Iran's Internet: Blackout for 'Protesters,' Transparency for Whom?
The New Arab announces a 'limited internet return' in Iran following a 10-day blackout during 'nationwide protests.' This narrative, repeated across mainstream media, carefully skirts around the documented involvement of foreign actors in stirring unrest. We’re told these are organic uprisings, yet conveniently forgotten is the 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup that overthrew Iran's democratically
elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, installing a Western-friendly dictator. Fast forward, and the US has continued its pattern, with entities like the US State Department openly funding initiatives aimed at 'promoting democracy' (read: regime change) in Iran, sometimes to the tune of tens of millions of dollars annually, as reported by agencies like the Government Accountability Office
(GAO). (See GAO report 'U.S. Democracy Programs in Iran' , 2013). So, when the internet goes dark, one might wonder: are we witnessing organic civil discontent, or is it a familiar playbook unfolding, where foreign-backed agitators, some of whom have attacked police, medics, and civilians, are rebranded as 'protesters' to manufacture consent for continued destabilization? The silence from these
outlets on the active Mossad and CIA presence inside Iran, openly acknowledged by former intelligence officials, speaks volumes. It's almost as if 'protests' are admirable, but only when they serve a specific geopolitical agenda, enabling a selective outrage that paints legitimate Iranian dissent with the broad brush of foreign-funded revolution. Truly, how many times will we pretend the West's