We Pulled the Plug on the Shah
UN Ambassador Andrew Young best expressed the thinking of the left at the time when he stated that, if successful, Khomeini would eventually be hailed as a saint.
https://www.dcdave.com/article5/220715.html
When I first wrote on this subject seven years ago, the title was in the form of a question, “Did We Pull the Plug on the Shah?” With the help of a fairly recent but very obscure book by the American expatriate living in England, Arlene Lois Johnson, The Shah of Iran: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi: Victim of His Times, I have accumulated enough additional information to write the title of this brief essay as a declarative statement. The book was published in the United Kingdom by News Source, Incorporated. No date is provided, but Johnson tells me that it came out in 2018. The book is apparently not available on Amazon, and I couldn’t get it to come up with an online search.
The book’s obscurity is consonant with its topic. It’s common knowledge that the United States and Britain conspired to overthrow the elected government of Iran’s prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 and elevate the Shah to the position of absolute monarch. That action has long been considered one of the black marks on the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Consistent with #1 in the Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression, it is not known that a quarter of a century later the same two governments were responsible for doing the same thing with the man they had chosen to replace Mosaddegh, because it has not been reported by the news media.
A good summary of what took place can be found at http://www.aryamehr.org/eng/carter/sold/cart.htm. Here’s a sample of that article by Boston radio talk show host, Chuck Morse:
As if a light were switched off, the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlevi, portrayed for 20 years as a progressive modern ruler by Islamic standards, was suddenly, in 1977-1978, turned into this foaming at the mouth monster by the international left media. Soon after becoming President in 1977, Jimmy Carter launched a deliberate campaign to undermine the Shah. The Soviets and their left-wing apparatchiks would coordinate with Carter by smearing the Shah in a campaign of lies meant to topple his throne. The result would be the establishment of a Marxist/Islamic state in Iran headed by the tyrannical Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. The Iranian revolution, besides enthroning one of the world’s most oppressive regimes, would greatly contribute to the creation of the Marxist/Islamic terror network challenging the free world today.
And if that weren’t bad enough, the rise of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini was hardly a natural, organic thing.
American leaders were also supporting Khomeini. After the Pravda endorsement, Ramsey Clark, who served as Attorney General under President Lyndon B. Johnson, held a press conference where he reported on a trip to Iran and a Paris visit with Khomeini. He urged the US government to take no action to help the Shah so that Iran could determine its own fate. Clark played a behind the scenes role influencing members of Congress to not get involved in the crisis. Perhaps UN Ambassador Andrew Young best expressed the thinking of the left at the time when he stated that, if successful, Khomeini would eventually be hailed as a saint.
Khomeini was allowed to seize power in Iran and, as a result, we are now reaping the harvest of anti-American fanaticism and extremism. Khomeini unleashed the hybrid of Islam and Marxism that has spawned suicide bombers and hijackers. President Jimmy Carter, and the extremists in his administration are to blame and should be held accountable.
It's not clear when that article was written, but it might have been included in Morse’s book published in 2001, Why I’m a Right Wing Extremist: Collected Columns of Chuck Morse, Vol. II. That book is listed on Amazon, but consistent with the obscurity of the subject matter, it is reported to be out of print and with only “limited availability.”
The more I learn about the CIA & the government of my country, the more sickened I become. I was already sickened but it gets worse & worse.