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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It                198
A Sample of Nations Suffering At The Hands Of The U.S.
Iran
In 1953 the US orchestrated a coup in Iran to oust the democratically elected Prime
Minister Mohammed Mossadegh and replace him with the Shah, Mohammed Resa Pahlavi.
Mossadegh had nationalized the British owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company believing that the
British had bled the nation of its wealth. It was British intelligence at the request of Winston
Churchill that first brought the matter before the CIA seeking help. President Truman would not
allow the CIA to act on behalf of British interest. But a year later two attorneys close to the
Rockefellers would change this.
Allen Dulles was appointed director of the CIA and his brother John Dulles was named
as Secretary of State. Under the Dulles leadership an Iranian coup was successfully carried out
and the Shah, Mohammed Resa Pahlavi would head the nation for the next two and a half
decades.
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The primary American beneficiary of the coup was American multinational corporations
and US intelligence. Principally Standard Oil and some other US oil companies with minority
interests. They were awarded a 25-year contract that allocated them a 40 percent share of Iran's
petroleum. The Iranian government made this award within a year of the coup. American arms
and aerospace contractors benefited as well. They flooded the country in order to equip and train
the armed forces of the Shah. The CIA benefited also, they installed communication monitoring
stations along Iran's northern border which was shared with the former Soviet Union. For the
next 25 years, Iran remained the closest ally of the US in the third world.
The Shah had his own notorious secret police known as the Savak. The Savak operated
much like the Soviet KGB; the tools of their trade were torture, terror, kidnapping and murder.
Their simple objective was to keep the Shah's political opposition to a minimum. These ruthless
criminals were recruited and trained by non other than the CIA.
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In 1976, Amnesty
International noted that Iran had the worst human rights record in the world. This included: the
“highest rate of death penalties in the world, no valid system of civilian courts and a history of
torture that is beyond belief.”
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In a 1992 documentary the BBC exposed a CIA analyst’s, Jesse Leaf, memories of the
Savak’s special torture facilities that “contained some of the most horrible torture devices
devised.” According to Leaf, the attitude of the CIA towards the Savak torture of the opposition
was “their enemy is my enemy.” He said: “If Savak wanted to torture somebody, some
communists or somebody who was anti-Shah, or who was ultimately detrimental to our world
interests, well, fine, go ahead let them do it. The agency’s official position was that it was not our
problem.”
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Guatemala
In Guatemala a US backed military coup ousted the democratically elected president,
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman. His undoing was that he was a “pro-union reformist” who planned on
redistributing the nations lands. Seventy percent (70%) of the lands of Guatemala rested in the
hands of 2% of the population. One of these large land owners was the US owned United Fruit
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