[…] and Co. London 1984) This is a pleasant – if somewhat blind – memoire by a US career diplomat who ended up as the US Ambassador to Iran when the Shah fell. There are lots of little bits and pieces in the earlier chapters which may interest students of the history of US involvement […]
[…] history but talks to those who helped make it. These include Christopher ‘Monty’ Woodhouse whose covert activities in the region after the Second World War included the Iran coup of 1953. This is Fisk’s observation on that 1997 meeting at Woodhouse’s retirement home in Oxford: ‘The coup against Mossadeq, the return of the Shah, […]
[PDF file]: […] supposedly following Bilderberg instructions, who suppressed crucial intelligence to bring about the Yom Kippur War and the Arab oil embargo, and who subsequently encouraged the Shah of Iran to raise oil prices again at the start of 1974. Confirming the presence of Kissinger at Saltsjöbaden in 1973, presumably to participate in this plot, is […]
[PDF file]: […] adviser highlights a great contradiction that runs through what we know of the new administration’s foreign policy. On the one hand, Flynn has on many occasions identified Iran as being behind the global jihad that is supposedly being waged against the United States. He has also condemned Putin’s Russia for supporting and encouraging this […]
[PDF file]: […] Thatcher’s premiership was that during the 1980s she and her Cabinet authorised a long running and totally illegal operation to supply arms secretly to both Iraq and Iran, in contravention of UN resolutions and British law. Billions of pounds worth of arms were exported illegally. Parliament was lied to and British ministers, officials and […]
[PDF file]: […] Africa was a party to the US-Iran arms deal. Which is where Larsson and Stocklassa pick up the thread. Under this arrangement, the CIA provided arms to Iran to further the wider global interests of the US. Payment for the arms, many of which were manufactured in Sweden by Bofors, was made via banking […]
[PDF file]: […] architects of the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. He was a staunch advocate of regime change as a US strategy and was particularly exercised about Iran and the improvement in Iran’s strategic position that resulted from the Iraq War. As far as he was concerned, the conflict in the Middle East could […]
[…] There were the unsuccessful assassinations: Castro, Castro, and Castro. There were the much hoped-for assassinations: Nasser, Nasser, Nasser. And, of course, US-sponsored, -supported or staged regime changes: Iran, Guatemala, Iraq, Congo, Syria, Dominican See for example or 77 or 78 or 79 Republic, South Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. The Americans […]
[PDF file]: […] There were the unsuccessful assassinations: Castro, Castro, and Castro. There were the much hoped-for assassinations: Nasser, Nasser, Nasser. And, of course, US-sponsored, -supported or -staged regime changes: Iran, Guatemala, Iraq, Congo, Syria, Dominican Republic, South Vietnam, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Argentina. The Americans trained or supported secret police forces everywhere from Cambodia […]
[PDF file]: […] (hydro-meteorological phenomena) is becoming more frequent and more severe. Are the American military now using weather weapons? In May 2010, having been warned off by the US, Iran and Pakistan signed a long-standing pipeline deal, and in July 80 Ibid. 81 Wallström, ‘Parliamentary questions’, E-1453/2003, 3 July, 2003, 82 BAE Systems, ‘BAE Systems completes […]
