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They are hard at work on Iran now too. Idk about cnn because I'm not dumb enough to watch them, but all the influence agents online, including on lemmy here, who knew they would bother, are all pumping it. Poor Iranians harmed by their government, as if the US didn't orchestrate the entire thing. No government is good, it doesn't justify military incursions that will just make everything worse. As if they give a fuck about protesters, they threw them all under the bus associating them with the enemy that just attacked them with impunity.
I strongly disagree on this point. The US almost certainly didn't orchestrate Iran. Mossad maybe had some ability there (they retain sleeper agents in Iran) but the US has very limited capabilities there. Iranians have long standing discontent against their government that eventually boiled over. I would say that the US and Israel would definitely throw gas on the fire any way they could but doubt very much they started it.
The US and Israel openly bragged about staging the riots and the targets of the terrorist attacks look very organized.
They also indirectly started the protests with the economic sanctions. For more info see https://youtu.be/Y9Yt-g_CptI
They strangled tje ecpnomy creating the discontent. And you better believe they are neck deep inflaming tensions, stoking violence.
I think it is not believable that a rational informed person could disagree with these points frankly. Unless you were born yesterday.
Economic woes were the flashpoint but Iranian discontent has been simmering over repression for much longer. And while you're right that the US and Company have been hurting the Iranian economy, the people would be quick to blame the US instead of their own leaders if they weren't already so disaffected. Unhappiness with how the regime has spent the money it does have doesn't help things.