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...pictures of people around the world protesting Iran's election...
...first public meeting since the elections, Ahmadinejad visited officials at the Intelligence Ministry on June 30. "The enemies, despite their overt and covert conspiracies aimed at soft regime change, have failed," he said. Iran's state media took up a narrative of foreign intervention and sabotage; foreign media and Iranian dual-national journalists were cast in lead roles. "The day after the elections, CNN started a 24-hour psychological war room against Iran," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hassan Qashqavi told a moderator with seeming outrage on Iranian state TV. Later in the program, the host said he had heard the Saudi...
...Britain has been the focus of particular hatred. Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei called it "the most evil" among Iran's enemies in his speech a week after the elections, when he unequivocally backed Ahmadinejad. Under Winston Churchill, Britain engineered the 1953 coup that brought down the democratically elected government after it nationalized Iran's oil, until then largely owned by British Petroleum. Understandably, many Iranians still see Britain as a credible culprit. In a piece titled "How Did England Mount the Green Wave?" the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) analyzed London's interference in Iran's elections based...
...IRNA has accused prominent American and European media by name for "being at the service of instigators with their soft politics." Chastising the London Guardian newspaper for its reporting on Neda Agha Soltan - the 27-year-old woman whose death on video has made her an icon of Iran's protest movement - it says the paper failed to mention "evidence" by the Intelligence Ministry "which points to some foreign government's planning of this scenario." Ayatullah Ahmad Khatami, a conservative leader of Tehran's Friday Prayers, accused the protesters themselves of killing Neda: "Any intelligent person seeing the film gets...
...despite all the conspiracies and bluster, a large segment of Iran's population remains incredulous. The propaganda campaign may well sway many Iranians, especially those who consume only state media, but many others see straight through it. Criticizing Ahmadinejad's claim that the Islamic Republic foiled an attempt at a velvet revolution, Iran's former reformist President Mohammed Khatami met with families of the detained this week. "If this poisoned propaganda and security atmosphere continues ... we must say that what happened was a velvet coup d'état against the people and the republicanism of this state," he said. Millions...