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operation Ajax a nice little CIA backed coup d'etait that overthrew Iran's democratically elected parliament and installed a shah so that they could gain valuable oil concessions for the British government, (essentially Iran were threatening to withdraw the huge subsidies to British oil) heading British Petroleum now known as BP, was none other than Winston Churchill who would see the UK renege on several deals with several countries. more particularly the British promised Trans-Jordan Palestine to Feisal who was then head of what would become Jordan you can watch the history of this in the Film Lawrence of Arabia if you have a mind to know what really went on; when the 1st world war broke out, famously backing out in what is known as the Balfour treaty where they secretly promised the land in order to gain French allies; the influx of Israeli Zionists could not be contained and shortly after the second world war the UN implemented the two state solution. You can see why some people are facking furious about the shenanegans of the world powers. Incidentally Palestine or Palestinians were not invited to attend the vote on the two state solution, and interestingly England abstained, Turkey said hell no and most of the other states in the area voted against it. Unfortunately though a lot of countries voted to have a two state solution, hence the mess the area is in now. The immigrants at the time of the two state solution numbered perhaps less than 10% of the regions population, the rest of which were of semitic non Jewish descent.
Incidentally all of the nations in The Middle East are semitic so anti semitism is a rather ironic term, with the only exception being Iran who are Persian and of Moghal or Mongol if you prefer, descent for the most part from the steppes of Russia and beyond, I am sure you know the history of Temujin, aka Genghis Kahn.
Nations that are or were part of the semitic world:
Akkadians (Assyrians/Syriacs and Babylonians), Ahlamu, Amalekites, Ammonites, Amorites, Arameans, Chaldeans, Canaanites, Eblaites, Dilmunites, Hebrews (Israelites, Judeans and Samaritans, Jews), Edomites, Ethiopian Semites, Hyksos, Arabs, Nabateans, Maganites, Maltese, Mandaeans, Mhallami, Moabites, Phoenicians (including Carthaginians), Shebans, Sabians, Ubarites and Ugarites.
The Carthaginians were from North Africa, and also known as the Phoenician Empire, and Philestines and so on by the way. You may remember the punic wars between Carthage and Rome, Hanibal and so on. And indeed the Romans gave the name Palestine to the region because of the Philistines who lived there, although formerly after the conquests of Israel.
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The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, was the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh and his cabinet on 19 August 1953, orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project).[3][4][5][6]
Mossadegh had sought to reduce the semi-absolute role of the Shah granted by the Constitution of 1906, thus making Iran a full democracy, and to nationalize the Iranian oil industry, consisting of vast oil reserves and the Abadan Refinery, both owned by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, a British corporation (now BP).[7][8][9] A military government under General Fazlollah Zahedi was formed which allowed Mohammad-Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran (Persian for an Iranian king),[9] to effectively rule the country as an absolute monarch according to the constitution. He relied heavily on United States support to hold on to power until his own overthrow in February 1979.[7][8][9][10] In August 2013 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) admitted that it was involved in both the planning and the execution of the coup, including the bribing of Iranian politicians, security and army high-ranking officials, as well as pro-coup propaganda.[11][12] The CIA is quoted acknowledging the coup was carried out "under CIA direction" and "as an act of U.S. foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government." [13]
In 1951, Iran's oil industry was nationalized with near-unanimous support of Iran's parliament in a bill introduced by Mossadegh who led the nationalist party the National Front. Iran's oil had been controlled by the British-owned AIOC.[14] Popular discontent with the AIOC began in the late 1940s: a large segment of Iran's public and a number of politicians saw the company as exploitative and a central tool of continued British imperialism in Iran.[7][15] Despite Mosaddegh's popular support, Britain was unwilling to negotiate on its single most valuable foreign asset, and instigated a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil to pressure Iran economically.[16] Initially, Britain mobilized its military to seize control of the Abadan oil refinery, then the world's largest, but Prime Minister Clement Attlee opted instead to tighten the economic boycott[17] while using Iranian agents to undermine Mosaddegh's government.[18] With a change to more conservative governments in both Britain and the United States, Winston Churchill and the Eisenhower administration decided to overthrow Iran's government though the predecessor Truman administration had opposed a coup.[19] Classified documents show British intelligence officials played a pivotal role in initiating and planning the coup, and that AIOC contributed $25,000 towards the expense of bribing officials.[20]
