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2023-10-15 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iranian 'regime change' 1953 - 70 years on, the haunting cockup continues

[MAIL] While revealing new details about the CIA rescue mission that inspired the Ben Affleck film Argo, the agency has for the first time acknowledged that the 1953 coup it backed in Iran was 'undemocratic'.

The admission came in a recent episode of the CIA's podcast, The Langley Files, released about a month before the unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel last weekend.
Wikileaks is so yesterday.
The 1953 coup, backed by US and British intelligence and carried out by Iran's military, saw the overthrow of Iran's elected prime minister and cemented the monarchical rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

It comes at a time of soaring tensions between Washington and Tehran, over the Islamic Republic's rapidly advancing nuclear program, its aid to terror groups including Hamas, and its domestic crackdown on dissent.

Other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, but the CIA's acknowledgment in a podcast about the agency's history comes as much of its official history of the coup remains classified 70 years after the putsch.

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#1 Something, something about Jimmy Carter, the Shah and hand wringing over 'human rights'. Seems the new boss is worse than the old boss.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-10-15 07:02|| 2023-10-15 07:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Yup, the CIA: overthrowing elected governments and working against American interests for 80 years.

Posted by Otto Gurly-Brown9938 2023-10-15 09:18|| 2023-10-15 09:18|| Front Page Top

#3 I am convinced they run this country Otto. What we see in Washington is a well choreographed Kabuki dance.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-15 09:32|| 2023-10-15 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 What we see in Washington...

Posted by Skidmark 2023-10-15 09:35|| 2023-10-15 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ They (Uniparty) know that we know. We know they know, that we know. And we know they simply don't give a fok.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-10-15 09:43|| 2023-10-15 09:43|| Front Page Top

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