I'm not sure what the ties are but I'dd be shocked if the raid in Venezuela didn't destabilize funding in Iran. The oil production in Venezuela has diminished heavily due to lack of maintenance -- I suspect Iran had been fencing oil through Venezuela to evade sanctions, and finds itself in much more of a bind with that market shut off.
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The link to protests of course is failure to sell oil results in a need to inflate currency to finance debt.
I also think they've been squeezed from prior operations that lead up to Maduro's arrest.
They're not uprising for anyone else. Almost all real uprisings that have actual force aren't for someone else -- those usually just cause a little chaos and make headlines to shape propaganda.
Real uprisings are almost universally to address one's OWN situation. Iran's collapsing economy being a perfect motivator to get people rising up in more than symbolic fashion.
And sure, I'm sure aided by some intelligence agencies.
Agencies that would love to install a puppet dictator I’m sure
Had no idea this was a possibility. Wouldn’t surprise me. Again, it’s all so tiresome. Psyops everywhere. The details hardly matter because it won’t change anything when the masses are hacking at the branches instead of the root of the evil.