Thanks again, A.

I have been following the Iran situation on the Internet. This includes reading the mainstream media. I have known quite a few Iranians over the years. Lovely people, very friendly but only representative of the more educated and liberal group mostly to be found in Tehran. Outside most people are poorly educated and relatively poor and conservative. The BBC has confined itself to interviewing people who speak English in the capital.

Having closely followed the other “colour revolutions” I can say that this one is following the usual pattern. That is it is being totally manipulated by Western Intelligence and the Mainstream Media, which is mostly an organ of propaganda and mind control.

It is not difficult to set up a few blogs on the Internet, get on to Twitter and other sites, set yourself up as a freedom fighter and provoke a revolution. As a German minister once said: “Intelligence work is 95 per cent deception”. The students in Iran are ripe for more freedoms and easy to manipulate, just like the Hungarians were in 1956, the Ukrainians, Georgians and others more recently. The poor however, are not.

There is no evidence of serious voting fraud and polls conducted before the election showed the President would win easily.

In my view we in the West should not be diverted by these events and first of all sort out our own corrupt system that favours certain elitist groups that control banking and the media. It is however an interesting exercise in studying how easy it is to manipulate the masses. Luckily it appears as if they are slowly waking up to this hypnosis.

And, as I say to my students: “If you do not question that which you know you will never know anything”.

And I forgot to mention what went on in Georgia:
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=13285

Perhaps “Wag the Dog” with Hoffman and De Niro is a film seriously worth thinking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnSauj2855M

Thank you for your comments and input Sadun.