"a CIA-backed coup d’etat"
And they are doing it again!
See my Iran labels for more.
"Ayatollah warns Iranian reformists; Street protests expected today" by Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times | July 21, 2009
BEIRUT, Lebanon - Iran’s supreme leader yesterday warned government opponents to end a campaign of civil disobedience while defiant reformists proposed a nationwide referendum to resolve the ongoing dispute over the country’s recent presidential election.
Yeah, it is is civil disobedience despite their violence. Sigh.
The moves show that neither supporters of opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi nor the camp backing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is backing down five weeks after an election marred by allegations of fraud. The call for a referendum is the latest in a series of direct challenges against the authority of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, whose demand weeks ago that Iranians accept Ahmadinejad as president for a second term has gone unheeded.
In pointed comments aimed at the reformist camp, Khamenei warned the country’s political class that “any words they utter, any action they take, any analysis they express’’ could help the nation’s international rivals. It was Khamenei’s first public comment since a prayer sermon Friday by Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a Mousavi backer, whose words of support for key reformist demands energized the opposition.
Related: The Crying Coup Leader
Khamenei, describing the unrest as a foreign plot, appears to be trying to silence the opposition by vowing to crack down on dissidents and by rejecting the view that the country is in a state of political crisis. But the wounds show no signs of healing, and opposition figures show no sign of relenting. The rift within the establishment was highlighted again yesterday by the absence of Rafsanjani, chairman of two powerful government boards, and reformist clergy from an annual Muslim holiday gathering in the capital, according to television footage.
New street protests are expected today in downtown Tehran and other cities in support of Mousavi on the anniversary of the day in 1952 when soldiers refused to fire on demonstrators supporting Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a nationalist hero who was removed in a CIA-backed coup d’etat.
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Of course, that was a "covert action program, a particularly secret category in which the role of the United States is hidden"
Which the agenda-pushing MSM does quite well, thank you.
