Operation Ajax
1953. Our CIA helps overthrow newly elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, largely in an effort to keep the profits of the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (the company that would eventually become BP) *cough* flowing (spilling?) into Western hands. This prevented the cash and the British company from being nationalized for Iran’s development and benefit.
This near-sighted profit-hungry fuck-up destabilized the newly established Iranian democracy and is often credited as the initial fuel for radical anti-Western Muslim (read: terrorist) groups to develop propaganda against you-know-who…
You can’t make this shit up.
A little more for your head. Even if 10% of this is true/accurate it’s some of the most messed up shit I think I have ever read…
