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
4 - Arming the uprising
As
the protests in Iran have unfolded, the increase in violent incidents
suggests that U.S.-Israeli support for both a popular uprising and
their support for a budding insurgency have merged and are taking
place simultaneously. For instance, there has been a precipitous rise
in the number of “armed protesters” since the ostensibly
“peaceful” protests began, including a group of armed individuals
that attempted to overtake government buildings and military bases.
Others
have killed police and participated in the wanton destruction of
property. Others still have shot innocent bystanders, who were then
threatened into saying that the police had been the shooters.
Eyewitness reports have claimed that many of the more violent
protesters are “non-native” (i.e., foreign).
However,
the most telling evidence has been the emergence of terrorist
activity in eastern Iran. As the protests were beginning, a Sunni
jihadist group known as Ansar al-Furqan exploded an Iranian oil
pipeline in the Khuzestan province. The group — which, according to
the Terrorism Research and Analysis Consortium, has ties to al-Nusra
Front in Syria — claimed that it carried out the attack in order to
“inflict losses on the economy of the criminal Iranian regime.”
Both
the U.S. and Israel have close ties to al-Nusra Front in Syria. The
U.S., for its part, funneled weapons to al-Nusra by continuing
weapons shipments to Syrian opposition groups in Idlib even as they
declared allegiance to al-Nusra en masse, and even took al-Nusra
Front off the terror watch list after it changed its name. An
al-Nusra Front commander also infamously claimed in 2016 that “the
Americans are on our side.” Meanwhile, Israel’s long-standing
commitment to aiding and funding the terrorist group, while also
treating their wounded, has been an open secret for years.
In
addition, the terrorist group Mujahideen-e-Khalq, popularly known as
MEK in the West, has been active in the current protests as well.
Despite its record of killing innocent civilians, Western media has
cited MEK spokespeople and members in its reporting on the protests
as “proof” that the Iranian people are calling for regime change,
while ignoring the massive pro-government rallies that have coincided
with the protests. Little mention has been made of the fact the MEK
fighters have been trained by the U.S. military in the past and share
connections with Israeli Mossad.
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