Iranians to Trump and warmongers: Iran ain’t for sale

…by Jonas E. Alexis and Mark Dankof

Mark Dankof is the former 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in King County/Seattle. He was an elected delegate to Texas State Republican Conventions in 1994 and 1996 and entered the United States Senate race in Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and Republican incumbent William Roth.

Jonas E. Alexis: Right after a massive protest in Iran a few days ago, Donald Trump tweeted: “Iran is failing at every level despite the terrible deal made with them by the Obama Administration. The great Iranian people have been repressed for many years. They are hungry for food & for freedom. Along with human rights, the wealth of Iran is being looted. TIME FOR CHANGE!”[1]

He obviously got this “time for change” message from Benjamin Netanyahu, who previously advocated regime change in Iran. Netanyahu said: “When this regime [the Iranian government] finally falls, and one day it will, Iranians and Israelis will be great friends once again.”[2]

In another tweet, Trump said: “The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change, and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran’s people are what their leaders fear the most…Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice. The World is watching!”

A few days later, another massive protest ensued in Iran. But this time the protesters were supporting the Iranian government and the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. Places like Ahvaz, Kermanshah, Bushehr, Abadan, Gorgan and Qom, were flooded with protesters essentially sending a message to Trump, warmongers, and covert operators in the region. “Leader, we are ready!,” the protesters said. “We offer the blood in our veins to our Leader.” And then this: “Death to seditionists.”[3]

The Ayatollah Khamenei didn’t help seditionists and warmongers when he said that the protest was fueled by “enemies of Iran,” who used “money, weapons, politics and security apparatus.”[4] President Hassan Rouhani implicated the Saudi government in the protest against Iran as well, saying that “They [the Saudis] have blatantly said that we will create problems in Tehran.”[5] Rouhani added:

“Our success in the political arena against the United States and the Zionist regime was unbearable to [Iran’s enemies]. Iran’s success in the region was unbearable to them. Don’t you expect that they would seek revenge? Don’t you think they would provoke some people?”[6]

Trump, who would love to see the Iranian government overthrown, declared that Iranians have “little food, big inflation and no human rights,” and the protest shows that Iranians are rising “against the brutal and corrupt Iranian regime.”[7]

Let’s suppose that Trump is right here. But why doesn’t he say the same thing about Saudi Arabia, who is still liquidating tens of thousands of men, women and children in Yemen? Trump is pretentiously showing compassion toward the Iranians, but Yemeni children do not deserve the same compassion and love? Who is this man really fooling? The mass media? The vast majority of Americans?

Even Newsweek itself published an article last September titled: “Saudi Arabia is bombing Yemen but blames humanitarian disaster on Iran-backed Houthis.”[8] Take it from the same Zionist organ:

“Since the war in Yemen began more than two years ago, more than 10,000 civilians have been killed, and some 3 million have been displaced. According to the World Health Organization, an unprecedented cholera outbreak is now ravaging a growing percentage of the country, with 500,000 known cases and 2,000 dead.

“WHO estimates by the end of the year, 600,000 Yemenis—that’s one in every 45 people in the country—will come down with cholera. The U.N. now calls Yemen the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster. Yet it’s a preventable, man-made catastrophe that’s directly the result of the war that the Saudi-led coalition is waging in Yemen.”[9]

Now Trump wants to talk about Iran’s human rights abuse, while he is still in cahoots with the Saudis?

Moreover, why didn’t he tweet about the protesters who supported the Iranian government? Why didn’t he say something like, “The Iranian government needs to protect those people as well”? Wouldn’t that show his impartiality?

You see, the “democracy” and “freedom” ideology that New World Order agents like Trump are propounding is nothing but a smokescreen designed to corrupt the masses. It is what scholar Christopher Simpson would have called psychological warfare. Simpson writes in his study The Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960:

“At heart modern psychological warfare has been a tool for managing empire, not for settling conflicts in any fundamental sense…In practice modern psychological warfare and propaganda have only rarely offered ‘alternatives’ to violence over the medium-to-long term.

