In preparations for Bush's plan to bring democracy to Iran, I wanted to

[Mountainman]

present this. Wouldn't it be nice if the American people knew this bit of history before the Bush bullshit team starts it thing?

Iran had elections before we overthrough the government and installed the Shah.

Soon Bush will say he wants to bring democracy to Iran. The main thread to all of this is who controls the oil.



The Biography of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh


In the second round of the elections, Mossadegh and a group of his companions were elected, and it was this Parliament that approved the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, by the leadership of Dr. Mossadegh. A while later the Majlis elected Mossadegh as the new Prime Minister.

- When Mossadegh became Premier in 1951, the first thing he did after introducing his cabinet, was the enforcement of the Oil Nationalization Bill.

- Following the British law suit against Iran and propounding it at the United Nations Security Council, Dr. Mossadegh made a trip to New York in order to defend the rights of Iran. Then he made a trip to the Netherlands and defended Iran at the Hague Court, and Iran was voted not guilty for nationalizing its oil. In his return to Iran, Mossadegh also visi

ted Egypt and was magnificently welcomed by its people.

http://www.jebhemelli.org/Mosadegh/English-Mosadegh.htm


The CIA history of operation TPAJAX

The CIA history of operation TPAJAX excerpted below was first disclosed by James Risen of The New York Times in its editions of April 16 and June 18, 2000, and posted in this form on its website at:

http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html






This extremely important document is one of the last major pieces of the puzzle explaining American and British roles in the August 1953 coup against Iranian Premier Mohammad Mossadeq. Written in March 1954 by Donald Wilber, one of the operation’s chief planners, the 200-page document is essentially an after-action report, apparently based in part on agency cable traffic and Wilber’s interviews with agents who had been on the ground in Iran as the operation lurched to its conclusion.

http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB28/