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Deciphering Trump's 'externalised internal thinking' on Iran

Crooke, Alastair
http://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/01/19/deciphering-trumps-externalised-internal-thinking-on-iran/

Publisher:  Strategic Culture
Date Written:  19/01/2026
Year Published:  2026  
Resource Type:  Article

The last weeks' externally-orchestrated riots in Iran have almost completely vanished – upon Iran blocking international calls, cutting international internet connections, and most significantly, severing Starlink satellite connections. No unrest, riots, or protests have been recorded in any Iranian city since Internet connections were cut off.

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The ‘surprise’ in this chapter of the Regime Change playbook was the insertion of professional rioters into locations directed by their external controllers.

The modus was for the armed insurgents to gather in some well-frequented urban area, usually in a small city; to select a random passer-by, and for the men in the group to beat him severely, whilst the women film and scream to the gathering crowd for their colleagues to “kill him; burn him”.

The crowd, not understanding, becomes heated and violent. The police arrive, whereupon shots generally from an elevated site above the crowd are fired at the police or security forces. The latter fire back, and not knowing from whence the shots were fired, kill armed ‘protestors’ and members of the public. A violent riot thus is created.

The techniques are effective and professional. They have been used on many other occasions in other countries.

The Iranian remedy was two-fold: Firstly, thanks to Turkish intelligence support, many of the armed Kurdish fighters (trained and armed by the U.S. and Israel) were killed or arrested as they crossed the border into the predominantly Kurdish minority areas of Iran, arriving from Syria and Erbil.

The game-changer, however, was the cutting of Starlink connections to the estimated 40,000 satellite terminals that had been smuggled into Iran (most probably by western NGOs).

Western Intelligence services believed that Starlink was impossible to jam – hence its primary position in the Regime Change toolbox.

The Starlink cut off turned the tables. The riots vanished.

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