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2017-06-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

U.S. Quietly Admits Covert Klingon 'Regime Change' Role in 1953 Iranian Coup

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-20 01:23|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#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."
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Posted by Besoeker 2017-06-20 01:35|| 2017-06-20 01:35|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-06-20 04:39|| Front Page Top

#3 I think ousting Tenet was a good regime change.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-06-20 08:38|| 2017-06-20 08:38|| Front Page Top

#4 A way of saying "We did it once; we can do it again"?

Posted by Pappy 2017-06-20 10:54|| 2017-06-20 10:54|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-06-20 10:59|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-06-20 17:18|| Front Page Top

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