You got it right: this article is recycled Soviet-era Cold War propaganda. The USSR had agreed to pull out of Iran at the end of World War II but continued to occupy it after the war ended. General Eisenhower scared them into pulling out by leading them to believe we had twice as many nuclear weapons as we did, but they continued to subvert Iran through Mossadegh and Communist groups that supported him, while supporting the myth that he was “democratically elected”, as this article claims. As for America’s Future, it used to be run by John Singlaub, an OSS/CIA covert operator who ironically used to run the Iran-Contra network this article is complaining about, which underscores how the intelligence community has drifted since Clinton. The Koch Brothers have been funding them in recent years, IIRC.
Okay thanks for your input, because it certainly didn’t sit well with me.