Taste of sweet Middle East oil is historically US national Interest
We have Now Come Full Circle from Jimmy Carter Presidency
The World is Slipping BACK Into Pre-Reagan Cold War Days
Filled with Nuclear Umbrellas scattered across the Planet
While a Conventional War Rages across the Middle East
Under Russian and US Umbrellas for Islam and Israel
I believe this war likely to begin twixt 2013 & 2015
December 23, 2011
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
I was stationed in the Middle East when the Americans and British participated in Operation Ajax, deposing a democratically elected government of Iran by a military coup, replacing it with what amounted to a dictatorship, ruled by a Shah who was an ab sol
ute monarch. This began an era in which we trained the Iranian military and intelligence services in Iran, and in IHL’s in the U.S. This was the beginning of my association with Arab and Persian military personal. I retired from the USAF National Security Agency in 1971.
Began Excerpt from Wilipedia
By the 1950s, the Iranian Shah was engaged in a power struggle with Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddeq, an immediate descendant of the previous monarchy, the Qajar dynasty. In 1953, the British and U.S. spy agencies deposed the democratically-elected government of Mossadegh in a military coup d’état codenamed Operation Ajax, and restored the Shah as an absolute monarch. The anti-democratic coup d’état was a “a critical event in post-war world history” that replaced Iran’s post-monarchic, native, and secular parliamentary democracy with a dictatorship. US support and funding continued after the coup, with the CIA training the government’s secret police, SAVAK. In subsequent decades t his foreign intervention, along with other economic, cultural and political issues, united opposition against the Shah and led to
his overthrow.
Carter administration
Shortly before the revolution on New Year’s Day 1979, American president Jimmy Carter further angered anti-Shah Iranians with a televised toast to the Shah, declaring how beloved the Shah was by his people.
After the revolution in February, the embassy had been occupied and staff held hostage briefly. Rocks and bullets had broken enough of the embassy front-facing windows for them to be replaced with bullet-proof glass. Its staff was reduced to just over 60 from a high of nearly 1000 earlier in the decade.
The Carter administration attempted to mitigate the anti-American feeling by finding a new relationship with the de facto Iranian government and by continuing military cooperation in hopes that the situation would stabilize.
However, on October 22, 1979 the U.S. permitted the Shah – who was ill with cancer – to attend the Mayo Clinic for medical treatment. The American embassy in Tehran had discouraged the request, understanding the political delicacy, but after pressure from influential figures including former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Council on Foreign Relations chairman David Rockefeller, the Carter administration decided to grant the Shah’s request.[20][21][22]
The Shah’s admission to the US intensified Iranian revolutionaries’ anti-Americanism and spawned rumors of another U.S.- backed coup and re-installation of the Shah.
Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini – who had been exiled by the Shah for 15 years – heightened rhetoric against the “Great Satan”, the United States, talking of what he called “evidence of American plotting.”
Began Excerpt from DEBKAfile Special report
Top US general: Iran’s dangerous game could draw Mid East and US into conflict
DEBKAfile Special Report
December 21, 2011, 8:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
Just 24 hours after US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told CBS th at Ir
an could build a nuclear bomb in a year or less, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint US Chiefs of Staff issued a warning: “Iran is playing a dangerous game that could ensnare the Middle East, the Middle East and others into conflict and a renewed arms race.” During a stop in Afghanistan, the general spoke to CNN of concerns about Iran’s ambitions from Iraq to Afghanistan, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
He was described as quietly leading the ongoing military planning for an attack against Iran’s nuclear weapons if the president gives the order to do so.
“We are examining a range of options,” said the US general. “Don’t push it,” he warned Iran.
Debkafile’s military and Washington sources say it should be noted that in the space of 24 hours, America’s two top security figures have referred to war with Iran as a realistic and imminent possibility.
This is a big step from the customary US references to a military option as being on the table as a last resort for halting Iran’s march toward a nuclear bomb still calculated to be some years in the distant future.
Gen. Dempsey went on to say: “My biggest worry is they (the Iranians) will miscalculate our resolve.
Any miscalculation could mean that we are drawn into conflict, and that would be a tragedy for the region and the world.”
There is no guarantee that Israel will give the United States warning if it decides to attack Iran, he said, “But America is sharing intelligence with Israel.
We are trying to establish some confidence on the part of the Israelis that we recognize their concerns and are collaborating with them on addressing them,” the US general said.
Gen. Dempsey clarified another controversial point when he said the loss of the drone is not the end of US efforts to figure out what Iran is doing. America is gathering intelligence against Iran in a variety of means. “It would be rather imprudent of us not to try to understand what a nation who has declared itself to be an adversary of the United States is doing.”
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