MIM Notes 210

CIA classified leak admits Iran coup half century later

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by MC5 The New York Times has finally reported the CIA role and its own role in overthrowing the government of Iran in 1953. As MIM long ago and often explained for why so-called democracy does not work, the U.$. imperialists overthrew an elected government and replaced it with a king to protect British oil which the U.$. imperialists took over for themselves. The news in April of 2000 is that the CIA's own classified (meaning not public) history of the coup started by the British and finished by the Amerikans has leaked out and the U.S. Secretary of State Madelaine Albright has admitted the U.$. role and has said that it played a negative role. Code-named "TP-Ajax," the CIA project required the aid of a general and the king known as the Shah. The king once put in place ruled until the Iranian revolution in 1979. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 led to the hostage crisis of 444 days with Amerikans taken hostage and President Jimmy Carter losing the 1980 election on its account. At the time, few Amerikans understood why the Iranian people had a just grievance against the United $tates, like oppressed nations everywhere. Prime Minister Mossadegh was the head of the Iranian government when the British-style parliament voted to nationalize Iran's oil. England was milking the Iranian people of their resources and the people had had enough, so they took over their own oil from England. Communists everywhere support such a move to nationalize the assets of oppressed nations and take them from the imperialists. At the time, the Iranians had a very strong Communist Party in terms of its popularity, but it was not very resolute. The U.$. imperialists especially worried about the gaining influence of the communists and the Stalin-era Soviet Union. The New York Times tries to cover up its own role in the coup by saying that it did not directly report any CIA released press releases. It claims not to have been manipulated by the CIA so directly; however, what difference it makes is hard to say since the New York Times still said and did the same things the CIA did. A New York Times reporter in Iran named Kennett Love even told the coup leaders where to place their tanks to win a key battle. Love claimed credit for the success of the coup. According to the New York Times itself, "The New York Times also published an article from Moscow reporting Soviet charges that the United States was behind the coup. But neither the Times nor other American news organizations appear to have examined such charges seriously." The Yankee imperialists are only for elections when their candidates win. If an oppressed nation tries to take control of its own economy, the imperialists send troops, military aid and spies to prevent that nation from succeeding. Sometimes, after slaughtering enough people, the people then vote for U.$.-backed candidates just to avoid further slaughter. Such elections only prove what happens when the people's arms are twisted behind their backs. Note: New York Times, 16 April 2000, pp. A1 and 14. (www.nytimes.com/international)