El Imperio y la Guerra (The Empire and War)

June 1, 2010 - 11:35 am

Over five decades ago, the U.S. crushed another absolutely democratic revolution when it overthrew the Iranian government of Mohammad Mossadegh. He was elected Prime Minister of Iran on April 24, 1951. [April 28, 1951] The Senate approved the nationalization of oil, which had been his banner cause, on May 1st of that year. Our long years of negotiations with foreign countries, he declared, have failed to produce results so far.



It is obvious that he was referring to the great capitalist powers that control the global economy. Iran took possession of the premises of the intransigent British Petroleum [BP], which was then called the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.



It was not possible for the country to train technicians. Britain had withdrawn its qualified staff, and responded with a blockade of markets and spare parts. It then sent its Naval fleet of war to threaten combat. As a result, Irans oil production declined from 241.4 million barrels in 1952 to 10.6 in 1953. Under these favorable conditions, the CIA organized the coup that overthrew Mossadegh, until his death which took place three years later. [Mossadegh died over 13 years later, not three] The monarchy was restored and a strong U.S. ally came to power in Iran.

When Obama spoke at the Islamic University of Al-Azhar of the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government and immediately added that Since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has played a role in kidnapping and acts of violence against soldiers and civilians..., he was referring to the revolutionary movement promoted by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, from Paris, without a single weapon, crushing the most powerful armed forces that the U.S. proxy regime had in South Asia. It was very difficult for the most powerful country in the world to resist the temptation to set up one of its military bases there, south of the USSR.The U.S. has done exactly the same with all other countries, since that nation was created on the richest soil of the planet, it never respected the rights of indigenous people who lived there for millennia, nor blacks who were imported as slaves by the British colonizers.I am sure, however, that millions of intelligent and honest Americans understand these truths.President Obama can make hundreds of speeches, trying to reconcile irreconcilable contradictions at the expense of truth, dreaming of the magic of well-articulated phrases, while making concessions to individuals and groups completely devoid of ethics, and draw fantasy worlds that only fit in his head, while unscrupulous advisers, knowing his tendencies, plant these in his mind.Two questions required: can Obama enjoy a second presidential term without the Pentagon or the State of Israel, whose behavior does not comply with all decisions of the United States, if they use nuclear weapons against Iran? What will life on our planet be like after that?