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US Publicly Backs Iran Protests As\u00a0Khamenei Says Crackdown On “Thugs” Coming<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It took Washington all of two days to jump behind the large popular protests<\/a> over gas price hikes which gripped cities across Iran since Friday. Over the weekend the US State Department predictably came out in favor of more protests, in a volatile situation in the sanctions-ravaged country which has already witnessed multiple demonstrators killed and over a thousands arrested, and banks and gas stations torched in anger over soaring gas prices<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Given Uncle Sam is\u00a0all too eager to hijack any Iranian domestic protests for the purpose of ‘regime change’<\/strong>\u00a0in what’s currently\u00a0a middle and lower class driven movement over the deteriorating economic situation and drastic change in policy which saw petrol subsidies suddenly slashed, this could be the very recipe which brings the unrest to a halt. Ayatollah\u00a0Khamenei already labeled those behind vandalism and sabotage as “thugs” and described them as\u00a0“counter-revolutionary” forces<\/strong>, in reference to Iran’s ‘Islamic revolutionary’ government.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Central Bank In Behbahan, Iran being engulfed in flames as demonstrators chant.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Islamic Republic’s clerics and political leaders will now no doubt paint the crowds in the streets as being the servants of US and Israeli imperial aggression and interference. But then again, considering that the Trump administration established a special CIA unit reportedly named the ‘Iran Mission Center’<\/a> \u2014 with an express purpose to facilitate US-driven political change in the country \u2014 the mullahs might not be too far off the mark in their paranoia and suspicions at any “spontaneous” uprising. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe proud Iranian people are not staying silent about the government\u2019s abuses,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>Pompeo said in\u00a0a statement published Sunday<\/a>, saying that \u201cthe United States is with you,\u201d and will\u00a0stand against\u00a0Iran\u2019s \u201ctyranny.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US Publicly Backs Iran Protests As\u00a0Khamenei Says Crackdown On “Thugs” Coming It took Washington all of two days to jump behind the large popular protests over gas price hikes which gripped cities across Iran since Friday. Over the weekend the US State Department predictably came out in favor of more protests, in a volatile situation in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20982,441,1343,2344,865,4318],"class_list":["post-49713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-ayatollah-khamenei","tag-iran","tag-regime-change","tag-us-state-department","tag-washington","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49714,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49713\/revisions\/49714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}