Iranian Election Brainwashing?

Twitter stream for #iranElection is updated with hundreds of messages per second.

Hysteria is activated: investors, movie makers, engineers, writers, firefighters, dog-trainers, CEOs, taxi-drivers, new-born babies, astronauts, doctors and so on are shouting out loud. They want revolution.

Just signed up american “iranians from Tehran” post their first 100 tweets via specially setup anonymous proxies and ssl channels.

Everybody now has iranian friends.

Rumors flood the air:

• “The result for recounting votes will be announced in 10 days”
• “Ballots boxes were burnt and ballots were destroyed”
• “They are evacuating all buildings around Valiasr square and filling it with Basij”
• “Guards have started raiding houses in Tehran to take satellite devices”
• “Iran government says recount finds Mousavi won or just lost by smaller margin”
• “Army generals arrested”

Politicians make serious looks on their faces: “questions about legitimate grievances must be answered”.

Bored winners are entertaining. There’s something happening somewhere in the third world. “Give me a map I will try to find it. Iraq? Iran? Whatever.”

Black hat marketers and spammers use trending topics to push their products.

Isn’t this all a bullshit?

What we see is an information war, mind manipulation, a democracy in action. Lords of the world have great success in telling people lies they will want to believe, lies they will never doubt. Brainwashing is very scalable.

Battles for power and money were always carried our under the pretext of human rights, freedom, justice, equality and other idealistic tools. But as soon as revolution is done idealists and revolutionaries are never needed anymore.

Previous century saw 5 U.S. military interventions in Iran (from “A century of U.S. military interventions”):

• 1946 (nuclear threat)
• 1953 (command operation, CIA overthrows democracy, installs Shah)
• 1980 (troops, nuclear threat, aborted bombing, 8 troops die in plane crash)
• 1984 (jets, two iranian jets shot down over Persian Gulf)
• 1987-1988 (naval, bombing, US intervenes on side of Iraq in war)

Who’s to remember the history?

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