Worth Repeating: 1953 American/British Coup in Iran

I came across This Read and This Listen to via Eyeranian.

This was a close cooperation between the US and the British and an indication of the history of forming qualitions between them to bring democracy to the world (!), just like how they did to Iran in 1953: "Yes, they killed the Democratically Elected government of Prime Minister Dr. Mosaddeq".

CIA and British intelligent services, arranged some domonstrations in Tehran in which some people (who were on CIA payrole) would demonstrate and shout: "We love Mosaddeq and Communism" in order to damage Mosaddeq's credibility.

There is a very strong historical basis for Iranians to be anti-Amertican. Iran was once a democracy, that democracy came to an end because the United States overthrew it and in last 50 years people of Iran had to live under the influence of tirany as a result of our Coup.... . An Iranian woman wrote to me: "It brings tears to my eyes to think of what we've lost and what we could have had...." Just put yourself in the position of Iranians and ..... .

Well, this would perhaps be branded as "not true" and just a "conspiracy theory' if it was being said by someone as warning for a contemporary event. Yes, there are many reasons not to trust the US and the British.