[Felix_Nietzsche]

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The coup in 1953 was clearly a setback for Iran's political development. The CIA destabilized the elected government by bribina officials, planting false reports in newspapers and provoking street violence. This ushered in the era of the Shah (who had been widely viewed as an incompetent coward by Americans close to the action), who, as you correctly point out, had his distatorship propped up by successive U.S. regimes. Islamic extremism fed off of the coup and the repressive-U.S. supported regime in a way it never would have had we not overthrown Mossadegh.


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The islamo-nazis would have overthrown a democratic Iran EASILY. It would have just been a question of time. The Shah was the dike that kept these morons from taking over and forcing their will upon others.

An acquaintence of my father was sent to Iran during the days of the Shah to observe the Iranian air force (some call this spying). One thing that startled him was the Iranians air force did not believe in preventive maintenance. Their attitude was it was God's will when the plane would break down and preventive maintenance would not help. I hope that other muslim airlines don't have the same attitude!