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FAIL.
“The Iranian people DEMOCRATICALLY elect Mossadegh to lead their nation.”
FALSE.
The Iranian people did not democratically elect Mossadegh to anything, he was appointed by the Shah after the assassination of his predecessor. He also led a Communist faction which made many Shia’s afraid of his leadership.
You need to review your warped history records dude; read and become more informed before you make such uninformed statements:
“On 28 April 1951, the Majlis named Mosaddeq as new prime minister by a vote of 79–12. Aware of Mosaddeq’s rising popularity and political power, the young Shah appointed Mosaddeq to the Premiership.”
Mohammed Mosaddeq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“CIA overthrows that government, and installs the Shah”
FALSE.
The military overthrew Mohammed after he showed his “Socialist” colors and nationalized the oil assets owned and developed by what is now BP. Again, the CIA’s role in this was merely support, propaganda and funding of opposition powers. The Iranian politics have always been extremely volatile not because of anything the Americans did, but due to internal and external EUROPEAN influences as well.
The Shaw was always the Monarch and played a real political role in power.
Events that led to the Shah removing Mossadegh:
On 28 April 1951, the Majlis named Mosaddeq as new prime minister by a vote of 79–12. Aware of Mosaddeq’s rising popularity and political power, the young Shah appointed Mosaddeq to the Premiership.
In August 1953, Mosaddeq attempted to convince the Shah to leave the country and allow him control over the government. The Shah refused, and formally dismissed the Prime Minister. Mosaddeq refused to leave, however, and when it became apparent that he was going to fight to overthrow the monarchy, the Shah, as a precautionary measure, flew to Baghdad and from there to Rome, Italy, after signing two decrees, one dismissing Mosaddeq and the other nominating General Fazlollah Zahedi Prime Minister.
massive protests broke out across the nation. Anti- and pro-monarchy protesters violently clashed in the streets, leaving almost 300 dead. The pro-monarchy forces, led by retired army General and former Minister of Interior in Mosaddeq’s cabinet, Fazlollah Zahedi and pahlavan like Shaban Jafari,[37] gained the upper hand on 19 August 1953 (28 Mordad). The military intervened as the pro-Shah tank regiments stormed the capital and bombarded the prime minister’s official residence. Mosaddeq managed to flee from the mob that set in to ransack his house, and, the following day, surrendered to General Zahedi, who had meanwhile established his makeshift headquarters at the Officers' Club. Mosaddeq was arrested at the Officers' Club and transferred to a military jail shortly after.
Shortly after the return of the Shah, on 22 August 1953, from the brief self-imposed exile in Rome, Mosaddeq was tried by a military tribunal for high treason. Zahedi and the Shah were inclined, however, to spare the man’s life (the death penalty would have applied according to the laws of the day). Mosaddeq received a sentence of 3 years in solitary confinement at a military jail and was exiled to his village not far from Tehran, where he remained under house arrest on his estate until his death, on 5 March 1967.[38]
Zahedi’s new government soon reached an agreement with foreign oil companies to form a "Consortium" and "restore the flow of Iranian oil to world markets in substantial quantities."
“who was so sadistic he even made Saddam look like a boy scout.”
How trite, yet the sadistic murdering that occurred after the Shah’s reign was ended paled in comparison to that attributed to the Shah. I find it amusing that you wallow in the rhetoric of the terrorists and their supporters.
The only thing more fascinating is your support to keep in power a more brutal thug in Saddam Hussein whom you think was removed illegally by the US led coalition.
"Eventually, the American hating fundies overthrow the Shah."
Wong; eventually the Western hating fundies who support and fund terrorists overthrew the Shah thanks to fecklessness of the Carter Administration who even allowed the overtaking of US soil through our embassy in Tehran and did nothing but act cowardly for the next 444 days our people were held hostage by a rogue regime who used rogue tactics.
I suggest you take some history lessons before attempting to re-write them on this forum with your inane accounting of what occurred. You sound more like an Osama or Liberal mouthpiece than someone credible who has a historical knowledge of what went on.
I think you have "blowback" on the brain. Blowback is a figment of terrorist propaganda which Liberals, and apparently you, swallow with little or no suspension of disbelief.
If you so believe in our Iran policy, why lie about it? What you posted is not even close to the truth. Did it come from some Neocon think tank, that is, if there are any of them left?
Here, read this, and before you start whining that the source is bad, here is the source's bibliography:
REFERENCES
Declassified Documents — The University Publications of America have microfisched the declassified U. S. documents for the 1951–54 period.
FO — Foreign Office. The archives of the British Foreign Office are kept in the Public Record Office in London, England.
