July 30, 2010 07:00 PM
BP By Any Other Name - The Anglo-Iranian Oil Dispute - 1951
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When Iran, under Mohammed Mossadegh nationalized Iran's oil production in March of 1951, it put a crimp in the relations between Iran and Britain, who had enjoyed massive profits from drilling operations going back to 1909 and who, by 1950 had come to rely (as did the U.S.) on Middle East oil for 70% of its consumption (even back then). After a hotly contested dispute, which brought in the League of Nations to re-negotiate in 1933, Iran got slightly more of a percentage and by 1946 had negotiated to get 30% profits to Britain's 70%.
After Mossadegh took over and nationalized Iran's oil production, Britain quickly attempted to negotiate a 50/50 split, but Mossadegh would have none of it. The dispute between Britain and Iran went on for two years. So on August 22, 1953, with the help of our very own CIA the Mossadegh government was overthrown and The Shah was reinstated. Shortly after, Britain and Iran were negotiating oil.
And shortly after, The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company became British Petroleum. And the rest, as they say, is history.
This clip comes from a CBS newscast of August 21, 1951 when the negotiations had broken down.
... led to Operation Ajax.
Which led to the reign of the Shah.
Which led to the Islamic Revolution.
Which led us to where we are now in Iran.
Funny how people can't seem to play Connect the Dots with history.
and the CIA.
And the Congress who stood by and let it happen.
To think that the CIA and Mossad were behind the Shah's much feared SAVAK:
http://www.angelfire.com/home/iran/savak.html
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
And now the US criticizes Iran for its undemocratic ways.
When will government of the people, by the politicians, for the corporations perish from this Earth?
Not soon enough!
"And now the US criticizes Iran for its undemocratic ways."
EXACTLY !
And yet Iran, Israel, and the USA are all only nominally democratic countries, each under the control of whacky religious fundamentalists. Of these three nations, only one is not a nuclear power, or a threat to other nations, or engaged in imperialistic military adventurism: Iran, which is self-sufficient in energy production. Or Iran would be if only the USA and Britain hadn't been engaged in economic and technology embargoes against them for the past 40+ years, so that they have not been able to refine enough of their own petroleum for the diesel fuel and gasoline that their economy needs. Imagine an OPEC country that has to import much of their diesel fuel and gasoline ...
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
do not know 'real' history and, therefore, do not understand how our government(s) has been on both sides of all of the confrontations, dust-ups, surprise attacks, military actions, insurgencies, and Wars in the past century, we are doomed to keep repeating it.
"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of Stupidity" - Frank Leahy
Or as ChalmersJ. calls it Blowback....
His conclusion is that a nation reaps precisely what it sows.
Although most Americans may be largely ignorant of what was, and still is, being done in their names, all are likely to pay a steep price individually and collectively for their nation's continued efforts to dominate the global scene.
Cue the Kabuki....
and we as a nation have already experienced blowback, called 9/11/2001.
But the USA is due for quite a bit more, especially when (not if) the Crony Corporatists get us involved in yet another disastrous "optional preemptive" military adventure, this time against Iran. Imagine a Great Depression 10x worse than 1929, all while engaged in a World War -- we're almost there now ...
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
the real thang!
Cue the Kabuki....
but don't get me started
we're only fighting ourselves and arming both sides
i think they think it's good business
your name's Lebowski, Lebowski... and your wife is Bunny
So if i read this correctly, BP is connected to all the killing and suffering that the Bushes and Cheneys have been connected to going all the way back to this original crime scene?
Or does it go further back still?
...funny how the same handful of screw ups keep turning up again and
again.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
The US considers dead civilians they kill
"accidentally" in Afghanistan and Pakistan (using
drones) as "collateral damage". War video games
in the Pentagon using Afghanistan and Pakistan
are fun and the ultimate high.
Muslim fundamentalists and Al Qaeda consider
civilians killed during 9/11 as "collateral damage".
The ultimate "smart bomb" of the 20th century
are suicide bombers.
who put 250,000 Irish peasants intro slavery and shipped them off to Carribean sugar plantations, Brits have been and continue to be the world's most noted nation of thieves, human rights abusers, liars and scoundrels. Millions, world wide, have suffered at the hands of Britian's brutality. As a matter of "national defense", we, in America, have buried their long history of misdeeds, arrogance, thievery, war mongering, ethnic cleansing, and corporate chicanery, all in the name of friendship and military alliances. Meanwhile, they rob us blind of our natural resources, manipulate us to fight their wars, and, generally, connive to lead us down a path to eventual destruction... They are America's real enemy. Always have been and always will be.
Oh, I forget, they "hate our freedom." I know because I heard it on the teevee.
We can thank Kermit Roosevelt Jr. for initiating the overthrow of Mossadegh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt....
In his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins discusses Iran in an interview
(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_a... )
"I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation’s largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I worked for private corporations. The first real economic hit man was back in the early 1950s, Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., the grandson of Teddy, who overthrew the government of Iran, a democratically elected government, Mossadegh’s government who was Time‘s magazine person of the year; and he was so successful at doing this without any bloodshed—well, there was a little bloodshed, but no military intervention, just spending millions of dollars and replaced Mossadegh with the Shah of Iran. At that point, we understood that this idea of economic hit man was an extremely good one. We didn’t have to worry about the threat of war with Russia when we did it this way. The problem with that was that Roosevelt was a C.I.A. agent. He was a government employee. Had he been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing. So, at that point, the decision was made to use organizations like the C.I.A. and the N.S.A. to recruit potential economic hit men like me and then send us to work for private consulting companies, engineering firms, construction companies, so that if we were caught, there would be no connection with the government."
i have only been putting up links about this since practically the day i came onto this site.
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