1. There was an election between Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

2. Ahmadinejad won. Or at least that's what some people say. Riots have started due to accusations over election fraud.

Now this is where it gets interesting. The conspiratorial view, meaning the view advocated by people who live in reality and understand that 9/11 was an inside job and that the CIA killed JFK (and RFK), is that the riots are staged by foreign intelligence agencies, particularly Mossad and CIA, as a way of overthrowing Ahmadinejad's government.

Note that no one is saying Ahmadinejad is a cool person. Instead what is being said is that the British/Israel/US empire does not want Ahmadinejad in office in Iran.

I highly recommend this article from the Corbett Report to understand this argument in greater detail.

Personally, I'm inclined to think there is something going on here, and that the conspiracists are, as usual, correct. Note that the CIA has already overthrown foreign governments before -- even the Iranian one. In 1953, the CIA launched Operation AJAX, which was a successful coup in Iran, cultivated by fueling internal riots and creating a media frenzy.

Some things never change.

And because some things never change, and because history repeats itself until we learn from it, the song for the post is "History Repeats" by We Are Scientists. This is the acoustic version.