Does the CIA Still Control Iran?
Proxy Wars and Proxy States
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I’m sure some reading this are thinking, ‘I didn’t come here to get questions, I came here to get answers.’
That’s fine, but let me start off by saying anyone who claims to have all the answers should be avoided like the plague. The truth is none of us have all the answers. The best we can do is to add pieces to the puzzle and take a step back and try and figure out what the puzzle is. The more pieces we fill in, the less guessing we have to do, but until the puzzle pieces are completely filled in, we can’t claim to have all the answers, or to know exactly what the puzzle will look like when complete.
This morning, I saw an article about a confiscated, or what I like to call, stolen, super yacht of a Russian Oligarch, that was auctioned off for $67.6 million. I suppose it would have been too obvious to buy it for $66.6 million. Anyway, who do you think won the auction? None other than Eric Schmidt.
Some might recognize this name. He was the former CEO and later Executive Chairman of Google and later Alphabet, Google’s parent company. He announced that he was going to step down from his position on 12/21/17. His current net worth is estimated to be around $25 billion.
BTW, if you ever want to know what agenda or narrative the CIA is pushing or what ideas or values they are suppressing, just look at the Google search bar on any holiday or created holiday. When they are pushing a narrative, the Google search bar is majorly done up on the holiday; when it’s an idea or value they are suppressing, the search bar just says, ‘Google’ on the day of the holiday.
Let’s take a quick detour for a minute.
Remember when Obama was POTUS and we used to hear a lot about the FAANG stocks: FaceBook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google. Not Fang Fang, Eric Swalwell’s Chinese spy girlfriend, but FAANG.
These five companies dominated the stock market during Obama’s time in office. They kept the stock market afloat during his time, giving cover to the damage he was doing to the economy. What do these companies all have in common besides being tech stocks? I would argue that they are all CIA-run, CIA-funded, CIA-controlled companies that all collect our information and were given preferential treatment by the Obama administration. Given unfair advantages over their competitors. All these companies are used to influence us, and most have been used to censor us.
Currently, another small group of companies are keeping the stock market afloat, some of them in FAANG, and I would argue they are all connected, either past or present to the CIA as well.
Back to Eric Schmidt.
Some reading this may remember the picture of Schmidt in the Q drops. The picture of him standing over North Korean military personnel busy on their computers. What is Eric Schmidt doing in North Korea? I thought foreigners weren’t allowed in, and what business would he have being there? The picture implies that Schmidt and the CIA were training the North Koreans, and that the CIA in fact controls North Korea.
Some may also remember how President Trump put out an Executive Order on 12/20/17: EO 13818, blocking the property of persons involved in serious human rights abuse. If you look back a few paragraphs, you will see Eric Schmidt announced he was stepping down from Alphabet the day after the EO was announced. Literally the next day. Seems kind of suspicious.
I’m very confident in saying the CIA fully controlled North Korea for years, using them as an artificially-created enemy of the US. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the military industrial complex needed new enemies to push the threat of war and world unrest. Around this same time, violent Muslim extremists became a fear in everyone’s mind as well.
When Trump became President, he seemed to have cut the strings of the CIA in regard to their control over North Korea. We were told if Trump became POTUS, wars would break out, and North Korea would attack America. In reality, the exact opposite occurred. Relations between the US and North Korea became better than ever, culminating with the shaking of hands of Trump and Kim Jong-Un at the North and South Korean demilitarized zone.
In a nutshell, I’m suggesting that North Korea was created by the CIA to have a manufactured, but controlled enemy to use as a threat, allowing Americans to be controlled through fear while giving the military industrial complex a reason to continue churning out weapons. I don’t think this is much of a stretch for the people reading this to accept.
One concept many in this community seem to have a problem understanding or accepting is the idea there are patriots and Deep State players in every country. We all know the US has patriots and Deep State players, but why would it not make sense that this would apply to other countries as well? Like Russia, or China, or England, or Israel, or Brazil, or Iran. Yes, Iran.
Ten years ago, the CIA publicly acknowledged their involvement in the government overthrow of Iran in 1953. I wrote a bit about this in my article ‘Rainbow Color Revolution.’ In brief, the CIA pushed propaganda, rigged Iran’s election and paid thugs to create violence and chaos in the streets of Tehran, all in an effort to get a pro-America, pro-CIA government in place. This is no different than what we are experiencing in America now.
The CIA coup to remove democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh from power in Iran was headed by Kermit Roosevelt Jr, the grandson of Theodore Roosevelt. In case anyone is thinking it is strange that the grandson of one of the guys on Mount Rushmore led the CIA coup in Iran, you are correct. When Mohammad Mossadegh nationalized the Iranian oil industry, kicking out foreign companies, in particular BP (British Petroleum), it was deemed necessary by the CIA and their British puppet masters that he be removed from power.
