Bilderberg.org

[TonyGosling]

Proof positive of the power of Bilderberg - this is where the deal was done to put Ms Clinton in the State Department.
Democracy?
As if!

Irans' News Agency Wise to Bilderberger NWO Plot
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=15088

Why Ahmadinejad Fears Khatami

19/12/2008

By Amir Taheri

(Amir Taheri was born in Iran and educated in Tehran, London and Paris. Between 1980 and 1984 he was Middle East editor for the London Sunday Times. Taheri has been a contributor to the International Herald Tribune since 1980. He has also written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. Taheri has published nine books some of which have been translated into 20 languages, and In 1988 Publishers'' Weekly in New York chose his study of Islamist terrorism, "Holy
Terror", as one of The Best Books of The Year. He has been a columnist Asharq Alawsat since 1987 )

The Islamic Republic in Iran is facing "a sinister international conspiracy"
designed to "replace religious rule with secularism." The plot was allegedly hatched by a "secret society of Freemasons" known as the Bilderberg Group whose members include many of the Western world's richest and most powerful businessmen and politicians.

The alleged conspiracy was finalized at a secret meeting of the group in June 1999 [with Peter Mandelson in attendance] in Caesar Park Hotel in the Portuguese resort of Penha Longa. Inside Iran, the executors of the "plot" included the so-called Reform Movement symbolized by former
President Mohammed Khatami who attended the meeting along with his then assistant on environmental affairs Mrs. Massoumeh Ebtekar.

The so-called Bilderberg "lodge" is often described by conspiracy theorists as "the
secret government of the world".

According to the report published by IRNA, the "plot" included building up
Abdul-Karim Sorush, a self-styled philosopher and erstwhile Khatami protégé, as "the Martin Luther of Islam" with a message of separating religion from politics. They also tried to "transform Khatami into an Islamic [version of Mikhail] Gorbachev."

Wow! A tall story from the rumor-mills in the marshlands of the Internet?

Not at all. The claim comes in a lengthy report published by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA), the official organ of the Khomeinist regime in Tehran.

The claim is worth noting for two reasons.

The first is that it is presented by the official organ of the state. Claims that
the former president had a part in foreign plots against the regime have been made
by radical Khomeinist groups and websites since 2005 when Khatami's eight-year
presidency ended. However, this is the first time that such a claim is given
prominence by mainstream organs of the regime.

The accusation was first published by the mass-circulation daily newspaper Kayhan whose Editor-in-Chief is appointed by the "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenei. The paper, which has promised "more sensational revelations", has often been used for character-assassination campaigns against critics of the regime, and makes no secret of its dislike for Khatami and his supposedly "reformist" supporters.

Putting the claims on IRNA, however, marks a new step in the campaign against Khatami.

The second reason why the episode is worth noting is that it indicates a dramatic intensification of the power struggle in Tehran. The radical revolutionary groups led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are beginning to fear a possible Khatami candidacy in next June's presidential elections.

However, before we deal with the political implications of the campaign let us first deal with its substance.

Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as the Bilderberg Group or Masonic lodge. What we have is an annual private meeting of influential individuals, mostly from Europe and the United States, designed to generate free discussions on a range of
issues without a pre-set agenda and according to the so-called Chatam House rules
under which there are no reports of the proceedings and none of the participants
could be quoted by name.

The first meeting was held at Hotel de Bilderberg near Arnhem in Holland in 1954 at
the invitation of Prince Bernhard, the husband of the then Queen Juliana. The number
of guests was fixed at 130 and initially only limited to politicians, academics and
business people from member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO). Later, the meeting extended its reach and started inviting personalities
from all over the world, according to which countries happened to be in the news.
The invitations were designed to include two representatives from each country, one
liberal and one conservative.

Over the past half a century, almost anybody who was somebody in international
business or politics has made at least one appearance at the group's annual
meetings. Thus, if this were a gathering of conspirators we would have to assume
that virtually the whole of the global leadership elite consists of Masonic
plotters. Last June, for example, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both
attended the Bilderberg meeting along with more than 60 other political figures from
across the globe.

From the late 1960s until 1977, a number of Iranian politicians, academics and
business people attended one or more of the group’s gatherings - always with the
understanding that they were there as private individuals. However, no Iranians were
invited after the Khomeinist seizure of power in 1979. That such invitations were
resumed in 1999 indicated the hopes raised by Khatami that the Islamic Republic
could close its revolutionary phase and return to the mainstream as a normal
nation-state.

The IRNA campaign against Khatami shows that those hopes were premature. Even if one
assumes that Khatami was sincere in his desire to normalize the Islamic Republic,
the election of President Ahmadinejad showed that a majority of Khomeinists who
provide the regime's support-base reject such change.

Nevertheless, the question has not gone away.

Many within the Khomeinist establishment realize that a majority of Iranians are
tired of Khomeinism and desire normalization. The next presidential election, to be
held in June, is likely to be fought on that issue. And Khatami is coming under
pressure from inside and outside Iran to stand for election again, challenging
Ahmadinejad's radicalism with a message of reform and moderation.

The IRNA report shows that the radical factions fear a Khatami candidacy and are
trying to terrorize him into not becoming a candidate. As always, the Khomeinists
shun serious arguments. They prefer accusing their critics of atheism, secularism
or, as in this case, collaboration with foreign conspiracies.

The tactic may work against Khatami who has never been much of a fighter. But even
if Khatami does not enter the presidential race, the main question will remain: how
should Iran come out of the impasse created by a bankrupt ideology?

Proof in print that Obama and Hillary attended Bilderberg 2008.

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[kevink]

So the bogus 1999 Bilderberg participant list that included a number of heads of state wasn't all disinformation after all?

http://www.bilderberg.org/1999.htm#Bogus