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Originally Posted by spectator11040
Pure BS.
The Iranian regime works through its proxy terrorists, Hezbullah, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad, hordes of Shia forces from Pakistan to Iraq, and sometimes murders using its own agents.
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The US operates the same way, and Iran actually learned all of that from the US.
Historically, groups backed by the US were called "freedom fighters" while any group opposed to the US were labeled as "communists" -- even if they weren't, until the "fall of Communism" after which time the US labeled every group it opposed as "terrorists."
Iran has every right to advance its own agenda, and if that agenda conflicts with US goals, that's just the way it goes.
You can't exactly blame Iran, since the US labeled Prime Minister Mossadeq a "communist" and tried three times to murder him -- but failed -- and instead ended up arresting and trying him in a kangaroo court.
Mossadeq's sole indiscretion?
Nationalizing While Non-White/Non-Christian.
It's perfectly okay if White Christian States like Norway or Denmark nationalize their industries, and Britain was the King of Nationalization in the 1950s, since everything in Britain save Sainsbury's -- a sort of grocery store like Kroger's which was started by Lord Sainsbury, was nationalized.
British Air, British Petroleum (BP, but now Amoco-BP), British Rail, the defense industry, the auto industry, all natural resources,....everything was owned by the British government (having controlling interest of 51% up to 100% of a company).
But, when Mossadeq tries to nationalize the oil company in Iran, the Brits throw a hissy fit and ask the US to deal with Mossadeq, which is an Act of War.
The Brits and the US had the same deal everywhere: take 92% of the profits, and then the US/British corporations would devalue their assets to avoid paying taxes, so they actually ended up with 100% of the profits.
It's this arrangement that led President Cardenas of Mexico to nationalize oil and gas operations in Mexico in 1939.
President Cardenas offered to pay the US $42 Million -- the total value of all US corporate assets seized as stated by US oil companies, but FDR refused to accept it.
Recently declassified documents show FDR wanted to invade Mexico and seize the oil and natural gas fields, but most of the Cabinet and the Generals were opposed to it, since it would have tied down US naval forces in the Atlantic Ocean and several US Army and Marine Divisions for quite a long time, and with WW II looming on the horizon, that wasn't a good idea.
Likewise, PM Mossadeq offered to pay $46 Million -- the total value of assets as stated by the oil companies -- but his offer was refused.
It didn't help that the CIA and the French DGSE trained and equipped the SAVAK, the Iranian secret police who tortured and murdered Iranians for speaking out against the Shah.
And then Carter botched the transition of government.
The Shah had already approached Ambassador Bill Sullivan to inform him he had pancreatic cancer. He told Sullivan he intended to abdicate and wanted visas for him and his family to enter the US for medical treatment.
The Shah and Sullivan both knew Khomeini would be the likely successor, so Sullivan established back-door negotiations with Khomeini, who was in Paris, France at the time. The negotiations went well, and they were close to a face-to-face meeting when the French DGSE got wind of it and leaked info about the Shah's intended abdication to supporters of Ayatollah Ruhollah -- who would become the French puppet --- at a mosque in Tabriz.
That sparked a series of demonstrations, and the idiot Carter, along with his to neo-con advisors Gary Sick and Zbigniew Brzezinski, sent General Huyser to Iran in an attempt to convince the Iranian army commanders to initiate a coup and take over the government, which of course is an Act of War.
Khomeini felt he was being played by Sullivan, thinking he would end up like Mossadeq, and it went down-hill from there.
Had Carter listened to Sullivan and Army Chief of Staff General Al Haig (who actually lived in Iran for 3 years), and both of them recommended rolling out the red carpet for Khomeini and helping him establish power, things would have turned out differently.
Of course, had the US let Mossadeq carry out his reforms, Iran would be a much more advanced State, with a more stable economy and more advanced infrastructure, and probably a secular State to boot, who would be an ally to the US, instead of an enemy.
The point of this is that if you don't like what you see, you have only the US to blame.
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