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Dustlawyer

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2. I can remember watching the news back then (all 3 channels) while they showed thousands marching in
Tue Aug 27, 2013, 08:20 AM
Aug 2013

in the streets of Tehran shouting "death to America!" We were told that they were just a bunch of "crazy people" and "religious fanatics!" They knew what we did to their "elected" Prime Minister. It never made sense to me until I took a government class on Iran at the University of Texas. My professor was the White House advisor on Iran as he had many former students there and made a trip posing as a German reporter. He advised Carter and his staff that the Revolution was imminent, but Zbignev Bresinski said the Shah was too powerful and they needed to reign him in. 2 weeks later Khomeni returned from exile and the revolution was on.
My professor knew in 1986 that the CIA overthrew the elected Iranian government and installed the Shah. It cost $200,000 to get the poor in Tehran to march to Mossadegh's home, drag him out, and he was arrested. A show trial was quickly had and he was hanged. His crime, he threatened to nationalize the oil fields that BP had developed if they were not paid world market rate for their oil. BP ran to the British government, who came to us. That is why they have hated us ever since.
This info has been known for a long time yet, the news networks lied to us then about what happened and now they act like this is newly discovered information.

Ridiculous. That would assume some sort of connection between Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #1
I can remember watching the news back then (all 3 channels) while they showed thousands marching in Dustlawyer Aug 2013 #2
His reason for nationalizing oil The Wizard Aug 2013 #7
That must be where so many South American countries got the idea... Blanks Aug 2013 #24
The CIA ties to assassinations caused Congress in 1976 to authorized (280 to 65) the AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #3
Two who were on the Commission The Wizard Aug 2013 #9
Another member, of course, was Allen Welsh Dulles, former Director of the CIA AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #11
The Dulles brothers were, The Wizard Aug 2013 #17
Highly recommended: "JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters," Peace Patriot Aug 2013 #10
Douglas uses some of the latest info obtainable through the FOIA in his book. pocoloco Aug 2013 #12
Surprise, the people working in the military-intelligence field have political agendas,. Civilization2 Aug 2013 #4
If JFK could not dismantle the CIA, what are the odds that we can ever do that? AnotherMcIntosh Aug 2013 #5
Anything for the good of St. Reagan and the military industrial complex. mountain grammy Aug 2013 #6
"we" the People, the 99%, DIDN'T go wrong, our self-appointed 1% Elitists went wrong Demeter Aug 2013 #8
And Americans lapped it all up and voted for Reagan. I tried to get people to rememeber what good freshwest Aug 2013 #14
Exactly. Reagan got far more than 1% of the vote. Americans bought it. mountain grammy Aug 2013 #15
One of Reagan's first acts... Old and In the Way Aug 2013 #16
VIDEO here. Yes, I remember that speech. When there was sanity in media: freshwest Aug 2013 #18
K and R the thread mrdmk Aug 2013 #19
electric vehicles....40 years sooner. Old and In the Way Aug 2013 #20
This has been fairly common knowledge since the 80s blackspade Aug 2013 #13
Nah. It's not fascism Doctor_J Aug 2013 #21
This is no conspiracy "theory". Why doesn't this thread have hundreds of recommendations? Enthusiast Aug 2013 #22
How complicit was the media? Enthusiast Aug 2013 #23
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