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by Andrew Sterling Ansley
March 27, 2026
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Next time someone says that Iran is dangerous and they need
to be stopped... some history to share:
1901:
A British businessman secures exclusive
rights to Iran's oil. Iran gets almost nothing from its own
resource.
1908:
Oil is struck. Anglo-Iranian Oil Company is
formed.
It later becomes BP. The British Royal Navy
converts from coal to oil, making Iranian petroleum a strategic
military asset for the British Empire.
For the next 50 years, Iran's oil is extracted by a foreign
corporation. Iran receives a fraction of the profits. Saudi
Arabia negotiates a 50-50 profit split with ARAMCO.
Iran asks for the same terms. Britain
refuses.
1951:
Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister,
Mohammad Mossadegh, nationalizes Iran's oil through a
unanimous vote in parliament.
Completely legal. Completely constitutional.
His argument was simple:
this is our oil.
Britain responds with an international
blockade.
No negotiation. No compromise. They want
their oil back.
1953:
The CIA (Operation
Ajax) and MI6 (Operation
Boot) overthrow Mossadegh.
They bribe politicians, clerics, journalists,
and military officers. They fund fake protests. They run
disinformation campaigns through newspapers they secretly own.
MI6 operatives kidnap and murder Iran's chief
of police and dump his body in public as a warning.
They reinstall
the
Shah - a monarch who serves Western oil
interests.
The CIA officially acknowledged its role in
2013.
After the coup, BP retains a 40% stake. American oil companies
including Exxon and Mobil get significant shares.
Iran's democratic government is gone. Its oil
is back under foreign control.
1953-1979:
The Shah rules for 26 years as a
Western-backed authoritarian.
His secret police,
SAVAK, is trained by
the CIA and
Mossad.
SAVAK tortures and kills political dissidents
systematically. Iran becomes one of the largest purchasers of
American weapons.
The Shah lives in extraordinary luxury
while much of the population remains poor.
During this entire period, Israel and Iran are close allies.
SAVAK and Mossad share intelligence. Israel sells weapons to
Iran.
Nobody in the West calls Iran a "terrorist
state" because the dictator is their dictator...
1979:
The Iranian people overthrow the Shah
in a popular revolution.
This is where your list begins - as if the
revolution appeared out of nowhere, motivated by nothing but
religious fanaticism...
Now let's talk about
the US Embassy that was attacked
The US news likes to paint the 1979 hostage
crisis as an unprovoked attack on America.
The revolutionaries seized the embassy
because the last time there was a democratic movement in Iran,
the CIA ran the coup to crush it from that same embassy.
They weren't being paranoid. They were being
historically accurate.
Britannica's own assessment:
"It is generally agreed today that the
1953 coup sowed the seeds for the Islamic Revolution of
1979."
That's not a conspiracy theory. That's the
encyclopedia...
Now let's ask a
couple more Questions
Why are there U.S. military bases in Iraq?
Because
the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003
on claims of 'weapons of mass destruction' that turned out
to be false... Over a million Iraqi civilians died.
No American official was ever prosecuted.
Why is there conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon?
Because Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982
and occupied southern Lebanon for 18 years.
Why are
Houthi rebels attacking ships?
Because a U.S.-backed Saudi coalition
bombed Yemen for years, creating what the UN called "the
world's worst humanitarian crisis."
Over 150,000 dead. Famine. Cholera
outbreaks.
Why does Iran pursue nuclear capability?
Possibly because Israel has an
undeclared nuclear arsenal estimated at 80-400 warheads,
has never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty, faces zero
international inspections, and has never been sanctioned for
it.
Iran signed the NPT. Iran agreed to
inspections. Iran signed the nuclear deal in 2015. The U.S.
pulled out of that deal in 2018.
Every single item on your list is framed as
Iranian aggression against "the West."
But none of them exist without the West's 70-year
campaign of overthrowing Iran's democracy, installing a dictator,
extracting its oil, arming its neighbors, invading the countries on
its borders, and maintaining military bases throughout the region.
Now trace who
Benefits
The 1953 coup was about oil. BP and American
oil companies got the oil.
The Shah's 26-year reign was about strategic positioning.
