A History in 4 Psy-Ops: Has Iran has ALWAYS Been a Member of the Club?
Kit Knightly
When the war with Iran officially began on Saturday, I annoyed quite a few people by replying to James Delingpole on twtter with this comment:
I stand by it. In fact I can amplify it.
There’s ample evidence to show we’re already living in the post-nation age, and this was made explicitly clear by the Covid “pandemic”. Iran’s vital, early role in the Covid operation is one of the facts that most strongly requires us to be cautious about the current war narrative , but it’s a development that likely predates that era-defining psy-op.
In fact, I would argue that an examination of the recent history of Iran shows that they have consistently taken part in psy-ops and media narratives, and that this demonstrates collusion with Western governments and indeed the globalist factions therein.
Starting with the birth of the current regime itself…
1. Installation of Ayatollah

Everyone is (or should be) familiar with Operation Ajax, the 1953 joint MI6-CIA coup d’etat in Iran that removed the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mosaddegh, allegedly to prevent the nationalization of Iran’s oil reserves. The resulting government was an absolute monarchy under Shah Reza Pahlavi.
Less discussed is the CIA’s clear and obvious involvement in the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
For example, after being exiled from Iran by the Shah in 1978, Khomeini was provided safe haven in France. The reasons for this are not clear, but it is known that the Carter administration had a lot of communication with Khomeini during his time as a guest of the French government. Again, the reasons for this communication are nowhere clearly stated.
We know the former Shah himself claimed in his memoirs that the US and UK had been opposed to his government since his 1973 nationalisation of Iranian oil, and subsequent price increase (let’s remember the previous government had allegedly been removed to prevent a similar attempt at nationalisation).
Whether we entirely believe the Shah or not, we also know that by late 1978, the US ambassador to Iran was cabling DC that the Shah was “doomed”, and by early January ’79 US generals were flying out to Iran to discuss a potential coup with the Iranian military and putting them in contact with Khomeini’s second in command.
The Shah’s government ended within weeks.
This is all documented.
The potential motivations for this could be discussed at length, but there’s no denying that there was at least some Western involvement in the installation of the current regime.
2. Hostage crisis

No sooner had the new Iranian government been helped into power than they were taking part in an international “crisis”. In November 1979 an armed group invaded the US embassy in Iran and took over 50 hostages.
One supposed reason for this was the US opposition to the new Revolutionary Government in Iran and support of the Shah, but we know this isn’t true. The US helped replace the Shah, and nobody would have known this more than Khomeini and his top lieutenants.
What the “crisis” actually did was convince the people of Iran that their new government would stand up to America, whilst undermining Carter’s presidency in the US to the point he lost the 1980 election by a landslide.
The “October Surprise” theory argues that US government insiders actually deliberately delayed the release of the hostages in order to rig the election by proxy. Former Texas governor John Connelly was known to be travelling the Middle East at the time spreading this message.
The hostages were eventually released mere minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in.
I’m sure some will say this was all a coincidence.
3. Iran-Contra Affair

Up until 1979, all of Iran’s weaponry was bought from the United States. Following the Hostage Crisis, President Carter put an arms embargo on Iran for “supporting terrorism” which was sustained by his successor, Ronald Reagan.
However, Washington insiders have never been fans of not selling weapons to anyone, ever. They argued that an embargo would only drive Iran closer to the USSR, and immediately sought ways to covertly continue arms sales to Iran by circumventing the embargo.
Interesting isn’t it how paper thin the veneer of ideological opposition can turn out to be once subjected to examination. Some might wonder if all the contemporary “evil terrorists” and “Great Satan” rhetoric was much more than geopolitical theatre of a particularly gaudy kind.
By 1985, the Reagan administration had been illegally supplying weapons to Iran for four years, both directly and by “washing” the sales via Israel (and, incidentally, selling weapons to BOTH sides of the Iran-Iraq war).
At the same time, the US was covertly supporting the anti-Sandinista rebels in Nicaragua in their guerrilla war against the Socialist FSLN government. This support was illegal under US law thanks to the Boland Amendments.
