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Is CIA Involved In Iran's Election Unrest?
Middle East Online ^ | June 18, 2009

Posted on 06/18/2009 10:24:12 AM PDT by Strategy

TEHRAN - There is a valid possibility that CIA is playing a sinister role behind the scenes to exploit the current Iranian election protests to destabilise the country, observers said.

The CIA secret programme involves playing the media (especially websites) as well as having secret agents on the ground in Iran, they add.

In May 2007, ABC News reported that the CIA has received secret presidential (Bush) approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government, citing officials in the intelligence community.

The sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Bush has signed a "nonlethal presidential finding" that puts into motion a CIA plan that reportedly includes a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran's currency and international financial transactions.

(Excerpt) Read more at middle-east-online.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: agitprop; ahmadinejad; bho44; bhocia; bhoiran; bhomiddleeast; cia; iran; iranviolence2009; iraq; israel; obama
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1 posted on 06/18/2009 10:24:13 AM PDT by Strategy
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To: Strategy

They planted the seeds over the past 8 years no doubt. But Obama just brought out the weed whacker.


2 posted on 06/18/2009 10:25:52 AM PDT by b4its2late (I love defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy.)
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To: Strategy

I certainly won’t shed a tear if they are...


3 posted on 06/18/2009 10:26:22 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Strategy

I certainly hope so.


4 posted on 06/18/2009 10:26:52 AM PDT by TADSLOS
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To: Strategy
of course, that is it...The civil unrest has nothing to do with the general population being oppressed by a ruthless medieval, Islamo fascist regime....No, that would never cause people to be pissed off.
5 posted on 06/18/2009 10:27:57 AM PDT by never4get (We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid)
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To: Strategy
There is a valid possibility that CIA is playing a sinister role behind the scenes...

Sinister is it now? Not from where I am sitting.

6 posted on 06/18/2009 10:28:29 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Strategy

‘a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of Iran’s currency and international financial transactions.’

or

‘a coordinated campaign of propaganda, disinformation and manipulation of America’s currency and international financial transactions.’

Lol. It works both ways.


7 posted on 06/18/2009 10:29:26 AM PDT by BGHater (Insanity is voting for Republicans and expecting Conservatism.)
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To: Strategy

broken link?


8 posted on 06/18/2009 10:30:29 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: Strategy

I couldn’t make the link to the story work; but, to the question in the headline, the answer is “no”. baraq would have cancelled any Bush policy on covert sabotage in Iran.

So, has there been organized foment from outside the country? Yes. From where? The Russians. They’re ready for a do-over of 1979-80, when they got bogged down en route to “mitigating the chaos” on their border. I believe the Russians have some 75,000+ of their citizens inside Iran, which provides the perfect excuse, a la Georgia/Ossetia last summer.

Do I wish we could claim credit? Yes. But no such luck.


9 posted on 06/18/2009 10:31:11 AM PDT by Migraine (Diversity is great... ...until it happens to YOU.)
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To: Strategy
Is CIA Involved In Iran's Election Unrest?

I certainly hope so... Isn't that part of their job?

10 posted on 06/18/2009 10:33:49 AM PDT by BlueNgold (... Feed the tree!)
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as another poster said, can you imagine what a CIA SOG team with silenced .22's could do from the rooftops?

bye-bye state security forces and riot police.

11 posted on 06/18/2009 10:35:27 AM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: Strategy
This is BS Iranian propaganda. They are only saying that to discredit the opposition.
12 posted on 06/18/2009 10:35:53 AM PDT by monday
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To: Strategy

Not on Obozo’s watch.


13 posted on 06/18/2009 10:39:14 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Once a Republic, Now a State, Still Texas)
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To: Strategy
This is so great. Obama bends into a pretzel to keep from saying anything negative about the election and he bumps his pointy head on the reality of mid-east propaganda.

President Dumbo, this will cost you nothing...THE BAD GUYS LIE NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!!!!

Maybe you should rethink all the anti-American garbage you've eaten for the past 44 years and start talking up your country. Worth a shot.

14 posted on 06/18/2009 10:44:54 AM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: never4get

It’s Bush’s fault don’t you know?


15 posted on 06/18/2009 10:46:03 AM PDT by mimaw
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In May 2007, ABC News reported that the CIA has received secret presidential (Bush) approval to mount a covert "black" operation to destabilize the Iranian government,

If so, bet BHO ends it.

16 posted on 06/18/2009 10:49:38 AM PDT by SJackson (G-d da*n America, Jeremiah Wright---Don't tell me words don't matter!, Barack Hussein Obama)
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To: Strategy

What a load of bullcrap. The CIA couldn’t even piss a hole in the snow, much less mobilize millions of Iranians. Who is the CIA agent anyway? Musavi? LOL.

Bravo sierra like the article above is the kind of propaganda Ahmadinejad uses to discredit opponents.


17 posted on 06/18/2009 10:50:06 AM PDT by SolidWood (Down with the islamic regime! Freedom for Iran!)
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To: Strategy

Ask Nancy Pelosi.


18 posted on 06/18/2009 11:02:59 AM PDT by Costumed Vigilante
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To: SolidWood

A-jad must be getting desperate to shut down the protests - threats aren’t working, so he’s trying to paint the millions people marching in the streets as stooges of the CIA.


19 posted on 06/18/2009 11:09:40 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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Correct. The same BS lie that is peddled even by Americans, and bragging CIA agents themselves (Kim Roosevelt), that the Iranians who ousted Mossadegh and rooted for the Shah and General Zahedi, were CIA paid.

The actual CIA coup via General Nassiri against Mossadegh failed, that’s why the Shah had to flee for Italy.

It was nationalistic Iranians who didn’t want Mossadeghs usurpation who came out in support of General Zahedi the legitimate Prime Minister and ousted Mossadegh and enabling the Shah’s return.

Calling your opponents “CIA or British stooges” is an time-proven and frequent insult... regardless of that the fact that the above “article” doesn’t even cite, not even specificates, the ominous “sources” is an indication that it is bollocks.


20 posted on 06/18/2009 11:15:14 AM PDT by SolidWood (Down with the islamic regime! Freedom for Iran!)
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