That was around the time that Colonel Hogan was captured and battling it out with Sergeant Schultz, Colonel Klink and the Germans each week.
... Those were dark days my friend
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That was around the time that Colonel Hogan was captured and battling it out with Sergeant Schultz, Colonel Klink and the Germans each week.
... Those were dark days my friend
The Iranian revolution was a direct result of "Operation Ajax" in 1953.
From Wikipedia.
As the Cold War intensified, oil negotiations stalled, and the Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower replaced Democratic President Harry S. Truman, the United States helped destabilize Mosaddeq on the theory that "rising internal tensions and continued economic deterioration...might lead to a breakdown of government authority and open the way for at least a gradual assumption of control" by Iran's well organized Tudeh communist party.[36] In spring and summer 1953, the United States and Britain, through a covert operation of the CIA called Operation Ajax, conducted from the American Embassy in Tehran, helped organize a coup d'état to overthrow the Mossadeq government. The operation initially failed, and the Shah fled to Italy, but a second attempt succeeded, and Mosaddeq was imprisoned.
According to a study of the coup headed by Mark J. Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne, intended "to resolve" the "controversy" over who and what were responsible, "it was geostrategic considerations, rather than a desire to destroy Mosaddeq's movement, to establish a dictatorship in Iran or to gain control over Iran's oil, that persuaded U.S. officials to undertake the coup."
President Lyndon Johnson welcoming the Shah at the White House while Iranians protest, 1967
Following the coup, the United States helped re-install the Shah. In the first three weeks, the U.S. government gave Iran $68 million in emergency aid, and an additional $1.2 billion over the next decade. In this era that ensued, until the fall of the shah in 1979, Iran was one of the United States' closest allies. The US also played a critical role in founding the Shah's brutal secret police to keep him in power. A US Army colonel working for the CIA was sent to Persia in September 1953 to guide local personnel in creating the organization and in March 1955, the Army colonel was "replaced with a more permanent team of five career CIA officers, including specialists in covert operations, intelligence analysis, and counterintelligence, including Major General Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf who "trained virtually all of the first generation of SAVAK personnel." In 1956 this agency was reorganized and given the name Sazeman-e Ettela'at va Amniyat-e Keshvar (SAVAK). These in turn were replaced by SAVAK's own instructors in 1965.
The Shah received significant American support during his reign, and frequently making state visits to the White House and earning praise from numerous American presidents. The Shah's close ties to Washington and his Modernization policies soon angered some Iranians, especially the hardcore Islamic conservatives.[43]
In America, the coup was originally considered a triumph of covert action but later on came to be considered by many to have left "a haunting and terrible legacy." In 2000, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, called it a "setback for democratic government" in Iran. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei condemned the admission as "deceitful", complaining that it "did not even include an apology".
Nuclear support
The U.S. helped Iran create its nuclear program starting in 1957 by providing Iran its first nuclear reactor and nuclear fuel, and after 1967 by providing Iran with weapons grade enriched uranium. Iran's nuclear program was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States as part of the Atoms for Peace program.[48] The participation of the United States and Western European governments in Iran's nuclear program continued until the 1979 Iranian Revolution that toppled the last Shah of Iran".
Probably fair to say the American Revolution (1776-1781) is the cause of all trouble since.
And possibly before.
The 1973 Oil Crisis.
The 1973 oil crisis began in October 1973 when the members of the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries proclaimed an oil embargo. The embargo was targeted at nations perceived as supporting Israel during the Yom Kippur War.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_oil_crisis
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Lets not forget the C.I.A. in Chad.
"Chad's neighbor Libya was a major source of weaponry to communist rebel forces. The CIA seized the opportunity to arm and finance Chad's Prime Minister, Hissène Habré after he created a breakaway government in Western Sudan, even giving him Stinger missiles."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Central_Intelligence_Agency#Chad
So. . . Libyans arming one side in a conflict good, U.S. arming one side in a conflict bad? And that causes oil price spikes?
Right. Got it.
Will this be on the test?
Climate change warriors are Racist too
Ugandan climate activist hits out at ‘racist’ media after being cropped out of picture with white peers
Ugandan climate activist hits out at ‘racist’ media after being cropped out of picture with white peers
So. . . you actually think it was the climate change activists that cropped the photo?
Oh dear.
Some News organizatons don't have progressive leanings and are in some cases leading the Climate change crises?
I see I embarrassed you someplace again? So you mad bro and striking out at me because of it?
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Pig out!
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emotionally depressed and high school drop out............................
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Nut Zone Doug is so ignorant that he recently flew that 15,000 mile trip between Canada and New Zealand
WITHOUT CONSIDERING that if Grumpy Greta HAD HER WAY .....................
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and Nut Zone does this IN DEFIANCE OF LIE-beral values!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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