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| Apr 13, 2008 02:25 |   |
| guestFBI | In recent days, the tension between US and Iran aroused global concern. US media exposes the news that Bush Administration are planning to replay the 1953 Plot. The news makes international community become more concerned with the prospect of Iran. It reminds people of the overthrow of Iran’s government in 1953. Since then, Iran and USA have been a feud. Do you think if CIA will re-act the plot? Can USA succeed this time since international situation has changed a lot? |
| Apr 13, 2008 05:59 | #1 |
 | The CIA has to justify itself somehow or they'd all be on the dole queue. |
| Apr 13, 2008 08:23 | #2 |
| No......too much international exposure this time. Our media is finally coming to it's senses and reporting the pre-conditioned facts. Congress will not (I hope) be duped into a conflict as was the case with Iraq. I could go on and on about this, but don't want to get started. |
| Apr 13, 2008 08:34 | #3 |
| Sorry, I missed the point of the original question which was a "clandestine" operation by the CIA. But the answer is still no. |
| Apr 13, 2008 08:52 | #4 |
| (From one of the most liberals news papers, the New York Times) “An inconvenient truth” From The Central Intelligence Agency's secret history of its covert operation to overthrow Iran's government in 1953 offers, an inside look at how the agency stumbled into success, despite a series of mishaps that derailed its original plans. Written in 1954 by one of the coup's chief planners, the history details how United States and British officials plotted the military coup that returned the shah of Iran to power and toppled Iran's elected prime minister, an ardent nationalist. The document shows that: • Britain, fearful of Iran's plans to nationalize its oil industry, came up with the idea for the coup in 1952 and pressed the United States to mount a joint operation to remove the prime minister. • The C.I.A. and S.I.S., the British intelligence service, handpicked Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi to succeed Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and covertly funneled $5 million to General Zahedi's regime two days after the coup prevailed. • Iranians working for the C.I.A. and posing as Communists harassed religious leaders and staged the bombing of one cleric's home in a campaign to turn the country's Islamic religious community against Mossadegh's government. • The shah's cowardice nearly killed the C.I.A. operation. Fearful of risking his throne, the Shah repeatedly refused to sign C.I.A.-written royal decrees to change the government. The agency arranged for the shah's twin sister, Princess Ashraf Pahlevi, and Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the father of the Desert Storm commander, to act as intermediaries to try to keep him from wilting under pressure. He still fled the country just before the coup succeeded. |
| Apr 14, 2008 04:44 | #5 |
| GUESTPEACE | US must foresee the consequence of the coup. Iran will revenge some day. The Hostage incident in 1979 should be a lesson that US must learn from. |
| Apr 14, 2008 10:01 | #6 |
| That + all the "coup" crap in S. America . General Pinochet of Chile is a good "case study" of the ilks of the complete privatization of industry from outside sources at the expense of Chileans in general. There is a group of international elites whose name I won't mention thats beginning to smell in some (or all) of this. |
| Apr 14, 2008 11:34 | #7 |
| If US leaders want to do this, I hope they take all of the oil fields this time so there is an ROI for the taxpayers footing the bill. |
| Apr 14, 2008 21:38 | #8 |
| Yes, guest, Iran took US embassy staff hostage in Tehran. Finally, US made some concessions. |
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