“Instead, they have been an integral part of a strategy and culture whose premise is the rule of the strong at the expense of the weak, where coercion and manipulation pose as ‘communication’ and close off opportunity for other, more genuine, forms of understanding.”[10]

As we all know, psychological warfare is not only able to strike fear among the enemy and “deprive him of the support of his allies and neutrals,” but it also has the potential to “increase in our troops and allies the will to victory.”[11]

Moreover, in a psychological war, any weapon, including lies and fabrications, can be employed in order to influence the mass media. To put it in Christopher Simpson’s words, “In this light, overt (white), covert (black), and gray propaganda” is possible.

Moreover, “sabotage,” “special operations,” “guerilla warfare,” “espionage,” “political, cultural, economic, and racial pressure are all effective weapons. They are effective because they produce dissension, distrust, fear and hopelessness in the minds of the enemy.”[12] White propaganda has a heavy emphasis on “repetition,” and “it is designed to be perceived by its audience as truthful, balanced, and factual.”

Black propaganda, however, “stresses trouble, confusion…and terror. A variation of black propaganda tactics involves forging enemy documents and distributing them to target audiences as a means of discrediting rival powers.”[13]

This theory was postulated prior to the war in Iraq. It is interesting to observe that this was exactly what happened when the Neoconservative machine mobilized the nation to go to war with Iraq. They spread fear among decent Americans—fear that Saddam was coming, that Iraq had WMDs, that Iraq was the greatest threat to the security of the United States, that terrorism was all across the world and must be fought—and those precious folks had no choice but to support former President Bush to go to war.

The power of this form of psychological warfare had not abated even in 2012,[14] as warmongers in the Wall Street Journal were claiming that allowing a nuclear Iran would be far more costly in the long run than attacking it.[15] Mark Dankof, tell us something about how Israel has infiltrated Iran in the past through terrorist cells such as MEK.

Mark Dankof: Information from non-classified sources is circumstantial but overwhelmingly strong.  Dr. Paul Sheldon Foote of Cal-State Fullerton, probably the leading authoritative source in the United States on the MEK, and its presently functional relationship with the Israeli Mossad and elements in the American intelligence community, has publicly stated via his own sources that the MEK is the leading tool of Israeli intelligence and American Neo-Conservatives in the latter’s espionage agencies in launching acts of destabilization and violence directed at Iran’s current government and conducted illegally within Iranian borders.

Foote identifies the PJAK, the offshoot of the Kurdish separatist PKK, and the Jundallah, as the other elements in this dangerous game. The MEK’s fingerprints in Tehran are joined by what seems to be a cooperative relationship with PJAK directed against the Iranian government in efforts launched from northeast Iraq and the Qandil Mountains and directed against Iranian Azerbaijan.

And suspicious terror activities in Khuzestan and Diyala Provinces in recent years seem to be augmented by bomb blasts and terror killings in Balochistan Province in Iran where it appears that the MEK’s partner-in-crime is the Jundallah based in Pakistan.

But again, the Hidden Hand is comprised of the obvious, bigger ultimate players and assets. The increase in PKK attacks on Turkey since May 2009 coincides exactly with the corresponding time frames of the Turkish government’s public beefs with Israel over the Mavi Marmara shoot-up and other formal Erdogan government protests against the actions of the Netanyahu regime in Gaza and elsewhere.

What does this tell any of us? But for the Israeli Mossad, the American CIA, the British MI6, and their respective Commanders-in-Chief, the operative concept is “plausible deniability.”

Mainstream American governmental and media sources confirm publicly that the MEK is the source of the information being used by pro-Israeli American Neo-Conservatives to argue for a military attack on Iran to preemptively strike the latter’s alleged weaponized nuclear program and its supposed desire to use it against Israel.

It is noteworthy that this “information” contradicts the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report prepared by the 16 intelligence agencies of the American national security establishment regarding Iran and its nuclear program.

Worse yet, there have been repeated allegations in the international press corroborated by Israel’s critics in the American intelligence community that these MEK-generated reports and the lies in them being repeated incessantly by every War Party news agency from CNN to Fox News, World Net Daily, The Weekly Standard, NewsMax, and National Review, are in fact nothing more than the Israeli government’s brokering of deliberate agitation-propaganda to the voluminously gullible and ignorant consumers of these well-packaged charades which employ the MEK as the broker.

In essence, it would appear to be the case beyond a shadow of a doubt that the MEK is playing the same Judas Goat role for the American and Israeli intelligence establishments that the Iraqi National Congress (INC) and Ahmad Chalabi did with their brokered nonsense before the last American invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein possessed “Weapons of Mass Destruction.”

