It was the ultimate day of infamy when the renowned Seymour Hersh stepped in the cow pie of Western propaganda, in a piece titled "Putin's Long War." In this he states:
"Despair and anger are growing in some parts of the US intelligence community about Vladimir Putin's refusal to consider ending the war with Ukraine. The Russian president is facing devastating economic problems at home and is ignoring his restless senior military command—in pursuit of what?
Businesses are reeling and shops are closing—in part due to international sanctions—in Moscow and throughout Russia. In Washington, there is talk of the possibility of a change at the top. US intelligence officials who for years viewed Putin with reluctant respect for what they saw as his shrewdness and his willingness to kill to stay in power are now wondering why Putin is continuing a war that could lead to economic chaos and a demand for new leadership."
The best rebuttal of this false Western propaganda is by Scott
Ritter:
Getting
it Wrong on Russia - When a reporter becomes hostage to
his sources, the results are little more than weaponized
propaganda. SCOTT RITTER JAN 20, 2026
"Importantly, Andrei [Ilnitsky, author of a form of informational warfare he calls "Mental War"] notes, 'while manpower and infrastructure can be restored, the evolution of consciousness cannot be reversed, especially since the consequences of this 'mental war' do not appear immediately but only after at least a generation, when it will be impossible to fix something.'"
If you're at all interested in the factual basis of why Seymour Hersh got this all wrong, do read Ritter's article.
A major basis for this type of disinformation is from listening to testimonies of the diaspora, and worse, basing government policy and actions on those notions.
This brings the topic around to perhaps the biggest propaganda dump in history, the Iranian "protests." Here again, diaspora lead the propaganda front – see Prof. Marandi humiliates Iranian-Zionist on Piers Morgan's show, in which an Iranian zionist and Canadian resident viciously attacks anyone who tries to correct the narrative.
The Western media and government officials keep pounding the same propaganda into your minds that these "protests" in Iran were peaceful and were against the "oppressive regime." As Scott Bessant has said on camera, the deliberate devaluing of the Iranian Rial was an excellent form of economic warfare, what he proudly called "economic statecraft." Many players were instigated to purchase Iranian Rial over a period of time, and on December 28, dumped all of them on the market, driving down the currency's value, causing consternation for Iranian businesses. China could have stepped in and bought some Rial, which they could return against their oil purchases, but, for some reason didn't bother to help.
Concurrently, over perhaps decades, the CIA/MOSSAD intelligence agencies have been developing intel "assets" in Iran and organizing and arming resistance groups. You can't purchase guns in Iran, they have to be smuggled in. There are about 15 million Afghan diaspora in Iran, a large number undocumented - this, in a national population of about 91 million. The Iran/Afghan border is quite porous. It is these peoples from SE Iran which did the beheadings and neck slittings.
Iran is an ancient and durable civilization, like Russia and China, a feature that puts it in the crosshairs of Western (U.S.) hegemony. Iran, like the other two, MUST be broken and captured by Capitalism - nobody is allowed to exist outside that system.
The latest "decapitation" strike on Iran by the zionist/American nexus has been postponed, yes, because U.S. naval assets are not yet in place, but mainly because all, or almost all, of the MOSSAD intel network in Iran has been taken out by the Iranian government, so the zionists can't yet decisively locate the whereabouts of the Supreme Leader. And if you still think the Supreme Leader is the epitome of evil, you must have missed the video of him visiting an Iranian Christian family during the Christmas celebration and blessing them.
But back to the "protests." Besides smuggling guns into Iran to arm the "peaceful protestors," MOSSAD had smuggled in about 50,000 StarLink terminals (panels) for connectivity to their intel assets, who led these armed groups. There were multiple ethnic proxy groups, including Kurds from Northern Iran, those entering from the south east (Afghans) and Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), Iranian exiles in Armenia, and also the monarchists, intent on reestablishing the monarchy with the clueless son of the former shah. The Mojahedin were long exploited by the U.S. as were similar groups in Afghanistan during the Russian occupation. The MEK was quietly deleted from American terrorist lists so they could be coopted as a disruptive force for the West's destabilization plans for Iran. Also there was ISIS involvement.
