How many Americans know that we are the ones who gave Iran its first nuclear reactor in 1957? Or that ten years later the U.S. would supply Iran enriched uranium? Iran’s nuclear program was launched in 1957 as part of the Atoms for Peace program and was spearheaded by the US 1/
Before the Revolution relations between D.C. and Tehran were never better Reza Shah donated money to UCLA and George Washington University to create Iran study programs and multiple state visits by Mohammed Reza Pahlavi during these years with presidents from Truman to Nixon. 2/
Just six month before the Iranian Revolution began the C.I.A. stated that “Iran is not in a revolutionary or even a ‘prerevolutionary’ situation.”- (Countercoup) by former CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt Jr on the coup in 1953 which was translated into Persian. 3/
Iranian citizens who began to read the translated version of Mr. Roosevelt Jr’s book started to become paranoid about the power of U.S., in particular, the power of the C.I.A to effectively change and rewrite domestic policy through covert unauthorized operations within Iran. 4/
The western puppet Reza Shah was replaced by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Many of the young revolutionaries who overtook the Embassy were pro-Khomeini protesters and supported his visions of a theocratic government in Iran. 5/
The United States quickly labeled Khomeini “anti-American” just as Khomeini referred to the United States as “the great Satan.” There comes a point where we have to ask ourselves who is right? 6/
For over 60 years the United States has had nothing but a negative impact on the citizens of Iran whether it be by pillaging their oil revenues or installing a brutal dictator who ruled with an iron fist and crushed any dissenting views, or debilitating economic sanctions 7/
The Iranian people have every right to loathe the US. Unless you wouldn’t be offended or angry in any way if Iranian intelligence officers sparked a coup in America and set up their own theocratic state, and impose their beliefs on you, you would be angry, wouldn't you? 8/
Today we are repeatedly told that Iran exports terrorism and interferes with the operations of other countries via their “terroristic proxies.” To anyone who actually believes this premise, I would ask you if it is Iran or the US that is bombing 11 sovereign nations right now?
