
Oct 20, 2022 • 19M
Episode 6 - The Iran Protests
The one where we cut through the noise around the Iran protests of 2022 and the regime's choice to supply drones and missiles to Russia for their war of choice in Ukraine.
Politics at the intersection of extremists, propaganda and Cold War 2.0. Cutting through the noise to help you make sense of a chaotic information space.
The one where we cut through the noise around the Iran protests of 2022 and the regime's choice to supply drones and missiles to Russia for their war of choice in Ukraine.
This Podcast is a companion piece to the article you can read here.
Thank you for listening,
Jay and Griff
Episode 6 - The Iran Protests
If IRI is an ally of the Kremlin, that means it is an ally of Mossad and the GOP.
That really should *not* seem strange, the Shah, sixty years ago, was keenly aware of Nixon being "his guy" and JFK not being such, mostly as a feature of party politics.
When William Casey was murdered before he could talk to Congress, he was able to dodge questions about the fact that he didn't just manipulate the election with the mullahs, didn't just use them to launder Contra funding, but that neither of these events were purely one-offs.
What was Marc Rich's favorite play in the 90s? Price arbitrage using the discount of IRI oil, oil he could access just as easily as the juice from the Sauds with his own connections.
Then, of course, the 'New Yorker' article on Baku Barbie seemed like such hot stuff that it would be sued off-line at some point... it never was. It was almost as if DT's recent Baku laundering circa 2015 made him seem *more* legit as a GOP option to insiders.
And, at the risk of spam... the Halkbank/SDNY brouha is about precisely this, Zarrab's utility to the IRGC. Ostensibly...