[ Iran ] A Virtual Revolution Too Far
After playing virtual war in Ukraine — and getting their asses handed to them — the same crowd is now cosplaying revolution in Iran from the comfort of their keyboards.
Disinformation, illustrated.
Iranians setting fire to mosques in Iran? Why not, while we’re at it, have anti-Netanyahu protesters torch a synagogues in Tel Aviv. Absurd? Exactly. In reality, these protesters lit fires near the mosque, outside its perimeter. That is not the same thing as setting the building itself ablaze—no matter how hard the spin doctors try.
The perennial mirage of an Iranian “revolution,” dusted off every two years to pressure the United States into attacking Iran, is this time accompanied by a tidal wave of astroturfing—conveniently synchronized, by sheer coincidence of course, with the U.S. kidnapping of Maduro last week.
Make no mistake: this is a psychological operation. Its target is not the Iranian population, but Western public opinion. The tempo is accelerating this weekend to manufacture a casus belli and shepherd public consent toward an intervention in Iran, following the well-worn “humanitarian” playbook of Kosovo, Georgia, Ukraine, Libya etc.
No one is buying it—except, as usual, the small cohort of useful idiots who already swallowed the narratives on Covid and Ukraine.
Israel’s expectations—at the root of this ham-fisted campaign—were swiftly and unceremoniously shattered by JD Vance, the U.S. vice president.
Hasbara no longer works, even as Trump struts and boasts about hypothetical “aid” to the “Iranian people”—at the very moment when every major U.S. oil corporation has delivered him a firm and final refusal to invest in Venezuela. Yet another regime-change operation collapsing into an oil spill, exactly as we predicted on January 5.
The question no one ever asks, in an increasingly infantilized “Europe” obsessed with gazing at its own navel, is this: why are some Iranians protesting?
These demonstrators are a long way from representing Iranian society as a whole. They come from the westernized urban petty bourgeoisie, and they are not protesting for regime change, but against water and electricity cuts and the rising cost of living. The rest, as always, consists of rioters financed from abroad, tasked with provoking repression and producing the kind of striking images designed to leave a lasting impression on Western audiences.
