With
the Trump and Netanyahu administrations now working in lockstep,
U.S.-Israeli hostility towards Iran has now ripened into a plan to
repeat what befell Syria over six years ago – the hijacking of
minor protests and their transformation into the cover for a
foreign-funded insurgency intent on toppling Iran’s elected
government.
by
Whitney Webb
Part
3 - Building blocks of regime-change insurgency: sanctions, protests,
“peaceful” uprising
While
a U.S.-Israeli plan to create a terrorist pipeline from Syria to Iran
has yet to be definitively established, regime-change plans
specifically targeting Iran have included such strategies for
toppling the Iranian government. For instance, the Brookings
Institution — a prominent, hawkish U.S. think tank — published a
manual in 2009 titled “Which Path to Persia? Options for a New
American Strategy toward Iran.” The manual, divided into four
parts, includes an entire section devoted to enacting regime change.
This section includes three chapters, the first two of which focus on
“supporting a popular uprising” and “inspiring an insurgency”
by “supporting Iranian minority and opposition groups.”
When
the protests against the neoliberal economic policies of the
Rouhani-led government began just days ago, the U.S. and Israeli
political establishments — and their supporters — quickly took
advantage of the situation. Though the protests have been small in
size, intentional misreporting from the corporate media and on social
media has sought to combine these protests with regime-change
aspirations while also exaggerating their size.
Both
neocons and their liberal counterparts have posted publicly their
support for the protests, claiming to support the Iranian people
despite their past support for the sanctions that damaged Iran’s
economy – the very factor that allegedly inspired the protests in
the first place.
Though
the plan to support a popular uprising depended on the organic
emergence of some unrest, however minimal, within Iran, the plan to
inspire an insurgency requires more careful preparation. Given the
establishment of a new CIA “mission center” focused on “turning
up the heat” in Iran last June — which has sought to make Iran “a
higher priority target for American spies” — along with the U.S.
operation in Syria, the groundwork for such an insurgency has now
been laid.
Of
particular concern is the fact that the CIA officer in charge of the
center is Michael D’Andrea, a Wahhabist who has overseen the
agency’s drone bombing program and was a key player in the CIA’s
torture program. According to Moon of Alabama, he is believed to be
the mastermind behind U.S. cooperation with extreme Wahhabi groups in
Libya, Iraq and Syria.
In
addition, Israel has openly worked with terrorist groups active in
Iran in the past, namely the Jundallah terrorist group that Israeli
Mossad hired to kill nuclear experts in Iran and for other tasks in
its covert war against the Islamic Republic.
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