Birthdays and obits have been fun today, but now, infamy. On this day, the undeclared Anglo-Soviet war against Iran ended with the Soviet occupation of Tehran! The justifying lies are still repeated, based on the assumption that Iran was not merely cognate with Aryan, but meant the same thing (a mistake Nazis also made)! Not only do most sources ignore the murder and theft by the boots on the ground, they repeat the slur that Iran was Pro-Nazi! Rezā Shāh, who had good reason to dislike, if not loathe and fear, both Britain and Russia, set forth on a policy of neutrality. But in order to help finance and support his ambitious modernization projects, he needed the help of the West. For many decades, Iran and the German Empire had cultivated ties, partly as a counter to the imperial ambitions of Britain and the Russian Empire. Trading with Germany appealed to Iran because the Germans did not have a history of imperialism in the region, unlike the British and Russians. When the Nazis took over Germany in 1933, trade was not seriously affected. While Nazi propaganda sometimes tried to play up the similarities between the two Aryan nations, in reality there were not any. The Persian Empire had been founded by the first man to be called the Messiah, Koresh, and the empire had traditionally been inclusive and tolerant. The Shah cared little for the Nazis policies, including anti-Semitism. An example of this was when Irans embassies in occupied European capitals rescued over 1,500 Jews and secretly granted them Iranian citizenship, allowing them to move to Iran and thus be saved from almost certain death in the Holocaust. Although Rezā Shāh declared neutrality at an early stage of World War II, Iran assumed greater strategic importance to the British government, which feared that the Abadan Oil Refinery, owned by the UK-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, might fall into German hands; the refinery produced eight million tons of oil in 1940 and was thus a crucial part of the Allied war effort, and to the Soviet Union, as Iran was the easiest route from which to receive war supplies from the West. Nevertheless, British propaganda began to accuse Iran of supporting Nazism and being pro-German. (remind you of any other statements Britain has lately made?) Despite the Shahs repeated assertions he was NOT beating his wife, and his reduction of trade with Germany, the two allies invaded in a surprise attack, according to the Shah, while Wiki and the West seem to assume an invasion without a declaration of war does not count (yet still, Wiki accidentally refers to the war) The Shah was forced to abdicate, being replaced by an incompetent who had to be put back on his throne by US in the second episode of covert regime change, and still could not keep it, despite receiving more money from US than any nation aside from Israel! youtube/watch?v=6fgWd4UNvvM
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 22:38:43 +0000
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