And indeed, it's another of Washington's worst best-kept secrets that -- the nuclear agreement aside -- Iran remains a high priority on the 'to do' list for the Regime Renovators. (See also here, here, and here.) In addition to the relentless propaganda campaign pursued by Israel the aim of which is to paint Iran as the existential threat du jour, despite the fact that U.S. intelligence agencies and others in the know didn't support the allegations about its mythical nuclear weapons program, Weir had the following to say:
'Israel and the U.S. deployed a computer virus against Iran in what's been called the world's first digital weapon. Iranian nuclear physicists [were] assassinated by Israel, and the U.S. instituted a blockade against Iran that caused food insecurity and mass suffering among the country's civilians. (Such a blockade can be seen as an act of war.) Democratic Congressman and Israel partisan Brad Sherman admitted the objective of the sanctions: "Critics of sanctions argue that these measures will hurt the Iranian people. Quite frankly, we need to do just that."'
Most folks then who don't dine out on the McDonald's ('would you like lies with that?') media diet that is the corporate news are as well aware of Uncle Sam's recidivistic predisposition towards meddling in the affairs of other nations, engineering coups and colour revolutions, and ousting democratically elected leaders as they are of the bespoke misinformation and disinformation -- the 'real' fake news -- that's tailored to suit the official narrative that goes with it.
Along with the ongoing Syrian War, the 2014 Ukraine coup is one of the most egregious, more recent examples of this, with again Stone's confab with Putin providing an alternative perspective on both counts. Yet even here the majority of Americans would attribute the Ukraine crisis to "Russian aggression" and the Syrian War largely to Bashir Assad's 'despotism'; it's simply what they are told by the MSM, and insofar as they're concerned [they] have little reason to doubt this. Much the same goes of course for the Iran WMD narrative, despite the fact that we've heard that one before with Iraq around fifteen years ago.
And all of this mayhem and chaos is premised as usual on exporting freedom, democracy, justice, liberty, human rights, the rule of law, along with peace, love, understanding, the pursuit of happiness and all of the things that America is purportedly so accomplished in embracing on the home front, albeit more so in the breach than in the observance. What makes U.S. transgressions so much more brazen in this respect is the hypocritical, fraudulent and existentially dangerous nature of the umbrage and pique being directed towards countries like Iran, Syria and, especially Russia and China.
And what makes the righteous animus being served up to the latter nations in particular so frightening and so portentous is that it's wholly reminiscent of the hegemonic mindset directed towards Germany by the high-minded mandarins of the British Empire in the two decades leading up to the War to End all Wars. By 1914, even for that small cohort of folks who might've smelt the imperial rat, it was too late of course, for them and for so many others. In this few other imperially motivated gambits have been more consequential or more far-reaching across time and space, a conclusion we can safely draw with all the benefit one hundred plus years of hindsight brings.
As for today's "cohort" of news consumers, it is much the same: Such awareness is embraced only by a small minority of people with most blissfully ignorant of their country's inability or unwillingness to, well, mind its own bloody business. They are as equally oblivious to the economic, social, physical and political havoc, mayhem, and destruction it creates in the process, sometimes catastrophically so. Whilst the events of 9/11 might've otherwise provided a visceral reality check in this regard for most Americans of the blowback that frequently attends its own country's meddling, very few would've been prepared or motivated to engage in any 'cause and effect' reflection therein, much less act in sync with that.
Yet we might opine here that given the frenzied and chaotic state of America's own internal affairs -- to say nothing of the hysterical incoherence and 'through the looking glass' irrationality of the public discourse that has seemingly become a permanent fixture of U.S. political and media forums, the Russia-gate affair being all the evidence ones needs to underscore this -- there'd be numerous benefits to be gained from doing just that. Minding its own "bloody business" that is.
And let there be no mistaking it, what an assuredly "bloody business" regime renovation is. For the 'cognitive dissidents' disbelieving or doubtful of the extent or measure of this geopolitical mischief, in a recent PressTV interview focusing on America's history of interfering in Iran's political affairs in particular, former NSA intelligence linguist Scott Rickard is one amongst many of his professional ilk who dispels such scepticism or uncertainty with unadorned veracity: '[Americans] have been probably one of the most notorious nations behind the United Kingdom in manipulating not only elections but also overthrowing governments around the world for decades.'
A s Rickard observes, to this day the U.S. continues nation-building in other states, sells weapons in massive scales and pours bombs on other nations in order to 'carry out its regime-change policy throughout the world.' This, to say little of the proxy wars to which errant countries are subject (such as in Syria), psy-ops and the like (in Venezuela), and the economic sanctions frequently applied by Washington, of which both Russia and Iran to this day are also subjected to, and which themselves are often part of the arsenal used against countries not complying with Washington's diktats. On the latter, it's enough to recall how the sanctions imposed during the 90s against Iraq after the Gulf War under the Clinton administration played out. For confirmation of this, one only needs ask Madeleine Albright, Bill Clinton's then Secretary of State, who in a 'Kissingeresque' display of imperial hubris as pitiless as it was asthma-inducing, averred [that], "it was worth it".
To be sure then, Uncle Sam's "track record' in this respect is as well documented and [as] well known as it's abhorred by most commentators in the alternative media space and their more enlightened readers. At the same time, it's one subject that doesn't raise an eyebrow much less a mention from those in the mainstream media universe, no matter how pertinent it might be to the narrative in hand. It's another of what I've come to calling the 'no-fly zones' of conventional political discourse and public debate.
Given the degree of complicity of the corporate media in facilitating these coups, proxy wars and colour revolutions, then camouflaging them as something entirely different from what they really represent is, whilst reprehensible and indefensible, this is of course understandable. The mainstream media long ago forfeited any integrity and honesty in the pursuit of the filthy lucre and in servicing the interests of the power elites of the political economy.
-- Kermit's 'Sesame Street' Coup --
Interestingly, Rickard's remark was prompted by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's most recent statements about the U.S. seeking regime change in Tehran as all but a matter of public policy with marginally less fervor than they are accusing Moscow of meddling in their own democratic processes in last year's election.
Again, for those folks "in the know", the very mention of the words "regime change" and "Iran" in the same breath will also summon pronto a profound sense of deja-vu. As with the little known 1975 Australian coup (the details of which to be unveiled in a future 'episode' of The Regime Renovators), it was Britain (MI6) and the U.S. (the CIA) in a tag team play that cut its teeth in such joint-venture partnerships back in Iran in 1953.
Now the much-cited Iran experience is worthy of further exploration, if only because this exercise in regime change later turned out to be doubly ironic in a 'reap what you sow' kinda way, but not necessarily as the received wisdom would have us believe. We'll return to this point shortly, but for context and perspective, the 1953 Iran adventure begs for another trip down memory lane, especially given all the chatter about the U.S. returning to the 'scene of the crime'.
Placing to one side an early dress rehearsal in Syria in 1949, the 1953 Iran coup was the first post-War exercise in regime renovation upon the part of Anglo-American alliance -- one which officially at least was only just admitted to by the CIA after decades of not so plausible denial -- when they successfully conspired to relieve the democratically elected prime minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh from the burdens of power.
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