@oralloy,
Quote:Hardly instrumental. We only went along with the coup because the Iranian clerics were going to overthrow their government with or without us.
That is utter bullshit. You're just making sh*t up as you go along again. The government of Iran was lead by the Prime Minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, who had been democratically elected, as was his majority in the parliament, in 1951. He had announced his intention to nationalize the oil fields, so MI6 went crying to Central Intelligence, and the CIA organized a coup which put the Shah back in the saddle in 1953. Eisenhower, who had just been inaugurated, was blindsided by this, and he never trusted Central Intelligence, nor the British Secret Service again.
CIA brought in Mossad to set up SAVAK, the Shah's not-so-secret political police, and they began interrogating people, including Shi'ite clerics. Because of their poor relations with Eisenhower, the CIA pulled out of Iran, and Mossad stepped up to take over the running of SAVAK. So Israelis were now kidnapping, interrogating, torturing and murdering people seen as a threat to the Shah. That's why the Mullahs and the Revolutionary Guard obsessively hate the Zionists, and support Hamas (although they give about ten times as much money to Hezbollah in the Lebanon).
This is another case of you offering your uninformed opinion, and claiming it is fact. Anyone interested can read about Mossaddegh
in this article at Britannica.
