WHAT IS THE ROLE OF IRAN?

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF IRAN?
PART 4

By Dennis L. Cuddy, Ph.D.
April 20, 2009
NewsWithViews.com

The British “Power Elite” (PE) members didn’t like any strong national leaders. These included Egypt’s Gamal Abdal Nasser (who nationalized the Suez Canal on July 26, 1956) and Iran’s Mohammad Mossadegh, who nationalized that country’s oil industry at the expense of the British. In Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ben Bagdikian’s The Media Monopoly, one reads about “when Kermit Roosevelt, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer, wrote a book called Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran. It was the author’s inside version of how intelligence agencies overthrew a left-leaning Iranian premier, Mohammad Mossadegh, in 1953 and reinstated the Shah. The issue was control of oil. The plot was called ‘Ajax,’ of which Roosevelt wrote: ‘The original proposal for Ajax came from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) after its expulsion from Iran nine months earlier.’ The book was published by McGraw-Hill in early 1979. Books were on sale in bookstores and reviewer copies were already in the mail when British Petroleum, successor corporation to AIOC, persuaded McGraw-Hill to recall all the books – from the stores and from reviewers.” (more)