They could have been knocked off by a puff of wind, then.
But Obama did NOTHING.
Posted on 07/14/2017 6:54:43 PM PDT by Ennis85
William Faulkner once mused that the past is never dead, in fact it’s not even past. The story of the coup that toppled Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953 may not be dead, but it is unhinged from history. Tall tales by a scion of the American establishment—former CIA agent and presidential grandson Kermit Roosevelt—and reams of studies by left-wing professors have sustained the myth that the Eisenhower administration ousted Mossadeq. The Iranians are mere bystanders in this story, watching helplessly as a malevolent America manipulates their nation’s destiny. Most academic speculations remain cloistered in college campuses, but the myth of Mossadeq’s overthrow long escaped those boundaries.
It is in the Democratic party that the tale of Mossadeq’s demise has found its most hospitable home. In 2015, Barack Obama confided to Tom Friedman, “if you look at Iranian history, the fact is that we had some involvement with overthrowing a democratically elected regime in Iran.” In her memoir Hard Choices, Hillary Clinton echoed this theme: “The country’s monarch, the Shah, owed his throne to a 1953 coup supported by the Eisenhower administration against a democratically-elected government thought to be sympathetic to Communism.” And in 2000, in the midst of her general apology to Iran for America’s past misdeeds, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright highlighted the coup, stressing, “it is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs.” If a little history is a dangerous thing, in the hands of Democratic party luminaries, it is quite lethal.
Last month, the State Department finally released a cache of documents that John Kerry had embargoed as he pursued his arms control ambitions with Iran.
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And THAT is why Obama did absolutely NOTHING during the Iranian Green Revolution —when everyone there but the Mullahs were SCREAMING for US help— cuz the American Left’s ORGY of illusory historical GUILT.
FOR NOTHING.
They could have been knocked off by a puff of wind, then.
But Obama did NOTHING.
What makes no sense about Mossadeq as suspect for straying towards the Russian camp, is that when they annexed the former Iranian province of Azerbaijan in the early 1920s, they gobbled down more than half the former extent of the country. Why would we suspect him of going Commie, when he had a large incentive to play off East against West while he sat out the dog fight?
Yep.
But the same Obama said Khaddafi and Mubarak had to go.
It was the communists who put down the CIA backed coup attempt and Mossadeq, who had been hostile to them, now felt he had to make concessions to them as a result. The mistake that cost him his life was in acceding to the communist demand to do away with the monarchy. That caused the Iranian army to step in.
Good.
National Review had an article saying this about 10 years ago.
Then, some documents that were released, seemed to have had the CIA apologizing.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/sixty-years-on-cia-finally-admits-role-in-iran-coup-8775160.html
Example of a few stories that said this. (2013)
So, I welcome this development. Good article.
Around 1970, I had a professor who seemed to be unusually knowledgeable about Mossadeq and the Tudeh Party. I know he was in Army Intelligence although as near as I knew he spent his time in South America.
Anyway he showed some photos of a huge Tudeh Party operation which had been broken up after Mossadeq was removed. I really think he was being promoted by them and they were not independent from the USSR.
I did think the CIA was involved and was glad they were.
The role of the Soviets in Mossadeq’s Iran is still not fully exposed. Apparently the Communists, both in Moscow and Iran, got re-energized during WW2 and in the aftermath (remember the COMINFORM was revived and led Communist revolts all over the world starting in 1948 possibly including Colombia (Castro and Guevera), the Philippines, Korea, China, Burma, Indochina, and minor operations in Latin America and Africa).
We need more information on this.
It was simpler than that really.
The Obama doctrine was to assist the most radical and murderous faction in any internal islamic confict.
He did not vary from that. Not one single time.
He tended to oust more pro-US leaders, in favor of radicals?
exactly right...
(yours: “The Obama doctrine was to assist the most radical and murderous faction in any internal islamic confict.
He did not vary from that. Not one single time.”)
They’ve tried several times. Hopefully they’ll get it right soon.
Of course.
Russian trolls as usual, spreading their BS by mentioning folks who aren’t even in the story, going off-topic.
Government documents show the Government is innocent again. Hoo-kay!
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