{"id":259150,"date":"2022-09-27T06:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T06:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259150"},"modified":"2022-09-28T04:15:32","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T04:15:32","slug":"former-us-congressman-ron-paul-mocks-us-neocon-ties-to-iran-riots-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=259150","title":{"rendered":"Former US Congressman Ron Paul mocks US neocon ties to Iran riots &#8216;leader&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 Sept 26, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Former US Congressman Ron Paul has mocked the claim that a US-government-hired Iranian opposition figure is \u201cleading\u201d what Washington is projecting as a \u201cfreedom\u201d movement in Iran amid deadly riots over the death of a young woman.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter post on Monday, Paul pointed to the close ties between Masih Alinejad &#8212; a commentator for Washington\u2019s official Persian language propaganda network Voice of America (VOA) \u2013 and the ultra-rightwing neoconservative elements (neocons) in US politics and ridiculed the notion as \u201ctotally legit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoesn\u2019t it strike anyone as strange that the \u201cleader\u201d of this \u201cfreedom\u201d movement in Iran is a US government employee and bosom buddy of the neocons? But hey, sure, it\u2019s totally legit\u2026,\u201d the ex-lawmaker wrote, posting a photo of Alinejad with former hawkish US Secretary of State and CIA Director, Mike Pompeo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Doesn&#39;t it strike anyone as strange that the &quot;leader&quot; of this &quot;freedom&quot; movement in Iran is a US government employee and bosom buddy of the neocons? But hey, sure, it&#39;s totally legit&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oPF7lf9Bvx\">https:\/\/t.co\/oPF7lf9Bvx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VPGFgaJDSU\">pic.twitter.com\/VPGFgaJDSU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ron Paul Institute (@RonPaulInstitut) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RonPaulInstitut\/status\/1574131274817544192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 25, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The deadly riots, backed by the Western regimes, in the past week in many Iranian cities have seen armed rioters beating and killing police officers, public works servants as well as ordinary civilians while vandalizing banks and other public and private properties.<\/p>\n<p>The riots &#8212; also sponsored and encourage by terrorist groups, such as the Komola, Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), and the Paris-based MKO, as well as UK-based propaganda media networks like the state-funded BBC and the Saudi-financed Iran International \u2013 started after the death of an Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, during her brief detention in Tehran by law enforcement officers for failing to adequately observe hijab.<\/p>\n<p>Police authorities in Tehran insist that Amini was not mistreated by law-enforcement personnel, and released video footage showing that she suddenly fainted while attending an educational workshop on the proper observance of the country\u2019s dress code regulations.<\/p>\n<p>After initial peaceful protests demanding official explanations surrounding the circumstances of Amini\u2019s death, foreign-based anti-Iran media outlets as well as opposition and terrorist leaders used it as an\u00a0opportunity\u00a0to incite violent riots across Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0investigations to ascertain the cause\u00a0of Amini\u2019s death are underway with\u00a0results likely to be made\u00a0public in a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, millions of Iranians took part in countrywide\u00a0demonstrations\u00a0condemning recent riots and foreign sponsorship\u00a0of violence and vandalism.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators reaffirmed their support and allegiance to the Islamic Revolution and raised vociferous slogans against West-backed rabble-rousers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2022\/09\/26\/689879\/-Ron-Paul-mocks-US-ties-to-Iran-riot--leader-\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As protests over the death of a woman in police custody sweep Iran, the U.S. has been quick to exploit the unrest for its own purposes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=259150"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":259202,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259150\/revisions\/259202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}