Are you a dictator in need of public support for your latest draconian clamp down on descent?

Or a deep state plotter hoping to topple a foreign government who doesn't comply with your every wish?

A low-level Machiavellian schemer looking for the ultimate trick for

defeating your enemies without lifting a finger, then look no further than this handy-dandy

guide to how to Engineer a Crisis

This is the corporate report

Last week on the corporate report we considered the possibility that the recent protests in Iran have been assisted by the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia, all of whom are actively plotting against the Iranian government.

As I detailed in that report, the idea only sounds outlandish to those who are ignorant of the history of repeated interventions by foreign powers in the internal politics of Iran.

The joint British-American intelligence operation to overthrow Iranian President Mohammed Mossadek,

cod-named Operation T.P. Ajax and led by Kermit Roosevelt Jr.

was a textbook example of how such operations proceed.

It is not that the protest movement against Mozadek was created out of whole cloth.

Rather, it was the CIA's job to take a nascent protest movement,

a small minority of people within the country already

angry at Mossadeck, and then to fund, equip, enlarge, and inflame that movement, greasing

the skids to the eventual transfer of power with millions of dollars in cash and promises of

further support.

Roosevelt proceeds with a plan that involves rented crowds of people, right?

Right.

Can you explain that?

Yeah, well, this is a big aspect of Iranian politics.

Anybody who's been around the last, you know know 30 years or so will be familiar with the with televised

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