US delays release of study on 1953 Iran coup

[fanger]

The State Department is delaying the release of a volume from its U.S. foreign relations history that deals with the CIA-backed overthrow of an Iranian prime minister in the 1950s out of concern that publication could undermine nuclear diplomacy with the Islamic republic.


The decision was made at a September meeting of the department's advisory committee on historical diplomatic documentation and recorded in minutes released this week. The foreign relations records aren't supposed to be suppressed for longer than three decades.

Stephen Randolph, the department's historian, informed the gathering that the volume on U.S. policy in Iran would be withheld "because of ongoing negotiations with Iran." Richard Immerman, a Temple University professor who chairs the committee, expressed frustration with the decision. The delay was first reported by online publication Secrecy News.

The history of the 1953 ouster of Iran's popularly elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, is well-known. And just last year, newly classified documents offered more details about the motivations that led the U.S. and Britain to take covert action against a Soviet ally and how the CIA executed its plan.

America's spy agency even acknowledges its role today, citing a "CIA-assisted coup" on a timeline on its public website. President Barack Obama noted in a 2009 speech in Cairo that "in the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government."
US delays release of study on 1953 Iran coup - Yahoo News

Nothing to hide?

 

[georgephillip]

The history of the 1953 ouster of Iran's popularly elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, is well-known. And just last year, newly classified documents offered more details about the motivations that led the U.S. and Britain to take covert action against a Soviet ally and how the CIA executed its plan.

Mossadegh was the first in a long (and continuing) line of CIA-assisted regime change:
"DAVID BARSAMIAN: REGIME CHANGE is a new term in the lexicon. Kind of like change of address. It sounds somewhat innocuous. It certainly sounds a lot better than invasion, overthrow and occupation. The U.S. is an old hand at regime change. We’re in a year that marks a couple of anniversaries. Today is the 30th anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup in Chile. October 25 marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. But I’m particularly thinking of regime change in Iran. 50 years ago, in August 1953, Operation Ajax, carried out by a CIA agent who was incidentally Teddy Roosevelt’s grandson, overthrew the conservative parliamentary democracy led by Mohammed Mossadeq and restored the Shah to the Peacock Throne, where he ruled for the next 25 years.

"NOAM CHOMSKY: THE ISSUE was that the conservative nationalist parliamentary government was attempting to take over its own oil resources. These had been under the control of a British company originally called Anglo-Persian, later called Anglo-Iranian, which had entered into contracts with the rulers of Iran that were just pure extortion and robbery. The Iranians got nothing and the British were laughing all the way to the bank.

"Mossadeq had a long history as a critic of this subordination of imperial policy. Popular outbursts compelled the Shah to appoint him as prime minister, and he moved to nationalize the industry, which makes perfect sense.

"The British went completely berserk. They refused to make any compromises. They wouldn’t even come near what the American oil companies had just agreed to in Saudi Arabia. They wanted to continue just robbing the Iranians blind..."

International Socialist Review

 

[georgephillip]

Nothing to hide?

Maybe Ukraine in 2014?

 

[Sunni Man]

America is all for spreading democracy in the Middle East.

But only if it agrees with America's and Israel's geopolitical agenda.

The democratically elected Hamas Party in Gaza and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are examples of democracy being sabotaged by the CIA and Mossad.

And there are also many cases of democracy being derailed by the U.S. in Central America. ......

 

[rhodescholar]

The State Department is delaying the release of a volume from its U.S. foreign relations history that deals with the CIA-backed overthrow of an Iranian prime minister in the 1950s out of concern that publication could undermine nuclear diplomacy with the Islamic republic.


The decision was made at a September meeting of the department's advisory committee on historical diplomatic documentation and recorded in minutes released this week. The foreign relations records aren't supposed to be suppressed for longer than three decades.

Stephen Randolph, the department's historian, informed the gathering that the volume on U.S. policy in Iran would be withheld "because of ongoing negotiations with Iran." Richard Immerman, a Temple University professor who chairs the committee, expressed frustration with the decision. The delay was first reported by online publication Secrecy News.

The history of the 1953 ouster of Iran's popularly elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, is well-known. And just last year, newly classified documents offered more details about the motivations that led the U.S. and Britain to take covert action against a Soviet ally and how the CIA executed its plan.

America's spy agency even acknowledges its role today, citing a "CIA-assisted coup" on a timeline on its public website. President Barack Obama noted in a 2009 speech in Cairo that "in the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government."
US delays release of study on 1953 Iran coup - Yahoo News

Nothing to hide?

Except idiot, mossadegh was not elected - he was appointed - by the shah who had control over the nation's armed forces, economy, etc. It wasn't until mossadegh tried to illegally usurp power from the shah that the IRANIANS decided to remove him from office.