Ahmadi, Hamid. 1985–95. The Iranian Left Oral History Project. Berlin, Germany.
Amir-Khosrovi, Babak. 1996. Nazar az Daroun beh Naqsh-e Hezb-e Tudeh-e Iran (An Internal Look at the Tudeh Party of Iran). Teheran.
Avery, Peter. 1965. Modern Iran. London: Ernest Penn.
Bamberg, J. H. 1994. The History of the British Petroleum Company. Cambridge, Eng land: Cambridge University Press.
Bill, James, and William Roger Louis, eds. 1988. Musaddiq, Iranian Nationalism, and Oil. Austin, Texas: Texas University Press.
Bozorgmehr, Esfandiar. 1993. Karavan-e Omr (Life’s Caravan). London.
Cottam, Richard. 1964. Nationalism in Iran. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press.
Davar-Pana, Iraj, and Mosavi Fesharki. 1979. “Interview Concerning the Attack on Dr. Mossadeq’s Home on August 19,” Ettela’at, August 19–20.
Dorman, William, and Mansour Farhang. 1987. The U. S. Press and Iran: Foreign Policy and the Journalism of Deference. Berkeley, California: University of California Press.
Dorril, Stephen. 2000. MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service. New York: The Free Press.
Elm, Mostafa. 1992. Oil, Power, and Principle: Iran’s Oil Nationalization and Its Aftermath. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.
Elwell-Sutton, L. P. 1955. Persian Oil: A Study in Power Politics. London: Lawrence and Wishart.
Farmanfarmaian, Manucher. 1997. Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince. New York: Random House.
Gasiorowski, Mark. 1987. “The 1953 Coup D’Etat in Iran.” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 19:3 (August), 261–86.
Harkness, Gladys and Richard. 1954. “The Mysterious Doings of the CIA.” Saturday Evening Post. October 30–November 13.
Heiss, Mary Ann. 1997. Empire and Nationhood: The United States, Great Britain, and Iranian Oil, 1950–1954. New York: Columbia University Press.
Javanshir, F. M. 1980. Tajrabeh-e Bist-u-Hasht-e Mordad (The Experience of August 19). Teheran.
Key-Ostovan, Hussein. 1950. Siyasat-e Muvazineh-e Manfi dar Majles-e Chahardahum (The Politics of Negative Equilibrium in the Fourteenth Majles). Teheran.
Khosrowpana, Mohammad. 1998. Sazeman-e Afsaran-e Hezb-e Tudeh-e Iran (Organization of Military Officers of the Tudeh Party of Iran). Teheran.
Kianuri, Nuraldin. 1992. Khaterat (Memoirs). Teheran.
Lajevardi, Habib. 1993. The Iranian Oral History Project. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Lenczowski, George, ed. 1979. Iran Under the Pahlavis. Stanford, California: Hoover Institution Press.
Love, Kenneth, 1960. “The American Role in the Pahlavi Restoration.” Unpublished paper at Princeton University.
Lytle, Mark Hamilton. 1987. The Origins of the Iranian–American Alliance. New York: Holmes & Meier.
Marigold, Stella. 1953. “The Streets of Teheran.” The Reporter, November 10.
Military Governor of Teheran. 1956. Ketab-e Siah darbareh-e Sazeman-e Afsaran-e Tudeh (Black Book on the Tudeh Officers’ Organization). Teheran.
Mohammadi, Mohammad-Jafar. 1993–95. “The Military Organization of the Tudeh Party.” Rah-e Azadi, 29–37, February 1993–February 1995.
———. 1999. “The 1953 Coup.” Nimrouz, October 18–December 26.
Nejati, Ghulam-Reza. 1986. Jonbesh-e Mellishudan-e Naft-e Iran va Kudeta-ye Bist-u-Hashte Mordad (The Movement to Nationalize Iranian Oil and the Coup of August 19). Teheran.
———. 1999. Mossadeq: Salha-ye Mobarezeh (Mossadeq: Years of Struggle). Teheran.
Roosevelt, Kermit. 1979. Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran. New York: McGraw Hill. Ruehsen, Moyara. 1993. “Operation Ajax Revisited: Iran 1953.” Middle Eastern Studies, 29:3 (July), 467–86.
Sarreshteh, Hassan. 1988. Khaterat-e Man (My Memoirs). Teheran.
Seifzadeh, Hamid. 1994. Hafezeh-e Tarikh-e Afshartous Kibud? (Who Preserved Afshartouz’s Memory?). Teheran.
Woodhouse, Christopher. 1982. Something Ventured. London: Granada.
Zibayi, Ali. 1955–57. Komunism dar Iran (Communism in Iran). Teheran. (Unpublished document, compiled by the Iranian Secret Police.)