[This is Part 3 of the series “Iran’s Century and a Half Fight for Sovereignty”. Part 1 is a historical overview of Iran’s long struggle with Britain’s control over Iranian oil and the SIS-CIA overthrow of Iran’s Nationalist leader Mosaddegh in 1953.
According to Robert Dreyfuss in Hostage to Khomeini, the US was involved in deliberately making the students occupy the embassy. The motive for the US was to have an excuse for intervening down there. Because W. Germany , the USSR, France, Japan and OPEC had plans for an economic program competing with the dollar dominance. And the US threatened the europeans to deprive them of ME oil if they went ahead with that program. In order to convince the europeans that the US meant it they needed that excuse.
This is among the parts of history that went down the memory hole.
And this is in total contrast with the coup in 1953 that even the CIA has confirmed.
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Since the Iranian revolution, strongly supported by the UK and US happened but also has been lost to the memoryhole and in addition the Afghan war happened all the peace oriented plans faded away I guess.
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Both the Campaigner special report 16 from may 1978 and NYT from may 7 reported about the Bonn Moscow accord from may 6 1978.
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Campaigner called it Bonn Moscow Pact and mentioned that both Breznev and Schmidt said it was going to be a permanent detente.
The NYT account also quoted skeptical oppinions from some of W Germany's business circles.
One opinion was that the USSR didnt have much to contribute with.
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But that must be seen as a biased opinion caused by the USSR's capacity to massproduce nuclear reactors thus also worrying the western part of the Iranian nuclear program.
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The USSR was discussing that massproduction in order to assist the industrialisation of poor countries that was inherent in the mentioned competing economic project.
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Dreyfuss mentioned that OPEC's condition for tying the competing financial instrument to OPEC was that it be part of development and industrialisation.
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Text on the back cover of Dreyfuss book:
How British Secret Intelligence Service spies plotted the downfall of the Shah
How the Carter Administration set up the taking of 53 hostages in Teheran
How the secret terrorist society, the Muslim Brotherhood, brought Khomeini to power.
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And I like to refer people to several documents on Larouchepub.com about the origin of MB as a British Imperial program, not anything with a genuine origin among arabs or persians.
E.g.
Muslim Brotherhood: London's shocktroops for the New Dark Ages
I've bounced around on this issue over the years in the peace movement, but much of the hysteria out of my poli sci degree & Washington amount to dishonest static. They don't believe in anything, certainly not security or defence. Human beings may-as-well believe in development, then.
Completely agree. Iran has been endlessly harried and vilified by the British and the US. It's appalling how they have interfered with peaceful countries around the world to the extent that international travel is a literal and figurative land mine. This further limits Americans travel to different cultures, which would reduce the ability of the censorship-military industrial complex to whip the population into a fearful frenzy, which is willing to bomb and/or sanction anyone 'back to the Stone Age'.
This applies even to countries who try to fight back in even the smallest way, such as simply not doing business with the rapacious mining and oil companies that prey upon South America, the Middle East and Africa, or on indigenous Australians with the help of 'their' own government.
These companies accomplish this with the help of the CIA and military in actioning coups against democratically elected governments, who are then replaced, either militarily or in a 'supervised' election, with or without a concurrent media blitz to amp up nationalist/fascist movements. A great example is Eva Morales, who was ousted in a military coup in 2019. https://www.latinorebels.com/2019/11/12/yestherewasacoup/
Another good example is Bolsinaro, who was basically installed in Brazil, after Lula was erroneously found guilty of widespread corruption in a falsified 'investigation', called Operation CarWash, funded by CIA cutout USAID.
Glenn Greenwald has covered the Lula-Bolsinaro debacle extensively, as has Aaron Maté covered the failed coup of Assad, which included the faked chemical weapons attack, uncovered by OPCW whistleblowers, in Syria. Maté has been targeted for censorship by the FBI his similar coverage of Ukraine, both the Maidan coup in 2014, the ensuing increase in corruption of that country and ongoing hypocrisy in Biden's policy toward the proxy war there.
These wars and sanctions have nothing to do with sovereignty, democracy or freedom. They are about mineral resources, for which the neocon/neoliberal cabal does not want to pay open market prices.
Paradoxically, the Lula government is pursuing exactly the same political lawfare against its opponent Bolsinaro as Balsinaro pursued against Lula. The US has revoked the visa of the Brazil chief supreme court justice which is exactly the right response.
It’s wild. I wonder how Greenwald feels about his vociferous investigation into the conspiracy to indict Lula, given Lula is as bad or worse than Bolsinaro regarding free speech?
