Posted on 06/21/2016 6:00:46 AM PDT by detective
Recently declassified U.S. documents have revealed shocking information on how President Jimmy Carter and his administration conducted secret meetings and communications with Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and his entourage, thereby undercutting our longstanding ally and friend, the Shah of Iran and his loyal military. The story was published by the BBC in a June 3 article by Kambiz Fatthi of the BBC Persian Service.
As the situation steadily deteriorated in late 1978, a 48-member Iranian interagency task group was formed under the direction of Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Newsome. I was the director of political military affairs for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) at that time and was the JCS representative on the interagency group. With the left-wing agenda of the Carter administration and their hyped focus on human rights, the Shah was doomed. In fact, I was the only one supporting the Shah and his military because they represented the strategic underpinnings of our security policy in the Persian Gulf. That viewpoint was not appreciated and was basically dismissed by the interagency group. Contrary to recent claims by Gary Sick and Zbigniew Brzezinski of the Carter administration, their focus was on getting rid of the Shah and his designated prime minister, Shapour Bakhtiar.
On Jan. 3, 1979, amid reports of an impending military coup, Mr. Carter sent Deputy U.S. Commander in Chief, European Command Robert “Dutch” Huyser, a U.S. Air Force general, to Tehran. He was well-known to the Shah and his top generals. The message he was sent to deliver was to tell the Shah’s generals to sit tight and “not jump into a coup.”
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So the Shah learned: The U.S. giveth, and the U.S. taketh away.
“The story was published by the BBC in a June 3 article...”
“The most insidious power the media has, is the power to ignore.” - Chris Plante, WMAL
Our peanut farmer was getting $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$—from GUESS WHO at the time.
A-rabs make LONG TERM investment decisions; after all, BRIBERY is the downfall of all Democratic institutions.
When you’re in the regime change business, you will have customers.
You know, the Ayatollah utterly sucks and has set Iran back 200 years. But the Shah was a dictator, installed in a CIA coup marked with murder, beatings, bribery and mass violence. A pretty decent guy was overthrown, but the British were in an oil dispute with him.
We -created- Savak which was right in the top tier of brutal intelligence agencies, torturing and murdering dissenters with no limits to what was allowed.
The problem in Iran wasn’t when the Shah was overthrown. The future misery of todays Iran was written in stone when we installed a brutal dictator to replace a popular Prime Minister on behalf of the Brits. It was totally predictable that the brutal killer that was our friend would be replaced by someone just as evil who wasn’t our friend.
Pretty sick.
Mosaddegh was and indeed still remains popular in Iran, but reading the history I think it’s pretty clear that he was setting himself up to replace the Shah as the strongman of Persia. He had emergency powers that allowed him to pass any law he saw fit. It is highly likely he would have driven Iran into the Soviet sphere of influence.
Mosaddegh’s removal only became possible when the Mullahs withdrew support. There’s no doubt in my mind that had he survived in power, he or someone who would follow Mosaddegh would have been overthrown just as the Shah was.
As for SAVAK, it was replaced by the worse SAVAMA. The head of SAVAK spared Ayatollah Khomeini when he was arrested, the bastard Khomeini repaid him by executing the former general when the clerics took over. Comparing the two regimes is like comparing Franco to Stalin.
Mossadegh would have been to Iran what Chavez was to Venezuela. Among other things, Mossadegh wanted to nationalize the oil industry, which would have ensured that it ended up in the hands of the Soviets, who desperately wanted an opening to the middle east that would have allowed them to expand westward into Iraq and eventually have hegemony over Saudi Arabia. By Mossadegh being overthrown by the CIA and MI6 and the Shah being returned, “worse,” meaning eventual Soviet hegemony over the middle east, was replaced by “bad,” meaning a Shah who, as FDR described another dictator once, was a sonovab*tch, but he was our sonovab*tch.
The mistake in 1953, which was made by both sides in the Cold War, was the belief that religions in the third world would eventually be replaced by ideologies, the way they had been in the first and second worlds. Islam *is* the ideology of half of the third world, with the other half split among Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism. In the short run, the only weapon against Islam’s sword is a bigger sword, but in the long run, the only weapon against Islam’s power is Christ’s power, not the power of capitalism, socialism, progressivism, or any other of the contemporary ideologies.
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