How CIA Helped Khomeini Take Up Iran!

[Freeman]

New BBC documents proving how CIA paving the path for mollahs to take up Iran!

Since decades Iran playing "Death To America" cinema while they are strategic alliance between the two countries.

US had extensive contact with Ayatollah Khomeini before Iran revolution
Documents seen by BBC suggest Carter administration paved way for Khomeini to return to Iran by holding the army back from launching a military coup
US had extensive contact with Ayatollah Khomeini before Iran revolution

 

[Bleipriester]

Yeah, the US removed its puppet Shah regime and installed an opponent

 

[gtopa1]

Bliepriester

I don't have the full details but there was enough chatter at the time to suggest that Carter the Clueless considered the Mullahs to be less problematic than the Shah. After all, the Ayatollah had been living in France. I would suggest that Carter saw him as some sort of Gandhi. As I said; it was only "chatter" so nothing concrete. But the hostage crisis brought him back to some sort of reality.

Greg

 

[Bleipriester]

Nevertheless, it was clear that US companies would cease to exist in Iran. Why should he do this?

 

[gtopa1]

Yeah, the US removed its puppet Shah regime and installed an opponent

Perhaps unwittingly.

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

Nevertheless, it was clear that US companies would cease to exist in Iran. Why should he do this?

You've got me thinking, Blei; and my head hurts!! Probably because oil became less profitable and the Shah was having financial trouble. Then the students hit the streets.

Greg

 

[Bleipriester]

Yeah, the US removed its puppet Shah regime and installed an opponent

Perhaps unwittingly.

Greg

Maybe. In that case the US "support" would have consisted of doing nothing about the revolution, then. Freeslave´s conspiracy of friendship is ridiculous.

 

[Bleipriester]

Nevertheless, it was clear that US companies would cease to exist in Iran. Why should he do this?

You've got me thinking, Blei; and my head hurts!! Probably because oil became less profitable and the Shah was having financial trouble. Then the students hit the streets.

Greg

I looked into it and it says that Carter´s pressure on Iran to start some kind of liberalization caused the protests in 1978.

 

[Sunni Man]

U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has always been like a drunk elephant wandering around at midnight lost and stumbling. ........

 

[gtopa1]

Yeah, the US removed its puppet Shah regime and installed an opponent

Perhaps unwittingly.

Greg

Maybe. In that case the US "support" would have consist of doing nothing about the revolution, then. Freeslave´s conspiracy of friendship is ridiculous.

There was a transition gov which was a work in progress but the Embassy thing shut it down. ( just spotted this so am thankful for the reminder).

The Carter Administration | The Iran Primer

The explosion of oil prices in the preceding four years had given the shah a windfall of revenues, and he used this money to fund a massive economic and military buildup. Tens of thousands of U.S. technicians were provided to install and maintain an enormous arsenal and to train Iranians to use it. But when oil prices declined, Iran was hugely over-extended. Disaffection with the shah’s rule, which had been simmering for years, burst into the open.

The revolution

During the first two years of the Carter administration, Iran went through a wrenching societal transformation that steadily gathered momentum. Both Washington and the shah’s own forces were constantly surprised at the speed of events, and the shah could not maintain control. Opposition forces, led from abroad by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, took over the streets of Tehran in December 1978, and the shah left the country the following month.

Khomeini returned to Tehran on February 1, 1979, and 10 days later the monarchy fell and was replaced by an Islamic revolutionary government. This was the first contact between the United States and radical, political Islam. It set the tone for future dealings with Iran and other radical Islamic states.

The United States attempted to develop a working relationship with the new government. Some modest progress was made in the summer of 1979 with the relatively secular, technocratic provisional government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan and Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi.

U.S. Embassy seizure

But in October 1979, President Carter reluctantly permitted the shah, who was desperately ill with lymphoma, to enter the United States for medical treatment. This triggered a violent reaction in Tehran. Mobs of students invaded the U.S. Embassy on November 4, taking its occupants prisoner and demanding the return of the shah and his financial assets to Iran. Khomeini threw his support behind the students and the Bazargan government was dismissed, thus beginning a 444-day siege usually referred to as the hostage crisis.

No mention of a CIA plot as such. More a French thing...from another source.