The U.S. and Israel got a compliant ally on the Soviet border
and in the Middle East.
The post-1979 framing of Iran as a "terrorist state" serves a
specific function: it justifies permanent U.S. military presence
in the Middle East, billions in annual arms sales to Saudi
Arabia and Gulf states, and unconditional U.S. support for
Israel's regional dominance.
Every "Iranian attack" on your list occurred in a country where
the U.S. had no legal right to be in the first place:
Iraq, Syria, Jordan.
American troops are stationed across the
Middle East not because those countries asked for protection
from Iran, but because the U.S. positioned itself there to
control the region's resources and protect its
strategic architecture.
When someone punches you for 70 years - overthrows your
government, installs a dictator, trains his secret police to
torture your people, extracts your oil, invades the countries on
your borders, surrounds you with military bases, and sanctions
your economy into the ground - and then you punch back, the
question isn't,
"why are you violent?..."
The question is:
who threw the first punch?
And who's been profiting from the fight
ever since?
That's not a defense of the Iranian regime.
The theocracy that replaced the Shah has its
own record of brutality against its own people, especially
women. But that regime exists because the CIA destroyed Iran's
democracy in 1953.
The West created the conditions for the very
thing it now claims to oppose.
The history continues...
HAMAS (October 7,
2023)
"Hamas,
to my great regret, is Israel's creation," said Avner
Cohen, a former Israeli religious affairs official who
worked in Gaza for more than two decades, to the Wall Street
Journal in 2009.
Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev, who
served as Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s,
told the New York Times that he had helped finance the
Palestinian Islamist movement as a "counterweight" to the PLO.
"The Israeli government gave me a
budget," the retired brigadier general confessed, "and the
military government gives to the mosques."
Initially, Hamas was discreetly supported by
Israel, as a counter-balance to the secular Palestine Liberation
Organization to prevent the creation of an independent
Palestinian state.
And it didn't stop in the 1980s.
According to the New York Times, Israeli
intelligence agents traveled into Gaza with a Qatari official
carrying suitcases filled with cash to disperse money.
In 2015, Bezalel Smotrich, currently the finance minister
in Netanyahu's government, summed up the strategy:
"The Palestinian Authority is a burden.
Hamas is an asset."
Netanyahu told journalist Dan
Margalit that it was important to keep Hamas strong, as a
counterweight to the Palestinian Authority.
Having two strong rivals, including Hamas,
would lessen pressure on him to negotiate toward a Palestinian
state.
Netanyahu penned a letter to Qatar in 2018 asking the Qatari
leadership to continue funding Hamas...
HEZBOLLAH (1983
Beirut bombings, kidnappings)
Hezbollah was formed in 1982 - the same year
Israel invaded Lebanon.
It didn't exist before the invasion. Israel
invaded Lebanon to destroy the PLO headquarters there. The
invasion killed approximately 20,000 people, mostly civilians.
Hezbollah was born as a direct resistance
movement to that invasion.
The 1983 Marine barracks bombing on the commenter's list killed
241 Americans.
But why were U.S. Marines in Lebanon?
Because the U.S. had intervened in the
Lebanese Civil War, positioning itself as a participant in the
conflict rather than a neutral peacekeeper.
The Marines were shelling Druze and Shia
positions from naval vessels before the bombing.
IRAN'S PROXY NETWORK
(Houthis, Kataib Hezbollah, militias in Iraq and Syria)
Every proxy on that list operates in a
country where the U.S. or its allies intervened first.
Iraq - the U.S. invaded in 2003 on false WMD claims.
Iranian-backed militias formed to resist the occupation.
Syria - the CIA ran
Operation Timber Sycamore,
spending billions arming Syrian rebels, many of whom were
jihadists. Iran backed Assad. Both sides were proxies in someone
else's war.
Yemen - the Houthis fight against a Saudi-led coalition
that the U.S. armed and supported. The Saudi bombing campaign
created what the UN called the world's worst humanitarian
crisis.
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The United States propaganda machine goes hard.
The enemy is not a republican or a democrat...
For all of history people knew their
governments were evil.
Don't forget that it's true today...!
The enemy is not the one vilified by
billionaire owned media dynasties...
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