Tag: Schwarzkopf

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)

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.