be.

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