It should be pointed out that the City of London has always controlled America.
When the Red Coats were kicked out in 1776, it was believed that America was now a free nation. Yes, they no longer had ‘taxation without representation,’ but the City of London never stopped controlling the States. The US banking system is still controlled by the City of London. The City of London is a small area within London’s city limits that still controls the US banking system. We are talking about an area of only one square mile. Efforts are currently being made behind the scenes by Trump and his allies to cut these strings, but it is a very difficult task.
With British companies being kicked out of Iran, and Iran oil fields being a big part of BP’s oil production, the British asked the US—or rather the CIA—to step in to help remove the popular Iranian PM and put a CIA/US/British-friendly leader in his place—the Shah of Iran.
The Shah of Iran was put in place through the CIA coup and Mossadegh was tried for treason and put under house arrest. The Shah ruled for 26 years after the coup and was ousted during the Iranian Revolution in 1979. The anti-American, Ayatollah Khomeini, was eventually put into power in Iran. During this time, 52 American diplomats were taken hostage by a group of militant Iranian students in November of 1979 and eventually released on the day Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as POTUS on 01/20/1981.
As a boy, I can remember the Hostage Crisis, and younger people may know of the Hostage Crisis from the Ben Affleck movie Argo. I consider Affleck to be one of the CIA’s greatest assets in Hollywood, as I believe that the CIA has a lot of control there, from Affleck to Matt Damon and George Clooney. The CIA also seems to control writers and, in many cases, have final approval on scripts in Hollywood. Actors, directors, producers and writers are given the task of making the CIA look good, or maybe not as bad—to make them seem important to our democracy—indispensable—and at the same time, to change our perception of history.
The CIA likes to retell history through movies, or in some cases tell it to people for the first time. Movies like The Titanic, Schindler’s List, Pearl Harbor, All the President’s Men, Snowden, The Social Network, and Argo are produced to put out a version of history the CIA wants accepted.
The movie Pearl Harbor came out three months before 9/11, preparing our minds to accept the 9/11 propaganda they had in store for us. Argo came out just prior to the CIA admitting to their involvement in the 1953 Iranian Coup. And no, I’m not saying the Nazis were less than evil and no one died in the Holocaust. I’m just saying history didn’t really happen exactly the way you saw it in a movie—any movie. If your understanding of anything comes from a Hollywood movie, you are deceived.
Back to Iran.
The hostage crisis made Iran the world’s new ‘bad guy’. The country was viewed by the world as violent, savages—terrorists to the world. Notice the 52 hostages were released, and not executed. What does this say about them at least at this time? I view it as they really hated the US for what they had done to them for the past 26 years, but they weren’t the savages they were being made out to be.
After 44 years of boycotts, embargos and isolation, it wouldn’t surprise me if many in Iran truly hate the US, but if I was to guess, the more educated—or rather, informed ones—understand it is the US Government and the CIA rather than the American people who are deserving of their hate.
Having lost complete control over Iran, I believe the CIA set out to make them the worlds new enemy. This was like making lemonade out of lemons. With Iran becoming the free world’s new enemy through their actions in 1979 and through CIA propaganda, I believe the CIA decided that Iran as a contrived enemy could be a major asset. The CIA could blame terrorist acts on them, create fear through them and promote the military industrial complex through them. I believe the CIA decided to infiltrate Iran after the overthrow. Like every country, I believe Iran has a Deep State as well as patriots. I believe there are people and organizations within Iran that truly hate the US, as well as factions that are controlled by the CIA.
Where’s my proof that the CIA is actively involved in Iran, using them as a means of creating fear in Americans, causing us to gladly hand over our hard-earned money to the military industrial complex to keep us safe?
Let me ask this: Does it seem in character with the CIA to allow a group of protestors to kick them out of a country they had controlled for 26 years? A country with vast natural resources, without ever waging war or attempting to take it back. The US invaded Iraq and Afghanistan under the guise that Saudis flew planes into American buildings. The Hostage Crisis in Iran would have been more than enough of an excuse to wage war against Iran, and easily take the country back. Why didn’t they?
I believe Superman needed a Lex Luther.
Believing a group of protesters in Iran could permanently overthrow a country controlled by the CIA is about as believable as the idea a group of protestors in Berlin ended the Soviet Union by taking sledgehammers to the Berlin Wall. No one tried to stop them, the Soviet snipers didn’t shoot anyone, while snipers picked off protestors one by one in Ukraine in 2014, the difference being that the Deep State was trying to break up the pro-Putin government in the Ukraine and needed to create chaos. In Berlin, the plan was to allow the Soviet Union to fall.
