If you are going to cite history, you should start from the start. What the US did to Iran to enrich the British and british petroleum was shameful.
The Abadan Crisis is overplayed and exaggerated by too many people with agendas. Mossadegh painted himself in a corner and lost. His alliance was built on support with the Communists and the Mullahs, and he illegally refused a lawful order from the Shah dismissing him from office.
AJAX was done to force the Shah to follow through on backing his constitutional authority when he ran away into exile, and it failed. Only after popular demonstrations shift the tide back did Mossadegh lose power, which of course Kermit Roosevelt took credit for.
I’m not defending Britain’s blatantly Colonialist foreign policy that triggered the economic crisis, but people of every political persuasion like to blame 1953 for 1979, when there’s a lot more to it than that.
Furthermore, MeK is still a bunch of terrorists.
The Abadan Crisis is overplayed and exaggerated by too many people with agendas. Mossadegh painted himself in a corner and lost. His alliance was built on support with the Communists and the Mullahs, and he illegally refused a lawful order from the Shah dismissing him from office.
AJAX was done to force the Shah to follow through on backing his constitutional authority when he ran away into exile, and it failed. Only after popular demonstrations shift the tide back did Mossadegh lose power, which of course Kermit Roosevelt took credit for.
I’m not defending Britain’s blatantly Colonialist foreign policy that triggered the economic crisis, but people of every political persuasion like to blame 1953 for 1979, when there’s a lot more to it than that.
Furthermore, MeK is still a bunch of terrorists.