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To: jrhana who wrote (15557)	6/19/2004 6:42:12 PM
From: NOW	Respond to of 110194

and from that article: "In the early fifties, Britain and the United States opposed the government of Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, which had nationalized the country's mainly British-owned oil industry. The overthrow of Mosaddeq and the reimposition of the autocratic rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was in large measure a joint project of the American and British intelligence services. By associating itself with Britain in this episode, the United States came to be identified with that older imperial power against which Iranians had so many grievances dating back 150 years. In time, the American identification with the shah's regime became more and more of a liability, as Iranian nationalism, originally secular in nature, developed a much more religious cast." So in repsonse to what you wrote: "There is no other choice-liberal democracies get eaten alive by Moslem extremists" I would say the evidence in fact shows that the reqal threat to liberal democracies in the region historically has been the US, not fundamentalism.

To: jrhana who wrote (15557)	6/19/2004 6:43:58 PM
From: NOW	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

"Mohammad Mosaddeq is widely regarded as the leading champion of secular democracy and resistance to foreign domination in Iran's modern history. Mosaddeq became prime minister of Iran in May 1951 and promptly nationalized its British-controlled oil industry, initiating a bitter confrontation between Iraq and Britain that increasingly undermined Mossaddeq's position. He was finally overthrown in August 1953 in a coup d'état that was organized and led by the United States? Central Intelligence Agency. This coup initiated a twenty-five-year period of dictatorship in Iran, leaving many Iranians resentful of the U.S. legacies that still haunt relations between the two countries today." syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu