More Mullahs' Lies
MICHAEL LEDEEN BLOG
So the mullahs have lied once again to the Iranian people. On Sunday, the regime promised they would not be raising gasoline prices. Less than two days later they raised them by twenty-five percent. Meanwhile housing prices are up one hundred percent, vegetables have tripled, and citizens are beaten up in the streets. And still there are apologists in the West who say this regime has the support of most Iranians.
If a government behaved like this in a free country, it would be turned out of office in a nanosecond. The Yahoo! story is pretty good, pointing out that President Ahmadi-Nezhad promised to spend Iran's huge oil revenues on improving people's lives, but in fact it all goes to terrorist groups like Hamas (to which they could have added Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad, al Qaeda, Fatah, and the rest of the motley jihadis).
As I have been saying all these years, Iran fulfills every requirement of a "pre-revolutionary situation." Yet our leaders will not support that revolution. Indeed, according to the mullahs latest fantasy, the leading supporter of "velvet revolution" in Iran is George Soros, and his primary revolutionary agent is an Iranian-American woman who has labored mightily to advance the cause of the Islamic Republic among American academics and politicians.
"Quoting an Intelligence Ministry statement, state media said May 21 that Haleh Esfandiari and her employer, the Washington-based Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, were trying to set up a network "against the sovereignty of the country."
It also accused a New York-based foundation set up by U.S. financier George Soros of being involved in the network."
Poor Soros! Here he'd been lambasting Bush and Cheney for their failure to use diplomacy to pressure Israel to make a deal with the "Political wing" of Hamas, and thereby weaken Iran's influence over Hamas terrorists. Only to be bitch slapped by the mullahs.
The Plot
By now we all know that ABC News has published what it claims to be a CIA covert action program designed to "destabilize" the Iranian regime. It has two main components: a disinformation operation, and some economic sabotage.
As I said on The Corner a while ago, it's a typical CIA product: the opposite of a serious program. You don't need a secret disinformation operation; instead, we need an effective, public, information effort, including a VOA Farsi Service that entertains criticis of the mullahs more than their apologists, and administration spokesthings who talk about the grisly repression of the Iranian people carried out by the regime. Above all, four little words "we support regime change" would be a great way to start. And those words should come from the White House or Foggy Bottom. So far, we've got the secretary of state saying she doesn't want regime change, just "better behavior" from the mullahs.
As for sabotaging the Iranian economy, it's hard to improve on the mullahs' own performance to date. I'd order CIA to stay out of their way.
In fact, I'd order the CIA to stay away from Iranians overall. What a bunch of dolts.
Well, on the other hand, this sort of leak invariably comes from people trying to kill the program. My guess is that CIA doesn't want to do ANYTHING mean to the mullahs, and so they are trying to sabotage their own silly program.
Another reason why my vote next year will likely go to any candidate who proves he/she understands that CIA desperately needs closure.
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