In 2015, Obama brokered a deal with Iran to essentially give them $150 billion dollars to not create nuclear weapons. Or more accurately, he gave them $150 billion to move their nuclear weapons program to their close ally, Syria. On top of this, Obama had $1.7 billion in cash airlifted to Iran on pallets. What part of airlifting pallets of cash doesn’t scream ‘shady business deal’? In the 21st century, we do something called ‘wire transfers’, while mafia business transactions involve bags of cash.
Essentially, Obama gave Iran—the biggest present threat to the US—$150 billion to promise not to build nuclear weapons. And Iran agreed and accepted this money from their mortal enemy. Iran is supposed to hate America with a passion, but was fine with taking this money from them. At the time, Iran was holding four Americans prisoner, Obama dropped off $1.7 billion in cash, on pallets, and we are to believe, completely independent of the situation, Iran decided to release the American prisoners.
In reality, Obama was sending money to Iran because they were running on fumes and needed cash to survive. If your mortal enemy was about to go under, why would you bail them out, unless you were heavily infiltrated in their government? This is the equivalent of helping your opponent up off the canvas when the referee was at ‘8’ on the ‘10 count’. It doesn’t make any sense. The injection of money gave Iran a new lease on life. Iran became active again in the world of terrorism.
Obama’s Iran deal caused Iran to move their nuclear weapons development program to Syria and gave them much needed funding to advance it, as well as the funding of terrorist acts. Iran now had a seat again at the big money table in the game of terrorism; they could fund terrorist factions like ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
Okay, enough of my questions and assumptions. How about some facts to chew on.
On April 8th, 2018, Trump announced he was pulling out of the Iran Deal. Obama, his aids and the media all said this was a horrible decision and it would cause terrorist acts and unrest in the world. Five days later, on April 13th, Trump called for the bombing of Syria. This is not a coincidence. Trump understood Iran was developing nuclear weapons in Syria. He also knew Iran was funding terrorist factions that were headquartered in Syria. Or should I say, Trump understood the Obama Deep State was funding terrorists and the development of nuclear weapons through the money the US sent to Iran?
By the way, ISIS quickly ceased to exist after Trump became POTUS.
Coincidence?
We were to believe that Obama paid Iran to cease their development of nuclear weapons, and this would somehow make us safer. If we gave people who chant ‘death to America’ large sums of money, they wouldn’t use it to fund terrorist acts against us. This is the equivalent of giving Hunter Biden large amounts of ‘crack’ if he promises to not smoke it.
After Trump pulled out of the Iran deal and bombed Syria, Iran began shooting rockets at US military bases in Iraq on dozens of occasions. Trump aids Bolton and Pompeo begged Trump to take out Soleimani, but Trump insisted he wouldn’t unless Americans were killed. Seven months later, after a contractor was killed and four US service men were injured by rocket attacks believed to be directed from Iran, Trump had Soleimani taken out on 1/3/20 by a drone attack in Baghdad. The UN called the assassination ‘unlawful’, and the US media called Soleimani akin to a ‘holy man.’ I ask the question, what was Soleimani doing in Baghdad? Again, Trump had Soleimani taken out after dozens of Iran-directed rocket attacks on US military bases.
Where was the UN and the American media when these attacks were occurring?
Hearing that Bolton and Pompeo wanted Trump to assassinate Soleimani much earlier than he did takes on new meaning after learning more about Bolton, and more recently, Pompeo, and their apparent backstabbing of Trump.
I’m fully convinced that the CIA never left Iran. While their Iranian government officials were kicked out in 1979, the CIA realized it could be a blessing in disguise. They could create a new boogie man used to scare the world. With enough control within Iran, the Deep State faction of the CIA could run successful propaganda operations. They could create and keep constant tension in the Middle East and fund terrorist acts throughout the world.
Iran has been a CIA asset for 44 years, not including the 26 years before that. The CIA could have made Iran the scapegoat for 9/11, but that would have meant they would need to go to war with Iran, and what would be the point? They already controlled them, and they were an invaluable long-term asset. Iraq and the Afghan poppy fields needed to be under CIA control, hence that is who the US went to war with following 9/11.
Again, when you add everything together, from protests getting the CIA out of Iran, to Obama sending our mortal enemies billions, followed by Trump backing out of the Iran Deal and what transpired after that. I can only conclude that while there are some really evil people doing evil things in Iran, many of them are controlled by the CIA/MI6.
When Trump is back in the White House, I fully expect the CIA strings to be cut in Iran the way they were cut in North Korea.
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Great article Erik!! Dovetails nicely with my coming article.
You put it on a tee for me brother!
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