Reply #3: The Mossadegh coup may be THE single biggest modern event...

[whoneedstickets]

..in Middle East history. At that moment the US selected a policy path that advanced authoritarian regimes over secular, progressive (soft socialist), nationalist, Muslim governments. WE (and our British lap dogs) mortally wounded secular Islam in 1953 and handed those societies to the RW dictators to satisfy Big Oil. In 1956, Anthony Eden took another stab at Nasser's secular, nationalist regime in Egypt. Though Eisenhower stopped the UK-Israeli plot, the writing was on the wall; Islamic societies were to be ruled, not governed.

Imagine if today we were given a chance to respond to the emergence of a secular, social democratic regime in Iran! We and the population of the middle east are the victims of our repeated blundering attempts at power manipulation.