With successful Syrian regime change, will US set sights on Iran regime change 2.0?

With successful Syrian regime change, will US set sights on Iran regime change 2.0?

Seventy-one years ago the US and UK launched Operation AJAX, a jointly planned coup that deposed Iran's legitimate ruler Dr. Mohammed Mosaddeq in August, 1953.

The Brits conceived the coup in 1952 and presented it to 'Give 'Em Hell' Harry Truman, who told the Brits to go to Hell. A year later newbie Prez Ike greenlighted AJAX to allow Britain to grab back its Iranian oil monopoly nationalized by Mosaddeq, seeking to break free from US, UK dominance. For Ike, it was a chance to make his bones as a bonafide anti-communist, due to Mosaddeq's unwillingness to crush Iranian leftist influence. In McCarthyite America and forever more, leftist governments posed a danger to US exceptionalism.

Leading this first official CIA coup against a foreign leader who wouldn't do our bidding was TR's grandson Kermit Roosevelt Jr., following a family tradition of senseless and bellicose militarism. Our hand-picked successor was Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, son of the first Pahlavi monarch Reza Shah Pahlavi. His reluctance and indecision about being summoned as the US/UK puppet almost wrecked Uncle Sam's best laid plans. But CIA coup leader Roosevelt disobeyed orders to shut down Ajax. He had his Iranian operatives masquerading as commies shed enough blood to turn the tide against Mosaddeq.

The Shah ruled Iran for another 26 years, with his CIA trained secret police killing thousands who dared speak out against his tyrannical rule.

The CIA, emboldened by their success, toppled the Guatemalan government a year later and were on a roll till their delusional 1961 Bay of Pigs regime change operation failed spectacularly. This led to the Cuban Missile a year later that nearly got us all vaporized in nuclear war with Russia.

Seventy-one years later the US appears bent on Iran regime change 2.0. Goaded by Israel seeking to topple its only remaining rival for Middle East dominance, the incoming Trump administration is staffed with veteran Iranian regime change advocates.

By withdrawing from the Iran nuclear agreement in 2018, Trump freed up Iran to start up a nuclear weapons program if it felt US/Israeli pressure posed an existential threat. Current warfare in Gaza, Lebanon and the Syrian regime change make that more likely today. Trump’s return to power, staffing his foreign policy team with anti-Iran hardliners, s increases that likelihood. That could trigger implementation of a 21st century Operation Ajax with Israel replacing the UK as Uncle Sam’s co coup plotter against Iran. More ominous than the 1953 version, this one could lead to all out war, posing extreme danger to 30,000 US troops in the region.

Iran is not now and never has been America’s enemy. But senselessly imagining a nuclear program that does not exist and plotting with Israel to topple its Middle East rival is a sure way to make Iran one.

Isn’t Biden guilty of his 2 exceptions to commuting federal death penalty?

 Isn’t Biden guilty of his 2 exceptions to commuting federal death penalty?

President Biden did a good thing in his last month as president. He commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment for 34 of 37 federal death row inmates.

Why not the other 3? Biden says death OK for those facing death due to terrorism or hate filled mass murder. He doesn’t believe that a life sentence for such criminally bent folks is a sufficient deterrent

Is Biden so morally diminished he fails to realize that both of those exceptions apply to him?

He is clearly a terrorist to the remaining 2,200,000 Palestinians that his 50,000 tons of bombs obliterating Gaza’s 139 square miles haven’t yet killed. That leaves around 100,000 dead, many thousands of whom are d beyond recognition under the rubble Biden has enabled. While Benjamin Netanyahu, he man firing Biden’s bombs from Biden’s planes has rightly been declared a war criminal by the International Criminal Court, Biden has skated from his connection to terrorism and mass murder.

The state should never sanction death for any human regardless how heinous the crime. It makes the state no better than an individual murderer. Nor should the state allow any leader to participate in state sponsored terrorism and mass murder under the guise of protecting the Homeland or supporting distant nations practicing genocide.

When the official US obituary of President Biden is written, it will not mention his most infamous acts, engaging in terrorism and mass murder in Gaza. But even Joe Biden allows that such people can be put to death by the state, an ironic twist on his descent into infamy.

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