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<blockquote data-quote="TechGrrl" data-source="post: 748215" data-attributes="member: 4932"><p>In the early 50's, the US of A, in particular, the CIA, helped overthrow a democratically elected government in IRAN, and replaced it with the Shah, a despot as despicable as Saddam Hussein. But he was OUR despot, like so many other dictators that the US has propped up because it is convenient for US and British business interests, in particular, our OIL interests.</p><p></p><p>After 25 years of the Shah's tyranny, the Islamist extremist clergy was able to overthrow the hated Shah, who the people saw as a puppet of the great Satan, namely the USA.</p><p></p><p>So the IRAN of today is OUR creation, a result of blowback against our 'nation building' in the 50's.</p><p></p><p>And, of course, we supported ANOTHER despotic dictator, namely Saddam Hussein, in his war with Iran. We didn't care about his internal politics, or his war crimes then, because he was fighting a country whose regime wasn't to our liking. So we sold him those chemical weapons of mass destruction, and turned a blind eye to how he used them.</p><p></p><p>And that's why the Iranian government is so successful with their propaganda painting us as the enemy of the Iranian people.</p><p></p><p>It's history, go look it up. That last link, in particular...</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/" target="_blank">http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501i.asp" target="_blank">http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501i.asp</a></p><p></p><p>Oh, one further footnote: the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, that was being nationalized by the Iranian government that the CIA overthrew? It later changed its name to British Petroleum....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TechGrrl, post: 748215, member: 4932"] In the early 50's, the US of A, in particular, the CIA, helped overthrow a democratically elected government in IRAN, and replaced it with the Shah, a despot as despicable as Saddam Hussein. But he was OUR despot, like so many other dictators that the US has propped up because it is convenient for US and British business interests, in particular, our OIL interests. After 25 years of the Shah's tyranny, the Islamist extremist clergy was able to overthrow the hated Shah, who the people saw as a puppet of the great Satan, namely the USA. So the IRAN of today is OUR creation, a result of blowback against our 'nation building' in the 50's. And, of course, we supported ANOTHER despotic dictator, namely Saddam Hussein, in his war with Iran. We didn't care about his internal politics, or his war crimes then, because he was fighting a country whose regime wasn't to our liking. So we sold him those chemical weapons of mass destruction, and turned a blind eye to how he used them. And that's why the Iranian government is so successful with their propaganda painting us as the enemy of the Iranian people. It's history, go look it up. That last link, in particular... [URL]http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html[/URL] [URL="http://www.gwu.edu/%7Ensarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/"]http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/[/URL] [URL]http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501i.asp[/URL] Oh, one further footnote: the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, that was being nationalized by the Iranian government that the CIA overthrew? It later changed its name to British Petroleum.... [/QUOTE]
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