People who want to understand Iran should read the Iranian press. Imagine foreigners trying to understand the US without ever seeing the NY times, Washington Post or any other US media.

The Iranian press says the MKO (look it up) was involved in provoking violence. Certainly plausible. They say a small number incited violence, burning cars and shops; that dozens of police officers were injured, that they never fired on the crowds, that Mr. Mousavi was not in the demonstrations and was killed in a drive by elsewhere. True? I don’t know, but we need to know what they say, just as we need to know what the lying MSM in the US says to clearly understand the political landscape here.

Who benefits from the violence in the streets in Iran? It is unlikely that most citizens there taking their grievances to the streets attack the police and incite violence. It is also unlikely that the authorities would present the west with a free propaganda show by gratuitously attacking peaceful people. These people are not stupid.

Such displays only benefit those who are preparing the political landscape for war against Iran.

I cannot work out where Fisk is coming from these days. He has done great and courageous work for much of his career but these two most recent pieces (the Anne Frank brain-fart and this one) reveal muddled analysis coupled with a lack of political understanding.
I am wading through his “The Great War for Civilization - The Conquest of the Middle East” which is also somewhat inconsistent. I am beginning to wonder if, despite his intellectual grasp of the rights and wrongs of Western Colonialist enterprise in the Middle East, he retains a colonial prejudice against all things Islam. This would fit with pink gins on his balcony in Beirut in the company of cronies who lament the passing of European dominance in the region and the rise of self-determination by the native population. I have seen this type of thing before - well meaning “Sahibs” who who support self-determination and are disappointed when the result does not conform to a Western ideal.

Much of what is criticized in the Iranian political system is specifically designed to avert the kind of dominance by financial interests that has so perverted the political process in the West. Fisk seems unaware of this and it is heartening to see posts here by folk who do comprehend that fact.

Then again it might simply be be too many pink gins on his balcony.

TAO Walker, you’re right, but Fisk knows very well what he’s doing. He’s not being used. He’s an operative, always has been, always will be, and he lies, lies, lies.

His little colour-revolution heroes have atrocious human rights records and are notorious tools of the west, especially as providers of terror-on-demand whenever we need an excuse to bomb someone, fund some black-ops boondoggle, or take away some more civil rights.

First, the bloody-handed Mousavi that Fisk used to pretend was the most dangerous of enemies:
http://dprogram.net/2009/06/23/mousavi-was-the-butcher-of-beirut/

Hossein Ali Montazeri:
http://www.vdare.com/roberts/090617_iran.htm
Montazeri’s only goal is the loss of Iranian sovereignty so he can cash out from his western handlers and sell his country into a proxy tool for use by the west against China and Russia.

Listen up: everyone IN Iran knows that Ahmadinejad is an underling with little or no power. Nobody IN Iran would ever “protest Ahmadinejad”. They would LAUGH at the idea. It would be like protesting Obama—there is no point in protesting someone who is several layers removed from the actual decision makers. Whenever you see rallies against Ahmadinejad it’s strictly for Western consumption. Little clue here too: “Where is My Vote?” painted on demonstrators signs? Tisk, tisk, Fisk; your readership is dumb but could they ever really buy into Iranians marching with ENGLISH signs? OMG.

So, bearing in mind that in Iran the Presidency is a token position, I hope everyone can see that when Fisk says incredibly stupid things like “and one of the most influential of them—perhaps the closest of all the ayatollahs to President Ahmadinejad—is silent” you know he’s just being the total stool-tool that he always has been. It actually PROVES it, if you’ll think things over for a minute. Because Fisk himself is well aware that ImaDinnerJacket is just that…the external trappings of power with near-zero influence. His role was ostensibly to take heat for the clerics, but it stopped working a long time ago. He’s now just their crier.

Even Khamenei, Ahmadinejad’s immediate superior, who has somewhat more power but not that much, can be replaced by the governing counsel of clerics. Even he is not only NOT a dictator, but nor has he even the power to be one if he wanted to try. The real power is all behind the scenes in the hands of the clerics, like here in the US except the clerics are international financiers and industrialists. Get it?

When reading Fisk, you have to know what his aims are. He’s not even pro-USA except when London’s and the US’s aims happen to overlap, as they do with Iran (for now). His economic prognostications, for example, are all geared at restoring the financial hegemony of the London banks at the expense of US interests (it’s always been that way) thus you see his doom and gloom articles about dollar devaluation “just around the corner”, etc. In the matter of Iran he’s only taking the US stance because the alternative is to let Russia and/or China gain the upper hand over the combined Western hegemony.

Is the subject of this piece being set-up to be “boogie-man du jour” one of these days?  Having habituated theamericanpeople to expect some arch-villain at the center of whatever “threat” is being touted as requiring massive military “intervention,” it sure looks to this Old Savage like Mr. Mesbah-Yadzi is being tailored here, by the militarists in both national-security-state terrorist regimes, to fit the role whenever the Zionist tail decides to “wag” the americandog against Iran.

Robert Fisk may or may not know he is being used here, by ruthless interests unCONcerned about the CONsequences of their machinations on the milling herds of homo domesticus trapped in the “global” feedlot.  He may even feel, as so many in his still relatively comfortable place in the privateering pyramid scheme seem to, that he is safe from the widespread disintegration already affecting the vast majority of his fella ‘n’ gal captive Humans.

Either way, though, he’s in for a rude awakening one of these Days.

HokaHey!

Iran, Iran, Iran…

Fisk definitely has some good points…

but you know this omnipresent fixation on Iran….

as a preamble to illegal and unprovoked war on Iran…

Iran…

you know, yet another CIA colored revolution to effect regime change…  for israel’s benefit, another one of its paranoid schemes…

“amerika’s got to do it, we can’t let israel do it, lest their reputation suffer” - dixit NYT on Xmas eve, no less, you know peace on earth and stuff… I kid you not…  (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/opinion/24kuperman.html)

and yet, not a word on Political assassinations by the US puppet in Honduras by the truckload to this day, after an oreobama orchestrated coup in june,  I mean wake up and call a spade a spade. Total radio silence on all msm and western media.  and yet…
http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/23460

So you’ll excuse me if I don’t get too worked up on the next zionist-R-US we need to overturn Iran plot.

To be perfectly honnest I hope the Iranians soon have a credible nuke and intercontinental delivery system, do you think US and israel might just cool it a bit then?

could we then have…  peace? even if M.A.D

how many countries has Iran invaded, occupied and ramsacked lately…  how many civilians has it slaughtered with white phosphorous?

whatever this Iraninan thing has evolved into, nobody can deny that, at the onset, it had dirty western intellingence agencies’ fingerprints all over it.

but in our msm universe we get caught up in the swirl of it all…

What?  msm don’t lie?

it doesn’t do anything but!

i.e.  latest 1984 “war is peace” example:

“Copenhagen was a great success” (oreobama, sarkonazi , brown, etc.. dixit and repeated all msm, US, Europe)  when it is clear it was a total disaster! (ask third world!)  proof enough for you or have you given up on paying attention?