What is/are the best sources for what is going currently in Iran? Is it a regime change OP by the west? An attempt to destabilize Iran enough to slow down their nuclear program? A legitimate response to gov’t repression? What do you think? Where is the most reliable source for ML’s to get news about Iran from?
The protests, while undoubtedly affected by legitimate grievances, are too sudden and too violent to be purely organic; the fingerprints of the CIA, Mossad and Saudi Arabia are all over this. Kurdish nationalism has also been invoked by the west, there are now attempted coups in some places that the IRGC has violently put down or is planning to do so. All in all, the west is just trying to turn Iran into the next Syria. Inshallah, they will not succeed. As for sources, I get my information from tons of places and spend a borderline unhealthy amount of time getting my news, but I can’t think of one source that presents all the information in an unbiased way.
but I can’t think of one source that presents all the information in an unbiased way.
I understand that. When it comes to Iran, I know less than I do about Russia/Ukraine for example. So when I read mainstream US sources about that conflict, I know what’s what. With Iran it’s different.
Can you link to any good background about Iran?
Long story short, what is happening is an attempt to do to Iran what was done to Syria. They would love to get regime change in a color revolution format if they could but they realize that is a long shot, so in lieu of that they will settle for just causing as much destabilization and chaos as possible. The protests are heavily astroturfed and fed by regime change agents in the West, they include significant violent elements that attack state security forces and try to cause them to crack down too hard so that they can use that to generate more unrest. Also there are US funded and armed groups operating out of Iraq and Syria that are behind a lot of terrorist attacks in Iran at the moment, hence the anti-terrorist operations that were launched recently.
Syrianization is the model that the imperialists are currently attempting to apply everywhere they can, because they know they are too weak to get full regime change anymore but they hope they can at least cause civil conflict and use that as a pretext to establish themselves and their proxies in at least a part of the territory that they want to keep under their control.
Ukraine will likely end up in a Syria type scenario where the US and US backed proxy regime hold on to a part of the country and continue to use it to wage a hybrid/assymetrical war using terrorist tactics on Russia. But they will not be successful doing this in Iran. Iran’s government is simply too stable, the idea of overthrowing it is very unpopular. Their control over the country is pretty secure.
thanks for the context.
The Cradle and Al Mayadeen are always good sources for events in the middle east. You can also check out PressTV to get the Iranian view. Breakthrough News also occasionally cover the region. And if you find interviews with Prof. Mohammad Marandi they are always worth listening to, you can learn a ton about Iran from them.
Thanks. I don’t know how I forgot about Breakthrough news 🤦
I’ll check out those other sources.
It’s interesting that while things in Iran are heating up the US military is claiming Iran will have better nuclear capabilities than DPRK in about 10 years…
I would be skeptical about any nuclear claims about Iran. They have a multi decade track record of being totally wrong. Iran seems ideologically opposed to nuclear weapons on moral/religious grounds. They obviously could develop them very quickly if they wanted to but my feeling is they won’t.
Imo all that nuclear talk besides just being a flimsy justification for keeping up the sanctions regime is a distraction from what the imperialists and their proxies in occupied Palestine are really afraid of when it comes to Iran and that’s their formidable missile and drone arsenal, especially now that there is active technological exchange with Russia, Iran is likely to get hypersonic cruise missiles before the US does. And that is a much scarier sword of Damocles over the Zionist occupation forces than any nuclear weapon because hypersonics being used on them is actually plausible and would not cause the same kind of global consternation that a nuclear attack would.
well what I meant is the nuclear claims wrt to Iran is it’s more western justification for getting involved in Iran
