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After having several plotters arrested, he let his guard | The West Sponsors Terrorists in Iran down. Then the American Embassy planned a In June 2005, former UN weapons inspector Scott counterattack for 19 August, specifically using religious _ Ritter reported that "the Mujahadeen el-Khalq, or MEK, orces. At this time, the Communist Party blamed an Iranian opposition group, once run by Saddam "Anglo-American intrigue" for the coup. However, jus Hussein's dreaded intelligence services," was now as the CIA thought it was a failure, Iranian papers began __ working for the CIA in terror bombings inside Iran.” publishing en masse the Shah's decrees, and suddenly In February 2007, the Telegraph reported that "America arge pro-Shah crowds were building up in the streets. is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in An Iranian journalist who was an important CIA agen ran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime "led a crowd toward Parliament, inciting people to se © give up its nuclear programme". The CIA operations ire to the offices of a newspaper owned by Dr _ “involve dealing with movements that resort to terrorist Mossadegh's foreign minister", while "{a]nother Iranian methods". The article noted that "there has been a wave CIA agent led a crowd to sack the offices of pro-Tudeh — of unrest in ethnic minority border areas of Iran, with Iranian Communist Party] papers”. bombing and assassination campaigns against soldiers Then coup supporters in the military began to enter and government officials" and, interestingly, that the he streets, and soon "...the crowds CIA operations are focused on began to receive direct leadership “helping opposition militias among tom a few officers involved in the plot the numerous ethnic minority groups and some who had switched sides. A former State clustered in Iran's border regions". A Within an hour the central telegra former State Department office fell, and telegrams were sent to Department counterterrorism agent was quoted as he provinces urging a pro-sha counterterrorism saying that "|t]he latest attacks inside uprising. Iran fall in line with US efforts to After a brief shootout, police agent was quoted supply and train Iran's ethnic headquarters and ie Ministiy of as saying that minorities to destabilise the Iranian Foreign airs fell as well. regime”. nterestingly, according to the "(t]he latest attacks ABC News reported in April 2007 declgsticg documents che Cis) inside Iran fallin hot Yo! Palisa bal min newspapers saying Shah line with US deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran Mohammed Reza Pahlevi's [sic] has been secretly encouraged ee Pee bos Communist-leaning government", . . oars Jundullah, operates ‘out fe) but that ultimately "its operatives ethnic minorities Baluchistan Province in Pakistan, had ony limited success in to destabilise the ont e border of an. and shas manipulating American . * " taken responsibility for the reporters". The CIA planted Iranian regime 0 deaths and kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials".” In 2008, Pakistan's former Army chief said that "the US is stories in US media; in one such instance, the State Department planted a CIA study in Newsweek. One of the key lessons the CIA learned in this operation is that it supporting the outlawed "exposed the agency's shortcomings in manipulating Jundullah group to destabilize Iran" and that "the US is the American press". providing training facilities to Jundullah fighters— The CIA even manipulated a New York Times reporter to located in eastern areas of Iran—to create unrest in the disseminate propaganda. While Soviet media were area and affect the cordial ties between Iran and its proclaiming the US responsible for the coup, American _ neighbor Pakistan".” mentions of this in the media dismissed these accusations outright and never "examined such charges The 2009 Election and Protests seriously". The events of 1953 presented a blueprint for the 2009 By the end of Operation Ajax, as the CIA coup was __ Iranian election protests, an attempted "soft revolution" code-named, "some 300 people had died in firefights in _in Iran, also drawing from the "colour revolutions" in the the streets of Tehran", largely due to the CIA's post-Soviet states of Eastern Europe [see part two, "provoking street violence". The coup resulted in "more "Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World than two decades of dictatorship under the Shah, who War III]. It is the thesis of this author that the 2009 relied heavily on US aid and arms".” election riots in Iran were a covert US (and British) plot Department agent was quoted as saying that "(t]he latest attacks inside Iran fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran's The 2009 Election and Protests The events of 1953 presented a blueprint for the 2009 Iranian election protests, an attempted "soft revolution" in Iran, also drawing from the "colour revolutions" in the post-Soviet states of Eastern Europe [see part two, "Colour-Coded Revolutions and the Origins of World War IlI"]. It is the thesis of this author that the 2009 election riots in Iran were a covert US (and British) plot NEXUS ° 31 A former State counterterrorism ethnic minorities to destabilise the Iranian regime". FEBRUARY - MARCH 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com