I wrote this to shed a little light on what is most likely to become World War 3. It’s pretty crazy stuff and it boggles my mind that there are not articles all over the place talking about it.
To discuss #Iran and our current feud with them, you have to know a little history. There is a lot of hype surrounding the situation and it’s easy to be convinced we need to immediately invade Iran because they are supposedly developing weapons of mass destruction. (sound familiar?)
Our feud goes back to 1951 when Iran decided to nationalize their oil industry which had been previously controlled by the British Angolo-Iranian Oil company. This decision did not sit well with Britain or the United States, so in 1953 the United States overthrew the DEMOCRATICALLY elected government in Iran and replaced him with a dictator who completely relied on the United States to hold his power. Both Britain and the U.S. chose #Fazlollah Zahedi to be the prime minister and to take charge of a now military-controlled government.
“The Central Intelligence Agency had successfully pressured the weak monarch to participate in the coup, while bribing street thugs, clergy, politicians and Iranian army officers to take part in a propaganda campaign against Mosaddegh and his government.”
“CIA-paid men were brought into Tehran in buses and trucks, and took over the streets of the city. 800 people were killed during and as a direct result of the conflict.[2] Mosaddegh was arrested, tried and convicted of treason by the Shah’s military court.”
Now, why would the US participate in overthrowing a democratic government and replacing it with a dictatorship? That’s a good question.
Turns out, the United States was receiving a TON of money in kickbacks from the sale of Iranian oil.
To protect Iran from being overthrown or aligned with the Soviets, the United States supplied weapons and CIA training to the leaders in the military police, something that later backfired. (which makes me think, how many terrorists have been trained by the CIA? isn’t this trend getting old?)
Needless to say, when it was all said and done, the Iranian people were pissed and in 1979 they staged a revolution to take their country back.
What does all of this have to do with Irans “threat to the U.S.?”
That brings us to the controversy surrounding Iran’s Nuclear program. (aka, the reason the U.S. absolutely has to invade and kill hundreds of thousands of Iranians and lose thousands of it’s own citizens to “preserve peace” in the world because Iran is going to blow us all up -think “Iraq”)
Lets get something straight right now, Iran ALREADY has a nuclear program for domestic use. In the 1950′s, with the help of the UNITED STATES they began working on their power infrastructure to produce cheap and clean energy. 56 years later, with co-operation from the IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency) and help from a Russian agency (Rosatom) Iran opened up it’s first nuclear power plant on September 12, 2011.
Our problem in the U.S. isn’t that Iran has Nuclear power plants, but that they want to produce and enrich their own fuel sources for these plants.
Immediately after the 1979 revolution Iran’s sources of fuel for their forthcoming power facilities were cut off. France had been a major supplier and refused to sell. The U.S. stopped fulfilling their contracts with the government of Iran. On top of that, under pressure from the U.S, Germany along with other countries stopped co-operating with Iran. If Iran wanted Nuclear power in their country they had to do it from start to finish, on their own. It goes on and on.
So the United States, increasingly frustrated with Iran no longer being under their thumb, started a new propaganda campaign against Iran. They said that Iran was attempting to produce weapons grade uranium for the purpose of attacking Israel and other countries. The U.S. demanded they shut down their enrichment facilities and allow other governments to provide the fuel sources for their nuclear power facilities. Obviously Iran refused. They cited the unreliability of foreign sources of enriched uranium (see previous paragraph) and stated that they would continue doing it themselves.
To counter the U.S. claims that Iran was producing weapons grade nuclear material Iran offered to put huge restrictions on its enrichment program. They made the Additional Protocol to allow more stringent inspections by the IAEA law, they allowed foreign representatives to oversee their work, they renounced plutonium reprocessing into weapons grade material and they started immediatly fabricating enriched uranium into reactor fuel rods. On top of that they accepted the suggestion of the IAEA to allow private and public participation in the production process to eliminate their ability to produce weapons grade materials.
It is literally insane to believe that Iran is developing, or has the ability to produce nuclear weapons now or in the future with these restrictions and limitations.
The lines of war are being drawn as we speak.
Both Russia and China have condemmed the United States for it’s war-mongering policy in Iran. They have openly stated that they will not only support Iran, but DEFEND THEM should the United States decide to invade. France and Britian have aligned with the United States and we can count on the entire middle-east being against us.
It would be a terrible mistake for us to get any more involved in this.
The more research I do, the more frustrated I get over this whole war-mongering propaganda our government is getting us into. With a ton of actual facts and a basic idea of the history of what has been going on over the last 60 years I believe anyone can see that the desire the U.S. has to invade yet another country is founded on nothing more than our seriously corrupt desire to rule the planet.
Iran is not a threat to us. It never was. Our meddling in their government and our destruction of their sovereignty has caused a HUGE amount of anti-American sentiment that is manifesting itself into “terrorist” organizations that are fighting us all over the world. We are being fed a bunch of crap from our government through News organizations that don’t give a crap about fact-checking and Media outlets that are being subsidized (paid) by the the U.S. government.
If you want to stop terrorism, you have to understand where it comes from. It comes from people who are enraged by our policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries. It comes from people who have had their entire families murdered by the U.S. government and the dictators around the world they have put in power. Where it does not come from is groups of people who don’t like the way we dress.
“but the Arabs hate western culture!”
-That is why they don’t move here.
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