[Mb-civic] re: Iran

[ean at sbcglobal.net]

I think Iranians have not forgotten 1953.  Have you read the book "All 
the Shah's Men" by NY Time journalist Stephen Kinzer?  In 1953 the 
CIA send Kermit Roosevelt (Teddy's grandson) to successfully 
engineer a coup against Iran's democratically elected government in 
the person of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, who was 
determined that Iran's oil wealth would be used to benefit Iranians.  
The coup brought back the Shah of Iran, who co-operated fully with 
British and AMerican oil companies and ruled Iran with a ruthless iron 
fist for 25 years....resulting in the 1979 Iranian fundamentalist 
revolution, and helping lay the foundation (along with the CIA's 
recruitment of Osama and thousands of other fundamentalists for a 
holy war against the Soviets in Afghanistan) for the events of 
September 11.  Americans have forgotten 1953, but the folks in Iran 
do remember...
--Mha Atma

>I think Iran is still just upset when, in 1981, like in a scene from a 007
movie, Isreal's airforce, knocked out the nuclear reactor they were
building...
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