CIA openly admits role in 1953 Iran coup

[Matt Collins]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...backed-iran-was-undemocratic-revis-rcna120154

 

[dannno]

 

[Occam's Banana]

https://twitter.com/ABCWorldNews/status/1712545227397824969

h/t Spike Cohen:

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[Anti Globalist]

How nice of the CIA to admit to something we already knew.

 

[Firestarter]

The US government also openly admits that it armed Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s (while they also armed Saddam Hussein).
But "nobody" knows (or even thinks about what Iran-Contra really means) that in reality Khomeini was installed by Anglo-American intelligence, after the Shah wanted more of the oil profits for Iran.

Khomeini was promised the weapons by the Reagan-Bush team to NOT release the American hostages, until after Reagan was crowned president.
While Carter's rescue efforts were sabotaged by the CIA...
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Senator John Tower was in Paris for the infamous 19/20 October 1980 meetings in Paris between George Bush Sr. and representatives of Ayatollah Khomeini.
See the 1988 FBI memo about allegations that Senator Tower had been negotiating with the Khomeini regime in 1980 on supplying Iran with replacement parts for planes.

John Tower was married to none other than Samuel Cummings’s sister, Lilla Burt Cummings.
Representative Tower helped the Interarms company in their arms deals.

Who do you think President Reagan selected in 1986, for a commission to “investigate” the so-called Iran-Contra affair?!? John Tower...
In 1989, Tower was nominated for Secretary of Defense by President Bush Sr., rejected by the US Senate!

Frank Sturgis bought large numbers of weapons through Interarmco for Fidel Castro. According to Sturgis’ testimony before the Rockefeller Commission, he learned that Interarmco’s “owner”, Sam Cummings, was a CIA agent: https://www.muckrock.com/news/archi...owers-fbi-file-reveals-role-iran-contra-cove/
(http://web.archive.org/web/20190721...owers-fbi-file-reveals-role-iran-contra-cove/)


In the spring of 1989, Robert Maxwell and his daughter Ghislaine hosted a party on his yacht in the presence of Donald Trump, former US senator John Tower and ex-navy secretary John Lehman: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9383143/donald_trump_and_ghislaine_maxwell_on/

See Donald showing his thumb, John Tower to his right and Robert Maxwell on the far right.

Iran-Was-Khomeini-MI6

 

[tebowlives]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...backed-iran-was-undemocratic-revis-rcna120154

A little late with this aren't you?

From 2013
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/cia-admits-role-1953-iranian-coup

 

[Snowball]

The US government also openly admits that it armed Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s (while they also armed Saddam Hussein).
But "nobody" knows (or even thinks about what Iran-Contra really means) that in reality Khomeini was installed by Anglo-American intelligence

Sending some arms to Iran in the 80's is not equivalent to Khomeini being "installed by Anglo-American intelligence".
And your purported reason, "after the Shah wanted more of the oil profits for Iran" is even more ridiculous, because after the revolution, America and Britain lost Iran relations and oil business completely. Khomeini confiscated the National Iranian Oil Company and exports to the West collapsed. The spot oil market took over and so did US domestic expansion. The Islamic Revolution in Iran was not an act of any UK or US intelligence outfits whatsoever.

No need to reply if you're going to try to defend what you said. No idea how old you are, or your background, but if you lived through it, I doubt it would be possible for you to even think so. My cousin was working in Iran for years in the sector at the time. Everyone got thrown out with no warning. He lost a lot of income because he was very highly paid. I took a Revolution in Islam university course in the 80's. I've also known Iranians who lived through this and talked about it.

What Iran’s 1979 revolution meant for US and global oil markets
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/what-irans-1979-revolution-meant-for-us-and-global-oil-markets/

 

[Firestarter]

The Islamic Revolution in Iran was not an act of any UK or US intelligence outfits whatsoever.

It was part of the Bernhard Lewis plan...
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The “Witness statement” from the American Terence Charles Byrne Sr., 1 May 1991 includes information on installing Khomeini and making a deal on delaying the release of the American hostages.
Byrne Sr. became a Director of Allivane International registered in the UK, that was founded by his son Jr. (who asked him to join the board).

