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International Desk
The United States less than a year ago agreed a $400 million package to fund an escalation of "clandestine operations" aimed at destablising the Islamic republic's nuclear plans. Intelligence analysts are today speculating that the scenes in Iran are consistent with a campaign waged by Washington to destabilise the government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
With press reports in the West claiming that the recent presidential election were a fraud, it is widely accepted now that incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the victor in the elections. US President Barack Obama made clear his objections to the Iran elections yesterday:
"These elections are an atrocity," he said. "If [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad had made such progress since the last elections, if he won two-thirds of the vote, why such violence?”.
President Obama has been pilloried by the Wall Street Journal for his failure on Iran with an op-ed today:
"The Obama Administration came into office with a realpolitik script to goad the mullahs into a "grand bargain" on its nuclear program. But Team Obama isn't proving to be good at the improv. His foreign policy gurus drew up an agenda defined mainly in opposition to the perceived Bush legacy: The U.S. will sit down with the likes of Iran, North Korea or Russia and hash out deals. In a Journal story on Monday, a senior U.S. official bordered on enthusiastic about confirming an Ahmadinejad victory as soon as possible. "Had there been a transition to a new government, a new president wouldn't have emerged until August. In some respects, this might allow Iran to engage the international community quicker." The popular uprising in Iran is so inconvenient to this agenda."
However the CIA is now being blamed along with Mossad for a concerted a well healed plan to unsettle Iran and encourage dissident groups to move to the fore. When an initial report appeared in the New Yorker magazine by Seymour Hersch in July 2008 Iran was abuzz with speculation that the Americans’ alleged move was an act of “state terrorism” that violated international law and the U.N. charter forbidding interference in the affairs of other countries.
“We understand that the US administration is sending conflicting signals,” Iranian lawmaker Kazem Jalali said. “On the one hand they send signals to say they want to negotiate. On the other hand, they try to bully.”
The allegations that the $400 million was approved by former President Bush and handed over to President Obama were underlined in the following:
"Congress has been under Democratic control since the 2006 elections—were willing, in secret, to go along with the Administration in expanding covert activities directed at Iran, while the Party’s presumptive candidate for President, Barack Obama, has said that he favors direct talks and diplomacy."
Dana Perino the White House spokesperson in July 2008 could not "comment either way," over the allegations that $400 million was approved for "clandestine operations" in Iran and cross border operations between Iraq and Iran.
photo credit: London Daily News
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