And add to this, the confirmation and release of docs showing CIA and FBI use of Nazis to promote the same capitalist imperialism. They got Zahedi, a Nazi collaborator to run things with the Shah and SAVAK after they overthrew Mossadeq. This was not about communism, but about controlling oil and setting an example. The CIA hired thugs to pretend to be Tudeh and tried to make him look like both a communist and also hostile to the clerics (as they hired thugs to attack the cleric- for which they got blowback). - [One document describes Mosaddeq as one of the most mercurial, maddening, adroit and provocative leaders with whom they [the US and Britain] had ever dealt. The document says Mosaddeq found the British evil, not incomprehensible and he and millions of Iranians believed that for centuries Britain had manipulated their country for British ends. Another document refers to conducting a war of nerves against Mossadeq. The Iranian-Armenian historian Ervand Abrahamian, author of The Coup: 1953, the CIA and the Roots of Modern US-Iranian Relations, said in a recent interview that the coup was designed to get rid of a nationalist figure who insisted that oil should be nationalised. Unlike other nationalist leaders, including Egypts Gamal Abdel Nasser, Mosaddeq epitomised a unique anti-colonial figure who was also committed to democratic values and human rights, Abrahamian argued. Some analysts argue that Mosaddeq failed to compromise with the west and the coup took place against the backdrop of communism fears in Iran. My study of the documents proves to me that there was never really a fair compromise offered to Mosaddeq, what they wanted Mosaddeq to do is to give up oil nationalisation and if hed given that of course then the national movement would have been meaningless, he told the Iranian online publication, Tableau magazine. My argument is that there was never really a realistic threat of communism … discourse and the way justifying any act was to talk about communist danger, so it was something used for the public, especially the American and the British public. Despite the latest releases, a significant number of documents about the coup remain secret. Malcolm Byrne, deputy director of the national security archive, has called on the US intelligence authorities to release the remaining records and documents. There is no longer good reason to keep secrets about such a critical episode in our recent past. The basic facts are widely known to every school child in Iran, he said. Suppressing the details only distorts the history, and feeds into myth-making on all sides. In recent years Iranian politicians have sought to compare the dispute over the countrys nuclear activities to that of the oil nationalisation under Mosaddeq: supporters of the former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad often invoke the coup. US officials have previously expressed regret about the coup but have fallen short of issuing an official apology. The British government has never acknowledged its role.]
Posted on: Sat, 01 Nov 2014 19:04:15 +0000
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