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| Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject: CIA overthrew democracy in Iran 1953 Operation AJAX |
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TP-AJAX: Operation Ajax, was a prime example of a sophisticated and successful false flag attack. False flag operations are covert operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; that is, flying the flag of a country other than one's own.
Learn all about how the C.I.A. along with British intelligence by way of deception to overthrew a democracy, so we could take the oil profits, and control away from the citizens of Iran. Here's information from the National Security Archives. Click the picture below.
This is excerpts from a book review of All The Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, By Stephen Kinzer, with some other sources included.
“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”
--Harry Truman
Those wishing to learn about terrorism and America’s image in the Middle East would be well advised to take Truman’s words seriously and to familiarize themselves with the history of the American-backed coup d'état in Iran. The story of Operation Ajax may be worth telling and retelling for those who wonder why the people of the region in general, and Iranians in particular, remain distrustful of the United States.
Any analysis of America’s position in the Middle East would be incomplete without a thorough understanding of the U.S. role in overthrowing Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected and revered Prime Minister who nationalized Iran’s oil. In All The Shah’s Men, Stephen Kinzer revisits Operation Ajax, the 1953 CIA-sponsored coup that ousted Mossadegh and returned the Shah to power. TPAJAX. The plan comprised propaganda, provocations, demonstrations, and bribery, and employed agents of influence, "false flag" operatives, dissident military leaders, and paid protesters. The measure of success seemed easy enough to gauge—"all that really mattered was that Tehran be in turmoil," writes Kinzer. Though not forgotten in Iran, the 1953 coup has sadly faded from memory in the United States.
Dr. Mossadegh nationalized Iranian oil in 1951 to wide acclaim. He was immensely popular at home and tremendously respected abroad, so much so that he was chosen Time’s “Man of The Year.”
Eisenhower’s election reversed this foreign policy approach, bringing the United States much closer to Britain. The rigidly polarized worldview of John Foster Dulles and his brother Allen Dulles, both high-ranking figures in the Eisenhower administration, allowed the British to enlist American support for the coup. … The Dulles brothers accepted the British argument that Mossadegh was too soft on communists and that the Tudeh (the pro-Soviet Communist party) may soon control Iran. Thus, the CIA backed Operation Ajax and allowed Kermit Roosevelt to ally himself with figures as diverse as the Shah, General Zahedi, Ayatollah Kashani, and local gang-leader Shaban Jafari in order to overthrow Mossadegh. Kinzer superbly describes the chaotic atmosphere in Tehran in August 1953 when Mossadegh was finally driven from power.
… the CIA dispatched Kermit Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt’s grandson) to Iran to destabilize the government and to replace the Prime Minister with a leader more acceptable to the Americans and British.
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/iss17/booknotes-All.shtml
The point of the story is that the U.S. and the British are not actually spreading democracy, they are expanding the empire and installing governments that are convenient to our leaders interests. The CIA funded terrorist attacks and even had Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against Mossadegh's government. Here's a NY Times website dedicated to this subject. Click on the picture directly below for the secret history of the C.I.A. in Iran.
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