Chavez blames the US for Iran protests

Posted: Thu 25 Jun 2009 8 11 am

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said he believed the US was behind the protests in Iran.

He offered no evidence but said the unrest in Iran followed a pattern seen in various countries, where the CIA and "the imperial hand" of European countries were involved.

He spoke just hours after it was confirmed that the US and Venezuela were to return their ambassadors to each other's countries following tit-for-tat expulsions last year.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8117242.stm

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Posted: Fri 3 Jul 2009 7 24 am

Not that nutty...they did say they were going to do this...

From Telegraph 27 May 2007

Bush sanctions 'black ops' against Iran

President George W Bush has given the CIA approval to launch covert "black" operations to achieve regime change in Iran, intelligence sources have revealed.

Mr Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilise, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs.

Under the plan, pressure will be brought to bear on the Iranian economy by manipulating the country's currency and international financial transactions.

Details have also emerged of a covert scheme to sabotage the Iranian nuclear programme, which United Nations nuclear watchdogs said last week could lead to a bomb within three years.

Security officials in Washington have disclosed that Teheran has been sold defective parts on the black market in a bid to delay and disrupt its uranium enrichment programme, the precursor to building a nuclear weapon.

A security source in the US told The Sunday Telegraph that the presidential directive, known as a "non-lethal presidential finding", would give the CIA the right to collect intelligence on home soil, an area that is usually the preserve of the FBI, from the many Iranian exiles and emigrÃ©s within the US.

"Iranians in America have links with their families at home, and they are a good two-way source of information," he said.

The CIA will also be allowed to supply communications equipment which would enable opposition groups in Iran to work together and bypass internet censorship by the clerical regime.

The plans, which significantly increase American pressure on Iran, were leaked just days before a meeting in Iraq tomorrow between the US ambassador, Ryan Crocker, and his Iranian counterpart.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1552784/Bush-sanctions-black-ops-against-Iran.html