Byrne Sr. details that later CIA director William Casey (who had been Reagan’s campaign manager) and Edwin Meese (counsellor to President Reagan) were arming Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran (in a deal that involved the release of the hostages). Some of the arms were shipped via the UK.

Casey knew Iranian politician Mohammed Hashemi that was involved in toppling Shah Pavlavi of Persia to get Ayatollah Khomeini into power of Iran. Hashemi became minister in Khomeini’s government. Casey negotiated with Hashemi to keep the hostages locked up until Reagan had been crowned US president.

Byrne had information that a helicopter involved in rescuing the hostages on the orders of President Carter that collided and crashed was delibaretely sabotaged.

The US also helped to supply Iraq with weapons through loans with which they could buy them in countries like Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Since Allivane was supplying weapons to both Iraq and Iran. The ammunition provided from the UK included biological and chemical weapons.

Joost de Graaf of Muiden Chemie from the Netherlands supplied information that led to Allivane being shut down.
Astra converted to explosives from Muiden Chemie and Allivane into ammunition.

In 1982, Sir John Cuckney set up the Defense Equipment Finance Department of Midland Industrial Trading Services that arranged all the financial arrangements: http://web.archive.org/web/20130927...DocumentsPDF/Witness Statement - ByrneSnr.pdf

Iran-Was-Khomeini-MI6

 

[WarriorLiberty]

Lets not forget the Iran contra affair..

 

[Snowball]

It's no secret that Reagan and Bush cut a deal with the Ayatollah. Carter was very tight with the Shah.
The Iran-Contra scandal was really not that important. It's goal was not to arm Iran with some weapons as much as it was to arm the Contras in Nicaragua, get back some prisoners taken by Hezbollah and keep Iran going somewhat so that Iraq would not beat them in the Iran-Iraq War. This was a time when the neocons started to affect US policy with Bush in there, although they would not assume real power until Bush became president. They had their target set on Saddam because Saddam was Pan-Arab, had good relations with the PLO and Assad, Ghaddafi and the Soviet Union. The benny was keeping CIA In control of Central America and the drug and corporate suppression of Latinos. The worst thing Reagan ever did was picking Bush as his running mate. It has no relationship at all to the Islamic Revolution that occurred six years before. Carter, Brzezinski and the CIA in the late (post-Bush) 70s could do nothing to stop Iran's revolution.

 

[WarriorLiberty]

It's no secret that Reagan and Bush cut a deal with the Ayatollah. Carter was very tight with the Shah.
The Iran-Contra scandal was really not that important. It's goal was not to arm Iran with some weapons as much as it was to arm the Contras in Nicaragua, get back some prisoners taken by Hezbollah and keep Iran going somewhat so that Iraq would not beat them in the Iran-Iraq War. This was a time when the neocons started to affect US policy with Bush in there, although they would not assume real power until Bush became president. They had their target set on Saddam because Saddam was Pan-Arab, had good relations with the PLO and Assad, Ghaddafi and the Soviet Union. The benny was keeping CIA In control of Central America and the drug and corporate suppression of Latinos. The worst thing Reagan ever did was picking Bush as his running mate. It has no relationship at all to the Islamic Revolution that occurred six years before. Carter, Brzezinski and the CIA in the late (post-Bush) 70s could do nothing to stop Iran's revolution.

I am sure for a time it worked out during the 80s and 90s. Not so much when they created problem in Europe by letting Jihadism Grow in the Balkans.
They meddle in the affairs of the Balkan war trying to side with one of the factions.


Because of the Balkan war. Hezbollah has strengthen itself from the war as the result of it.

 

[dude58677]

Ayatollah died on the exact same day as the Tianamen Square massacre. A story about this is that I watched this all live when I was 9. My family had friends from Germany over at our house and my father told the father of that family that the Ayatollah died that morning and he said “FINE, FINE!”. At the age of 9 it was strange to me that someone would cheer on someone else dying. Later that afternoon the massacre occurred in China and our families were horrified. We went out to have lunch at on our back deck and no one said anything because of the horror we had seen. At the age of 9, I was also niave to think that both events were connected. The people in China started rioting because the Ayatolla died. As I got older I looked back at why it is so crucial to have a protection of a right to own a gun and gives more reasons on why I’m against big government.