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2023-08-19 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

The Chris Hedges Report Pocast with Iranian filmmaker Taghi Amirani on his documentary Coup 53 about the CIA coup that overthrew the democratic government in Iran seventy years ago this week.

On Aug. 19, 1953, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, who had seized Iran’s vast oil fields from the British and put them under Iranian control, was removed from power in a coup organized and financed by the British and U.S. governments.

Ah. Not solely a CIA project, after all.

He was replaced by the dictatorial Shah who immediately signed over forty percent of Iran’s oil fields to U.S. companies. The coup ushered in a long nightmare of repression, buttressed by Iran’s brutal secret police, Savak, trained and equipped by the CIA. The Shah not only crushed the democratic aspirations of Iranians, but enriched U.S. oil companies and purchased billions of dollars of weapons from U.S. weapons manufacturers.
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Posted by Harcourt Tholuse6841 2023-08-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 When people puff out their chest and shout 'democratically elected' remember that Adolph Hitler was democratically elected. So was Erdogan.

Posted by magpie 2023-08-19 10:06|| 2023-08-19 10:06|| Front Page Top

#2 The Shah not only crushed the democratic aspirations of Iranians, but enriched U.S. oil companies and purchased billions of dollars of weapons from U.S.

He was our kind of guy, but only for a season.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-08-19 10:09|| 2023-08-19 10:09|| Front Page Top

#3 Whew, good thing no hostages were taken in Chile.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-08-19 10:17|| 2023-08-19 10:17|| Front Page Top

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