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By Malcolm Byrne | Foreign Policy
(Huffingtonpost: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/18/cia-iran_n_3777507.html)
CIA Admits It Was Behind Iran's Coup
Sixty years ago this Monday, on August 19, 1953, modern Iranian history took a critical turn when a U.S.- and British-backed coup overthrew the country's prime minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. The event's reverberations have haunted its orchestrators over the years, contributing to the anti-Americanism that accompanied the Shah's ouster in early 1979, and even influencing the Iranians who seized the U.S. Embassy in Tehran later that year.
But it has taken almost six decades for the U.S. intelligence community to acknowledge openly that it was behind the controversial overthrow. Published here today -- and on the website of the National Security Archive, which obtained the document through the Freedom of Information Act -- is a brief excerpt from The Battle for Iran, an internal report prepared in the mid-1970s by an in-house CIA historian.
The document was first released in 1981, but with most of it excised, including all of Section III, entitled "Covert Action" -- the part that describes the coup itself. Most of that section remains under wraps, but this new version does formally make public, for the first time that we know of, the fact of the agency's participation: "[T]he military coup that overthrew Mosadeq and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of U.S. foreign policy," the history reads. The risk of leaving Iran "open to Soviet aggression," it adds, "compelled the United States ... in planning and executing TPAJAX."
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So Why the Double Standards ?
Obama administration won't use 'coup' for Egypt - News Nation ...
If one Google's the author's name :Malcolm Byrne ...
one will notice he is always in company of Trita Parsi and NIAC folks and ex revolutionaries who occupied important posts in the foreign relations department of the Islamic Republic ...
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On the occasion of Hassan Rouhani’s election as Iran’s new president, the Middle East Program compiled the views of 26 Iran experts from the Middle East, Europe, and the United States on the topic, “The Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges of the New Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani.”
These are the experts who have given their views in this report: Haleh Esfandiari, Michael Adler, Roksana Bahramitash, Daniel Brumberg, Malcolm Byrne, Houchang Chehabi, Shahram Chubin, Kaveh Ehsani, Farideh Farhi, Jubin Goodarzi, Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Bernard Hourcade, Meir Javedanfar, Bijan Khajehpour, John Limbert, Valentine M. Moghadam, Afshin Molavi, Rouzbeh Parsi, Trita Parsi, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Barbara Slavin, Nayereh Tohidi, Roberto Toscano, Ali Vaez, Robin Wright.
So they had an 'elected' PM who led a coup against his monarch, and the late king left Iran to avoid bloodshed. Then the PM who had led a coup against the king decided to play the Brits using his alliance with the commies... I am glad that the CIA helped the pro-monarchists neutralize the initial coup and restore the pro-West regime to Iran.
Iranians should be grateful to the CIA for helping the true Iranians restore the legitimate regime to Iran in 1953! A regime that was progressive...
How long do we wait until CIA admits they were behind the 1979 revolution too? !
I don't think CIA even knew.
MI6???
Time to move on. Enough Ashura and "Ghameh Zani"!
DK jaan,
Not to worry, this one will also comes back to bite them only some years later.
Mehrdad