Leaked Documents Expose US' Blueprint To Topple Iran Regime: Report
The ugly feud between Iran and United States is no new happening. Iran has been a sore eye for US’ plan of flexing power over the West Asia. After coming back to power, US President Donald Trump has reiterated sanctions on Tehran, aiming at its oil network. The sanction targeted firms, ships, and individuals affiliated with companies already sanctioned by the US. US is wary of Iran making nuclear weapons. “I want Iran to be a great and successful country, but one that cannot have a nuclear weapon”, said Trump.
To bring it straight, US is scared of Iran, and its rich uranium resources. The West, especially US, and its allies neighbouring Tehran, find the country’s resources a thumping headache. The unreasonably mounting sanctions on Iran speak in volume.
US has been trying hard to topple the regime in Tehran. The athorigtarian government in Iran, with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as the nation’s Supreme Leader has been at the helm since 1989. Before Ali Khamenei, it was Ayatollah Ruhollah Khamenei. The last time a regime change happened in Iran was is 1979, during the Islamic revolution of 1979, which witnessed the overthrowing of Pahlavi dynasty.
For years, the US State Department’s Near East Regional Democracy fund (NERD) has funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into covert operations aimed at toppling Tehran’s government, but is yet to succeed. According to The Cradle, a leaked document shed some lights on NERD’s latest regime-change blueprint.
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The leaked document is reported to be a classified US State Department invitation for bids from private contractors and intelligence-linked entities such as the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and USAID.
As per the report, the document solicited proposals to “support Iranian civil society, civic advocates, and all Iranian people in exercising their civil and political rights during and beyond” the next year’s electoral period, “in order to increase viable avenues for democratic participation”.
The US State Department also aims at “educating” citizens on purported “flaws of Iranian electoral processes.” Submissions were to “pay special attention to developing strategies and activities that increase women’s participation in civil society, advocacy, rule of law, and good governance efforts”.
The euphemistic language of the document claims to champion “participatory governance, economic reform, and educational advancement,” aiming to cultivate “a more responsive and responsible Iranian government that is internally stable and externally a peaceful and productive member of the community of nations”, as quoted by The Cradle.
In its grant plan to strike out the Khamenei regime, the NERD champion “participatory governance, economic reform, and educational advancement,” aiming to cultivate “a more responsive and responsible Iranian government that is internally stable and externally a peaceful and productive member of the community of nations.
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As a move to improve the “ability of civil society to organize and advocate for citizens’ interests”, the State Department financing would produce “increased diversity of uncensored media” in Iran, while expanding “access to digital media through the use of secure communications infrastructure, tools, and techniques”.
The 2024 election process is Tehran was taken as “opportunities” for civil society infiltration. As per the report, the plan envisioned a network of “civic actors” engaged in electoral strategies ranging from “electoral participation” to “electoral non-participation”. In simple language, the plan was to either mobilize voters, or undermine turnout.
“Technical support, and training” would also be offered to female, youth, and ethnic minority leaders at all levels of governance, while no “currently serving” Iranian government official was eligible for assistance. The plan hoped to organize “mock national referendums” and other “unofficial” political action outside the Islamic Republic’s formal structures to highlight the alleged disparity between government action and public will.
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The plan reportedly was to lay ground work for topple the regime. It was hoped, organize “mock national referendums” and other “unofficial” political action outside the Islamic Republic’s formal structures to highlight the alleged disparity between government action and public will.
The raising protest in Iran is also reported to be a regime-change efforts of US. While it remains unknown which groups ultimately secured NERD funding for these regime-change efforts. The mainstream media maintains that such information is classified ostensibly due to “the risk activists face from Iran, said the report. At the same time, Tehran has banned the meddlesome, subversive activities of US government agencies and intelligence fronts on its soil.
US continued to support multiple western-based Iranian “exile” and diaspora groups, and associated NGOs, civil society groups, and propaganda platforms abroad.
(With inputs from agencies)
