Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Inside the Classified Israeli Report on the Iran Protests



Barak Ravid Of Israel's Channel 10 News reports via Axios:

I published today on Israel's Channel 10 News the details of a classified foreign ministry report about the Iran protests which was sent to the offices of Prime Minister Netanyahu and to cabinet ministers.
Big picture: The Israeli Foreign Ministry report says the Iranian regime was surprised by the mass protest and is now trying to contain it through preventive arrests and crackdown on social media — while trying to avoid violent response against protesters.
According to the report:
  • The Iran protests started over economic issues but very fast "took a political and violent turn which included harsh anti-regime criticism over government spending on Syria, Lebanon and Yemen."
  • The analysts wrote: "For now the #IranProtests are not a threat for the regime's survival but they weaken it, damage its legitimacy & if continue it can threaten its stability."
  • The report also said: "The radicalization of the #IranProtests messages & the fact people took to the streets shows in our understanding that the barrier of fear for the Iranian citizen started breaking."
  • Many Iranians fear the Iran protests might lead to chaos like in other countries in the region (Syria), according to the report.

6 comments:

  1. We have to assume that both Mossad and the CIA had a hand in this. The CIA of course doing Israel's bidding since Iran is absolutely no threat to the United States.

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    1. Yep, at this point, the burden of proof is on those agencies to disprove they are involved.

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  2. The Iranian govt represses the people, has nukes and sponsors terrorism. Let's hope the people's revolt succeeds.

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    1. Prove it. I concede point 1, but that is every government except maybe Liechtenstein.

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    2. The US government represses the people, has used nukes, and sponsors terrorism.

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  3. A new government will not engage in any of those activities?

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