Talk, talk, talk.
Here's something you can bet on: Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz will not hold a press conference this month to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S.-led coup of the democratically elected leader of Iran -- Mohammed Mossadegh.
Rice and Powell won't hold a press conference to celebrate Operation Ajax, the CIA plot that overthrew the Mossadegh.
That was 50 years ago this month, in August 1953.
That's when Mossadegh was fed up with the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company -- now BP -- pumping Iran's oil and shipping the profits back home to the United Kingdom.
And Mossadegh said -- hey, this is our oil, I think we'll keep it.
And Winston Churchill said -- no you won't.
Mossadegh nationalized the company -- the way the British were nationalizing their own vital industries at the time.
But what's good for the UK ain't good for Iran.
If you fly out of Dulles Airport in Virginia, ever wonder what the word Dulles means?
It stands for the Dulles family -- Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and his brother, the CIA director, Allen Dulles.
They were responsible for the overthrow of the democratically elected leader of Iran.
As was President Theodore Roosevelt's grandson, Kermit Roosevelt, the CIA agent who traveled to Iran to pull off the coup.
Now why should we be concerned about a coup that happened so far away almost 50 years ago this month?
New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer puts it this way:
"It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York."
We Had a Democracy Once, But You Crushed It
Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman CommonDreams August 10, 2003
