By Tahir Sema
"Something happened in Iran" - Barack H. Obama
The most definitive issue, of which many organizations and analysts stay clear of answering is whether the Iranian elections was a fraud or not, these organizations sheepishly shy away from this question, after they ran stories that were disguised as fact. Some right wing organizations have already accepted the election results as a fraud, based on opinion and unsubstantiated claims of voter statistics and voter patterns recorded from previous Iranian elections.
Stephen Zunes a professor of Politics and chair of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of San Francisco says the following in terms of the Iranian election results;
Picture; Opposition demonstrators carry a large green flag through the crowd during a demonstration in support of defeated reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousav. (AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri).
“So overwhelming were the signs of imminent Ahmadinejad defeat and so massive was the margin of his alleged victory, the only reasonable assumption was that there has been fraud on a massive scale. The polls that were available showed Mousavi leading by a clear majority and Ahmadinejad well below 40%, a margin roughly similar to what most analysts had suggested based on anecdotal evidence. Instead, the official results show Ahmadinejad winning by an overwhelming 63% of the vote.
The unmistakable political trend in Iran in the past four years has been toward greater liberalism and moderation, particularly with the addition of millions of new younger voters who are overwhelmingly disenchanted with Ahmadinejad’s ultra-conservative social policies and failed economic policies. The very idea that he would do substantially better than he did in the election four years ago, therefore, is ludicrous at face value. Indeed, in municipal and other elections held over the past couple of years, Ahmadinejad’s preferred slates lost heavily to moderate conservatives and reformers.”
On the 7th of July, in a live television interview to the Iranian nation and in defense, Ahmadinejad said “in the last 30 years, we have had 30 elections, all with different results, which in some cases the results have been far from political analysts expectations," he added that the June 12th election was the healthiest, freest, and the most beautiful worldwide.
According to Michael Green a retired forensic psychologist living in Los Angeles, however compelling Mr. Zunes arguments/opinions maybe, there is no substantial facts to support any of his assumptions. In addition he does not cite a single source to validate his claims. Many right wing organizations and individuals have accepted Mr. Zunes theories as fact, demonizing Iran. Zunes has been e-mailed by Green, asking for proof and asking how was it possible for the Professor of Politics to attain so much of information in such a short time, of which he uses to convince the reader that the election was a blatant fraud. To date Zunes has not replied with proof of his claims. He made his claim just a day after the election result, duping the unsuspected world into believing that the election was a barefaced fraud.
Though we are not able to fully ascertain if the election result was a fraud or not, it is already clear that there exists a resounding amount of people who have sinister motives, some reside within the Islamic Republic while others exert their influence from abroad.
As for the grand Ayatollah Montazeri’s claim that the election was stolen, it is apparent that he has a score to settle with the current Supreme Leader, as Montazarei was the preliminary choice to replace Khomeini. Montazeri has motive to challenge the election results as he will undoubtedly gain, should leadership change hands.
There exists a power struggle between the Ayatollahs, which has only fuelled the protests. Many clerics are not in favor of Ahmadinejad as he accused them of corruption. In what numerous pit as a surprise move, Iran’s biggest group of clerics declared Ahmadinejad’s re-election to be illegitimate, condemning the subsequent crackdown by Government forces.
Commentators are also seen to be explaining the current crisis in terms of vested interests and based on partial information, signifying that the election has been stolen.
The most important and credible information (often overlooked) we do have at our disposal about the current predicament in Iran, is 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 prior to the above date, the Telegraph reported on May 16, 2007, that Bush administration neo-con 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.”
These facts are often neatly hidden away and ignored in favor of assumptions and opinions fed to the media. The protests in Iran are riddled with sinister motives, by those who stand to gain from a fallen state.
Daniel McAdams has revealed the most compelling of research articles a few days ago, in terms of understanding the Iranian protests and its origins, in an article titled “Who Put the ‘green’ in the Green Revolution? America of course”. In what may have been sensitive information neoconservative Kenneth Timmerman wrote the day before the election that “there’s talk of a ‘green revolution’ in Tehran. No one knew what he was talking about, mainly because he was accurately predicting what was to redefine Iran.
“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 truthfully went on to write that:
“The National Endowment for Democracy has spent millions of dollars during the past decade promoting ‘color’ revolutions in places such as Ukraine and Serbia, training political workers in modern communications and organizational techniques.
“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.”
Coincidently shortly after the “Green revolution” had begun, experts and analysts alike had given up their impartiality and critical thinking in support of this revolution, “embracing their inner green” heavy weighted experts immediately gave their support to the green revolution and Mousavi. It had been the first time in recent history were liberal organizations had simultaneously come together in support of an opposition party and their cause.
On June the 16th at about 7:00 PM all powerful BBC websites had magically turned green. The BBC’s website changed from the traditional red, grey and light blue, to green, in support of the Iran protests. Many other institutions around the world followed suit. Twitter, a social networking website was used extensively by protestors to get their message out to the world and to organize protests not only in Iran, but in many other Western countries such as; the United States, Europe and even Germany.
The day the demonstrations started the Twitter website was due for scheduled, downtime maintenance. Twitter was immediately approached by the United States Government and asked not to interrupt the Twitter service with downtime, because the protestors were sending out millions of tweets, planning crippling marches and gathering the sympathy of the world, convincing millions that Iran is a rogue state, oppressing its people.
The protests and the “revolution” Mousavi and his supporters so much desire, are far from over. The demonstrators are planning a three day strike this week, to be carried out under the pretext of a religious holiday in Iran called Itikaf (seclusion/retreat). Mousavi’s Web site has called on Iranians to use the state-sanctioned holiday to launch a three-day, nationwide strike and boycott all businesses and banks, to openly challenge the regime.
The post election crisis has manifested into a full scale ploy to westernize and destabilize the Iranian Government. Outside support and interference continues to hype the morale of those who are bent on destroying the founding principles of Iran’s Islamic Theocracy.
The greatest threat to the 30 year old regime has materialized, based on the above; the fall of the Islamic Theocracy has dawned upon the world. Whether Ahmadinejad’s victory is fraudulent or not, the wheels for a confrontational approach by Iran’s enemies have undoubtedly been set in motion.
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