Iran in the vortex: what's really happening - Eugene Doyle
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Iran in the vortex: what's really happening - Eugene Doyle
'Former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told Israeli army radio this week that Israel must be ready to act when the Iranian ‘regime’ is ready to fall.
“At this moment, when what matters most is the mass action on the ground, we need to stay in the background and steer things with an invisible hand," said Gallant, who is the subject of an ICC arrest warrant. Former CIA director and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted this week: “Happy New Year to every Iranian in the streets. Also to every Mossad agent walking beside them." '
'“Help is on the way,” Trump said on 12 January. How did that kind of ‘help’ go for Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan or so many other countries going back to the Guatemalan Silent Genocide or the Vietnam War? American ‘help’ resulted in the overthrow of the democratically-elected Mossadegh government and the installation of authoritarian rule under Shah Pahlavi in 1953. The West got their hands on the oil.'
'Alastair Crooke, a former high-ranking member of Britain’s MI6, and an expert on Islamist revolution, says Mujahedeen-e-Khalq fighters trained by the CIA in Albania, along with Kurdish fighters trained by the US in Syria, infiltrated Iran recently and played an important role in the violence. “We’ve had demonstrations periodically in Iran but these were much more violent.” He suggests the ploy was to provoke retaliatory regime violence which could act as an accelerant to further popular escalation.'
'Images of rallies around the Western world in support of the anti-government action inside Iran typically show three flags prominent in the protests – the Lion and Sun flag of the Pahlavi regime, the Israeli flag, and the US flag. This alliance between the monarchists, the Israelis and the Americans is concerning for many Iranians, including anti-government people like Aida Tavassoli. “It almost feels like Reza Pahlavi and his dear friends – the Israelis and Americans – are stealing our revolution,” Tavassoli says. She emphasises any change should come from civil society inside Iran not external actors. London-based Middle East Eye (MEE), with reporters on the ground, quoted one of the protesters, Sara: “We want regime change, but we do not want our country to be destroyed. And given Israel’s record, it would not be surprising if they tried to exploit this situation."'
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