The Iran Contra affair was an evolution of the Iranian arms deals, a covert operation spearheaded by Colonel Oliver North, where weapons were illegally sold to Iran, and the profits from these sales were in turn used to fund rebels in Nicaragua. This was totally illegal, and technically high treason.
The scandal broke in 1987, resulting in years-long Congressional hearings and – eventually – dozens of criminal charges. Of the 11 men convicted of wrongdoing in the Iran-Contra affair, only one ever spent any time in prison, and almost all had the convictions overturned on appeal, or received presidential pardons from George Bush Sr in 1991.
Oliver North went on to run for political office and have a successful career in the media, working as a television host and publishing over a dozen books. Not bad, considering he was supposedly a traitor who committed high treason.
It’s reasonable to ask – does this sound like something that would happen if Iran was really a deadly opponent of the American government?
Why would the American government sell weapons to a regime they truly believed to be a threat to their very existence?
And why would a man who committed treason in arming an enemy receive such a light sentence and be allowed to flourish afterwards?
It’s almost as if no one really thought it mattered very much isn’t it?
At very least we are seeing the paper thin veneer again, and the undeniable fact that other mostly unspoken interests united these alleged enemy states above and beyond the rhetoric and propaganda.
4. Covid
The Covid “Pandemic” is the grand-daddy of all psy-ops, exceeding most of its predecessors in both complexity of execution and scope of its aims.
And the Iranian government was in it up to its eyeballs.
Iran was one of the first countries, alongside Italy, to feel the brunt of Covid outside China. Indeed, their endorsement of the pandemic narrative was used by some in the alt media as evidence the pandemic must be real, because Iran would never cooperate with a globalist psy-op.
But cooperate they did. To the max. They worked closely with the World Health Organization, according to WHO’s official report:
WHO and its partners provided critical support to Iran to overcome these challenges and scale up the response to COVID-19, which resulted in mobilizing more than 130 million vaccine doses and capacity to conduct genomic sequencing analysis of 7700 viral samples.
Iran imposed lockdowns, made masks compulsory and enacted vaccine mandates just like everyone else. They also applied for a $5 billion Covid loan from the IMF.
While real global outsiders were standing up for their nation’s interests and “dying suddenly” for their trouble, Iran was happily playing along. Making the lives of ordinary Iranians shorter and sadder, and making a lot of money for their elites doing it.
Conclusion
The evidence shows unambiguously that the current Iranian regime has a history of cooperating with Western, pro-globalist powers, to the detriment of its own people and to the mutual interest of the political class on both sides – and that MUST call anything and everything they do into question.
Including this war.
We live in an age of fake binaries and “lesser evils”, why wouldn’t that system of thought control be applied to warfare?
We are told to think in simple labels – Muslims vs Christians. Human Rights vs Sharia Law. Democracy vs Theocracy. Regime changers vs national sovereignty. Anti-establishment rebels vs Imperial oil hunters.
But we know from past experience that these simplicities are used to conceal sometimes deep, convoluted and very different realities of convergent interest and obedience to narratives.
And we know that this war has already assisted with some fundamentals of the “great reset” agenda, which is probably the biggest current threat to humanity.
Is that all this war is about? No, probably not. There are probably many narratives being pursued and many interest groups seeking to benefit, and even cynically waged wars can produce chaos and unlooked-for outcomes. We can assume any murdered Iranian leaders didn’t intend to end up dead for example, though it would be naïve to assume the power structure won’t willingly sacrifice even a few of its own sometimes.
Orwell understood the mutual interests of the ruling elites in promoting war, and in controlling its outcome. He understood that the way it’s sold to the “proles” is not the way it’s viewed by those organising and benefitting from it.
Even while this war is warring, Iran is still promoting the Covid lies, still on board with the globalist programs, still working on their own Central Bank Digital Currency, still building their digital identity infrastructure.
We need to remember that and we need to develop a more sophisticated way of understanding – and opposing – the new post-covid war narratives.
We’re not living in 2003 anymore. We know the globalist endgame, and it’s neither American Hegemony nor an Islamic Caliphate. Rather, it is a program of digital control of money, food and travel that limits human freedom.
A program both sides of this war endorse.
