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Here's something you might not know, the English promised all of Trans Jordan Palestine to Feisel in return for his support in WWI.
As Far As I Know, they also installed the Shah in Iran, to have a 'puppet nation' as opposed to the Republic the Iranians wanted.
We have huge amounts of land here and in Canada--- why can't we just give them some space here to live in peace on?
Actually the CIA did that because the democratically elected PM refused to grant England oil rights, so we turned to you and you overthrew them. Look up operation Ajax on Google.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Irani ... ation_AjaxQuote:
The 1953 Iranian coup d’état (termed the 28 Mordad coup d'état in Iran), was the overthrow of the democratically-elected Iranian government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh by the Central Intelligence Agency;[1] It was the CIA's first covert operation against a foreign government.[2] The coup has been called "a critical event in post-war world history", and is thought to have influenced "all of subsequent Iranian history."[3] The coup was originally considered in America to be a triumph of Cold War covert action, but given its blowback, it is considered now generally to have left "a haunting and terrible legacy," both in Iran and worldwide.[4] In 2000, the U.S. Secretary of State called the coup a "setback for democratic government" in Iran, saying "It is easy to see now why many Iranians continue to resent this intervention by America in their internal affairs."[5] In 2009, President Barack Obama publicaly admitted US involvement in the coup; the first time a sitting US president had done so.[6]
In 1951 with majority support in Iran’s parliament, Mosaddegh had nationalized the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), so Iran could profit equitably from the sale of its vast national petroleum resources that had so far been under the control of the British, who gave the Iranian government only 16 percent of Iran's oil profits.[7][2] Since 1913, the British had exclusively controlled Iranian oil through the AIOC,[8][2] and it was the British government 's single largest overseas investment.[9] Despite Mosaddegh’s wide support, the decision angered Britain, which accused Mosaddegh of violating the 1913 Qajar era agreement that had given Britain control of Iranian oil through the AIOC, and it instigated a worldwide boycott of Iranian oil, to pressure them economically.[10] Initially, Britain mobilized its military to seize control of the Abadan oil refinery, the world’s largest, but Prime Minister Attlee chose instead to tighten the economic boycott against Iran.[11] The later British government, of Churchill, successfully gained US support for staging a coup d'état against Iran's elected government; while the Truman administration had opposed a coup, the succeeding Eisenhower administration administration supported it.[12]
The British and U.S. spy agencies then persuaded the Iranian monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to order Mosaddegh's dismissal, while paying and organizing anti-Mosaddegh mobs, clergy, politicians and Iranian army officers, and waging a propaganda campaign against Mosaddegh and his government.[13] At first, the coup appeared to be a failure when on the night of August 15-16, Imperial Guard Colonel Nematollah Nassiri was arrested while attempting to arrest Mosaddegh. The Shah fled the country the next day. After several days of mass confusion, however, a pro-Shah mob marched on Mosaddegh's residence, which was also attacked by a tank column led by retired General Fazlollah Zahedi.[14] Subsequently, Mosaddegh was arrested, tried by military court, and placed under house arrest until his death..[15][16] Mossadegh’s supporters were rounded up, imprisoned, tortured or executed. The minister of Foreign Affairs and the closest associate of Mossadegh, Hossein Fatemi, was repeatedly stabbed by a mob, and later executed by a firing squad. [17]
In the wake of the coup, Zahedi was appointed prime minister of a military government by the Shah who returned to Iran to rule as an authoritarian monarch[18], for the next 26 years, until he was overthrown by a popular revolt in 1979.[19] The Iranian-controlled national oil company was replaced by a consortium of Western oil companies which shared profits 50-50 with Iran but did not to open their "books to Iranian auditors or to allow Iranians onto its board of directors." [20] Washington went on to become the major backer of Shah, with the CIA training the Shah's secret police, SAVAK. The coup is widely believed to have significantly contributed to the 1979 Iranian Revolution, which deposed the Shah and replaced the pro-Western monarchy with the anti-Western Islamic Republic of Iran.[21]
We are basically responsible for much of the mess. Guess who supplied Iran with their nuclear reactor facilities: the US. Guess who supplied them with their enrichment facilities: Europe. Dig deeper and we find despite what we are told it's all our fault and always has been. Now we look on and mock a situation we caused as if our shit dont stink and Fox continues to lie so that a lap dog Republican audience can maintain a sense of credibility no Western nation ever had nor ever should of. It's always been about controlling the flow of "spice", he who controls the spice controls the Universe. the legacy of the ME is ours and we have to get over the blame game and start talking about resolution regardless of the past as does israel as does Palestine as does x because kicking bees nests is just not working.
Iran doesn't need nuclear energy! Doesn't it so burning oil in its power stations that makes a vast amount of cash for it is better? It doesn't need nukes, no it never did, but if we keep on going the way we are it will build them anyway just to spite us. Human nature is predictably stupid.
Iran offered Iraq (traditional enemies who came together to offer aid despite the past) 100 million dollars equiv to aid it's struggling economy with no interest charges recently, what do we do supply them in the past with arms in Afghanistan and Iran and Iran and x? We are just great aren't we?
It makes me sick how stupid the whole thing is, but then all the poor countries seem to have the oil, and the spice is life.
