4, January 2018 Iran
It’s strange
that a President who trashes the very foundations of democracy in the United
States on a daily basis, freedom of the press, the independence of the
judiciary and the rule of law, should be tweeting about the rights of Iranians
to "express themselves".
Clearly, Mr.
Trump is totally unaware of our own dark history in Iranian affairs. In 1953-54 the CIA (and British intelligence)
orchestrated the overthrow of Iran's (parliamentary elected) Prime Minister
Mohammad Mosaddegh, who had sought to build a true democracy. His major offense
against the West was the nationalization of Iran’s oil fields, thereby denying
the British (Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) their control of Iran's chief natural
resource. The CIA ushered in the demonic Shah of Iran who, as an absolute
monarch, bought billions of dollars’ worth of weapons from the US, established
a vicious secret police (SAVAK) that carried out torture and murder on a wide
scale. In 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini led the Shia Iranian Revolution hostage
taking which further fanned hatred against the US. Teflon President Reagan then
generated revenue to support the Contras by selling weapons to Iran. We then
enriched our defense contractors by selling weapons to Iraq in its eight war
with Iran. Not much has changed. It’s a pity Mr. Trump in his latest tweet
failed to express similar outrage for the people living under oppressive
regimes that we support - in Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Egypt to name just a few.
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