Tehran and the British Spy Game
asharq alawsat / Amir Taheri
29-Aug-2009 (2 comments)

It may take years before a full account of Iran's current political crisis, triggered by last June's disputed presidential elections, is written.

However, someone within the establishment in Tehran is already writing it in the style of spy thrillers.

According to that version, publicized by state media and peddled in show-trials, the crisis, whose outcome remains uncertain, was the fruit of plots by Western intelligence services whose secret aim was to transform Iran into "a secular republic".

The storyline goes something like this: In the early 1990s, British Intelligence (MI6) persuaded the Clinton administration in Washington that the Khomeinist regime in Iran was ripe for a "velvet revolution" that is to say regime change without war. The Americans agreed, leaving the Brits in charge of the conspiracy.

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IranPars

Taheri's words are NOT anti-Iranian,

by IranPars on Sun Aug 30, 2009 03:11 AM PDT

but rather, anti-IRI -- if you don't know the difference between the two by now, then you're clueless, or probably, a member of the  vilified IRI.

Either way, k1s1000, you sound very biased.

DEATH TO ISLAMIC FASCISM

SASSAN


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k1s1000

Mr. Taheri you are NOT up-to-date

by k1s1000 on Sat Aug 29, 2009 02:52 PM PDT

Read news man. Why do you have to write just for the sake of writing? Are you paid by the number of "words" you write? We can send you a lot of words. I guess as long as they are anti-iranian, they will get published.


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