In the picture above the late
general's
amputated left arm is resting
on his body. (notice
that the
general's
left wrist is missing from his left
arm).
His amputated right arm is
resting alongside of his
body.
(notice the lower part of his right hand is
also
missing).
One picture, as the English and the Americans say, is truly worth a
thousand words. Mr. Yazdi, and all of the participants in the
Revolutionary Committees who helped ensconce the IRI regime in power in
Iran, are butchers and mass murders on an exponential and independently
documented scale as attested to by
Human Rights Watch and
Amnesty International. No one can deny this. Even a cursory look
at the ongoing news reports from
Iran Focus on
the past and present crimes of the Mullah Regime (
www.iranfocus.com)
accurately depicts a power-thirsty cabal whose rule is based on
extra-judicial proceedings; murder; intimidation and incarceration;
Islamic theocratic control of the news media in Iran; and the
sanctioning of murder outside the boundaries of Iran itself, in the
Middle East, Europe, South America, Asia, and the United States.
And to the extent that the BBC provides an unchallenged forum for
international criminals like Ibrahim Yazdi to spew their venomous
falsehoods abroad on a global scale, it begs the next question:
What was the role of the British government and media in their direct
involvement in assisting in the overthrow of Monarchy in Iran in favor
of an Islamic Republic over a quarter of a century ago?
These Mullahs were brought to power by sinister forces in the
both Britain and the United States, specifically identified by
William Bowles in Countercurrents at
http://www.countercurrents.org/iran-bowles080206.htm As I
stated for the public record back in February when contradicting the
far-left propaganda of
Ramsey Clark regarding the
latter's role in continuing to support the enemies of the Persian Nation
and Monarchy,
this record of betrayal inscribed by Bowles must
be repeated and retold. It can never be forgotten. The
historical responsibility for this horror must be chronicled for
eternity past. When understood in its proper context, decent Americans
and Europeans will recognize their moral imperative to support
freedom-loving Iranians around the world in the achievement of victory
over the Mullahs, and the reclamation of their homeland in this
righteous struggle with radical evil.
These same Americans and
Europeans must see Ibrahim Yazdi, Ramsey Clark, the BBC, and the entire
core of the political constituency which destroyed Iran through the
introduction of Islamic Theocracy for what they are: an
element of radical evil which must be exposed--and expunged--from any
semblance of legitimacy in political debate among honest people led by
world governments with any commitment to the rule of law and respect for
human life.
As I mentioned back in February, the Bowles account of who and what
destroyed Monarchy in Iran in favor of Islamic Theocracy is a story that
shadowy Western political and economic elites do not want their people
to read, to hear, or to act upon.
Who are the forces cited by Mr. Bowles?
His article in February stated the following:
By 1978 Iran had the fourth largest nuclear power programme in the
world and the largest by far among Third World nations. The [then]
Shah’s plan called for the installation of 20 nuclear power reactors by
1995, to provide some 23,000 megawatts of electricity.
The Shah saw nuclear electricity as the
rational means to diversify Iran’s dependence on petroleum, and as a
means to counter the enormous pressure from Washington and London to
recycle his petrodollars to New York and London banks.
The contracts were made not with US corporations but with German
and French companies, and the US government—which up until this time
had been the Shah’s main backer and had installed him following the
US/UK overthrow of the anti-US Mossadegh government, did everything in
its power to try and block the deals—not surprising considering the role
of Iranian oil in the US economy and continuing
the hegemony of the petro-dollar.
We must not lose sight of the fact that since the late 19th century,
Iran’s vast oil reserves, at first the exclusive domain of British
imperialism and its joint government-business owned company,
British Petroleum, and later the US
when it took over the reigns of empire, has been the major motivating
force behind Anglo-US machinations in the region.
The
question to ask is why the Shahanshah Pahlavi should have fallen out of
favour with his Anglo-US sponsors? To answer this question we have to
look at the central role of the petro-dollar in propping up Anglo-US
imperialism.
There is no doubt that the
US and the UK were behind the
removal of the Shah. The problem for the
US/UK was that the leading force inside Iran working to remove the Shah
were progressives, led largely by the Iranian Socialist Workers’ Party.
Therefore, in November 1978, President Carter
named the
Bilderberg group’s George Ball,
another member of the Trilateral Commission,
to head a special White House Iran task force under the
National Security Council’s Brzezinski.
Ball recommended that Washington drop support
for the Shah of Iran and support the fundamentalist Islamic opposition
of Khomeini.
Their scheme was based on a detailed study of the phenomenon of
Islamic fundamentalism, as presented by
British Islamic expert, Dr. Bernard Lewis … Lewis’s scheme
was unveiled at the May 1979 Bilderberg meeting in
Austria, endorsed the radical Muslim
Brotherhood movement behind Khomeini, in order to promote
balkanisation of the entire Muslim Near East along tribal and
religious lines… The chaos would spread in what he termed an ‘Arc
of Crisis,’ which would spill over into the Muslim regions of
the Soviet Union.
The coup against the Shah, like that against Mossadegh in 1953, was
run by British and American intelligence, with the bombastic
American, Brzezinski, taking public ‘credit’ for getting rid of the
‘corrupt’ Shah, while the British characteristically remained safely in
the background.
The major reason for removing the Shah was the oil. During
1978 negotiations were underway between British
Petroleum and the Shah to renew the 25-year old extraction
contract, negotiations which collapsed and with the collapse, Iran
was for the first time since 1953, once more in control of its oil
resources. Cross the imperium and experience their wrath.
In September 1978, the Iranian
publication Kayhan International stated in its editorial:
"In retrospect, the 25-year partnership the [British Petroleum]
consortium and the 50-year relationship with British Petroleum which
preceded it, have not been satisfactory ones for Iran … Looking to the
future, NIOC [National Iranian Oil Company] should plan to handle all
operations by itself."
"The British retaliated by cutting the
amount of oil they bought from Iran by 2 million barrels a day. At the
same time it is alleged that British Petroleum was organising capital
flight from the country and the BBC, through its Farsi service, gave
Ayotollah Khomeini a major propaganda platform. The Iranian economy was
in dire straights and in January 1979, the Shah went into exile and in
February Khomaini was flown in from exile in Paris. In May 1979
Khomeini cancelled the nuclear power programme."
"As a result Iran was once more totally dependent on the sale of oil
to the West, for what was and still is, at stake here, is the right of
developing countries to pursue an independent course."
For the record: The BBC is a direct instrument of
agitation-propaganda for the Islamic Republic in Iran (IRI) regime in
providing a televised forum this past Saturday evening to an
international criminal of the magnitude of Ibrahim Yazdi.ma
Yazdi should be one of scores of IRI officials, past and present, hauled
before legitimate international tribunals and tried for their crimes
against humanity. And as this man has proved to be an assassin of
scores of the innocent in Iran, the BBC should be forced to apologize
for its own role in assassinating both the truth of the historical
record regarding the Mullahs and their Revolution, and eradicating its
own credibility as a source of honest journalism independent of the
machinations of the British government and others who secretly conspired
against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and the people of a Free Iran in the
tragic events of 1978-79.
Payandeh Iran,
Shirin Neshat
Sarbazan
