Decades ago, we undercut democracy in Iran to keep its oil flowing west.
The Valley Advocate / Stephanie Kraft
28-Apr-2009 (2 comments)

Let's review the U.S's relations with the successor to the ancient Persia, relations which have been purely self-serving on the U.S.'s part since the 1950s. Early in that decade, Iran had a democratically elected leader of real stature, Mohammed Mossadegh, but the U.S. didn't like him because he wanted to nationalize the oil companies. In 1953 we had Mossadegh overthrown and propped up the Shah with the help of the murdering, torturing thugs in his secret police.

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oil and water don’t mix

by Fred on Tue Apr 28, 2009 03:59 PM PDT

If the author is thinking that another apology to the ruling Islamists about the coup d’état would do any good, he is barking up the wrong tree.

 If anything, the ruling Islamists detest Iranian national icon, Mossadegh. Their Islamist terrorist predecessor, Kahsni, who was intimately involved in the overthrow, is credited by the current crop of Islamists as the one who nationalized Iranian oil industry.

Perhaps, those in search of a common denominator should explore the strong bond between the international oil consortiums, some factions of Iranians in the Diaspora and the ruling Islamists in Iran.

 The first two are still smarting from what Mossadegh along with a unified Iranian nation did to their vested interests.  And the third, IRI, knows the nation with Mossadegh’s moderate nationalistic characteristics as its guiding light is biding its time to do to the same to the Islamist republic. In almost every uprising inside occupied Iran, large and small, the name of Mossadegh is a permanent fixture.

Islamists and Mossadegh are like oil and water, Islamists might agitate the mixture to get some mileage out of it from the west, but oil and water don’t mix, more so when the oil is used, filthy and has lost all its viscosity. 


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Democratically Elected?

by Anonynini (not verified) on Tue Apr 28, 2009 01:49 PM PDT

Can someone please tell me how was Dr. Mosadegh democratically elected? He was selected by the Majlis and appointed by the Shah. As we know he wasn't a big fan of the Majlis since he dissolved it later on.


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