Our History With Iran part one

Iran Part One

To understand why Western Governments are covertly carrying out war against Iran and Syria, people need to understand something of the history and geography of the area.

For thousands of years the Persian Empire sat undefeated by the various war mongers of the time. For centuries it could boast the largest, best administered, city in the World in Persepolis.
Iran’s isolation ended in the 18th Century when Britain and Russia began bribing and propping up Shahs to promote business interests in the area. The two external powers were happy for the most part to carve up the country’s goodies; Russia to the North and Britain in the South. For example, Britain had sole rights in 1869 to issue and control Iranian currency.
The Iranian people rose up to try to break away from this at the beginning of the twentieth century when the dividing up of Iran’s oil between the Russians and Brits led to a civil war. Although on paper the revolutionaries won, within a year the Shah was back in control having ample funds to bribe the new Parliament. Persian governors were merely British agents while Russia and Britain actually dictated who would be elected. Just as in the war against terrorism today, ‘democracy’ was a metaphor that really meant imperial control.
In 1914, when it became clear that Iran was extremely wealthy in oil, Britain recognized the strategic importance of the kingdom. The precious oil was crucial to winning the war and had to be guarded at all costs. The Indian regiment, the South Persian Rifles held the area against Turkey for the British.
In 1917, revolution in Russia provided an opportunity for Britain to take over the whole country and with the great imperialist Winston Churchill in power that is exactly what happened. Success was short-lived though as the Russians recovered far faster than anticipated. Russia was back and an error of judgement in 1921 saw the West backing Reza Khan, believing him to be a good little puppet Shah. He was antagonistic towards Islam, therefore unpopular in his country and he was affronted by the Anglo Persian Oil Company which basically decided how rich or poor Iran was each year. He became a brutal despot as years went on and in the approach to WW11 he was a strong sympathiser of the Fascist regimes of Hitler and Mussolini. It was this Shah who insisted that the name of his country was Iran not Persia which was a term familiar in the British controlled, southern Fars area.
In the Second World War, the Shah did not resist German businessmen making moves on Russian and British interests. In fact, due to this neutral position, the first meeting of the war leaders took place in Tehran.
The British administration eventually deposed this Shah and replaced him with his son in 1941. At the same time Mussadeq had risen to a place of great power in the country. He was very popular, anti imperial power, and especially outraged by their monopoly of the oil. By this time Iran had the biggest oil refinery in the World.
When a Russian supported coup by the communist party almost succeeded in deposing the Shah, Britain supported an armed rebellion in the South and Russia was at last removed from the area in 1946. The Shah, however, was sufficiently alarmed, to seek arms support from the US. The Gulf remained a British Lake in a very strategic area of the World at least for the moment.
Europe struggled economically post WW11 and this resulted in lowered dividends from oil sales. The Shah, who was completely dependent on this revenue for any modernisation programs planned for Iran, faced fierce political competition from Mussadeq, who had, by now, become political leader in the country.
He was a bizarre character, meeting World leaders in his bed dressed in what was seen in the West as his pyjamas. He was nevertheless, a character of great charisma and integrity. A true believer in democracy and justice; the last person the British needed for their business interests in the country.
A battle for control of the oil fields had begun by 1951 when Mussadeq declared the nationalization of the oil industry. Although the Labour government was nationalizing at home, it could not afford the loss of revenue involved in allowing this to happen in Persia. to be continued

Ofcom revokes Press TV license

Another example of the lack of freedom of speech in this supposedly free democratic country has occurred today. Ofcom has fulfilled the wishes of our tory governors and revoked the license of the excellent Iranian channel 'Press TV'. Ofcom has shown its true colours in this disgusting behaviour. There are many channels you could take issues with. Fox News certainly springs to mind with its badly investigated partisan news which swings between rank propoganda and outright misinformation.
Press TV, on the other hand, has great reporting on World events; Consistently had experts from every side on their excellent programmes; Unlike other mainstream progs, the experts were given equal opportunity to air their views and covered the really important World issues thoroughly and fairly, something no other channel could be accused of doing these days.
Ofcom, join the gallery of shame with every other puppet of this corruption we call Government in the West.

War with Iran. What are our Governments up to?

Did anyone notice that Mark Urban, while being interviewed on BBC flagship news programme Newsnight, told us that the USA plan on attacking Iran after the US elections?
He went on to say that, given the current state of affairs, it was likely to happen well before then.
I was shocked but the interviewer completely took this devastating news in his stride and ended the article in around 3 minutes.
Obviously something world shattering had occurred to eclipse this dramatic turn of events. Well no, not exactly. The item to follow was about funding movies. Important to actors and those who enjoy the genre, no doubt. But surely being dragged into another terrible war in the Middle East by our bullyboy brother the US has got to take precedence.
It has been obvious for a long time now that Iran was next on the agenda for these corrupt Governments to attack. During the Blair interviews last year to discover his guilt in starting an illegal war on Iraq, He told us many times over that Iran was next on his agenda.
Iran has not committed any aggressive acts towards another country in centuries and has no intention of instigating such attacks in the near future that I can discern.
Its crime would appear to be that it openly criticizes the Israeli regime's behaviour in Palestine and the immoral actions of Nato in the Gulf.
The Iranian Government is a thorn in the side of the Western elite as it refuses to fall in line with US monetary manipulation of the World economy or allow the West to pilfer its oil treasures.
As a result, Western governments have used every excuse to place unjust sanctions on Iran for years now and this campaign has just been ramped up.
Now the US thinks it has the right to dictate that no one is allowed to do business with Iran. They have signed into law a dictate that says that if you do business with Iran, you cannot do business with USA. Personally, that is enough to make me immediately take all my business to Iran and wave cheerfully bye bye to US business.
This is blatant bullying of the type we are trying to cut out of every schoolyard. The bully and his cohorts demands that the individual does what he says or he will beat you up.
Iran has one very important ace to play. Access to the Straits of Hormuz through which some 40% of the World's oil must pass. The West's current rhetoric, sanctions and assinations in Iran are already acts of war. If Iran takes the major step to act in the Straits of Hormuz, the West will, no doubt, take this as an excuse for open military action. The news channels will be full of rhetoric naming Iran as the aggressor. The truth is quite the opposite. The West and Israel are blatantly doing everything in their power to create conflict and Iran is behaving with incredible dignity in response.
Have ever wondered what would you have done if you were living in Nazi Germany? Would you have been one of the silent majority, happy to get on with your life in blissful ignorance of your Governments attrocities? or would you have taken a stand regardless of your own personal safety and the welfare of your families?
Well here it is again, only this time our governments are the bad guys and we do not face death if we fight against them. Yet.
We have to make our choices now and stand up to these bullies on behalf of Iran, Syria and everywhere in the World that they see as rich pickings.
Let me know if you feel the same.
Helen