Also of note is that all the CIA did was train a few IRANIANS and gave them money and posters - it was the IRANIANS who did the actual coup, which low IQ chimps like yourself prefer to ignore.

Last, it is interesting that scum like you and the leftwing media harp on the US' microscopic role - but the russians, who had troops in TWENTY-ONE other countries during the Cold War, subjugating hundred of millions - get hardly a peep from you.

You are hypocritical filth.

 

[rhodescholar]

The history of the 1953 ouster of Iran's popularly elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, is well-known. And just last year, newly classified documents offered more details about the motivations that led the U.S. and Britain to take covert action against a Soviet ally and how the CIA executed its plan.

Mossadegh was the first in a long (and continuing) line of CIA-assisted regime change:
"DAVID BARSAMIAN: REGIME CHANGE is a new term in the lexicon. Kind of like change of address. It sounds somewhat innocuous. It certainly sounds a lot better than invasion, overthrow and occupation. The U.S. is an old hand at regime change. We’re in a year that marks a couple of anniversaries. Today is the 30th anniversary of the U.S.-backed coup in Chile. October 25 marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. But I’m particularly thinking of regime change in Iran. 50 years ago, in August 1953, Operation Ajax, carried out by a CIA agent who was incidentally Teddy Roosevelt’s grandson, overthrew the conservative parliamentary democracy led by Mohammed Mossadeq and restored the Shah to the Peacock Throne, where he ruled for the next 25 years.

"NOAM CHOMSKY: THE ISSUE was that the conservative nationalist parliamentary government was attempting to take over its own oil resources. These had been under the control of a British company originally called Anglo-Persian, later called Anglo-Iranian, which had entered into contracts with the rulers of Iran that were just pure extortion and robbery. The Iranians got nothing and the British were laughing all the way to the bank.

"Mossadeq had a long history as a critic of this subordination of imperial policy. Popular outbursts compelled the Shah to appoint him as prime minister, and he moved to nationalize the industry, which makes perfect sense.

"The British went completely berserk. They refused to make any compromises. They wouldn’t even come near what the American oil companies had just agreed to in Saudi Arabia. They wanted to continue just robbing the Iranians blind..."

International Socialist Review

#1-chumpsky the dog is a linguist, not a historian

#2-the Brits were justified in having all of their investments in the iranian oil industry be stolen from them. If the US invested $100 billion in Brazil's sugar cane industry, and Brazil decided to just take over and throw the US out, most sane people would have an issue with it.

#3-iran could have negotiated a transfer of the industry from the UK to them over time, like the transfer of Hong Kong, but instead, mossadegh under Soviet control opted to simply take it over.

Facts much, chimp?

 

[georgephillip]

#1-chumpsky the dog is a linguist, not a historian

What are your credentials, Cum-Chugger?
"The British went completely berserk.

"They refused to make any compromises.

"They wouldn’t even come near what the American oil companies had just agreed to in Saudi Arabia.

"They wanted to continue just robbing the Iranians blind.

"And that led to a tremendous popular uprising. Iran has a democratic tradition. It had a majlis, parliament, which had always been suppressed. But the Shah couldn’t suppress it; the army tried and couldn’t.

"Finally a joint British-American coup did succeed in organizing an overthrow of the regime, and restored the Shah to power.

"Then comes 25 years of terror, atrocities, violence, finally leading to the revolution in 1979 and the overthrow of the Shah.

"Incidentally, one outcome of the coup was that the United States took over from Britain about 40 percent of the share in Iranian oil.

"It had been 100 percent British.

You and yours, Hill.

International Socialist Review

 

[rhodescholar]

What are your credentials,

Better than yours or chumspky's you stupid fucking turd.

International Socialist Review

Now THERE'S a solid academic journalistic publication, suuuuure shit for brains. You're an idiot.

 

[georgephillip]

Better than yours or chumspky's you stupid fucking turd.

Prove it or crawl back up Hill's nasal passage, Punk.

 

[georgephillip]

Now THERE'S a solid academic journalistic publication, suuuuure shit for brains. You're an idiot.

Too many big words for inbred mouth-breathers?

 

[rhodescholar]

Prove it or ...

Typical drivel from the mentally ill trash defending the indefensible arab muslim and iranian filth turds... Just how the c--t will quote jews like ilan pappe, but then turn around and attack pro-zionist jews, always cherry picking what the scumbag filth wants to. Totally non-credible dogshit.

 

[georgephillip]

From the OP:
"The history of the 1953 ouster of Iran's popularly elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, is well-known.

