Iran and Us

Why do Iranians not like us?  Why do they give us so much trouble?

Is it just because they don’t like our way of life as our leaders might suggest?

No.

There are definite reasons why the Iranians do not like us.

Number one, we overthrew their democratically elected government in 1953. Our CIA went in there and created street unrest which forced their leader to leave office.

We  installed the Shah – not exactly a nice guy to the people of Iran.

But at least he saw things our way.

Plus, he was able to deposit a lot of his money in Chase Manhattan bank.

The reason we got involved in Iran is because there’s a lot of oil there. Approximately 10% of the world‘s oil reserves are in Iran.

The British were there first.  In 1908, the Anglo Persian oil company discovered oil in Iran. We know Anglo Persian oil company today as British Petroleum.

Yep, these are the same knuckleheads who created the Deep Water Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico a few years ago.

In the early 1950s, the government of Iran, led by Mohammed Mossadegh decided to nationalize the oil companies that were expropriating oil from Iran. The Iranians wanted a better deal.  They wanted a higher cut of the profits . In addition to that, the Iranian workers  who worked the oil fields,  wanted better working conditions as the camps in which they worked were apparently not too much better than those found in a slave plantation in the deep south prior to the Civil War.  

So negotiations took place between the British and the Iranians. Getting nowhere, the United States was invited to  negotiate a compromise. We sent one of our boys, Averell Harriman, over there to try to come up with a settlement. That was not forthcoming and the decision was made by our CIA to, overthrow Mossadegh the Prime Minister, and replace him with our boy, the Shah.

The Shah ruled with a heavy hand from 1953 to 1979 when he was overthrown.  The Shah ran a brutal police force called SAVAK which killed a lot of Iranians.  After the Shah was overthrown, David Rockefeller and his minions, McCloy, and Kissinger, convinced the United States government to allow the Shah to come to the United States.

Why did David Rockefeller get involved? Well, you  can read this.

“He (McCloy)  also had long-standing private interests with the Pahlevi regime. Milbank, Tweed provided legal counsel not only to Chase Bank, but also to the shah himself.  The Chase International Investment Corporation, which McCloy had established back in the 1950s, had several joint ventures in Iran. The shah maintained a personal account with Chase, and so too did his private family trust, the Pahlevi Foundation. Each year, the bank handled some $ 2 billion in Iranian Eurodollar transactions, and throughout the 1970s Iran had at least $ 6 billion on deposit at various Chase branches around the world. As one financial analyst put it, “Iran became the crown jewel of Chase’s international banking portfolio.”  Chase also had on its books several outstanding loans to the regime, amounting to over $ 500 million.”

— The Chairman: John J McCloy & The Making of the American Establishment: John J. McCloy & The Making of the American Establishment by Kai Bird

Now, it all makes sense, doesn’t i?  

We didn’t protect the Shah because he was a defender of democracy. We protected the Shah because he had a lot of money in Chase Manhattan bank.

Plus he was able to throw a lot of oil money our way.

Nice deal, right?

Naturally, this didn’t go over well with the people in Iran, and they responded by attacking our embassy and holding hostages for over a year.  This occurred in 1979. 

The enmity continues today. Iran continues to support efforts to thwart our US presence in the Middle East. And why is that? Because the US followed the lead of the British and manifestly refused to give peoples of the Middle East a stake in the game.

That’s why Iran supports the people of Yemen. That’s why Iran supports Hezbollah. That’s why Iran supports the Palestinians.

Iran sees Israel as what it really is: a colonialist movement initiated by western nations designed to seize and protect the oil and gas assets in the Middle East. 

So we have only ourselves to blame.

Sincerely,

Archer Crosley

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