Yes, in the first days of unrest, there were actual protestors, upset by the instant devaluing of the currency – shop owners were scared to sell anything. This, of course was the plan of the "economic statecraft," to initiate a populist uprising, and the purpose of that uprising, to mask the coming "soft warfare" with the intent of regime change, which came to light Wednesday and Thursday, when the black-clothed rioters began their devastation. At first, they received their orders by cellphone from a woman in the zionist entity speaking Farsi. That was cut off when the internet was shut down, but the rioters had a backup – their StarLink panels.
I don't have the details of the damage done in the color-revolution in Hong Kong in 1999 carried out directly from the U.S. Embassy, but these Iranian riots, directed from outside the country, may have been the first color revolution to destroy as much state property as possible. Hopefully, these tactics do not set a precedence for rioters in the future. Under directions from their command center, the rioters were instructed where to find caches of arms and explosives, and where to go next to shoot or burn or destroy. During the day, normal people went about their lives, but at night these thugs came out and began their destruction. Regular residents do NOT burn down their own mosques - over 300 were destroyed. In one instance, the people came out to stop the attack on their mosque, saving it except for the yard being burned. A clinic was burned, burning a nurse to death. Regular people wouldn't even think of seeking out all the ambulances, buses and firetrucks and burning them, in an attempt to cause as much expensive to the "regime" as possible. This, in this era of punitive sanctions making replacement of these public necessities almost impossible.
Friday 23 Jan., Iranian police found an enemy command centre involving 10 foreign intel operations, established soon after the 12-day war in June. It operated through three main axes – domestic unrest, military group mobility and external military pressure. Also, 148 riot ringleaders were captured in the western province of Hamedan. Saturday, 24 Jan., an arms smuggling operation was interrupted in the SE province of Khuzestan, that had a large supply of ammo, two vehicles and four key operatives, captured.
As mentioned, the first two days were actual protests, by Iranian residents, on the economic conditions following the deliberate breaking of the Iranian currency's value. The gangs of rioters took over in the next two days, Wednesday and Thursday (Jan. 7, 8), with the black-clothed thugs rampaging at night. Is black the color of this color-revolution? They found their stashes of guns, and began shooting anybody, especially police, firemen and other officials, going house-to-house encouraging people to join the "protests" and when not shooting police, turned to shoot innocent people in the crowds who came to watch. Yet as of 23 Jan., MSM such as the pathetic CBC were still talking up the totals of people having been killed, with the implication that it was the Iranian authorities that were killing "peaceful protestors," ignoring these infiltrated thugs (paid by western agencies in bitcoin) in order to get the population here to accept a coming attack on Iran.
Around Friday (Jan. 9) the internet was shut down ending phone connectivity and by Saturday, StarLink was shut down, cutting the rioters off from instructions and their bitcoin payments. Before StarLink was shut down, using Russian hardware, they were able to pinpoint the StarLink panels using Chinese software, and went to arrest as many of these perpetrators as possible. Thus, by Saturday Jan. 10th, this rioting was essentially over, and no more has occurred, discounting what you here from the MSM. This information is based on people actually in Iran such as Nima Alkhorshid, who usually does his podcasts from his home in Brazil, but happened to be in Iran visiting relatives when this color-revolution broke out, and from our best world-affairs journalist Pepe Escobar, and from articles by Ismaele from GeoPolitiQ, and Prof. Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran, and an address to the UN Security Council by the Iranian representative on Jan. 24th, which said that, as of present count, 3117 lives had been lost including 2427 terrorists. Another report indicates about 2500 innocent people and security personnel were killed. Yet the western media tries to paint the killings as being done by Iranian authorities only, killing "innocent peaceful protestors."
Yet the U.S. military is sending massive assault assets to surround Iran, in hopes of an eventual military attack, perhaps waiting until the zionists have repaired their Rusty (iron) Dome which was shown to be penetrable in the 12-day war. If the Iranians actually have their new missile systems operational, such an attack might be the end of the U.S./zionist axis.
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