A friend (thanks N.!) just pointed out this little investigative pearl out to me. Check it out:
http://www.chartingstocks.net/2009/06/proof-israeli-effort-to-destabilize-iran-via-twitter/
I can assure you that this is only the tip of a much larger, massive, iceberg.
The reality is simple: Rafsanjani is trying to steal the election and organize a coup against Khamenei, and the Anglo-Israeli intelligence agencies are fully backing him.
Does that make Rafsanjani a CIA agent? No, not nessesarily at all. Conspiracies are hard to organize, and they can be uncovered. Collusion, an objective community of interest, is much harder to establish or, even more so, to prove. Nobody can be arrested only for objectively colluding with another party of no contacts are made between the parties. I suspect that this is what is really going on.
Rafsanjani is making use of the strategic psyop capabilities of the Anglo-Israeli intelligence communities to try to topple Khameni. I don’t think that he will succeed though.
The Saker
Note: by “Anglo” I mean the “Echelon-countries” (USA, UK, Canada, Autralia, New Zealand), the members of the UK-USA Security Agreement.
Funny particular:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had contacted the social networking service Twitter to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that would have cut daytime service to Iranians who are disputing their election.
Confirmation that the U.S. government had contacted Twitter came as the Obama administration sought to avoid suggestions it was meddling in Iran’s internal affairs as the Islamic Republic battled to control deadly street protests over the election result. […]
Twitter Inc said in a blog post it delayed a planned upgrade because of its role as an “important communication tool in Iran.” The hour-long maintenance was put back to 5 p.m. EDT/2100 GMT, which corresponds to 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday in Iran.
The upgrade originally had been planned for Monday night in the United States, which would have cut daytime service in Iran on Tuesday.
The State Department declined to give immediate details of the contact with Twitter, which has been used particularly by young urban Iranians who are disputing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election last Friday.
“We highlighted to them that this was an important form of communication,” said a State Department official of the conversation the department had with Twitter officials.
Any sign of U.S. involvement in the actions of Twitter or any other social networking service could be seized on by Iran as U.S. interference in the electoral process.
Iranian officials declared that Ahmadinejad defeated his more moderate challenger, former prime minister Mirhossein Mousavi, in last Friday’s election, triggering massive street protests by Iranians questioning the election’s legitimacy.
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly strongly rejected that contacts to Twitter amounted to meddling in Iranian internal affairs.
“This is about giving their voices a chance to be heard. One of the ways that their voices are heard are through new media,” Kelly told reporters.
He said there were contacts with Twitter over the weekend.
From: http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSWBT01137420090616
Saker:
this post came from a not so reputable conspiracy theory site. While its not inconceivable that there is meddling by US/Israel in the social networking game, I dont think the writer provided “proof” of it
Alex:
This in my opinion was a nice media stunt indeed for twitter. and its worked.
In response to the remark that Rafsanjani is trying to steal the election:
1. if Ahmadinejad truly got 65% of the vote, anyone who tried to steal the election would look like an idiot to the rest of the insiders, would he not?
2. what do folks make of the fact that Rezaei, presumably the insider’s insider as leader of the war against Saddam, has demanded voting statistics? Was this demand effectively an insult to the honesty of the regime? Does this suggest a (potential) split among the military?
Good analysis on the matter: http://openanthropology.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/americas-iranian-twitter-revolution/