[…] in references to any New World Order. It is unlikely that Foreign and Commonwealth Office bureaucrats would advise anything as stupid or reckless as an invasion of Iran. In fact, the FCO is likely to favour involving Iran in the running of Basra. However, the proliferation of influential think tanks in the private sector […]
[…] freelance writer. Notes This account of the White House meeting is taken from National Security Council papers submitted to the Report of the Congressional Committees investigating the Iran Contra Affair (House Report No 100-433/Senate Report No 100-216, Washington 1988). The reason the material appears there would seem to be that key US personnel in […]
[…] Berlin correspondent. BUP, FO 1949 Economic relations dept. FO; Cyprus – part of the Albanian operation 1951 Head of Middle East desk, Cairo. BREO Cyprus. Operations against Iran 1953 attached MOD. Specialised in ‘economic and defence intelligence’ 1956 Operation Struggle against Syria. Middle East Director of Production. Assassination attempts against Nasser. Deputy Chief 1960 […]
[…] cities of Pakistan and even into its military and intelligence services. Western operations in West Asia have to deal with a world beyond Afghanistan that encompasses Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia – as well as India with its massive Muslim population that sometimes chafes under the even more massive presence of aggressive Hindu nationalism. […]
NB This issue of Lobster went to the printer in late May. At that stage no Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ had been found by the ‘coalition’ forces. Before the furore over the British government’s ‘dodgy dossier’ in February, in truth I hadn’t been really paying much too attention to the then impending assault on […]
[…] German, Spanish and Hispanic business figures in Madrid. He launched his own export bank a month later. By July 1952 he was discussing the economic situation in Iran and issuing a Plan for Iran with Mossadegh. This coincided with the officers he had met in Egypt the previous year overthrowing King Farouk and demanding […]
[…] UNIV’S BERLIN LONDON BIRMINGHAM 1941 ROYAL ENGINEERS 1942-50 ‘SECONDED TO A SPECIAL DEPT OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE’ 1950 MANCHESTER UNIV 1966 PROF OF PERSIAN STUDIES SPECIALIST ON IRAN AND THE MIDDLE EAST BRAND, JOHN MCHARDY B 12.6.50 MI6 (C) 1974 FCO 1975 3RD LATER 2ND SEC ON LOAN TO NORTHERN IRELAND OFFICE 1977 2ND […]
[…] The second is its very one-sided account of recent events in the Middle East, so that, for example, the CIA’s and MI6’s covert toppling of Mossadeq in Iran in 1953 is only mentioned in passing, and the Zionists’ seizure of Palestine on the grounds that they had lived there 2000 years before – a […]
[…] trade route to the Far East and the main passage through which oil reached Britain and Europe was com-pounded by the coming to power of Musaddiq in Iran. It became apparent to the British government that their regional interests could only be secured through Cyprus, their only remaining colony in the area. Towards the […]
[…] Served in North Africa and Italy 1945-48: Military attaché in Brazil 1950: Accompanied Averell Harriman to Korea 1951: Assisted Harriman in US mediation attempts between Britain and Iran 1951-56: Assistant to the deputy Chief of Staff at Shape, Paris 1956-60 Staff Assistant to President Eisenhower 1967: Served in Vietnam 1967-72: US Military attaché in […]
