CIA Confirms Role in 1953 Iran Coup

[Toramana]

Documents Provide New Details on Mosaddeq Overthrow and Its Aftermath

National Security Archive Calls for Release of Remaining Classified Record

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 435

Posted – August 19, 2013

Edited by Malcolm Byrne

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB435/#_ftn1

[Kushan Prince]

The CIA actually existed back then.

[Tjanaparh]

what a "news".....

[Catya Sher]

^ Right.

The CIa never swept it under the rug. Kermit Roosevelt wrote an entire
book about the Operation, Ajax it was called, as I recall without looking at any of this material.

It was a great "coup" for them to mount this coup.
After that, they were emboldened to stir up situations all over the world,
for they found it to be unbelievably easy to change a government.

>>>In this case, unpopular as always, I insist that it was
the RIGHT THING for them to have brought back the Shah.

Mossadeqh makes my skin crawl.

Naturally, no one anywhere in the world will agree.

I was just looking at Empress Farah's memoirs of the Shah
[An Enduring Love, she called the book], again
a day or two ago.

Empress Farah was not perfect [all that awful modern art she bought
for museums, etc.!]
But the Shah WAS A GOOD leader and did the best
he could under serious stress from Bilderbergers, etc.
American power elite orders likely didn't leave him much maneuvering room, but
he handled things fairly well all things considered.

After all, he left a very modern Air Force which immensely helped the
new Islamic Republic fight back against Saddam Hussein's sneaky invasion
of Iran to take advantage of the power vacuum there.

The new leaders had to scramble to get parts. But at least they
had very advanced fighters -- thanks to the same Shah that they reviled
wrongly ! They should have said simply : "We demand a return
to religion and to junk the secularism which had overtaken our society."
That would have been just right.

Instead, they killed off anyone associated with the Shah that they could find.
Pointlessly cruel ; this should be publicly repented for by
the Islamic Republic today. Or those sins could come back to haunt them, for
wrong actions do return unless apologized for, sincerely.
It would show maturity, too, to acknowledge fault and fully
take blame for those barbaric deeds.
Not shift blame to others, always a sign of a sociopath.

But where were the glittering American so - called friends of the Shah in 1978-9 and beyond ?
Who stood up for him or his ministers among American inluential circles ?
Just about no one.

So the 1953 coup was a far cry from how the Kissinger crowd and
just about all American foreign policy heavyweights treated the Shah a mere 26 years later.
Shameful indeed !

[asad71]

In fair world CIA would have been indicted as a self-confessed terrorist.

[Khostai]

^ Right.

The CIa never swept it under the rug. Kermit Roosevelt wrote an entire
book about the Operation, Ajax it was called, as I recall without looking at any of this material.

It was a great "coup" for them to mount this coup.
After that, they were emboldened to stir up situations all over the world,
for they found it to be unbelievably easy to change a government.

>>>In this case, unpopular as always, I insist that it was
the RIGHT THING for them to have brought back the Shah.

Mossadeqh makes my skin crawl.

Naturally, no one anywhere in the world will agree.

I was just looking at Empress Farah's memoirs of the Shah
[An Enduring Love, she called the book], again
a day or two ago.

Empress Farah was not perfect [all that awful modern art she bought
for museums, etc.!]
But the Shah WAS A GOOD leader and did the best
he could under serious stress from Bilderbergers, etc.
American power elite orders likely didn't leave him much maneuvering room, but
he handled things fairly well all things considered.

After all, he left a very modern Air Force which immensely helped the
new Islamic Republic fight back against Saddam Hussein's sneaky invasion
of Iran to take advantage of the power vacuum there.

The new leaders had to scramble to get parts. But at least they
had very advanced fighters -- thanks to the same Shah that they reviled
wrongly ! They should have said simply : "We demand a return
to religion and to junk the secularism which had overtaken our society."
That would have been just right.

Instead, they killed off anyone associated with the Shah that they could find.
Pointlessly cruel ; this should be publicly repented for by
the Islamic Republic today. Or those sins could come back to haunt them, for
wrong actions do return unless apologized for, sincerely.
It would show maturity, too, to acknowledge fault and fully
take blame for those barbaric deeds.
Not shift blame to others, always a sign of a sociopath.

But where were the glittering American so - called friends of the Shah in 1978-9 and beyond ?
Who stood up for him or his ministers among American inluential circles ?
Just about no one.

So the 1953 coup was a far cry from how the Kissinger crowd and
just about all American foreign policy heavyweights treated the Shah a mere 26 years later.
Shameful indeed !

Are you sure about the Sha?
Many Iranians say that Mossadeqh was democraticaly elected precident.
And a lot of them favour him above the Sha. The Sha did many crule things like imprisoning and killing his oponents, and the peopel suffered under poverty when the Sha's family were lving in a luxury?

Are you against Mossadeqh becuase he was a social democrat? That he nationalised the Iranian oil? Actualy if the coup didn't happen Iran would not have this Ayatollahs of today.