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LONDON – Analysts for Britain's MI6 intelligence agency are predicting the revolution which ended the shah's regime 30 years ago in Iran is poised to launch a new change in the embattled country in the New Year, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.
The successors of those who rose to depose the detested shah in the coup d'etat of 1979 now find themselves cast as the enemies of the people.
The MI6 report came after Iran's Foreign Minister, Manoucher Mottaki, delivered an undiplomatic warning that Britain would receive a "slap in the mouth if it does not stop interfering in Iran."
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The threat came after Britain's Foreign Secretary, David Milliband, had praised the "great courage" of the opposition supporters for their anti-government marches through Tehran during the holiday period. Eight people have been killed during the demonstrations and scores injured, some seriously.
Britain's ambassador, Simon Gass, was summoned to Iran's foreign office for a protest of Milliband's comments.
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Hardly a day passes without the increasingly embattled regime of the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his ever more despised protégé President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, using the Revolutionary Guards against the people.
With every fatal bullet, with every ill-directed teargas canister and every ill-advised arrest, the heirs to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who overthrew the shah, are themselves fighting a losing battle against a population sufficiently roused to stage a new coup, says the MI6 analyst report.
The surge of protest began last December 7 with the death of their acknowledged leader, the noted reformer, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri.
"Memorial services for him in Qom and Isfahan were subjected to violent attacks by the regime's militia forces," states the MI6 report.
Another flashpoint came a few days ago with the ruthless murder of the reformist Seyyed Ali Mousavi, 35, nephew of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi. Again ceremonies to mark the death became battle grounds.
The Secret Intelligence Service report was sent to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Opposition Leader David Cameron, as well as U.K. ambassadors in the Middle East.
"The protests increasingly carry the potential to turn into a full scale civil disobedience campaign. It can be compared to the first Intifada the Palestinians launched against Israel in 1987. But there is one significant difference. The opponents of the regime know they have wide support in the West," states the report.
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