QUORA: DOES THE US FUND ANTI-GOVERNMENT MOVEMENTS IN IRAN?

1/19/2020

Vince Dhimos answered a question at Quora.

https://www.quora.com/Does-America-fund-anti-government-movements-in-Iran/answer/Vince-Dhimos

Does America fund anti-government movements in Iran?

Vince Dhimos, Editor-in-Chief at New Silk Strategies (2016-present)

The US — previously through the CIA, later through the NEA, USAID, Soros foundations and clandestinely affiliated NGOs (Non-Government Organizations) — has been busy funding the attempted overthrow of governments everywhere that refuse to lick the US jackboots. They did this very openly in the Ukraine, supporting a violent coup that killed over 100 people but in the US was sweetly billed as a "peaceful uprising," and ultimately, as could have been expected, the officials whose candidacy they had supported practically ruined the country. They are trying it in Hong Kong, where the virulent violence they have sown is rampant and so far uncontrollable. They still fund subversives like US-funded Alexei Navalny in Russia. Navalny was trained in subversion at the World Fellows school at Yale, which specializes in regime change. His followers destroyed thousands of dollars’ worth of privately owned property in his last rampage through Moscow, which was billed as a “peaceful demonstration” in the US, where he is said to be a persecuted champion of democracy. Georgia is infested with US-tied activists who teach Georgians to hate and mistrust Russians and have sponsored an anti-Russian provocation in the country last year that led to the suspension of Russian tourist flights to and from Georgia that has cost the country millions. US NGOs and the White House openly supported puppet “interim president” Juan Guaido in Venezulea (who has recently been deposed of his leadership role in the parliament by his own partisans and has gone back to being a nobody). The US openly supported the overthrow of Evo Morales in Bolivia, whereupon he was forced to flee the country. That is how the US “promotes democracy.” So you have to be a special kind of naive to think they are not hard at work in Iran, where US-backed protesters have practiced extreme violence as usual to provoke police crackdowns that make for useful anti-Iran copy in US newsrooms.

BTW, many Westerners buy into the narrative that Russia persecutes Christians but the fact is, many US missionaries have tried to subvert the government there, acting not as evangelists bringing the gospel but as members of NGOs focused on regime change. (This is also happening here in Panama churches sponsored by US groups).

One missionary to Russia was booted out for holding meetings without notifying the local government. Americans fired up by the media were incensed. But the problem is, US missionaries are often there mostly just to subvert. There was a famous case a few years ago, where a missionary was thrown out of Russia. Before this he had taken his case to a higher court in Moscow, but that court did not uphold his appeal.

I had a sneaking suspicion about this guy and contacted his church in the US to get more information about his case. I was given the URL of his web site and found that, since his failed appeal, he was angrily demanding that the US government slap sanctions on Russia for not letting him stay. One angry missionary hoped to remake Russia! Is this what go ye into all the world has become?

This is exactly what I had suspected. American Christians are given to believe that missionaries go to foreign fields out of love for the people they minister to. Yet here was a US “Christian” who had such malice toward the Russians that, if he could have done so, would have persuaded his government to impose financial hardship on the people he purported to love in Christ simply because their government deprived him of the freedom to promote its overthrow. For him, politics had priority over the Gospel and his mission was to lead not so much by preaching the gospel but by changing Russian political thinking – something he did not understand in the least.

Americans are taught, subliminally, that they are morally superior and hence the entitled masters of the universe. Thus many of them believe that politics is rightfully intertwined with religion and see nothing wrong in using religion to promote political subversion abroad, impose on the world the infallible ideology of America – the country that has killed millions of civilians with aerial bombs and irresponsibly accrued an unpayable debt.

Without ever asking themselves WWJD? What would Jesus do?

1 Comment

John McClain

1/19/2020 08:28:59 am

To be "an American" we are taught we must recognize, our moral standards, our social means and ways, our political principles, and every other "answer" we, the U.S. put forth, are inerrantly correct, or we are denied any "honor as an American".
I grew up believing this, because I saw "America" rebuilding Europe, after the war, but never saw the sum total of almost all the gold in the world, flow to America, via sales of weapons, throughout the war.
I lived two years in Barcelona, Spain, then two in Naples, Italy, from age 1 to 6, and having walked through "Western History" with our mom, an historian, language major, and adult literacy professional, I've studied history all my life, far beyond what was given in school.
I've been countering "History" as taught, from my first days in school, to this day, because it is quite obvious to anyone looking, "History is in the intent of the narrator", so one must choose an unbiased narrator, most easily done by "cleaning one's self of bias", something done through time, constant error, and constant noting of bias, to be squelched.
In 1946, the "Middle East" was laid out by British, French, and American political scientists, for the purpose of preventing those nations from coordinating their efforts, forming a block of nations with a common purpose, around the oil necessary for the future.
Iraq was established, with "Kuwait" as a British oil field, which wasn't allowed to remain British, Iran chose to form a "constitutional republic" based on our declaration of Independence, and our U.S. constitution, which was fine with Mr. Truman, but was overthrown during Eisenhower's time, and the Shah installed, in 53.
As a teen, I began to understand, "NGO, non-governmental organizations" were in fact, "private organizations", assembled for the express purpose of doing "regime change" while being able to claim no government official activity, merely "activists, helping others to freedom".
The decade between returning to Stateside, and my late teens, completely convinced me these were deliberately assembled, malevolent constructs, intended to hide actions of offensive war by our government.
It was being done a century before my birth, and will continue after my death, except that we take a stand, and overthrow our criminal government, or it is broken by its insane, untenable intention of forever hegemony. I expect we shall be broken, however, there seems to be an awful lot of "natural activity", we've never planned for, happening now, the "solar minimum", the related tectonic shifts causing quakes, enormous volcanic activity, and a major change in our earth's magnetic fields, because of the sheer volume of energy unleashed on the solar system.
Ever since Hiroshima, people have assumed "the world ending in fire" would be anthropomorphic, and while it's quite possible, it is equally possible we are simply coming to the end of "our age", and "the world closes out in fire".
Right now, the U.S. seems to be the most active arm of "the world's oligarchs", however it has long appeared to have been the same families of "oligarchs" who've controlled much of the world, most of the time since "enlightenment".
We know the "dark ages" came to be, because of "the little ice age", also caused by a "solar minimum", a conjunction of two or more solar cycles which coincided to cause a far greater than average effect, and appears to be preparing for a similar event.
The "solar minimum" is the least of "sun spots", which seem to be magnetic fields that limit the ejection of solar mass, and reduce the overall energy projected, and have a "surface cycle" relating to surface conditions of the sun, and a "long cycle" some 400 years or so, which comes from inside, and at least these two, periodically coincide, producing the greatest of "climate change".
I suspect, regardless of what the U.S. does, we will fail shortly, because of the idiocy of Keynesian economics, and the utter failure to even consider reality in economics, and the fact "most of the world" is more rational, and seeing what we won't.
I do believe the greatest effort is being made to prevent the "BRI" from being successful, yet, all effort to prevent it, began far too late, with far too little, perhaps had we not engaged in Afghanistan, in 77, and kept out, we might still be able to control, but we've only exponentially expended, ever more, ever since that foolish intent. Iran, Iraq, and Syria are key to "the Eur-Asian land route", and it is key to the ultimate success of world trade. It's too important to let the U.S. control it.
Semper Fidelis,
John McClain
Vanceboro, NC, USA

International relations.

QUORA: DOES THE US FUND ANTI-GOVERNMENT MOVEMENTS IN IRAN?

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