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you do not have any hard evidence that this happened Apart from the fact that Madeleine Albright admitted it when she was Secretary of State. You are just bein
by ucee054 13y ago
you do not have any hard evidence that this happened
Apart from the fact that Madeleine Albright admitted it when she was Secretary of State. You are just being deliberately ignorant now. Oh, and a jackass.
That liquidation was not the doing of the US
There was interference by other powers as well such as the UK, and there is also a lot wrong with Iranian society, NONE of which removes at all the CIA's responsibility for the coup and the subsequent torture of Iranians by SAVAK under CIA direction during the decades you mention from 1953-1979. You think the story stopped in 53?
betrayed and liquidated by the subsequent leaders of the revolution
The people were mad at the two decades of torture and having Iranian oil stolen, and so they hated the pro-US Emperor and they hated the US. They acted on that hatred
against the targets and got on the Khomeini bandwagon as a way of overthrowing the Emperor.
There wouldn't have been a revolution if there had been nothing to overthrow. Khomeini made his name opposing the Emperor. If the CIA hadn't launched the coup in 53 the democracy would still have existed instead. Mossadegh was everything. Khomeini was nothing. No one was going to follow Khomeini against the democracy.
Oh yeah, and Iranians would still love the US like they did in 1950.