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Iran to debate suing US over 1953 coup support
Associated Press
Published: 27.08.13, 14:41
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1. The mullahs supported that coup
Ooga Booga ,   monkeytown   (08.27.13)
at the time.
2. Statute of Limitations
Jeff ,   Silver Spring, MD   (08.27.13)
I suppose Iran does not believe in statutes of limitations: the coup was 60 years ago. I say, if Iran wants to sue, Israel and the Jewish community should sue for damages stemming from Achashverosh signing the genocidal writ presented by Haman. After all, what's good for the goose...
3. #1
(08.27.13)
Mossadeq wanted to keep more money for the Iranians, so the British with CIA help got rid of him and put the Shah in place. There were no mullahs at the time. The Shah eventually started making Iran a modern powerful and democratic state that irritated the Saudis so they told their boy Carter to get rid of the Shah and install the Mullahs.
4. #3 there were indeed
Ooga Booga ,   Monkeyville   (08.27.13)
islamist ayatollahs in Iran in 1952, (though they were not running the country) and they did indeed turn on Mossadegh, so for them to complain about it now is absurd. It was the British who wanted Mossadegh out the most, but he also managed to alienate a number of key constituencies.
5. To # 2
Abdel Karim Salim ,   Jerusalem   (08.27.13)
Statute of Limitations applies to minor cases especially the civil ones . Often criminal and national security cases are viewed and reviewed by courts even after centuries... Just think of the case Augusto Pinochet of Chile ; he slaughtered his people in 1973 and yet Spain tried to prosecute him in 1998 ( after 25 years ).
6. Khomeini supported the coup, too
Abbas   (08.27.13)
Abbas Milani’s superb recent biography of the Shah tells much of the story. Contrary to Islamist and leftist lore, the Shah was not unilaterally restored to power in 1953 by a CIA coup with British help. Kermit Roosevelt, the CIA’s man in Iran at the time, was happy to accept credit, adding to his legendary name and enabling years of commercial interests with the Shah’s regime. But the erratic Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a secular nationalist trying to depose the constitutional monarch, self destructed by simultaneously scaring the army, business interests and religious clerics back into the young Shah’s arms. Supporting the Shah’s return was a fifty something year old Khomeini, disturbed like others by Mossadegh’s support by Iran’s Soviet supported communist Tudeh Party.
7. #3. Does Ayatollah Kashani mean anything to you?
Persian CAT   (08.27.13)
There were many akhonds who were working for/with the MI6 and still are. Your theory about the Saudis asking Carter to get rid of the Shah, is bunk. Prove it, if you can.
8. Hmmm
JG ,   USA   (08.27.13)
Looks like Iran is giving that Kenyan "lawyer" who wanted to sue for the death of Jesus a run for his money. Good luck guys...I think the Kenyan has a better chance.
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