Washington Post Obtuseness on the United States Deep State by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2019-11-05 at 13:41:46 )

Washington Post Obtuseness on the United States Deep State by Jacob G. Hornberger

An article in yesterdays Washington Post provides a perfect example of the obtuseness of the mainstream press to the United States deep state and its dark-side practices. The article is entitled "Irans Hostage Factory" by Jason Rezalan.

Mr. Rezalans article revolves a condemnation of Irans dictatorial regime. No surprise there. Criticizing Iran, which is considered an "enemy" or "opponent" or "rival" by the United States deep state, has become standard fare for critiques by the United States mainstream press, just like Russia and China.

What is fascinating about Mr. Rezalans article, however, is how he fails to draw parallels in his article with the dark-side policies and practices of the United States deep state.

Mr. Rezalan details many of the horrors committed by the Iranian government, such as taking hostages for political purposes, holding people without charges or trial, denial of due process of law, forced confessions, and other such things.

He writes that Iran takes hostages to use as bargaining chips to extract political concessions from other countries.

One of the things he does not mention is that it is the United States deep state, and specifically the Central Intelligence Agency, that is indirectly responsible for the existence of Irans tyrannical regime.

Not surprisingly, Mr. Rezalan brings up the Iranian revolution in 1979, when radical Iranian students stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran and took United States diplomats hostage. He says that that hostage-taking episode laid the seeds for later episodes of Iranian hostage-taking.

What he does not say, however, is why those radical students took those United States of American diplomats hostage.

Why does he not?

Surely he is familiar with the story.

And yes, it would involve criticism of the United States deep state, but why should that matter?

Why should the United States deep state be given a pass for its dark-side policies and practices in the context of criticizing the dark-side policies and practices of the Iranian regime?

Those radical Iranian students took those United States of American diplomats hostage because they were afraid that United States officials were conspiring to return their brutal dictator, the Shah of Iran, to power in Iran.

That is what their revolution was all about it - ousting the Shah from power and making sure he could not be returned to power by the United States government.

Why were they concerned about that possibility?

Because the United States deep state, specifically the Central Intelligence Agency, was the one that had placed the Shah into power in Iran in the first place!

In 1953, Iran had a working democracy.

A man named Mohammad Mossadegh was elected by the Iranian parliament to be prime minister. Mr. Mossadegh was highly admired in Iran. Time magazine named him its "man of the year."

The Central Intelligence Agency did not like Mr. Mossadegh because he dared to nationalize British oil interests in Iran.

In the eyes of the United States deep state, that made Mr. Mossadegh a Soviet-Union-leaning communist, one who had to be targeted for ouster.

Thus, the Central Intelligence Agency conspired (yes, conspired) to engineer a top-secret coup, one that succeeded in ousting Mr. Mossadegh from power and replacing him with the Shah, who the Central Intelligence Agency immediately vested with total, dictatorial powers over the Iranian people.

To fortify his dictatorial rule over Iran, the CIA helped him to form his SAVAK internal police force, which was a combination military, CIA, and NSA.

The CIA also trained the SAVAK in such dark arts of torture, indefinite detention, and censorship. To the CIAs "credit," it did not assassinate Mr. Mossadegh, instead deciding to permit him to continue living, albeit under house arrest.

The Shahs 25-year reign turned out to be one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world, one fully supported by the United States government, especially the deep state part of the government.

The United States deep state did not care one iota about the Shahs horrific abuse of the Iranian people.

On the contrary, they supported it.

In their eyes, the Shah was a "patriot" because he was "pro-United States" and any Iranian who objected to the Shahs dictatorship was considered a "traitor."

In 1979, the Iranian people had had enough of this horrific United States-supported tyranny.

That is when they initiated the violent coup that ousted him from power.

That is also why the United States deep state has hated the Iranian people ever since.

In their minds, the Iranian people were wrong to oust the United States-installed Shah.

That is why the United States deep state has been committed to regime change ever since 1979.

Their aim ever since the revolution has been to oust Irans independent, anti-United States regime and install another Shah-like dictator, one who will once again do the bidding of the United States deep state.

Unfortunately, in the aftermath of their successful revolution, the Iranian people were unable to restore their experiment with democracy that the United States deep state destroyed in 1953.

They ended up with a theocratic regime that was every bit as dictatorial as the Shahs regime.

Thus, while condemning Irans tyrannical regime, Mr. Rezalan fails to point out that it was the United States deep state that is indirectly responsible for bringing it into existence.

If there had not been a CIA coup in 1953 that destroyed Irans experiment with democracy, there would not have been a 1979 revolution to oust the CIAs dictator, the Shah, from power and, therefore, there would not be a dictatorial theocratic regime in Iran today.

Mr. Rezalan also fails to point that the same United States deep state that trained the Shahs SAVAK in the dark arts of tyranny, which have been adopted by Irans current regime, are still being employed by the United States deep state.

Hostage taking for political purposes?

Go talk to Meng Wanzhou, an executive in the major Chinese company Huawei. United States officials are holding her hostage in Canada under a ridiculous extradition effort arising out of supposed violation of ludicrous United States sanctions on Iran.

Why should a Chinese official have to obey United States sanctions on a foreign country?

Exactly!

But you can rest assured that as soon as the United States trade war with China is settled, she will be released as part of the deal.

Denial of due process?

Indefinite detention?

Torture?

Forced confessions?

Go talk to the United States deep states victims at Guantanamo Bay.

Hey, at least Iran ends up giving people "trials," even if they are kangaroo in nature.

The United States deep state does not even go that far.

There are people who have been languishing in the deep states torture and prison camp in Cuba for more than a decade without a trial.

Pointing out the faults and foibles of foreign regimes is always popular and acceptable in every country, including Iran.

But would it not be better to lead the world by cleaning up the faults and failure of ones own government?

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!