Iran seeking end to 73 years of US perfidy, regime change, criminal war on Iranian people

 Iran seeking end to 73 years of US perfidy, regime change, criminal war on Iranian people

President Trump and his Secretary of Criminal War Pete Hegseth are completely flummoxed by Iran’s robust defense against Trump’s deranged attack. It’s so robust it has turned Trump’s planned three day victory into endless defeat. US bases in the Gulf States are being decimated. Israel is taking a ferocious pummeling night and day. The US, Israel, the Gulf States are running out of interceptors to stop Iran’s seemingly endless stockpile of offensive missiles. Iran has choked off Middle East oil and other critical resources which will crash the world economy, all due to Trump’s failed folly.

Trump has no path to victory and no face saving exit from his inevitable defeat.

To understand Iran’s strategy and determination, one must go back 73 years to Operation Ajax, America’s first regime change operation, which toppled the legitimate Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 to retain British, US control of Iranian oil. Once deposed, the US installed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to serve US interests in perpetuity. For the Iranian people it meant the Shah’s brutal rule enabled by the US military and CIA which killed upwards of 10,000 anti Shah dissidents.

After twenty-six years of brutal rule the Iranian people forced the Shah to flee in February 1979, allowing the transition from monarchy to an Islamic Republic.

Had President Carter not allowed America’s three decade puppet ruler to seek refuge in the US, there would likely never been the November 4, 1979 takeover of the US embassy by 500 students resulting in taking 66 US hostages for 444 days.

Shortly thereafter the new government made 3 reasonable demands of the US, that if granted, would likely have promptly returned the hostages.

Most important was return of the Shah to face justice in Iran. Second, a US apology for the ’53 US coup that overturned Mosaddegh and installed the Shah’s brutal rule. Third, return of the $20 billion the Shah stole and the US seized after the revolution.

Besides quick return of the 66 hostages, there would have been no failed April 1980 rescue mission that killed 8 service members.

But the hard liners in the Carter administration led by National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski would have none of that, setting off 46 years of endless US machinations in behest of every US administration and Israel to complete the second Iranian regime change in 73 years.

But this time Iran was ready for America, the most duplicitous, violent nation on earth that could never be negotiated with or appeased. They have prepared for decades and responded to the Trump, Netanyahu criminal invasion with astonishing effectiveness totally upending regime change 2.0, shredding US military bases in the region, bringing unimagined devastation to Israel, and likely pushing the world into economic decline.

Everything coming from the deceiving, lying; indeed, delusional mouths of Trump and Hegseth must be ignored to understand the unfolding catastrophe they have marched us into. Anyone interested in where we are today need go back to Operation Ajax in 1953 to see how this 73 year long nightmare began. It may be 73 days, 73 weeks, even 73 months till the horrendous aftereffects of their criminality will be consigned to history along with Trump and Hegseth’s ignominy.

Walt Zlotow  West Suburban Peace Coalition  Glen Ellyn