Britain and the U.S. selected Fazlollah Zahedi to be the prime minister of a military government that was to replace Mosaddegh as premier. Subsequently, a royal decree dismissing Mosaddegh and appointing Zahedi was drawn up by the coup plotters and signed by the Shah. The Central Intelligence Agency had successfully pressured the weak monarch to participate in the coup, while bribing street thugs, clergy, politicians and Iranian army officers to take part in a propaganda campaign against Mosaddegh and his government.[21] At first, the coup appeared to be a failure when on the night of 15–16 August, Imperial Guard Colonel Nematollah Nassiri was arrested while attempting to arrest Mosaddegh. The Shah fled the country the next day. On 19 August, a pro-Shah mob paid by the CIA, marched on Mosaddegh's residence.[22] According to the CIA's declassified documents and records, some of the most feared mobsters in Tehran were hired by the CIA to stage pro-Shah riots on 19 August. Other CIA-paid men were brought into Tehran in buses and trucks, and took over the streets of the city.[23] Between 300[1] and 800 people were killed because of the conflict.[2] Mosaddegh was arrested, tried and convicted of treason by the Shah's military court. On 21 December 1953, he was sentenced to three years in jail, then placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life.[24][25][26] Other Mosaddegh supporters were imprisoned, and several received the death penalty.[9]
After the coup, the Shah ruled as an absolute monarch for the next 26 years (under what he called a "guided democracy")[8][9] while significantly modernizing the country using oil revenue, until he was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution in 1979.[8][9][27] The tangible benefits the United States reaped from overthrowing Iran's elected government included a share of Iran's oil wealth[28][clarification needed] and the prevention of the possibility that the Iranian government might align itself with the Soviet Union, although the latter motivation produces controversy among historians. Washington continually supplied arms to the increasingly unpopular Shah and the CIA-trained SAVAK, his repressive secret police force;[9] however by the 1979 revolution, his increasingly independent policies resulted in his effective abandonment by his American allies, hastening his downfall.[29] The coup is widely believed to have significantly contributed to anti-American sentiment in Iran and the Middle East. The 1979 revolution deposed the Shah and replaced the pro-Western absolute monarchy with the largely anti-Western authoritarian theocracy.[30][31]
Incidentally the US also built both of Iran's nuclear reactors, and the Germans supplied the engineers to build their enrichment facilities. Because Iran uses oil in their power stations, and of course oil is far too valuable a commodity to burn in power stations, incidentally the only other country to use oil burning power stations is Iraq. The new reactor they are building is sorely needed so Iran can save its oil assets and become a stable economic force in the region. Added to that fact is the IAEI International Atomic Energy Agency, a wing of the UN charged with regulating the development and use of nuclear power, has no problem with nuclear power used for peaceful purposes such as in power stations, and that Iran is the only country ever to face sanctions based on their treaties. France sold Israel its nuclear weapons too by the way, which they deny actually having, although the French are quite honest about the deals, and have gone on the record as saying they sold several weapons systems to the Israeli government. The US also attempted to hijack the enrichment facilities using a virus to infiltrate Iranian computers and shut them down, the attempt was only partially successful. The CIA recently admitted that Iran had no plans to build nuclear weapons and even if it had it is 30 years away at least from the technology required. In fact Iraq were closer to the technology but of course these WMDs were mysteriously non existant when UN peace keepers moved in...
The US are such monumental hypocrites, it beggars belief.
The middle east is a shit hole of political turmoil because of Western powers need for oil both during the two world wars and after. And frankly their actions since haven't exactly been a paragon either.
Politics you wouldn't piss on it if it was on fire.
The US sold weapons to both the Iranians (I am sure you are well aware of the Oliver North/Raegan scandal in which apparently neither of them could tell a lie, but were pretty much talking cavernous ass) and lets not forget the Mujahadin which would later become the Taliban, were supplied copiously by the CIA with weapons as well, in the Afghan wars with Russia, weapons which are now being used on their own troops. I suppose karma is a harsh mistress...
