Celebrating Survival, Iranian Style

IRAN IS "CELEBRATING" the 65th anniversary of the C.I.A.'s (U.S.A.) overthrow of its government. Speeches, parades, ceremonies, the whole bit. Celebrating, presumably, not the actual american intrusion by the Americans, but their survival of it, and indeed their ability to survive in the same world as the great Satan to the west. They should. They say it will never happen again, but they cannot be too sure; Trump lurks, twitter account in hand. The English controlled the most of the middle east until the end of World War One, and to some extent beyond the great war. The French and the Americans helped them. When Iran gained some measure of independence and duly democratically elected its government, and nationalized its oil industry, the western powers and their fuel companies, whose resources the western powers had theretofore controlled and plundered at will, Standard Oil, British Petroleum, and the rest, were displeased. Generally, when American corporations are prevented from exploiting foreign resources by legitimate governments, they become displeased, and the american government and its dark ops folks spring into action. Its happened dozens of times around the world. It happened in 1953 in Iran. the shah took power, which he held as an American puppet until 1979. During his reign, the U.S. incessantly encouraged Iran to develop its own nuclear weapons, and brought Iranian nuclear physics students to study at M.I.T.. (you couldn't make this up). Now, of course,, the United States, aka Donald Trump threatened to punish Iran for even thinking about splitting the atom. He has formed on his "special commissions" to formulate policy towards Iran )formally called "Persia") meaning that Trump thinks the U.S. needs a plan of attack to back up the threats he makes twitter tweeting. Wouldn't it be special if the United States used nuclear weapons to prevent Iran from having atomic bombs? Therein lies the big white elephant in the middle of the room.The greatest threat to global security is not the extreme unlikelyhood of Iran having a nuclear bomb. Rather, it is the fact that the United States already ahs many, and h as already used them in anger, which was unnecessary, and a war crime. when asked recently w hy the U.s. encouraged Iran to develop nuclear bombs during the Shah's reign, Henry Kissinger responded: "back then, they were our friends". you can't make this stuff up.