And
here we are again, going through the exact same dance once more. On
last night’s Hannity, three longtime Iran hawks were gathered
before Fox News cameras like we’ve never done this before to
explain to their audience how deeply concerning it is that the US
government isn’t providing weapons to Iranian protesters, and how
we should all want the US government to support the opposition groups
by giving them whatever they want.
Sean
Hannity, who was one of the loudest and most aggressive proponents of
the unforgivable Iraq invasion in US media, twice expressed grave
concern when speaking with his two guests that the protesters in Iran
don’t have weapons to protect themselves from the Iranian
government.
“Let
me ask you,” Hannity said to Amir-Abbas Fakhravar, “you have
helped organize what’s happening today. You are in touch with them
every day. How do you win a revolution without weapons? When you have
the Quds and the Revolutionary Guard and the other military?”
He
then said to former UN Ambassador John Bolton, “I don’t know of
many revolutions that people win with slingshots and baseball bats.
If people aren’t armed, Ambassador, my fear is we will wake up to a
massacre of a lot of these young students. That is a fear that I
believe is quite legitimate, sadly.”
Bolton,
who remains one of the only people on the planet still insisting that
the Iraq invasion was a good decision, agreed with Hannity’s
melodramatic show of concern, and said that if opposition forces rise
up in Iran, America should give them whatever they want.
“I
think we’ve got to go to the various aspects of the
opposition — this is a very complex phenomenon that’s going
on — and see what we can do to help them,” said Bolton. “I
think in the immediate near term they need communications help inside
Iran because the government has been effective in shutting down or
slowing down the internet. I think they need finances so that they
can communicate better inside Iran, and ultimately they may need
assistance more than that. Now the opposition here in the United
States, which is pretty fearsome, says ‘Oh my goodness that would
taint what’s going on in Iran!’ You know honestly the people who
know best what they need are the opposition figures inside Iran. If
they’re content to take American and other outside support, I think
we should provide it to them.”
These
are protests these men are talking about. There’s no reason to even
be talking about this as though it’s a civil war at this point in
the game (and judging from some reports the protests themselves are
already diminishing), and yet these insatiable neocons are talking
about this with the same salivating exuberance with which they spoke
of arming “moderate rebels” in Libya and Syria.
Amir-Abbas
Fakhravar was there to help spin the “revolution” narrative.
After taking time to spell out for the Islamophobic Fox News audience
that the crowd protesters had been chanting “Death to Ayatollah”
but “no allahu akbar chant at all,” Fakhravar went on to gush
about how these are the kind of people who can change the entire
Middle East, again echoing western sentiment about the so-called Arab
Spring which led to the disasters in Libya and Syria just a few years
ago.
“This
is a revolution,” Fakhravar said.
This
is a man with extensive and well-documented ties to
neoconservativesand Iran hawks. Billionaire oligarch Sheldon Adelson,
who was the largest Trump campaign donor in 2016 and once advocated
dropping a nuclear bomb on Iran to scare its government into
compliance, once said he liked Fakhravar because he’d said that if
the US attacks Iran, “the Iranian people will be ecstatic.”
In
his Hannity appearance, Fakhravar made sure to tell the audience to
Google him and find out about his suffering under the Iranian
government, which Hannity also took some time to brief them on.
So
we’ve got three longstanding Iran hawks carefully constructing a
propaganda narrative for the Fox News crowd explaining why it will be
a good thing if America does with Iran exactly what it did with Libya
and Syria. In both those countries large protests were quickly
infiltrated by foreign actors, and extremist factions quickly arose
to be covertly armed, funded and trained by the US and its allies.
These actions snuffed out half a million human lives in Syria and
created a failed state in Libya where people are now sold as slaves.
The
CIA, which has an extensive history of starting wars and staging
coups in countries all around the world, has cranked up its
operations in Iran during the Trump administration, which is
reportedly now working to “incubate the nascent Iranian
revolution”. The CIA provided arms to extremist opposition forces
in both Libya and Syria.
The
mainstream media (and we can expect the more “liberal” MSM
outlets to follow suit in due time) are doing this to manufacture
consent for more regime change interventionism in yet another Middle
Eastern country. They are doing this because they require that
consent. The amount of inconvenience that can be caused by a populace
who will not tolerate more senseless warmongering and destabilization
projects on the other side of the world causes too many obstacles to
make it worthwhile, so enough outrage and noncompliance can be all it
takes to spare the world that much more chaos and bloodshed.
They
are working to manufacture consent, just like they did with Iraq
using the same damn goon squad. The thing about consent, though, is
that it can be given or withheld. So withhold it. Be intensely
skeptical of this same power structure that lied to you about Iraq.
Stare them right in the eye, point and scream whenever they do
something weird, and let them know you see them and you refuse to
allow another country to be decimated in your name.
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