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Histrory of US interventions
    #7394291 - 09/10/07 10:42 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

History of US Interventions

US-Iran (1952-1953)
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April 28, 1951 Dr. Muhammed Mosaddeq, or Mossadegh, is democratically elected by the Iranian Parliament. Mosaddeq, who is not a Communist but receives the support of Iran’s Communist Party, intends to nationalize Iran’s oil industry. Opposition from US and Britain is immediate, with the CIA moving to destabilize the Mosaddeq regime and the British imposing an economic embargo on Iran. [Iran Chamber Society, 1/1/2007] (See 1952 and August 19, 1953.)
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1952
Time Magazine’s Man of the Year cover for 1951. [Source: Wikipedia]Iranian President Mohammad Mosaddeq moves to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in order to ensure that more oil profits remain in Iran. His efforts to democratize Iran had already earned him being named Time Magazine’s Man of the Year for 1951. After he nationalizes it, Mosaddeq realizes that Britain may want to overthrow his government, so he closes the British Embassy and sends all British civilians, including its intelligence operatives, out of the country. Britain finds itself with no way to stage the coup it desires, so it approaches the American intelligence community for help. Their first approach results in abject failure when Harry Truman throws the British representatives out of his office, stating that "We don’t overthrow governments; the United States has never done this before, and we’re not going to start now." After Eisenhower is elected in November 1952, the British have a much more receptive audience, and plans for overthrowing Mosaddeq are produced. The British intelligence operative who presents the idea to the Eisenhower administration later will write in his memoirs, "If I ask the Americans to overthrow Mosaddeq in order to rescue a British oil company, they are not going to respond. This is not an argument that’s going to cut much mustard in Washington. I’ve got to have a different argument.…I’m going to tell the Americans that Mosaddeq is leading Iran towards Communism." This argument wins over the Eisenhower administration, who promptly decides to organize a coup in Iran (see August 19, 1953). [Stephen Kinzer, 7/29/2003]
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August 19, 1953
CIA coup planner Kermit Roosevelt. [Source: Flying Fish]The government of Iran is overthrown by Iranian rebels and the CIA in a coup codenamed Operation Ajax. The coup was planned by CIA operative Kermit Roosevelt after receiving the blessings of the US and British governments. Muhammad Mosaddeq is deposed and the CIA promptly reinstates Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi on the throne. The Shah’s secret police, SAVAK, trained by the CIA and Israel’s Mossad, are widely perceived as being as brutal and terrifying as the Nazi Gestapo in World War II. British oil interests in Iran, partially nationalized under previous governments, are returned to British control. American oil interests are retained by 8 private oil companies, who are awarded 40% of the Iranian oil industry. US General Norman Schwarzkopf, Sr. (father of the general with the same name in the 1991 Gulf War) helps the Shah develop the fearsome SAVAK secret police. [ZNet, 12/12/2001; Global Policy Forum, 2/28/2002] Author Stephen Kinzer will say in 2003, "The result of that coup was that the Shah was placed back on his throne. He ruled for 25 years in an increasingly brutal and repressive fashion. His tyranny resulted in an explosion of revolution in 1979 the event that we call the Islamic revolution. That brought to power a group of fanatically anti-Western clerics who turned Iran into a center for anti-Americanism and, in particular, anti-American terrorism. The Islamic regime in Iran also inspired religious fanatics in many other countries, including those who went on to form the Taliban in Afghanistan and give refuge to terrorists who went on to attack the United States. The anger against the United States that flooded out of Iran following the 1979 revolution has its roots in the American role in crushing Iranian democracy in 1953. Therefore, I think it’s not an exaggeration to say that you can draw a line from the American sponsorship of the 1953 coup in Iran, through the Shah’s repressive regime, to the Islamic revolution of 1979 and the spread of militant religious fundamentalism that produced waves of anti-Western terrorism." [Stephen Kinzer, 7/29/2003]


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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: carbonhoots]
    #7394430 - 09/10/07 11:21 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Might i recomend a book?

the great war for civilisation
by dr. robert fisk


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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: rodfarva]
    #7395094 - 09/11/07 04:25 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

> Might i recomend a book?

