[Vision2020] Mossadegh, Iran's Democratic Prime Minister

[Ted Moffett]

Roger et. al.

Thanks for your response.

It seems that Mossadegh, as a democratically elected Middle Eastern leader,
who was not pushing Iran to become an Islamist state, who had a law degree
from a university in Switzerland and was thus somewhat "western" oriented in
his thinking, gets scant attention in many discussions of why the Middle
East is as it is today.

Of course, in the ideology of cold war politics in the early 1950s,
Mossadegh was called a communist who would take Iran into the Soviet block
and restrict western access to Iranian oil.  His greatest sin perhaps was
nationalizing the Iranian oil industry, which made the British, who were
heavily invested,  extremely "unhappy."  The Brits put a blockade in the
Persian gulf to stop Iranian oil shipments.

Ted Moffett


On 11/14/06, lfalen <lfalen at turbonet.com> wrote:
>
> Ted is correct here. In hindsight the overthrow of Mossadegh was not a
> good move on the part of the west.
>
> Roger
> -----Original message-----
> From: "Ted Moffett" starbliss at gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:35:13 -0800
> To: Tony tonytime at clearwire.net,  Vision2020 vision2020 at moscow.com
> Subject: [Vision2020] Mossadegh, Iran's Democratic Prime Minister
>
> > Tony et. al.
> >
> > Tony wrote:
> >
> > Hope you two don't mind if I combine posts in a nefarious attempt to
> > circumvent the four a day rule...
> > ----
> > The rule is one post per day per person...Check recent Vision2020
> discussion
> > on post per day per person limit.
> > ----
> > Tony wrote:
> >
> > And Sunil, yes, the middle east is not known for budding democracies-
> until
> > now, that is.
> > ------
> > False!
> >
> > *Mohammed Mossadegh* was a democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran
> > serving from 1951-53.  He over thrown in a US CIA sponsored
> coup.  Mossadegh
> > remains a symbol, for many in the Middle East, of freedom and Democracy.
> > The US CIA's involvement in undermining Democracy in Iran remains a
> source
> > of mistrust of the USA in Iran to this day.  Read about it at this link:
> >
> > http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0822/p08s01-wome.html
> >
> > For those who might open their minds just a bit to learn about this rich
> and
> > varied civilization:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran
> >
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> > Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
> >
> >
>
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