PT, serious question: How long would it take the UK military to make Iran its' bitch?
Dr. Muhammed Mosaddeq, or Mossadegh, is democratically elected by the Iranian Parliament. Mosaddeq, who is not a Communist but receives the support of Iran’s Communist Party, intends to nationalize Iran’s oil industry (fuck off Z-JOO's).
Opposition from 'US & Britain' is immediate, with the CIA moving to destabilize the Mosaddeq regime with the British imposing an economic embargo on Iran.His efforts to democratize Iran had already earned him being named 'Time Magazine’s Man of the Year for 1951'. After he nationalizes it, Mosaddeq realizes that Britain (on behalf of Rothschils inc) will want to overthrow his government, so he closes the British Embassy & sends all British civilians, including its intelligence operatives, out of the country. Britain finds itself with no way to stage the coup it desires, so it approaches the American intelligence community for help. Their first approach results in abject failure when 'Harry Truman' throws the British representatives out of his office, stating that "We don’t overthrow governments; the United States has never done this before, & we’re not going to start now." (little did he know that it would go on to become a nice little side line earner, LOLz)
After Eisenhower is elected in November 1952, the British have a much more receptive audience, & plans for overthrowing Mosaddeq are produced. The British intelligence operative who presents the idea to the Eisenhower administration later will write in his memoirs, "If I ask the Americans to overthrow Mosaddeq in order to rescue a British oil company, they are not going to respond. This is not an argument that’s going to cut much mustard in Washington. I’ve got to have a different argument.…I’m going to tell the Americans that Mosaddeq is leading Iran towards Communism." This argument wins over the Eisenhower administration, who promptly decides to organize a coup in Iran. Mosaddeq was removed from power in a 19 August 1953 coup supported & funded by the British and U.S. governments and led by General Fazlollah Zahedi. The American operation came to be known as 'Operation Ajax' in America, after its CIA cryptonym, & as the “28 Mordad 1332” coup in Iran, after its date on the Iranian calendar. Mosaddeq was imprisoned for three years and subsequently put under house arrest until his death.
Among many in Iran and abroad, Mosaddeq is known as a hero of 'Third World anti-imperialism', & victim of (Z-JOO's) imperialist greed for Iran’s oil. Mossadeq’s overthrow was the reactionary clerical dissatisfaction with a secular government, fomented with 'CIA' propaganda, was the classic 'CIA' finger print.
Then look what happened.
SAVAK (ساواک, short for سازمان اطلاعات و امنیت کشور Sazeman-e Ettela'at va Amniyat-e Keshvar), 'National Intelligence & Security Organization' was the domestic security & intelligence service of Iran from 1957 to 1979. It has been described as Iran's "most hated & feared institution" prior to the revolution of 1979, for its association with the foreign intelligence organizations such as the 'CIA' & its torture and execution of regime opponents. At its peak, the organization had as many as 60,000 agents serving in its ranks. It has been estimated that by the time the agency was finally dismantled in 1979 by the Iranian Revolution (the taking back of their country from Z-JOO), as many as one third of all Iranian men had some sort of connection to 'SAVAK' by way of being informants or actual agents. A U.S. Army colonel working for the CIA was sent to Persia in September 1953 to work with General Teymur Bakhtiar, who was appointed military governor of Tehran in December 1953 & immediately began to assemble the nucleus of a new intelligence organization. The 'US' Army colonel worked closely with Bakhtīār & his subordinates, commanding the new intelligence organization & training its members in basic intelligence techniques, such as surveillance & interrogation methods, the use of intelligence networks, and organizational security. This organization was the first modern, effective intelligence service to operate in Persia. Its main achievement occurred in September 1954, when it discovered & destroyed a large communist Tudeh Party network that had been established in the Persian armed forces
In March 1955, the Army colonel was "replaced with a more permanent team of five career CIA officers, including specialists in covert operations, intelligence analysis, & counterintelligence," who "trained virtually all of the first generation of SAVAK personnel." In 1956 this agency was reorganized & given the name Sazeman-e Ettela'at va Amniyat-e Keshvar (SAVAK). In 1960/61 the CIA trainers left and were replaced by a team of instructors from the Israeli Mossad (enter Z-JOO's stage stage left). These in turn were replaced by SAVAK’s own instructors in 1965 (under 'Mossad' control).
SAVAK had the power to censor the media, screen applicants for government jobs, '& according to reliable Western source , use all means necessary, including torture, to hunt down dissidents'. After 1963, the Shah expanded his security organizations, including SAVAK which grew to over 5300 full-time agents & a large but unknown number of part-time informers.The agency's first director, General Teymur Bakhtiar, was dismissed in 1961 and later became a political dissident. In 1970 he was assassinated by SAVAK agents, disguised to look like an accident (sounds familiar)
Hassan Pakravan, director of Savak from 1961-1965, had an almost benevolent reputation, for example, dining with the Ayatollah Khomeini while Khomeini was under house arrest on a weekly basis, & later intervened to prevent Khomeini's execution, on the grounds it would "anger the common people of Iran". After the Iranian Revolution, however, Pakravan was among the first of the Shah's officials to be executed (oh the irony) he up-set (Z-JOO's) & even his own people could not save him.
Yeah, & you want to go back in ??
History bears no gifts for the ignorant.
(Ho Chi Minh) HO-HUM
