{"id":680,"date":"2009-06-30T14:02:43","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T11:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/archives\/680"},"modified":"2012-05-05T15:41:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-05T12:41:29","slug":"reese-elrich-debinks-the-foreign-intervention-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/archives\/680","title":{"rendered":"Reese Erlich Debunks the Foreign Intervention Theory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just back from Iran, Erlich scoffs at the notion that the CIA is somehow behind the millions of people in the streets. A highly reccomended read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s  look at what actually happened on the ground. Tens of millions of Iranians  went to bed on Friday, June 12, convinced that either Mousavi had won  the election outright or that there would be runoff between him and  Ahmadinejad. They woke up Saturday morning and were stunned. &#8220;It was  a coup d&#8217;etat,&#8221; several friends told me. The anger cut across class  lines and went well beyond Mousavi&#8217;s core base of students, intellectuals  and the well-to-do.<\/p>\n<p>Within  two days hundreds of thousands of people were demonstrating peacefully  in the streets of Tehran and other major cities. Could the CIA have  anticipated the vote count, and on two days notice, mobilized its nefarious  networks? Does the CIA even have the kind of extensive networks that  would be necessary to control or even influence such a movement? That  simultaneously gives the CIA too much credit and underestimates the  independence of the mass movement.<\/p>\n<p>Some  demonstrators wanted a more moderate Islamic government. Others advocated  a separation of mosque and state, and a return to parliamentary democracy  they had before the 1953 coup. But virtually everyone believes that  Iran has the right to develop nuclear power, including enriching uranium.  Iranians support the Palestinians in their fight against Israeli occupation,  and they want to see the U.S. get out of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>So  if they CIA was manipulating the demonstrators, it was doing a piss  poor job.<\/p>\n<p>Of  course, the CIA would <em>like<\/em> to have influence in Iran. But that&#8217;s  a far cry from saying it <em>does<\/em> have influence. By proclaiming  the omnipotence of U.S. power, the leftist critics ironically join hands  with Ahmadinejad and the reactionary clerics who blame all unrest on  the British and U.S.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2009\/06\/28-10\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Read the full article<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-flattr-button\"><a class=\"FlattrButton\" style=\"display:none;\" href=\"https:\/\/vigilantejournalist.com\/blog\/archives\/680\" title=\" Reese Erlich Debunks the Foreign Intervention Theory\" rev=\"flattr;uid:VigilanteJournalist;language:en_GB;category:text;tags:Iran Election,news around world,protests,the war in middle east,war and conflict,blog;button:compact;\">Just back from Iran, Erlich scoffs at the notion that the CIA is somehow behind the millions of people in the streets. 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