The shameless Americans are responsible for most vows of Middle East. After what they did to the democratically elected govt of Musaddeq, it makes complete sense if Iranians in particular and Muslims in general today are so much anti-American.
What is unfortunate is that most American people don’t know about this episode. They have been made to believe that anti-American sentiments in Iran started after 1979. Nothing could be farther from truth.
It is Americans who are responsible for anti-American feelings Muslims have against them. I hope common dumb Americans could see how shameful policies of their governments have been.
From Amazon. A review of the book “All the Shah’s Men” by Stephen Kinzer.
In the early 1950’s Iran was a developing democracy but was being oppressed by British oil interests. The newly-formed American CIA engineered a scheme to overthrow Iran’s popularly elected Prime Minister Mossadegh and prop up the much less popular monarchy of the Shah. Here Kinzer describes the intrigue and international political shenanigans that led to the coup, which was fueled by anti-Communist paranoia based on Mossadegh’s nationalist (but only tangentially socialist) ambitions. This was the CIA’s first dirty tricks campaign to destabilize a foreign government, and Kinzer ably points out the irony in how the US overthrew a democracy and installed a totalitarian regime, in order to basically protect Western corporate profits. Kinzer also outlines the very real ramifications this all had decades down the road in the form of radical Islamic fundamentalism in Iran and fractured international relations to this day.
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I think this is a book that every American should read because it explains so clearly the little known facts about the overthrow of the very first democratically elected prime minister in Iran. The seeds of democracy were there - just waiting for a little water but because Mossadegh was a nationalist and didn’t want to be indebted to any foreign power including the U.S., we initiated this clandestine covert operation which brought the Shah back to power. At the time of the hostage crisis, I couldn’t understand why the Iranian’s hated us so much. Now I see that scenario with complete clarity. Regime change by any other name is still meddling in the affairs of foreign countries. Even if we don’t care about what happens to that country, it always comes back to haunt us because it’s bad foreign policy - bad for the U.S. in the worst possible ways.