I guess Human rights issues, Inflation ( £1 Sterling = 65,000 Tomans ), Oppression of other religions & Starving families etc etc are not really important as long as the Rhetoric is the BEAUTIFUL conversation amongst civilisations! ... there is so much... Hardcore Toodeh members ( the wanna be communists of late 60'0 70.s ) Now admit Mosssadegh was a useless politician & the entire communist movement was a total waste of youth & energy in Iran. Alas, the still pro left, dont see what Iran was Before Reza Shah / Mohammad reza , During the Pahlavi resign , & Post Revolution.... It's an uninformed & subjective bias.
What an ugly and ignorant answer which does not account for what Iran is actually working towards today which is that very thing, prosperity and stability in the Middle East with the recent great diplomatic success of a partnership with Saudi Arabia, China, Russia and Iran with a so far successful ceasefire in Yemen. It is western imperialism that has fueled chaos and instability in the Middle East, notably with Sykes-Picot and the British Mandate of Palestine and the funding, support and even creation of Islamic terrorism notably in Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood and later the Mujahideen. It is Anglo-America who illegally bombed and invaded Libya and dispersed its war chest (the largest in Africa) to terrorists to fight in Syria against the Syrian people and paint it as a freedom movement. As Anglo-America continues to lose its foothold in the Middle East we see very clearly what truly lies behind the most violent chaos and with their exit how quickly nations will actually choose to align themselves with peaceful relations because they understand this is a benefit to all. People like you who spit on words such as PEACE and scoff at the proposal of a DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS, that does not make you a realist but complicit to the terror that has been sown in these parts funded and fueled by the Anglo-American empire today. You are blind to the fact that that very thing is happening in the Middle East today before your very eyes.
If Iran is a true harbinger of peace, why didn't they extend at least a tentative outreach to Israel? They could always make any offer contingent on decent treatment of the Palestinians. But Iran plays right into the neocon hands by refusing to rescind the (admittedly empty) statements predicting Israel doom. Iran can't have its cake and eat it. If Iran wants to be seen as a harbinger of peace, it must make some outline of peace with Israel. You don't have to approve of a country to deal with it.,
If Iran wants to be the peacemaker, it should propose conditions of peace for Israel. I realize Iran can't recognize Israel until the Palestinian question is settled. But instead of empty rhetoric against Israel, Iran should be defining the conditions of an acceptable (though perhaps not desirable) peace. Until then, Iran is simply playing into neocon hands.
According to Robert Dreyfuss in Hostage to Khomeini, the US was involved in deliberately making the students occupy the embassy. The motive for the US was to have an excuse for intervening down there. Because W. Germany , the USSR, France, Japan and OPEC had plans for an economic program competing with the dollar dominance. And the US threatened the europeans to deprive them of ME oil if they went ahead with that program. In order to convince the europeans that the US meant it they needed that excuse.
This is among the parts of history that went down the memory hole.
And this is in total contrast with the coup in 1953 that even the CIA has confirmed.
..
Since the Iranian revolution, strongly supported by the UK and US happened but also has been lost to the memoryhole and in addition the Afghan war happened all the peace oriented plans faded away I guess.
..
Both the Campaigner special report 16 from may 1978 and NYT from may 7 reported about the Bonn Moscow accord from may 6 1978.
..
Campaigner called it Bonn Moscow Pact and mentioned that both Breznev and Schmidt said it was going to be a permanent detente.
The NYT account also quoted skeptical oppinions from some of W Germany's business circles.
One opinion was that the USSR didnt have much to contribute with.
..
But that must be seen as a biased opinion caused by the USSR's capacity to massproduce nuclear reactors thus also worrying the western part of the Iranian nuclear program.
..
The USSR was discussing that massproduction in order to assist the industrialisation of poor countries that was inherent in the mentioned competing economic project.
..
Dreyfuss mentioned that OPEC's condition for tying the competing financial instrument to OPEC was that it be part of development and industrialisation.
..
Text on the back cover of Dreyfuss book:
How British Secret Intelligence Service spies plotted the downfall of the Shah
How the Carter Administration set up the taking of 53 hostages in Teheran
How the secret terrorist society, the Muslim Brotherhood, brought Khomeini to power.
..
And I like to refer people to several documents on Larouchepub.com about the origin of MB as a British Imperial program, not anything with a genuine origin among arabs or persians.
E.g.
Muslim Brotherhood: London's shocktroops for the New Dark Ages
https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1979/eirv06n18-19790508/eirv06n18-19790508_014-muslim_brotherhood_londons_shock.pdf
"In the immediate sense, the Ikhwan is an outgrowth of
a movement within the Muslim world that began in the
19th century, under the direction of Oxford and
Cambridge universities and the mystical circles of the
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry."
This is a lovely piece Cynthia.
I've bounced around on this issue over the years in the peace movement, but much of the hysteria out of my poli sci degree & Washington amount to dishonest static. They don't believe in anything, certainly not security or defence. Human beings may-as-well believe in development, then.
