As soon as you’re in the spotlight you’re standing out and confronting them; you are a big problem. Rage Against the Regime: Iran II, comment
You can’t force me to heaven if I don’t want to go. ibid.
Setting yourself on fire is actually easier than living in Iran as a woman. ibid.
8th March 1979 when women take to the streets because the Islamic Republic wants to to control their body. ibid.
Women in Iran are required to wear the hijab in public. Morality police are deployed to enforce the law. Anyone caught breaking it can be punished with a fine, prison or flogging. ibid.
The first ‘Girl of Revolution Street’, Vida Movahed, is charged with ‘promotion corruption and depravity’. She is fined an jailed. Over the following months, dozens of Iranian women repeat this act. Authorities make at least 39 arrests. The Supreme Leader describes the protesters’ cause as a ‘trivial issue’. ibid. caption
We gave our eyes for freedom. ibid.
Her name is Mahsa Amini, and she was just 22. She was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. ibid. BBC news
Eyewitnesses say she [Mahsa] was beaten up in the police van. ibid.
They started shooting people with shotguns. People were dying. ibid. comment
We’ve seen terrible things that will not be erased from our minds. ibid.
Iran, 1979: The worst hostage crisis in American history. Unknown to the world at the time, US embassy staff escape and find their way to the house of Canadian diplomats where they spend 85 days in hiding. CIA Declassified s1e7: Argo: The Secret Story
An extraordinary plan: to walk the diplomats out of Iran in broad daylight posing as a Hollywood film crew. The CIA now pushes its tradecraft to the limit as they set out to disguise and train six ordinary Americans in the art of escape. This is the real-life story of what would later become an Oscar-winning Hollywood sensation. ibid.
In late 1979 thousands of anti-American protesters in Iran are gathering outside the US embassy. Demonstrations against America are common. Iran is still in the throes of an Islamic revolution. ibid.
66 Americans are now being held hostage at gunpoint. At this stage the CIA have no idea that there’s a group of diplomats on the run. ibid.
The State Department is consumed by the ever worsening hostage crisis … The State Department turns to the CIA.
The Flash cables are about the escaped diplomats. ibid.
The Date for exfiltration: January 25th 1980. ibid.
Diplomatic relations between Iran and the US were severed in 1980, and hostilities between the two nations remain high. The root cause of the hostilities goes back more than fifty years. American Coup, Amazon 2010
In August of 1953 Iran had a democratic government. Its parliament and prime minister, the popular Mohammad Mosaddegh had nationalised the oil industry to control the country’s chief asset. Then, the CIA intervened. ibid.
‘I never would have agreed to the formation of the CIA back in 47 … if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.’ ibid. Harry S Truman
‘Iran, formerly known as Persia, is one of the world’s oldest civilisations.’ ibid. comment
In 1908 the British discovered oil in Iran. Geologists soon learned that Iran sits on an ocean of oil. ibid.
‘So people in Iran began challenging Anglo Iranian Oil company.’ ibid. comment
‘So the next stage was to have a [British] blockade of Iran.’ ibid.
It wasn’t hard for the British to talk the [Dulles] brothers into overthrowing Mosaddegh. ibid.
Shah Flees Iran After Move To Dismiss Mossadegh Fails. ibid. The New York Times headline Kennett Love August 16th 1953
For the next several days [Kermit] Roosevelt played the roll of puppeteer, throwing Tehran deep into chaos … ibid.
Roosevelt made them an offer they couldn’t refuse. ibid.
To head up the coup, the CIA had chosen Fazlollah Zahedi who had a reputation for ruthlessness. ibid.
Three months after the coup, Mosaddegh was tried in a military court on trumped-up charges of treason. ibid.
‘The Shah ruled for 25 years with increasing repression. His repression produced the explosion of the late 1970s, what we call the Islamic revolution.’ ibid. comment
Former CIA operative Richard Cottam contradicted the claims made by the CIA about its involvement in the coup. ibid. Caption
The CIA prepared a report on how the coup was to be carried out. ibid.
‘The CIA working very closely with the Iranian Nazi Party.’ ibid. comment
And in Iran when a secret nuclear program is explosed, a spree of bloody assassinations follows. Deadly Intelligence IV: Soviet Assassination Plot, Amazon 2018
In the Middle East 20 years later another set of scientists are in the crosshairs. January 12 2010: Iranian academic Massoud Ali-Mohammadi leaves for home from his job at the University of Tehran, but he will never arrive. This has all the hallmarks of a professional hit.
At various remote [Iranian] sites, American intelligence observes suspicious activity. ibid.
Surprisingly, Iran’s nuclear program was kick-started in the late 1960s by America. President Eisenhower actually provided the Shah of Iran with the country’s first reactor in a program known as Atoms for Peace. ibid.
‘In 2007 a number of scientists in Iran started to die, various ways.’ ibid. comment
Stuxnet is designed to cause damage only at Iran’s nuclear plants. ibid.
The deaths are likely the work of the MOSSAD. ibid.