Tag: SAVAK

Mosaddegh, Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, addresses the United Nations Security Council in October 1951, arguing Iran's right to nationalise its own oil. Two years later he was overthrown in a CIA and MI6 coup.

The Monster They Made (Part 2)

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The CIA paid a clergyman to destroy Iran’s democracy in 1953. The baksheesh passed through three brothers, sons of a British agent, to a Nazi-adjacent Islamist who had already tried to murder the Shah. Seventy years later, America is bombing the theocracy it built. The history is declassified. It has been sitting there for decades.

Split image evoking 1953 Tehran and 2026 missile strikes over Iran, with declassified document text bleeding across both halves.

The Monster They Made (Part 1)

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The coup did not sow the seeds for the Islamic Revolution. It constructed the machinery. SAVAK liquidated every secular democrat who might have led a modern Iran. The mosque was left standing because it was the one institution the secret police found too difficult to penetrate. Every morning the Australian media tells us the bombing is regrettable but the regime is monstrous. It does not explain who built the regime.