A little history on the oil wars and the fate of Iran... They dont just hate us for our freedom. They hate us for our pillaging Thanks Gerald D. Rozner ... History of Intervention Let’s start with a little history lesson about Iran. In 1901 the Anglo Persian Oil Company, later known as British Petroleum, struck oil in Persia (modern Iran) and took all the profits. In 1951 Mohammed Mossadeq, a democratically-elected prime minister, comes to power at a time when Iran was on its way to a budding democracy. Shortly thereafter in 1953 he is overthrown by the American CIA because he had the gall to suggest a 50/50 split with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company for the resources they were taking. So the predecessor of BP gains the oil rights in Iran, and we make a monarchy out of the Shah of Iran who promptly abolished their democracy and constitution. For almost 30 years the people of Iran pretty much knew that they were under the rule of a puppet dictator who was getting rich, while they were being taken advantage of. Finally in 1979 this all came to a head when widespread uprisings caused a collapse of the regime, followed soon after with an invasion of the American Embassy in Tehran with students taking over 50 American hostages. The Shah fled in exile to the United States and soon after a theocracy took hold in Iran. It was easy for a theocracy to take hold in Iran because religion was one of the few places where they could motivate people in large groups to be behind them. As JFK stated, “If peaceful change is impossible, violent revolution is inevitable.” So the direction Iran was going in the early 50’s of peace, democracy, and rights for its citizens...a whole new direction for the Middle East, was basically slammed by a semi truck of greed. And the American CIA was driving the truck.
Posted on: Thu, 25 Dec 2014 17:28:10 +0000
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