Clinton renews military threat against Iran

by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite party Wed Jul 18, 2012 11:33

..nibbling away..

http://mwcnews.net/news/middle-east/20240-cyber-espiona...feedl

hope that brings it in

by opus diablos - the regressive hypocrite party Thu Jul 19, 2012 12:10

..as the sabre rattles and the fog-of-war pump hits the fanbase

Netanyahu had Iran framed for the Bulgarian bus atrocity while it was still burning..ace detective work there...maybe we should send him to Mauritius..

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=31940

slightly more measured consideration

by YASSAMIN ISSAPOUR Thu Jul 19, 2012 16:42

This article seems to confirm much of what Yassimen Mather writes about the need for the working class with the struggle against the Iranian regime .

Europe and the U.S. may be in grim economic straits, but the Islamic Republic of Iran is doing just fine—at least if Iran's leaders are to be believed. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has insisted relentlessly that his country's economy is healthy, while Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has christened the current Iranian calendar year as the "Year of Domestic Production and Support for Iranian Capital and Labor."

The truth, of course, is very different. Iran's economy faces rising inflation and a significant depreciation of the rial due to tightening international sanctions. Against this backdrop, it is only natural for Iran's leaders to seek to reassure distressed citizens. But after the failure of negotiations over its nuclear program in mid-June, Iran is now weathering a new round of U.S. and EU sanctions, which kicked in July 1.

Nobody knows for sure to what extent this pressure will be effective against Iran, a country tremendously rich in natural resources. With the planet's third largest oil reserves and second largest natural gas reserves, Iran's economic fortunes should be bright. Regime officials are positioning their country as a major energy hub for the Middle East, inking new deals in recent months with Syria, Iraq and Pakistan.

But it is already apparent that sanctions have had a real effect on Iran's economic health. Statistics issued by Iran's central bank show inflation at 21%, but with the cost of staple goods rising by leaps and bounds, the actual experience of inflation is bound to be graver. The price of bread increased by 40% in the month of June alone, causing a nationwide outcry. The price of chicken and vegetables increased by 3.7% and 10% in a period of just two weeks last month. Iranian households now have to pay on average half of their monthly salaries just to keep food on the table.

These trends also come at a political cost for the regime. Members of Iran's embattled working class could well breathe new life into Iran's moribund opposition. This force, colloquially known as the "Green Movement," coalesced in mid-2009 but was successfully beaten back in ensuing months by regime forces. Back then, the Green Movement lacked the support of Iran's working class, which is mostly comprised of government employees who strongly support the regime as their source of livelihood.

But today, government policies are leaving Iran's workers behind. In its most recent appraisal of state salaries, the Iranian government chose to raise wages for state employees by 15%, significantly less than the national rate of inflation.

Stepped-up oppression from the regime, or passivity on the part of antiregime forces, might conspire to keep the Greens fragmented and ineffective. But Western sanctions would claim their greatest success if they convince Iran's working class to join the Greens in unified opposition against the current government.
—Ms. Issapour is a researcher at the American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, D.C.

by lefty Thu Jul 19, 2012 17:46

Yassamine "issapoor" advocate for US imperialism.

The green movement was the first attempt to re-use the new Gene Sharp strategy after success in the balkans.

"The destabilization in Iran, of course, was drawn up by corporate-funded Brookings Institution, as articulated in its Which Path to Persia? report, with the actual mechanics of organizing the foreign-funded revolution subcontracted to organizations like US-funded CANVAS, NED and its subsidiaries.

All of this is shockingly spelled out in extreme detail within the pages of the corporate-financier funded Brooking Institution report, "Which Path to Perisa?" It is essential that every American, European, and Israeli read just how malicious, callus and eager the globalist elite are to trigger a catastrophic war with the Islamic Republic for the sole purpose of protecting Wall Street and London's hegemony throughout the Middle East."

Direct Link to "Which path to Persia" document (by brookings institute)

by HOPI Fri Jul 20, 2012 00:03

Agree with your analysis. The above post was likely published as a provocation on this thread.

by pat c Fri Jul 20, 2012 01:43

Ismail Salami writes on MI6 black ops in Iran. Full story at link.

Preposterously bizarre as it is, the head of MI6 foreign intelligence agency John Sawers made a rare appearance before Britain’s civil servants in London on Friday and warned that the Iranians are “determinedly going down a path to master all aspects of nuclear weapons; all the technologies they need,” and that they will by 2014 acquire a nuclear bomb.

Apart from his political fallacy concerning Iran nuclear energy program, he smugly owns up to the MI6 covert operations in Iran which the British government had denied for years. The superspy’s confession to MI6 covert operations in Iran comes at a time when a few weeks earlier, a book claims that the nuclear assassinations in Iran were orchestrated and carried out by Mossad agents.

There is a Persian fictional character innocently known as Uncle Napoleon in Persian literature who readily discerns the hand of Britain behind any social or political chicanery which takes place in Iran. An initial evaluation of such an attitude might strike one as somewhat illogical or even ludicrous but when you scrutinize all the available evidence with a critical eye, you will concur that Uncle Napoleon enjoys a bittersweet sense of the true nature of the British government.

Back to his Excellency Sir John Sawyers, one cannot help smiling with some considerable degree of amusement especially when one sees how he boasts that the MI6 men prevented Tehran from developing nuclear weapons earlier and that without intervention, Iran may have gone nuclear as early as 2008.

Britain’s black ops in Iran range from carrying out assassination attempts to sabotaging and staging coup d'état.

Perhaps the first instance of MI6 black ops in Iran dates back to the early fifties when MI6 spymaster Colonel Monty Woodhouse was serving in the spy agency. In that capacity, he engineered the notorious Operation Boot with the intention of overthrowing the government of Mohammad Mossadegh, the Iranian politician who had a penchant for nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in favor of restoring the British-friendly Shah of Iran to his throne in 1953. Monty Woodhouse personally flew guns into Iran from Baghdad aboard an RAF aircraft. He then “bought Iranian rials for sovereigns and - at a secret rendezvous in the Tehran suburbs - handed the cash to one of two mysterious Iranian brothers to help finance plans for the overthrow of Mohammad Mossadegh.” In fact, the government of Mossadegh was overthrown through an inauspicious liaison of MI6 and CIA.

by lefty Fri Jul 20, 2012 03:17

mossadegh, monty, Iran, it's all explained in here! enjoy: