Iran Press/ US official's baseless remarks and repeated threats from the beginning of Islamic revolution until now is clear proof of US hostility against Iran, but despite all these hostilities, the Islamic revolution has always overcome US plots and schemes.
For the past four decades, the Iranian nation has achieved its aspirations, and steadfastly withstood all US pressures, and by virtue of this resistance, has turned into a model for the freedom-seeking nations.
On Saturday 5 Oct, 2013, the Leader of the Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei at the graduation ceremony of army cadets from across the country held at Shahid Sattari University, said: "We are pessimistic about the Americans. We do not trust them at all. We regard the government of the United States as an untrustworthy government. It is an arrogant, unreasonable and untrustworthy government which is completely under the influence of the international Zionist network. The Americans have to compromise with the usurping and fake Zionist regime, which has occupied Palestine, for the sake of safeguarding the illegitimate interests of the international Zionist network. They have to show leniency towards this regime and they call it safeguarding the interests of America."
"This is while the national interests of America do not match the interests of the Israeli regime. The government of the United States of America blackmails the entire world, but it is blackmailed by the fake Zionist regime. We see such facts and therefore, we do not trust the government of America. We trust our own officials and we are optimistic about them. We want them to take firm and careful steps by considering everything. They should not forget about national interests even for a single moment," Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said.
What is behind this distrust?
According to the history, over half a century before the revolution wherever the Iranian nation was demanding their legal rights, they faced with US plots and schemes, interference, conspiracy, destruction, coup and other hostile actions:
We here briefly refer to some of these hostilities:
- The 1953 Iranian coup, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup, was the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
- Imposing capitulation system with the purpose of granting political and consular immunity to American nationals in Iran in 1964.
- Tabas Military attack or what US called Operation Eagle Claw, known as Operation Tabas in Iran which was a United States Armed Forces operation ordered by US President Jimmy Carter on 24 April 1980.
- Nojeh coup plot at Hamadan Military Airbase on June 9, 1980 was a coup plotted by US infiltrators in order to overthrow the newly established Islamic Republic of Iran. The coup failed miserably. Nojeh coup plot was plotted by US puppet, and last prime minister of the Shah's regime, Shapour Bakhtiar.
- Imposing all kind of economic and political sanctions on Iran in the past 40 years.
- Prompting and supporting the Iraqi dictator, Saddam, to launch an 8-year war against Iran on 22 September 1980 until 20 August 1988.
- Military attack on an Iranian Passenger Airbus A300 with 290 people on board, including 66 children who were all killed. The passenger jet was hit while flying over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, along the flight's usual route, shortly after departing Bandar Abbas International Airport, targeted by USS Vincennes missile cruiser.
- Organizing and supporting anti-revolutionary groups and militia, in order to create insecurity with the aim of overthrowing the Islamic revolution.
- Engaging in media propaganda and misinformation campaign about the Islamic Republic to destroy Iran's international standing and credit
- Seizure of property, military assets and equipment purchased before the Islamic revolution's victory
- Imposing pressure on the countries in the region and the world to prevent establishing of economic and political relations with Iran.
- Establishment and support of Takfiri terrorist groups in order to create insecurity in the region, to confront Iran, and disfigure the face of real Islam, and create Islamophobia.
- Designing and supporting riots in the form of colored and velvet revolution with the support of anti-revolutionary elements inside and outside the country.
Bearing in mind all the above-mentioned plots and schemes, you may well wonder if there is a hostile act which the United States has not committed against Islamic Iran at various points in time.
Here we will examine the documentation of each of these interventions and, firstly, look at the analytical and documentary evidences of the 1953 Iranian coup, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup led by US.
The CIA admitted carrying out the 1953 coup against the then Prime Minister of Iran, Mohammed Mossadegh.
US role in Iranian 1953 coup
On the 60th anniversary of the 1953 military coup in Iran that overthrew the government of Mohammad Mossadegh, the US has declassified documents detailing how the CIA’s secret operation brought the country’s Shah back to power.
After the 60th anniversary of the overthrow of the Mossadeq government, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) acknowledged its role in the coup on August 28, 2013 (August 2013) by withdrawing classified confidential documents.
In classified documents, there are references to the Ajax code (the code for US operations in the August 28 coup).
These documents include the Kermit Roosevelt case, the US Senior Intelligence Agency in the Middle East and Iran, who was in Tehran during the days leading up to the coup.
The documents that were published on the coup over years after the United States and British intelligence agencies classified as "documents" showed that the United States had long-term goals for the continuation of its influence in the region in the August 28 coup.
Some theorists have stated that the main motive behind the design of the coup in Iran has been to secure the interests of the American oil companies in Iran.
Kermit Roosevelt says: "The Iranian coup was the first secret operation against a foreign government set up by the CIA during the last months of Truman's rule."
A review of the August 28 coup shows that the United States has never been willing to have Iran as an independent country prevent the advance of American domination policies in the region. That's why American hostile actions against Iran have entered international games over the past few decades and have been designed in a range of topics such as nuclear issue and induction of air pollution, with the aim of isolating Iran.
Mohammad Shahedi, an analyst for political and Iranian issues, writes in a memo:
The United States has not just oppressed the Islamic Republic, but many countries have been hurt by American imperialism and colonialism.
Native Americans (also known as Red Indians or American Indians) have not forgotten the slaughter of their own people and expulsion from their homeland by white European immigrants.
Japanese people are still suffering from the physical and mental trauma of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, and the people of Vietnam have not forgotten the killing of their fellow countrymen, and the relentless bombing of their country.
Still, the oppressed people of Afghanistan and Iraq have not forgotten the occupation and slaughter of women and children and insecurity and oppression under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
Just as the oppressed Palestinians have not forgotten the cruelties and atrocities of the child-killer Zionist regime, which has thrown thousands of children and adolescents and defenseless people out of their homes and villages."
The latest opinion poll by America's Pew Research Institute, published by Bloomberg news agency, reveals rising anti-US sentiments throughout the world.
A look at US coercive measures and the design of conspiracies such as the failed military intervention in Tabas and the failed coup after the victory of the revolution showed that the United States continued its branding strategy as its main strategy.
Though at least two US Presidents, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, have publicly acknowledged the US role in the Iranian coup, the intelligence services in Washington have always been reluctant to admit direct involvement in the 1953 coup d'etat.
US President Barack Obama publicly admitted US and CIA involvement in the 1953 coup d'etat which overthrew the government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh also in a speech in Cairo, Egypt, and in his book "The Audacity of Hope" in 2006.
"In the middle of the Cold War, the United States played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected Iranian government," Obama said during his keynote speech to the Muslim world in Cairo on 5 June 2009.
The Iranian nation has experienced US hostility over many decades, and in many different forms.
For example, the story of Tabas, which was the prelude to a military action by the United States against Iran, was designed in the early years after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, but failed at the outset.
On April 25, 1980, the United States launched a covert military operation, known as Operation Eagle Claw, in an attempt to airlift the US embassy staff held in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
However, a sandstorm hit and brought down the group of US military aircraft in the Tabas Desert, killing eight American servicemen and resulting in the abortion of the mission. Inspections showed a helicopter crashed into a C-130 Hercules transport plane as five other choppers were stranded in the storm.
The units involved in the operation were from the US Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps.
The Tabas incident occurred during the administration of former US President Jimmy Carter, and many believe it played a major role in Carter’s defeat in the 1980 presidential election in the US.
Iran commemorates the event every year as a symbol of the failure of US plots against the Islamic Republic. 205/ 211 /103
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