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| U.S. Quietly Admits Covert Klingon 'Regime Change' Role in 1953 Iranian Coup |
| 2017-06-20 |
| [Free Beacon] The Trump administration has released a long-suppressed and classified government report disclosing U.S. clandestine action in Iran that outlines America's role in the country's 1953 coup, the State Department announced last week in a move that is likely to roil the Islamic Republic. Can anyone think of a CIA sponsored 'Regime Change' that ended well ? The report, which details covert U.S. operations in Iran, has been the source of controversy for quite some time, as the former Obama administration had suppressed its publication in a bid to avoid upsetting Iran during diplomatic efforts to foster the landmark nuclear deal. While a small portion of the report still remains classified, its release marks the first time the United States is officially acknowledging its clandestine role in the 1953 coup against the Iranian government led by Mohammad Mosadeq. Multiple efforts to force publication of the documents were blocked by the Obama administration during its time in the White House, and it seemed the report would not see the light of day as late as April of this year. However, the State Department quietly released the detailed report late last week, potentially in an effort to minimize the fallout. "There is no known evidence that Secretary of State Tillerson participated in the decision to permit publication," according to the Federation of American Scientists, or FAS which has long been tracking the publication. The State Department did appear to bury the report's release last week. Very good at that, "burying the reports.' |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 Might have been better to let the Ruskies have it. Hindsight. But the fear was the Soviets would control most of the world's oil supply, and it would have been a very different Cold War. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-06-20 17:18 |
| #5 Iran only exists today, because the USA threatened nuclear war against the Soviets who had occupied a third of present day Iran after WWII. Might have been better to let the Ruskies have it. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-06-20 10:59 |
| #4 A way of saying "We did it once; we can do it again"? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-06-20 10:54 |
| #3 I think ousting Tenet was a good regime change. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-06-20 08:38 |
| #2 Iran only exists today, because the USA threatened nuclear war against the Soviets who had occupied a third of present day Iran after WWII. But that doesn't fit anyone's narrative. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-06-20 04:39 |
| #1 In a review of Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes, historian Michael Beschloss wrote, "Mr. Weiner argues that a bad C.I.A. track record has encouraged many of our gravest contemporary problems... A generation of Iranians grew up knowing that the C.I.A. had installed the shah," Mr. Weiner notes. "In time, the chaos that the agency had created in the streets of Tehran would return to haunt the United States." The administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower considered the coup a success, but, given its blowback, that opinion is no longer generally held, because of its "haunting and terrible legacy". In 2000, Madeleine Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, said that intervention by the U.S. in the internal affairs of Iran was a setback for democratic government. The coup is widely believed to have significantly contributed to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which deposed the "pro-Western" Shah and replaced the monarchy with an "anti-Western" Islamic republic. "For many Iranians, the coup demonstrated duplicity by the United States, which presented itself as a defender of freedom but did not hesitate to use underhanded methods to overthrow a democratically elected government to suit its own economic and strategic interests", the Agence France-Presse reported. United States Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who visited Iran both before and after the coup, wrote that "When Mossadegh and Persia started basic reforms, we became alarmed. We united with the British to destroy him; we succeeded; and ever since, our name has not been an honored one in the Middle East." Emphasis added Wiki Link |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-06-20 01:35 |