This is a critical angle to this present story involving the MEK. Why should the people of the United States and honest policy makers in Washington (all 10 of them?) now believe sources on Iran in 2011 with every motive for lying and a past record of doing so, especially in the last ten years?

After the last assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist in Tehran, Newsweek magazine all but confirmed the role of the Mossad and the MEK in that murder (and the previous episodes as well).[16]  The coverage was preposterously positive regarding these killings.

To put into perspective just how this ruthless game is played, your readers may find it interesting that when the late Sidney Harman owned Newsweek, his wife was California Democratic Congressman Jane Harman, a member of the House Intelligence Committee.  According to Pat Buchanan, Mrs. Harman was overheard on an American National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap assuring some Israelis at the other end of the conversation that she would use her considerable and covert influence on Capitol Hill to have American prosecutors drop their espionage case against Weissman and Rosen of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) for illegally obtaining classified National Security Council (NSC) documents on Iran from one Larry Franklin, so-called NSC expert on Iran.

This is just one example of how American financial, political, and media power always seems to intersect when it comes to the subject of Israel. And since Israel and the MEK are now full business partners in directing their animus at Iran, the MEK will draw an increasingly free pass in the American media and government, as long as they are doing the Mossad and Israeli Lobby’s bidding.

All of this of course, increases the moral bankruptcy of this policy mix exponentially, when considered in conjunction with the clearly established fact that Israel is the weaponized nuclear monolith of the Middle East; has never and presumably will never submit to any form of international inspection of its nuclear program, not to mention its known stockpile of every biological and chemical warfare agent known to humanity;[17] while the Zionist State’s policies in Occupied Territories and Gaza, as evidenced by its military assault on the civilian Mavi Marmara humanitarian flotilla in international waters in May of 2009, and the earlier Operation Cast Lead in Gaza,[18] are the acts of an increasingly desperate entity led by a criminal cabal of sociopaths.

If the United States is worrying about nuclear weapons in the hands of the wrong people, it should start with taking a hard look at our leading “ally” in the region. But the money trail will keep that from ever happening.

• [1] James Phillips, “Protests in Iran: Beyond the Tweets, What Trump Should Do Now,” Newsweek, January 3, 2018.
• [2] “Netanyahu predicts Iran regime change, denies Israel’s involvement in protests,” Russia Today, January 2, 2018.
• [3] “‘Leader, we’re ready!’ 10,000s march in Iran in support of govt & Khamenei,” Russia Today, January 3, 2018.
• [4] Ibid.
• [5] Ibid.
• [6] “Netanyahu predicts Iran regime change, denies Israel’s involvement in protests,” Russia Today, January 2, 2018.
• [7] “‘Leader, we’re ready!’ 10,000s march in Iran in support of govt & Khamenei,” Russia Today, January 3, 2018.
• [8] Jonathan Broder, “Saudi Arabia is bombing Yemen but blames humanitarian disaster on Iran-backed Houthis,” Newsweek, September 21, 2017.
• [9] Ibid.
• [10] Christopher Simpson, The Science of Coercion: Communication Research and Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994), 8.
• [11] Ibid., 12.
• [12] Ibid.
• [13] Ibid.
• [14] Robert Fisk, “A Word of Advice About the Middle East—We’ve Reached the ‘Tipping Point’ with Cliches,” Independent, Dec. 24, 2012.
• [15] John Allen Gray, “Should We Bomb Iran to Save Money?,” National Interest, Dec. 27, 2012.
• [16] For further studies, see Michael Bar-Zoha and Nissim Mishal, Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service (New York: Harper Collins, 2012); Dan Raviv and Yossi Melman, Spies Against Armageddon: Inside Israel’s Secret Wars (New York: Levant Books, 2012).
• [17] For further studies on this, see Avner Cohen, Israel and the Bomb (New York: Columbia University Press, 1998); The Worst-Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010); Michael Karpin, The Bomb in the Basement: How Israel Went Nuclear and What That Means for the World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006).
• [18] Norman Finkelstein, Method and Madness: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Assaults on Gaza (New York: OR Books, 2015).

Jonas E. Alexis, Senior Editor

Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the book, Kevin MacDonald’s Metaphysical Failure: A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Critique of Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, and Identity Politics. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.

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