{"id":342592,"date":"2018-01-06T09:11:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T08:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iran-is-not-ready-for-regime-change\/"},"modified":"2018-01-06T09:11:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T08:11:52","slug":"iran-is-not-ready-for-regime-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/iran-is-not-ready-for-regime-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Is Not Ready for Regime Change"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Listen to the state-\u2018guided\u2019 US media this past week and you\u2019d believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests broke out across Iran.\u00a0 The protests, according to President Donald Trump and his Israeli allies, were caused by `anger over Iran\u2019s spending billions on wars in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and helping the Palestinian movement Hamas.\u2019 Trump tweeted that Iranians were finally rising up against what he called their hated, brutal regime.<\/p>\n

Talk about manufactured news.\u00a0 Most Iranians were elated and proud of their nation\u2019s role in thwarting US plans to occupy much of Syria and overthrow the government of President Bashar al-Assad.\u00a0 By contrast, the other side in this long proxy war \u2013 the US, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Britain \u2013 was smarting with defeat and seeking ways to exact revenge on the hateful trio, Syria, Iran and Russia.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, the so-called news of protests over Iran\u2019s military spending did not apparently originate in Iran but rather in Washington which spread it far and wide to our state-guided media.\u00a0 This was clumsy, but the US and Israel were so eager to get this piece of made-up good news out that they forget the basics of propaganda management: wait for the event before you proclaim it.<\/p>\n

What in fact was going on in Iran where more than 21 demonstrators have died violent deaths?\u00a0 As a very long-time Iran watcher allow me to explain.<\/p>\n


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Restive minority groups in Iran\u2019s Kurdish, Azeri and Sunni Arab regions, most far from the big cities, have been demonstrating and protesting severe economic problems.\u00a0 Iran is a big, resource-rich nation of 80 million people that should be booming.\u00a0 But it has been under economic siege…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Listen to the state-\u2018guided\u2019 US media this past week and you\u2019d believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests broke out across Iran.\u00a0 The protests, according to President Donald Trump and his Israeli allies, were caused by `anger over Iran\u2019s spending billions on wars in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon and helping the Palestinian movement Hamas.\u2019 Trump […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}