Trump’s State Department spent over $1m in Iran to exploit unrest for ‘regime change’, documents reveal
At
the end of 2017, a dozen cities across Iran, including the capital
Tehran, were rocked by spontaneous protests which continued into the
New Year. What role did the United States play?
Part
4 - Sanitizing direct regime change with indirect ‘democracy
promotion’
The
report goes on to point out that the US government has yet pursued
outright regime change, pressure to incite internal policy changes
from the Iranian government is being exerted through ‘democracy
promotion’ programs:
“In
the absence of all-out US pursuit of regime change, successive
Administrations and Congress have promoted political evolution in
Iran through ‘democracy promotion’ and sanctions on Iranian human
rights abuses.”
Under
Congressional legislation, “Iran democracy promotion”
funds have been “obligated through DRL [Bureau of Democracy,
Human Rights and Labor Affairs] and the Bureau of Near Eastern
Affairs in partnership with USAID. Some of the funds have also been
used for cultural exchanges, public diplomacy, and broadcasting to
Iran.”
Axiom:
State Department ‘democracy promotion’ programs have been
actively pursued to undermine the domestic legitimacy of the Iranian
regime.
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