A History Lesson: U.S. and Iran

No they did not, Mossadeq was appointed by the Shah and ratified by the Majiles, after Mossadeq was APPOINTED he dissolved the Iranian parliament through a fraudulent nation wide referendum in which he gained a laughable 99.9% yay vote and extended his "emergency powers" indefinitely. That's some beacon of democracy for ya.

 

LOLOL.. Nationalization means BUYING the assets and hiring back the oil companies as fee for service...........

Of course the Soviets were waiting with open arms.. 1948 gave them a window of opportunity in the ME.

If the Arabs were not capitalists by heritage and inclination.. they may have actually succumbed to communism.

 

I don't think that he was appointed by the Shah... he certainly was elected by the Majlis... But you may be correct.

You mean after the British were constantly trying to subvert the government? Yeah, it was an emergency and no, I don't consider it fraudulent. The people of Iran saw Mosaddegh as a hero and always had.

 

Look it up.

And that granted Mossadeq the right to overthrow the dually elected parliament how exactly?

So you believe that someone can get a 99.9% yay vote in a national referendum to dissolve parliament? You must be joking.

 

I have and I see no source for that. All I see is that he was elected to prime minister by the Majlis.

If the man was considered a hero, if most if not all the Iranians favored oil nationalization, and if it was blatantly obvious that a foreign nation was trying subvert their govenrment... well, I don't see how it would be impossible.

 

Nationalizing an oil company means BUYING the assets.

 

Holocaust = Germany not Iran. You are welcome to that basic history lesson.

I know Christian Zionists love to throw around the Holocaust any chance they get but.....

 

He did a few of those things to please the USA.

However, the fact that the Shah accompanied those actions with things like arresting, torturing, and executing high school girls for refusing to buy his law-required, very expensive high school uniforms that ALL the girls HAD TO BUY from the SOLE SUPPLIER - his WIFE's factory.

Your preposterous attempts to paint the Shah of Iran as an "enlightened leader" is absurd. He was a horror, a MASSIVE thief of MOST of the country's wealth, and his security forces tortured and killed enormous numbers of citizens who did nothing wrong except to give the the demanded payoffs.

And the Shah was closely identified to the Iranian people with the country that put him in power and maintained his evil regime - the USA, making the USA a curse word in the area ever since.

 

Enter Muhammad Mossadeq, a popular nationalist politician and member of the Majlis, the Iranian parliament. In March 1951, the Majlis passed a bill sponsored by Mossadeq nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The shah appointed Mossadeq prime minister. The British and Americans saw the nationalization as a threat to other Western oil companies throughout the Middle East. As Mossadeq's power grew, the shah's declined. When the shah went into exile in August 1953, the CIA and its British counterpart, MI6, organized street mobs fueled with an abundant supply of small-denomination bills, and drove Mossadeq from office. The shah returned.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0106/p09s01-coop.html

lmfao well there you have it folks, Mossadeq is the first man in the history of the world to win a 99.9% yay vote in a free and fair election for anything let alone dissolving a democratically elected government. Do you know how ridiculous you sound? Voting error alone would have been more than .1%. Good god revisionists don't use common sense or logic they just stick to their own delusions regardless of historical fact.

It is impossible to get a 99.9% yay vote for anything in a nation wide election even if Mossadeq did not have a large internal opposition which he did, IE the clerical cast were vastly opposed to the secular Mossadeq and still are to this day.

 

I'm not sure as I buy the CSmonitor as a source. There was no mention of him being elected by the Majlis.

You do make a good point, and I'm willing to say that I am probably wrong. However, I don't think this is a very good justification for overthrowing their government. If it was a fraud election, it is the job of the PEOPLE of Iran to overthrow their government, not us. And regardless of what he did, it doesn't detract that he WAS elected into office.