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Arash
July 6, 2005
The American hand in Iran
By Trish Schuh
Like the color-coded terror alert system, the technicolor "velvet invasions" blink a
warning. Despite receiving an ugly bruise in Uzbekistan, the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) and its non-governmental organization (NGO) regime-change industry hope to
stage another cardboard coup in Iran. But it could be a black and blue revolution.
Citing a "mission accomplished" in Iraq, President Bush told 25,000 soldiers in Fort Hood,
Texas: "The establishment of a free Iraq is a watershed event in the global democratic
revolution. That success is sending a message from Beirut to Tehran".
Tasked by the Bush administration with sending that message from America to Tehran, and
"winning hearts and minds" is author and "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" member Jerome R.
Corsi (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Jerome_Corsi).
On May 16, Corsi's NGO, the Iran Freedom Foundation
(http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iran_Freedom_Foundation), inaugurated a 12-day
"Iran Freedom Walk" from Philadelphia's Liberty Bell to Washington, DC.
Dipping two fingers in red paint, Zionist Christian Jerome Corsi
(http://fauxnewschannel.com/jerome_corsi.jpg) waved a peace sign in solidarity "with the
blood of oppressed Iranians" and called on "the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther
King". He declared, "I love the Iranian people. America does not hate the Persian people.
We love the Persian people. We want peace and we love the Persian people". Corsi's voice
then dropped to a whisper; "We stand here today and we pray in the name of the gods. I
embrace Jesus Christ as my savior - and we also pray in the name of Allah, Zoroaster and
the B'hai". http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1411355/posts
But Jerome Corsi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Corsi) has expressed very different
opinions on Islam in the past. According to his own postings ( jrlc) on FreeRepublic.com,
on November 18, 2001 Corsi used a racial slur to define Arabs: "Ragheads are boy-bumpers
[sodomizers] as clearly as they are women haters - it all goes together".
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/573429/posts
Using the incendiary style he perfected for "Swiftboat veteran" television attack
advertisements, Corsi declares, "Islam is a peaceful religion as long as the women are
beaten, the boys buggered and the infidels killed". Comparing Islam to a disease, he
added, "How's this for an analogy? The Koran is simply the 'software' for producing
deviant cancer cell political behavior and violence in human beings' and Islam is like a
virus. It affects the mind. Maybe even better as an analogy: it is a cancer that destroys
the body it infects. No doctor would hesitate to eliminate cancer cells from the body." On
April 24, 2004 Corsi said, "Let's see why it isn't the case that Islam is a worthless,
dangerous, Satanic religion. Where's the proof to the contrary?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1123728/posts
Surrounding Jerome Corsi at his walk were three dozen Los Angeles Iranian dissidents and
pro-monarchists interviewed by an Orthodox Jewish journalist and by the CIA-backed Voice
of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Farda. The Los Angeles Times of March 20 revealed
that "Tehrangeles" has become a crucial recruiting ground for Iranian expatriates who
gather information for the U.S. intelligence community. Also providing assistance are
various Persian language media which broadcast messages against the Iranian government
into Iran. http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/19a9c74fa5334f24?hl=en
According to the March 4 Los Angeles Times, the U.S. currently spends U.S.$14.7 million a
year on Persian "opposition broadcasts" into Iran. The Voice of America's Persian service
reaches an estimated 15 million Iranians with news programs and websites, and the Bush
administration has recently requested an additional $5.7 million for 2006 to expand the
hours of transmission.
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/32672f90bfe08e4b?hl=en
Los Angeles Persian radio station KRSI noted the similarity between current U.S. efforts
and the CIA's 1953 overthrow of Iran's democratically elected premier Mohammed Mossadeq.
When asked if he was CIA-affiliated, Corsi replied: "No, I'm not. I've never held a
government position, never had any government position at all. I've been in universities.
I'm an author. I'm in business. I'm not related to the CIA. It's just not true".
But when later asked how he became so committed to Iranian liberation, he explained, "When
I was a young man I was an expert in anti-terrorism and political violence. I had a top
secret clearance when I was in universities and I worked to assist the State Department
and the government". Corsi's publisher, Cumberland House, states in his biography that
Corsi's top secret clearance came from the government agency U.S. Agency for International
Development (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USAID).
USAID has often served as a conduit for American covert operations funding, under
humanitarian auspices.
This writer asked Corsi about the Iran Freedom Foundation's funding. He said the money
came from sales of his book Atomic Iran
(http://www.cumberlandhouse.com/wndbooks/books/atomiciran.asp) and from private donations,
adding that the IFF would apply for government funding when it became available.
That funding may be on the way. On February 11, a promoter of the IFF, Zionist Christian
Worldnetdaily.com, announced that Corsi had helped Republican Senator Paul Santorum write
the Iran Freedom and Support Act of 2005. The legislation was to authorize $10 million in
assistance to pro-democracy NGOs that challenge the Iranian regime. Corsi called that
figure a "starting point".
It was an accurate projection. In a May 5 Financial Times article, "U.S. offers grants to
help oppose clerics", Guy Dinmore reported that lawmakers demanded a bill
(http://www.theorator.com/bills109/hr282.html) aimed at overthrowing the Iranian
government be increased to $50 million. This did not include the millions of dollars
provided by the State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative. "We have turned
opposition into a profession", commented Ray Takeyh of the Council on Foreign Relations
(CFR). "This money is going to go up".
