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People Arrested in Iran Said to Be CIA Hires

Height of the protests in Iran last June

Sun Feb 7, 2010

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Sunday it had arrested seven people accused of stoking unrest after last year's disputed election, including some who it said were employed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

The arrests were reported by the official IRNA news agency before possible new anti-government protests on February 11, when Iran marks the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah.

Full article [Reuters]

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Are the Iranian Protests Another US Orchestrated "Color Revolution?" by Paul Craig Roberts [CounterPunch]