To: Intrepid1 who wrote (83193 ) 7/12/2018 4:17:29 PM From: bentway Read Replies (2) | Respond to What has Iran done to us? We know what WE did to Iran.en.wikipedia.org ...United States role [ edit ]Royal Dutch Shell , and the Compagnie Française des Pétroles , were to draw Iran's petroleum after the successful coup d'état—Operation Ajax. The Shah declared this to be a "victory" for Iranians, with the massive influx of money from this agreement resolving the economic collapse from the last three years, and allowing him to carry out his planned modernization projects. [12] [78] Released National Security Archive documents showed that Undersecretary of State Walter Bedell Smith reported that the CIA had agreed with Qashqai tribal leaders, in south Iran, to establish a clandestine safe haven from which U.S.-funded guerrillas and spies could operate. [78] [79] Kermit Roosevelt, Jr. , while career agent Donald Wilber was the operational leader, planner, and executor of the deposition of Mosaddegh. The coup d'état depended on the impotent Shah's dismissing the popular and powerful Prime Minister and replacing him with General Fazlollah Zahedi , with help from Colonel Abbas Farzanegan —a man agreed upon by the British and Americans after determining his anti-Soviet politics. [79] Major General Norman Schwarzkopf Sr. to persuade the exiled Shah to return to rule Iran. Schwarzkopf trained the security forces that would become known as SAVAK to secure the shah's hold on power. [80] edit ]The coup was carried out by the U.S. administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower in a covert action advocated by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles , and implemented under the supervision of his brother Allen Dulles , the Director of Central Intelligence . [81] The coup was organized by the United States' CIA and the United Kingdom's MI6 , two spy agencies that aided royalists and royalist elements of the Iranian army . [82] Much of the money was channeled through the pro-Shah Ayatollah Mohammad Behbahani , who drew many religious masses to the plot. Ayatollah Kashani had completely turned on Mossadegh and supported the Shah, by this point. [10] [83] released to the National Security Archive in response to a Freedom of Information request, "Available documents do not indicate who authorized CIA to begin planning the operation, but it almost certainly was President Eisenhower himself. Eisenhower biographer Stephen Ambrose has written that the absence of documentation reflected the President's style."[84] ...
