US Delays Release Of Study On 1953 Iran Coup
Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) The State Department is delaying the release of a volume from its U.S. foreign relations history that deals with the CIA-backed overthrow of an Iranian prime minister in the 1950s out of concern that publication could undermine nuclear diplomacy with the Islamic republic.
The decision was made at a September meeting of the department's advisory committee on historical diplomatic documentation and recorded in minutes released this week. The foreign relations records aren't supposed to be suppressed for longer than three decades.
Stephen Randolph, the department's historian, informed the gathering that the volume on U.S. policy in Iran would be withheld "because of ongoing negotiations with Iran." Richard Immerman, a Temple University professor who chairs the committee, expressed frustration with the decision. The delay was first reported by online publication Secrecy News.
The history of the 1953 ouster of Iran's popularly elected prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, is well-known. And just last year, newly classified documents offered more details about the motivations that led the U.S. and Britain to take covert action against a Soviet ally and how the CIA executed its plan.
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Judi Lynn
(160,656 posts)SamKnause
(13,114 posts)government
CIA
military brass
Pentagon
and their backers
Wall Street
are NOT fans of transparency.
Ryan Fitzomething
(139 posts)Please!
brush
(53,968 posts)Some of their family members are still in prominent positions in present-day Iran and are dreading this release as well.
Let's see how this plays out.
on point
(2,506 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,864 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Don'tcha know?
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)they fear to release it to the public. I got screwed being born in america.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)All it would do is reveal details of the prototype for all our street-protest-based coups against undesirable governments. It was an earlier time, but the methods used in Tehran then were not much different than those we employed recently in both Cairo and Kiev (not to forget our failed street protest coup attempt on Venezuela's government).
People would be likely to notice the similarities.
ucrdem
(15,512 posts)Where ever there was a socialist government or candidate, there was Occupy, or for those who refuse to countenance that particular connection, soft power.
p.s. didn't work in Paris, at least in 2012, but it had its effect last spring and it's having its effect now.
another_liberal
(8,821 posts)And Paris, like Caracas, was close.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)Matariki
(18,775 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)elias49
(4,259 posts)The US is exceptional don't you know?
Darb
(2,807 posts)Or wait and not throw fuel on the fire while we are trying to make progress toward a better, more peaceful, less dangerous world.
I say wait. Most of the ponyboys here want, well, they want a pony.