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Iran Video Exclusive: Ministry of Intelligence Proves "Velvet Revolution"
Friday, August 28, 2009 at 18:16
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I first learned of this video days after the 12 June Presidential election, but after much deliberation, I decided not to post it. The source, the Middle East Media Research Institute, is fervently critical of the Islamic Republic, and it has sometimes posted video "evidence" out of context.
In light of the "revelations" in the Tehran trials, considered in our analysis today of the regime's portrayal of academics and "velvet revolution", I decided to have another look. And there are enough matches between the trial's indictments and the allegations in this video to make the initally ludicrous --- could any Ministry of Intelligence really air this as "proof" of the enemy's devious plots, especially to turn its population into informers on their fellow citizens? --- into the very believable.
So sit back and enjoy badly-animated John McCain ("senior White House official", rather than Republican candidate for President), George Soros ("Jewish tycoon and the mastermind of ultra-modern colonialism"), Gene Sharp (Harvard professor turned "theoretician of civil disobedience and velvet revolutions" and "one of the CIA's agents in charge of infiltration into other countries"), and Bill Smith (first I've heard of this "CIA senior expert on Iranian affairs") plot the downfall of Iran....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kizkljTDR_Q[/youtube]
The Latest from Iran (28 August): The President Prays
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I first learned of this video days after the 12 June Presidential election, but after much deliberation, I decided not to post it. The source, the Middle East Media Research Institute, is fervently critical of the Islamic Republic, and it has sometimes posted video "evidence" out of context.
In light of the "revelations" in the Tehran trials, considered in our analysis today of the regime's portrayal of academics and "velvet revolution", I decided to have another look. And there are enough matches between the trial's indictments and the allegations in this video to make the initally ludicrous --- could any Ministry of Intelligence really air this as "proof" of the enemy's devious plots, especially to turn its population into informers on their fellow citizens? --- into the very believable.
So sit back and enjoy badly-animated John McCain ("senior White House official", rather than Republican candidate for President), George Soros ("Jewish tycoon and the mastermind of ultra-modern colonialism"), Gene Sharp (Harvard professor turned "theoretician of civil disobedience and velvet revolutions" and "one of the CIA's agents in charge of infiltration into other countries"), and Bill Smith (first I've heard of this "CIA senior expert on Iranian affairs") plot the downfall of Iran....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kizkljTDR_Q[/youtube]
Reader Comments (3)
The IRI is growing more fictitious by the day.
Add Ahmadinejad's ludicrous remarks at the Friday prayers to this psycothic production and I'll challenge you to find a word in the dictionary that adequately describes the pathology.
Notes on cultural difference — whoever made this has John McCain drinking a tiny cup of what looks like Turkish coffee or espresso... Personally, I see him more with a big cup of American-style drip brew. And by the way, who let John McCain into the White House?
All this is to say that the video looks genuine. It certainly looks to have been made a long, long way from MEMRI's home base in Washington, D.C. ... Has anyone seen this video in its original, untranslated form in Iran?
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