Completely agree. Iran has been endlessly harried and vilified by the British and the US. It's appalling how they have interfered with peaceful countries around the world to the extent that international travel is a literal and figurative land mine. This further limits Americans travel to different cultures, which would reduce the ability of the censorship-military industrial complex to whip the population into a fearful frenzy, which is willing to bomb and/or sanction anyone 'back to the Stone Age'.
This applies even to countries who try to fight back in even the smallest way, such as simply not doing business with the rapacious mining and oil companies that prey upon South America, the Middle East and Africa, or on indigenous Australians with the help of 'their' own government.
These companies accomplish this with the help of the CIA and military in actioning coups against democratically elected governments, who are then replaced, either militarily or in a 'supervised' election, with or without a concurrent media blitz to amp up nationalist/fascist movements. A great example is Eva Morales, who was ousted in a military coup in 2019. https://www.latinorebels.com/2019/11/12/yestherewasacoup/
Another good example is Bolsinaro, who was basically installed in Brazil, after Lula was erroneously found guilty of widespread corruption in a falsified 'investigation', called Operation CarWash, funded by CIA cutout USAID.
Glenn Greenwald has covered the Lula-Bolsinaro debacle extensively, as has Aaron Maté covered the failed coup of Assad, which included the faked chemical weapons attack, uncovered by OPCW whistleblowers, in Syria. Maté has been targeted for censorship by the FBI his similar coverage of Ukraine, both the Maidan coup in 2014, the ensuing increase in corruption of that country and ongoing hypocrisy in Biden's policy toward the proxy war there.
These wars and sanctions have nothing to do with sovereignty, democracy or freedom. They are about mineral resources, for which the neocon/neoliberal cabal does not want to pay open market prices.
Paradoxically, the Lula government is pursuing exactly the same political lawfare against its opponent Bolsinaro as Balsinaro pursued against Lula. The US has revoked the visa of the Brazil chief supreme court justice which is exactly the right response.
It’s wild. I wonder how Greenwald feels about his vociferous investigation into the conspiracy to indict Lula, given Lula is as bad or worse than Bolsinaro regarding free speech?
If they don't blow themselves up, of course.
I guess Human rights issues, Inflation ( £1 Sterling = 65,000 Tomans ), Oppression of other religions & Starving families etc etc are not really important as long as the Rhetoric is the BEAUTIFUL conversation amongst civilisations! ... there is so much... Hardcore Toodeh members ( the wanna be communists of late 60'0 70.s ) Now admit Mosssadegh was a useless politician & the entire communist movement was a total waste of youth & energy in Iran. Alas, the still pro left, dont see what Iran was Before Reza Shah / Mohammad reza , During the Pahlavi resign , & Post Revolution.... It's an uninformed & subjective bias.
What an ugly and ignorant answer which does not account for what Iran is actually working towards today which is that very thing, prosperity and stability in the Middle East with the recent great diplomatic success of a partnership with Saudi Arabia, China, Russia and Iran with a so far successful ceasefire in Yemen. It is western imperialism that has fueled chaos and instability in the Middle East, notably with Sykes-Picot and the British Mandate of Palestine and the funding, support and even creation of Islamic terrorism notably in Wahhabism and the Muslim Brotherhood and later the Mujahideen. It is Anglo-America who illegally bombed and invaded Libya and dispersed its war chest (the largest in Africa) to terrorists to fight in Syria against the Syrian people and paint it as a freedom movement. As Anglo-America continues to lose its foothold in the Middle East we see very clearly what truly lies behind the most violent chaos and with their exit how quickly nations will actually choose to align themselves with peaceful relations because they understand this is a benefit to all. People like you who spit on words such as PEACE and scoff at the proposal of a DIALOGUE OF CIVILIZATIONS, that does not make you a realist but complicit to the terror that has been sown in these parts funded and fueled by the Anglo-American empire today. You are blind to the fact that that very thing is happening in the Middle East today before your very eyes.
If Iran is a true harbinger of peace, why didn't they extend at least a tentative outreach to Israel? They could always make any offer contingent on decent treatment of the Palestinians. But Iran plays right into the neocon hands by refusing to rescind the (admittedly empty) statements predicting Israel doom. Iran can't have its cake and eat it. If Iran wants to be seen as a harbinger of peace, it must make some outline of peace with Israel. You don't have to approve of a country to deal with it.,
If Iran wants to be the peacemaker, it should propose conditions of peace for Israel. I realize Iran can't recognize Israel until the Palestinian question is settled. But instead of empty rhetoric against Israel, Iran should be defining the conditions of an acceptable (though perhaps not desirable) peace. Until then, Iran is simply playing into neocon hands.