As Ambassador Freddy Eytan says:

President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing had invited the Shah of Iran as his first official foreign guest, in view of France’s interest in Iranian oil. In 1978, Giscard and his Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski foresaw the collapse of the Shah’s government, which would damage France’s commercial interests.

The proposal was then raised to bring the Ayatollah Khomeini to Algeria. Before, he had been chased from one place to the other. The DST, the French secret service, opposed his entry but Giscard overruled them and granted Khomeini political asylum in France. He stayed in Neauphle le Chateau near Paris. From there, he distributed cassettes to Iran inciting against democracy, peace in the Middle East, the Jews and Israelis. He also called for jihad, a violent holy war. The PLO distributed Khomeini’s cassettes to Iran. When the American embassy in Teheran was attacked in November 1979, PLO members were among the perpetrators. Yasser Arafat was the first official guest in Teheran. He received a popular welcome as a great hero for supporting the Islamic revolution.

Today, we know that Khomeini’s concepts of the Islamic Republic have led to a major expansion of militant Islam. Both Hizbollah and Al Qaeda have their origins in the revolutionary ideas developed in Khomeini’s Iran. The violent speeches in the Iranian mosques and international Islamist terror would not have developed without Khomeini’s stay in France and the publicity he received there. Without Giscard’s hospitality, Khomeini would not have been able to take power in Iran and develop an infrastructure for international propaganda and terrorism.

David Frum writes in his recent review of David Pryce-Jones’s book Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews:

Pryce-Jones demonstrates that French foreign policy has repeatedly arrived at nearly equally perverse results in the Middle East. When Saddam Hussein banished Ayatollah Khomeini from Iraq in 1978, France welcomed the turbaned zealot. In France, the ayatollah discovered limitless freedom to agitate: As he himself later said, “We could publicize our views extensively, much more than we expected.” Pryce-Jones quotes a study by Amir Taheri that the ayatollah gave 132 radio, television, and print interviews over the four months of his stay in France. He received almost 100,000 visitors, who donated over 20 million British pounds to his cause. In February 1979, the ayatollah returned to Iran in a chartered Air France jet; an Air France pilot held his elbow as he descended the steps to the tarmac.

Nit Boms wrote:

In 1978, as protests against Shah Pahlavi swept across Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini was living in a cozy house in the Parisian suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau, engineering an Islamic revolution that would soon shake the world. Under the watchful eye of the French government, Khomeini met regularly with journalists and actively campaigned for the shah’s overthrow. In fact, when Pahlavi finally fled his country in 1979, Khomeini was provided with a chartered Air France flight to Tehran, where he presided over one of the world’s most repressive regimes until his death in 1989.

Former French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is still around. He has not been called to account. Today he is the chief architect behind the awful EU Constitution.

France and the Iranian Revolution | The Brussels Journal


French and oil perhaps??

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

This in particular is worth reflecting on.

The proposal was then raised to bring the Ayatollah Khomeini to Algeria. Before, he had been chased from one place to the other. The DST, the French secret service, opposed his entry but Giscard overruled them and granted Khomeini political asylum in France. He stayed in Neauphle le Chateau near Paris. From there, he distributed cassettes to Iran inciting against democracy, peace in the Middle East, the Jews and Israelis. He also called for jihad, a violent holy war. The PLO distributed Khomeini’s cassettes to Iran. When the American embassy in Teheran was attacked in November 1979, PLO members were among the perpetrators. Yasser Arafat was the first official guest in Teheran. He received a popular welcome as a great hero for supporting the Islamic revolution.

(same source)

From what I recall the Shah was told by Carter NOT to use force against the protesters. That didn't work out real well.(memory)

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has always been like a drunk elephant wandering around at midnight lost and stumbling. ........

Shia/Sunni friendship society??

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

Bed time here. Be back to check on thread tomorrow.

Greg

 

[Freeman]

Yeah, the US removed its puppet Shah regime and installed an opponent

What an ape like you is doing in Germany? why you don't live with your mollahs in Iran?

 

[Freeman]

The Mollahs of "Death to America" are buying 100 Boieng planes!

 

[Bleipriester]

The rhodescholars of "Death to Iran" allow their companies to sell 100 Boeing planes!

 

[Freeman]

From Irangate to Boieng deals, some apes can't believe on Iran and USA alliance in the region.