Certainly

> by dr. robert fisk

Oh, I thought you were going to recommend somebody worth reading. Oh well.


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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: Seuss]
    #7395423 - 09/11/07 07:50 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Hey Suess.. which country are you from?

I've been trying to pin down your political affiliation for the past few days now and I just reazlied you're not American.


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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: BrAiN]
    #7395476 - 09/11/07 08:18 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Ha, you can have an opinion, but i made it through 1100 pages pretty easily. I didnt know anything about him when i started reading. He was IN IRAN during the revolution, among other times.


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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: BrAiN]
    #7395597 - 09/11/07 09:29 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

> I've been trying to pin down your political affiliation for the past few days now and I just reazlied you're not American.

I am American, but I moved out of the country a year or so after George Jr. got elected... I have meshed well with my new home in the Caribbean, picking up the local customs, slangs, etc.

As far as trying to pin down my political affiliation... good luck, and let me know if you figure it out 'cause I certainly don't know what it is. I argue both sides in a debate to try and figure out where I stand on the issue and why other people take the stand that they do. I have always felt that if one cannot effective debate both sides of an issue, then one doesn't truly understand the issue.

In a nutshell, I am for small federal government that operates within the bounds of the Constitution as it is written rather than within the bounds of how it is interpreted. Things like health care, education, welfare, etc, should be left in the hands of the states. At most, the federal government should set guidelines for accreditation, etc. I am pro-military, but do not think the military should be used for anything other than defense. I loathe politicians that use the military for political ends, as is common these days. I am anti-national security. The government must be transparent to the people, otherwise corruption (as we well see) sets in. I am also anti-moral-legislation, meaning that I am against laws that try to make people "better" for their own good, such as the war on drugs, no-gay marriages, no-sex after midnight or on Sunday, anti-abortion, etc. I feel that elected politicians must represent all their constituents, not just those that voted for them. For example, I am 100% against abortion, but would never support a politician that tries to take the right to choose away from a person. I feel that when the country is split on something 50/50, that we must err on the side of freedom.


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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: rodfarva]
    #7395626 - 09/11/07 09:42 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

> I didnt know anything about him when i started reading.

Check out the controversy about him online. Wiki is a decent starting place, but beware that the entry for Fisk is often full of errors. My gripe with him is that he presents himself as an objective journalist, but he is very biased in his views and goes out of his way to mislead from time to time in order to support his viewpoint. (I have the same gripe with Fox News, NY Times, etc)


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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: Seuss]
    #7395800 - 09/11/07 10:53 AM (16 years, 4 months ago)

It is refreshing that he is acctually PRO ARAB, as you read the book you will gain an apreciation for the Arabs, and maybe even the Persians. Most people dont realize that the people in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan are NOT Arab.

ill look into fisk a bit more.

as for you, thats hillarious, I would sumerize you as a classic southern conservative, but a social liberal, Now living on island time.


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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: rodfarva]
    #7398036 - 09/11/07 07:27 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

One important thing you should know about Robert Fisk is that he is the inspiration for a new verb, i.e. to fisk, which means to deconstruct piece by piece a weak assemblage of false coincidence and Olympian speculation devoid of any real support. It could just as easily have been called "Sying" but that was already phonetically taken.


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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: BrAiN]
    #7398186 - 09/11/07 07:53 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Quote:

BrAiN said:
Hey Suess.. which country are you from?

I've been trying to pin down your political affiliation for the past few days now and I just reazlied you're not American.




Isn't the Carribean part of North America?


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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: zappaisgod]
    #7398240 - 09/11/07 08:02 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

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Re: Histrory of US interventions [Re: EntheogenicPeace]
    #7398363 - 09/11/07 08:30 PM (16 years, 4 months ago)

Oh no, it's not just one guy with an axe. Fisk is pretty much a laughingstock for being a prime example of a dupe who believes anything an underdog alleges.


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