Rounding out my discussion of Iran, is this article from a recent issue of CSM. Neither the MSM or the base seem to want to talk about Iran pre-1979. It's not surprising. They make such great villains now...the evil Islamic terrorists with (perhaps) a nuclear bomb threatening the infidel.
And who on earth would want to talk about how British Petroleum and the United States government conspired to overthrow the democratically elected leader of Iran in 1953?
The article in CSM is quite illuminating. It sums up the US involvement in Iran's nuclear program over the years. I highly recommend checking it out if you want the full story on how we got to this point. From the article.
Ironically, the United States was Iran's first major supplier of nuclear technology. Washington signed a nuclear cooperation agreement with the shah – a staunch American ally – in 1957, under President Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" program. Construction of a US-supplied research reactor began in the Tehran suburbs in 1960 and went critical, with US-supplied highly enriched uranium as fuel, in 1967.
But the shah wanted more than a nuclear toy. He had grandiose plans for a network of 23 nuclear power reactors by the 1990s, with much of the equipment purchased from US suppliers. And as recently declassified documents make clear, the course of nuclear negotiations between the shah and an array of US officials was far from smooth.
I'm curious what we sold them exactly and what they are using today. A recently declassified Defense Department memo is quite ominous.
"An aggressive successor to the Shah might consider nuclear weapons the final item needed to establish Iran's complete military dominance of the region," noted the memo.
Amazingly on target and yet we still sold them the material and helped them with their program.
As is often the case with US history and how it shapes our world today, when bad things happen or there are mistakes made, it's no one's fault. It was just an unfortunate occurrence for which no one is to blame. Be the one to dare say that the US had a hand in helping Iran's nuclear program (as I am here), and be prepared to incur the wrath of the base with their usual uni-brow commentary (America hater! Terrorist Sympathizer! Commie!).
Facts are facts, though. In addition to fomenting the seeds of hatred with the coup in 1953, we were a catalyst for Iran's nuclear program. So, the question is will we act responsibly and learn from history?
7 comments:
You do realize that there isn't a big connection between nuclear power generation and nuclear weapons.
For example, the big debate not too long ago was whether or not Iran had key components for enrichment - which have no use in generation.
And hey, didn't that coup that our govt and multinational businesses supported; didn't that happen in your Golden Age of "good capitalism"? Hmmm, what was so great about that era again?
Why did the CIA and MI6 arrange a coup in the first place? AIOC had successfully negotiated agreements for decades that were clearly one-sided however the nationalization of AIOC certainly played a role in the matter.
Don't worry about those tea party protests. They're just a few nutjobs after all. The outrage is fake so just move right along.
If the care under the new health care bill is so wonderful, why did congress exempt themselves from it? Also, Christmas eve is when you want to vote on really popular legislation isn't it?
What lesson are we to learn from this exactly? Not to make alliances because the next group in power might be a bunch of assholes? Check. I'm cool with that.
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