CIA attempts to topple Ahmadinejad at SCO Yekaterinburg summit

[Magda Hassan]

More wheels within wheels.

The sources are Jeff Stein, who is a frequent MSM TV talking head and thus a connected insider, and Bob Baer who is a ? Yes. Baer is precisely ?

Plus ret Admiral Lyons, who used to run Navy SEALS "Red Cell counter-terror" operations.

Is this bitching amongst insider factions? Or a flicker in the aether revealing deep geopolitical twitchings far from preterite sight?

I wonder instead, Jan, whether the Stein piece you cited represents neither the negation of the strategy nor the public surfacing of an elite rift, but rather the strategy's logical culmination? By which I mean the burning of an asset who was never intended to prevail, merely - merely! - to change the climateric? What if the strategy's real intention was to bolster the forces of repression and intolerance within the regime? This, after all, was the object of the CIA's first great post-war triumph, Operation Splinter Factor. Such an interpretation would explain a great deal about what didn't happen, and why a figure as compromised as Mousavi was chosen to front the seeming putsch.

Paul

This scenario certainly suits the Israeli hawks. Mousavi sure is a compromised choice.