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I recently saw a video which in passing made the claim that, actually, US operatives were clandestinely supporting, prior to the appearance of the Contras in Nicaragua, the SANDINISTAS, the very movement which later became the despicable enemy
no sources were cited in that video, so I’m hoping maybe someone here can point me toward corroboration of the assertion?
obviously it’s a very plausible theory, given the Khomenei scenario only a few years earlier, and in fact the CASTRO scenario a few years before that, when the CIA apparently backed the Cuban rebels because they were tired of their old client Batista and hoped for a regime change that would boost the effectiveness of their remote control mechanisms
Iranian Parliament building is a pyramid, with 33 windows….
Another pending…
You left out that Iran is also on board with the climate change scam, but otherwise a good article.
100% correct. OG were out in front about covid and they’re out in front again on this. I support you on PayPal a little each month and you earn it.
Ah, yes, the good old 1984 hypothesis. Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia, all always at war, all always on the same side.
Orwell was writing satire, and I think this interpretation is a tad too simple.
For instance, in real life, in 1979, Iran was full of Communists. Native communists. They had a lot of power and for a while there was a good chance they would prevail. Naturally, the CIA had to support the fundamentalists against the Communists. It goes without saying. The Azeri and Kurd separatists, a large minority population, were solidly backed by the Soviet Union, and so, for all intents and purposes, Communist.
This is not all. There were other maneuvering groups in 1979, too. The Ayatollah was not by any means a shoe-in. The CIA, I think, in finally backing the Ayatollah, backed the lesser of 5 or 6 evils. This doesn’t mean that, having prevailed, the fundamentalists were now under the CIA/Mossad thumb.
In other words, it is not so simple as “They’re all in cahoots.” Instead, I would argue, there are many jockeying groups,with many, jockeying, and conflicting, interests, playing each other off each other. Very hard to tell the players without a scorecard.
We might, for instance, look at the hero, Moamar Quadaffiyeh. Do you think he was in cahoots? Some cahoots. If that’s cahoots, I don’t ever wanna be in cahoots with anybody.
Was Bashar al-Assad in cahoots? Yes, he tortured people for the CIA. To keep them off his back. And then they stabbed him in the. Some cahoots.
Cahoots ain’t what it used to be.
Meanwhile, some actual information on Iran’s rather astute (so far) management of it’s war-waging.
The mosaic of death by a thousand cuts — Strategic Culture
Yeah, I know. Its not it’s. Uneditable typo.
They’re all in cahoots. This is fact not opinion. They all perform superficial differences but when the shit hits the fan they’re all in there promoting the same great reset agenda.
How can you disagree? The article points up the FACT Iran has been supporting the globalists for decades. What do the superficial differences matter? Why should we care which side wins or loses when they all are intent on the same future for humanity?
Sure. But just to recap. What was the ‘great reset agenda’ again?
You didn’t even read what I said. And you actually don’t know anything about Iran except what you just read in the above article.
The problem with you, and with almost everyone I know or meet on the internet, is that you assume that your opponents are idiots. They must be idiots if they think differently, right? If I speak out against Putin, Putinists think I’m the craziest CIA agent on earth. Because they’re so smart and awesome, of course, these geniuses from ZAnon, so they assume that anyone who thinks differently must be retarded. If I argue with libertarians, they assume I’m one of those nasty, genocidal statists responsible for all the evil on earth. If I argue with misogynists they assume I am a whore, a bitch, bad mother and so on. So you assume that anyone who disagrees with your cartoonish, one-dimensional, and monolithic understanding of what politics or “real” wars are is one of those jerks who think in simple terms, “Muslims vs. Christians. Human rights vs. Sharia. Democracy vs. theocracy.” This is your way of thinking, not how real people like me think, it is literally a strawman. And not only that, but we have to assume that the politicians or the regimes are honest people. They are really fighting against Satanism or evil etc., they are so brave, fighting the West etc., to fight “real” wars, otherwise these are fake wars. Look, not only the politicians, but also the masses are so weak, so corrupt, so easily fooled that to assume that politicians will be heroes, this black or white persona, good or evil, is absurd. I completely agree that no one ever fights wars for religion or values. This is completely brainwashing by the Western bourgeoisie or maybe just brainwashing, this is human history. If you hear someone say that people – those same corrupt, crazy cowards – fight and die in the real world for abstract concepts, God or values, they are, of course, lying. Of course, you have to find the real motive. And of course the masses should grow up and have more nuanced and deep understanding of the world but… the answer – “these wars are fake” is only one of many possible answers. Maybe this war is fake, the next is not. Maybe there are other reasons. With these Orwell simplifications you don’t increase the complexity of our understanding, just give the masses the next simplistic narrative.
