Photo: Robert Baer (Photo by Greg Martin, New York Times)From The Examiner:
Robert Baer is a man you've seen on your TV screens before; he's not ubiquitous, but recognizable enough as an authoritative voice on world events. He's an ex-CIA operative, now living in California, and provided some insight on Iran today in a conversation with Fareed Zakaria.
His assessment of what has happened in Iran is what he calls a military coup d'etat by the Revolutionary Guard against the clerics. The Revolutionary Guard has kept its activities within Iran's border for the last thirteen years; it is nationalistic in nature, hardline and boast a terrorist past, and at the moment, they represent the ultimate authority in Iran.
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My Comment: The key phrase in this story .... "We have no clue what's going on". I guess that phrase says it all.
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