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b002409b696f9808?hl=en
Such "soft power" opposition activities are escalating. The May 29 New York Times quoted
Nicholas Burns, under secretary of state for political affairs, as saying the Bush team
was "taking a page from the playbook" of colored revolutions where U.S.-funded
pro-democracy NGOs helped nonviolently overthrow noncompliant governments.
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/97988a37df43b4bb?hl=en
The IFF lists several such activities on its website. Corsi's book, Atomic Iran, is being
translated into Persian for clandestine distribution in Iran, there is an online petition
targeting the mullahs, IFF university associations are mobilizing college students, and a
national speakers bureau to educate Americans on Iranian atrocities has been deployed.
The IFF is also filming a documentary and has begun running TV ads entitled; "An Atomic
9-11: When Evil is Appeased", accusing Iran of plans to detonate a 150 kiloton nuclear
bomb in New York City. (When Corsi was reminded that it was the U.S. that began Iran's
nuclear program in the 1970s, and that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld sat on the
board of ABB, which sold North Korea its nuclear reactors in the 1990s, he refused to
address the issue).
The IFF's efforts are supplemented by an array of related sister organizations, such as
Regime Change Iran, Alliance for Democracy in Iran, Iran of Tomorrow Movement, the Iranian
Opposition Council, and The 70 Million People of Iran, which are organizing an election
for a secular interim government in exile "ready to assume Iran's governmental functions".
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/71746826656cb555?hl=en
The group has also issued an ultimatum letter to world leaders, demanding they void all
contracts with Iran. (Halliburton contracts in Iran were not mentioned). This small
U.S.-backed group, presuming to speak for 70 million Iranians, even borrowed the State
Department lingo by urging "the removal of the Islamic republic to win the war on terror".
The goal of these strategies, Corsi announced at his event, was to incite mass protests
against Iran's June 17 presidential elections and thus try to destabilize the regime.
As early as 2003, Reuters printed allegations that the U.S. had infiltrated several
million dollars into the country to bribe officials and pay protesters. The Economist of
June 13, 2003 headlined; "More unrest on the streets of Tehran. Is America pulling the
strings?" http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1dcfe60bc5305dc3?hl=en
America is pulling strings, with Israeli assistance. The former head of Mossad's foreign
intelligence division, Uzi Arad
(http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c7a9541d826c7f83?hl=en), told
Worldnetdaily.com: "Support of Iranian opposition by the international community could be
an effective way to handle the current regime" and that "its stability can be greatly
reduced by the people themselves." Pro-Israel lobbyist Michael Ledeen
(http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/ledeen/ledeen.php) wrote for the neo-conservative
American Enterprise Institute, "Mr. Bush is correct that we should actively help the brave
Iranians who are leading demonstrations against the regime ..."
Israel's Student Solidarity Movement and The Jewish Agency recently staged protests at
Iranian embassies worldwide. The Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz reported the "AIPAC spurring
Congress to pass a sanctions bill against Iran" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aipac).
AIPAC is also pressuring the U.S. to support the anti-Iran terrorists of
Mujahideen-e-Khalq (http://www.iran-interlink.org) for use against Iran's mullahs.
MEK/MKO/NCR (http://www.irandidban.com) has been legally designated a terrorist
organization since 1997 for killing U.S. citizens, for its role in the 1979 seizure of the
U.S. Embassy in Tehran and for attacking coalition troops in Iraq. Human Rights Watch
(http://hrw.org/backgrounder/mena/iran0505) recently condemned them for use of torture,
bombings and assassinations. Nevertheless, 150 congressmen have petitioned Bush to remove
them from the terrorism list, and several lawmakers spoke at their 2005 convention in
Washington, DC.
The Israeli Communication Ministry's R R Sat provides transponder capability to the MEK to
broadcast programming on its two channels. Iran-interlink.org even hints that Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon personally approved funding for the broadcasts, because of his
alliance with the MEK's influential Maryam Qajar-Azedanllo (Rajavi).
On May 28, the IFF's walk reached the White House. The closing rally featured Richard
Perle, former assistant secretary of defense and pro-Israel architect of Bush's Middle
East policy. Corsi then phoned the White House, where Bush congratulated the marchers and
offered support. Vice President Dick Cheney's office also thanked the IFF. Corsi vowed,
"If we can find sufficient monetary resources, we plan to send funds inside Iran to
support those oppressed."
In response, USA Today reported that Iranian ambassador to the UN, Mohammad Javad Zarif,
denounced these types of U.S. measures as a violation of the Algiers Accords. The accords
freed 52 American Embassy spies in exchange for a U.S. promise "not to intervene directly
or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran's internal affairs". Iran may file a
complaint with the International Court of Justice in the Hague to stop U.S. interference.
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6cc35ffa5f8e2048?hl=en
According to Reuters, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi threatened: "Iran
has always defended its interests with full power and will continue to do so. It won't
hesitate even for a fraction of a moment to defend itself" and Iran's government has
pledged harsh resistance. If the CIA and its associated regime change NGOs succeed, it
could be very bloody black and blue coup.
* Trish Schuh is a freelance journalist and has worked with ABCnews, al-Arabiya, Tehran
Times, MehrNews, Syria Times, Iran News Daily and Muslim's Weekly. She studied Arabic and
Islam in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon, and recently observed the presidential elections in
Iran.
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