"And just last year, newly classified documents offered more details about the motivations that led the U.S. and Britain to take covert action against a Soviet ally and how the CIA executed its plan.

"America's spy agency even acknowledges its role today, citing a 'CIA-assisted coup' on a timeline on its public website.

"President Barack Obama noted in a 2009 speech in Cairo that 'in the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.'

"But the episode continues to poison U.S.-Iranian relations more than six decades later."

You and Hill have a huge problem with that don't you, Flag-Flap?

US delays release of study on 1953 Iran coup - Yahoo News

 

[rhodescholar]

From the OP:
"The history of the 1953 ouster of Iran's popularly elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, is well-known.

"And just last year, newly classified documents offered more details about the motivations that led the U.S. and Britain to take covert action against a Soviet ally and how the CIA executed its plan.

"America's spy agency even acknowledges its role today, citing a 'CIA-assisted coup' on a timeline on its public website.

"President Barack Obama noted in a 2009 speech in Cairo that 'in the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government.'

"But the episode continues to poison U.S.-Iranian relations more than six decades later."

You and Hill have a huge problem with that don't you, Flag-Flap?

US delays release of study on 1953 Iran coup - Yahoo News

****, besides training iranians and providing posters and money, what exactly did the US in iran?

 

[georgephillip]

***, besides training iranians and providing posters and money, what exactly did the US in iran?

The CIA has made answering that question difficult.
"The Central Intelligence Agency, which has repeatedly pledged for more than five years to make public the files from its secret mission to overthrow the government of Iran in 1953, said today that it had destroyed or lost almost all the documents decades ago."[89][90][91]

"A historian who was a member of the C.I.A. staff in 1992 and 1993 said in an interview today that the records were obliterated by 'a culture of destruction' at the agency. The historian, Nick Cullather, said he believed that records on other major cold war covert operations had been burned, including those on secret missions in Indonesia in the 1950s and a successful C.I.A.-sponsored coup in Guyana in the early 1960s. 'Iran—there's nothing', Mr. Cullather said. 'Indonesia—very little. Guyana—that was burned.'"[89]
1953 Iranian coup d tat - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[Indofred]

Nothing to hide?

Maybe Ukraine in 2014?

Hardly a 'maybe'.
An 'absolutely' is a lot closer.

It would hardly surprise me to find out that a CIA officer was standing next to the Ukrainian that shot the MAS flight down.

 

[Indofred]

***, besides training iranians and providing posters and money, what exactly did the US in iran?

The CIA has made answering that question difficult.
"The Central Intelligence Agency, which has repeatedly pledged for more than five years to make public the files from its secret mission to overthrow the government of Iran in 1953, said today that it had destroyed or lost almost all the documents decades ago."[89][90][91]

"A historian who was a member of the C.I.A. staff in 1992 and 1993 said in an interview today that the records were obliterated by 'a culture of destruction' at the agency. The historian, Nick Cullather, said he believed that records on other major cold war covert operations had been burned, including those on secret missions in Indonesia in the 1950s and a successful C.I.A.-sponsored coup in Guyana in the early 1960s. 'Iran—there's nothing', Mr. Cullather said. 'Indonesia—very little. Guyana—that was burned.'"[89]
1953 Iranian coup d tat - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Suhato was a CIA man.

 

[georgephillip]

It would hardly surprise me to find out that a CIA officer was standing next to the Ukrainian that shot the MAS flight down.

Fifty years from now (assuming WWIII doesn't begin before 2064) the CIA might be releasing heavily redacted documents of MH17 the same way it is finally fessing up to Operation Ajax in 1953 Iran.
FWIW:
"AUGUST 2014: DR. MICHAEL HUDSON: It is not in the news that Senate bill, 2277 = Directed the U.S. Agency for International Development to begin guaranteeing loans for the fracking of oil and gas in the Ukraine.

"And Vice President Biden’s son has become the head of the biggest fracking company in the Ukraine.

"The armies from Kiev are marching into Eastern Ukraine to protect the fracking operations. But the Cities in Eastern Ukraine want local control over the fracking.

"People in the city of Sloviansk oppose shale gas being developed because it destroys their ground water supply and farm land."
August 2014 Concise Politics

 

[Indofred]

Oil and arms, along with bribes to politicians, is always behind it.
I'm amazed the US public still fall for their bullshit.

 

[georgephillip]

Suhato was a CIA man

 

[georgephillip]

Oil and arms, along with bribes to politicians, is always behind it.
I'm amazed the US public still fall for their bullshit.

When the news that Biden's brat went to work promoting energy "independence" for Ukraine, the controversy was over in a matter of days. I think things are improving since the advent of the internet; however, US voters are so distracted by celebrity they don't see the forest or the trees.