Agree to some extent. And yet isn’t every war is fought over religion or at least ideological differences? The deeper question perhaps being why those with religious differences need any arms in the first place.
Prior to Constantine, theology was settled in more theological/academic circles. Excommunication being the only penalty for anyone thinking outside of the box. Give someone the means to dispose of their opponent and they generally make use of it
I don’t know of a single war fought over religion. People fight wars for resources, commerce, power, not religion. Your religion, language, culture (what is the language we are using to communicate?) is just the brainwashing you impose on the people you already conquered and the banner, the propaganda for war.The “American empire” spreads “democracy” – it is their cultural programming, soft power on conquered people but it is not that the democracy is doing the conquering or that people are actually fighting for it. Before the modern era people were brainwashed with religions. I am not saying that it is all brainwashing, everything is fake, all cultures are equal, etc. An empire can have a really sophisticated religion or culture. The British empire spreads liberalism – it is their system.
Well sure ‘democracy’ is a nebulous concept. I mean who fights for the rule of the majority anyway? When has the majority ever been proven remotely right in any discussion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolanus
Nevertheless wars over Arianism and/or the Muslim conquest of North Africa seem less easy to dismiss as simply a land grab
Pending…
Ok. But you dont really come up with an alternative. You are only criticising.
“This theory is not good enough…next pls“.
I am thinking, as one of the few here who can sink intelligentily, that if these bombs and attacks to and from Iran are real, WWIII has started one way or another.
The gold’s rising to the sky is a clear sign of something bad in our economic financial system. The resultant of this we know from history, is war.
Notwithstanding the wish that Iran is ‘in it’ and also baddy baddies.
Can’t even read this wall of text, speaks of mental unbalance when people write like this.
I agree with much of what you said.
When people say the war is fake, Im not sure they mean no bombs are dropping and noone is dying, but rather that the stated *aims and reasons* for the war are fake. Often from all sides that are involved.
Gary, a non Covidian, nails it again:
https://www.garydbarnett.com/the-insanity-of-war-exposed-by-the-most-murderous-country-in-history/
And I quote:
“And now here we are in Iran, prosecuting a war for the murderous slime called Zionist Israel. The only benefactor of this madness is Israel. Every other country involved loses, while Israel achieves its goal of having the West and Middle East kill off each other, while the Israeli ruling class sits and waits to accomplish their wet dream of a “Greater Israel.””
Russia and China generically side with Iran (anything anti-US will do). From the Ottoman Empire onwards. When Russia and China side with the West, Iran is inclined to follow suit.
Leaving the matter of International agreements:
OK, so we agree to agree on health matters but does that mean that we have to agree on anything else? It seems not
As with all clubs, they tend to be limited to a few activities only
Smedley stated it plainly: ‘War is a Racket’
As are many pHarmer-ceuticals, processed foods, alcohol and addictive technologies.
We are on the biggest slippery slide that humanity has ever experienced, and hell is waiting at the bottom.
“You think your stupid little podcast is gonna change the world ?
Like Hell it is” (at 12:12)
https://x.com/HarrisonHSmith/status/2018753453544124833
Hello, You can add that Iran is part of Agenda 21/2030. 15 minutes cities are on the program. And you can add that Iran… a “sovereign” country that is still one of the 191 members of the IMF and one of the 191 members of the Special Drawing Rights Department!
https://www.imf.org/en/About/executive-board/members-quotas
“The Masters of The Universe are ****.” claims US Senator
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1916717323194339487 (052)
What an astute, and absolutely true, observation. I like your charming asterisks. I wonder what they could signify?
This is why OG is the most important media outlet in the current era(or at least the editors contribution)
100%
This “war” was Wag the Dog from the get go but almost everyone was at it’s outbreak immediately back into geo politics gobbledegook.
Let them blow each other up most preferable in the same room as each.