Iran and what they do not tell you!
Always the bad guy, never the victim!
If you go back in history regarding the middle east, most of their problems have risen from the abundance of that black stuff we call oil. If not oil gas, if not both other resources.
As a punishment for regulating their own oil industry in the 1950's whilst also kicking the British out of Iran's own fields, they had a dose of freedom dished out to them.
Who is Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh?
Hands on buzzers, for 500 points: this democratic leader was overthrown in 1953 by a US-organized coup in retaliation for nationalizing oil resources previously controlled by the British.
The Iranians are also extremely vocal with regards to Israel and their desire to hand it back to the Palestinians. And as I wrote about before they are sitting on a multi trillion dollar gas field they share with Qatar. Qatar-Iran ties: Sharing the world's largest gas field. Add to that all the oil fields and you have the perfect country to sprinkle a little freedom by bombs on, as any war will be repaid in resources, just like Iraq, Libya, Syria and on and on the list grows.
But for the amount of Iran backed forces in Syria numbering over 80,000 (Who are Iran's 80,000 Shi'ite fighters in Syria? ) I believe they would by now have had, a dose of freedom by bombs. Though with that army so close to Israels borders, it would/could be a fatal blow, should those forces be turned against Israel.
The meddling in Iran does not end with that 1953 event, as Iraq attacked it with funding and weapons assistance from the USA, that was when Saddam Hussein was the useful idiot.
How the US Helped Create Saddam Hussein.
The last time Donald Rumsfeld saw Saddam Hussein, he gave him a cordial handshake. The date was almost 20 years ago, Dec. 20, 1983; an official Iraqi television crew recorded the historic moment.
The once and future Defense secretary, at the time a private citizen, had been sent by President Ronald Reagan to Baghdad as a special envoy. Saddam Hussein, armed with a pistol on his hip, seemed "vigorous and confident," according to a now declassified State Department cable obtained by NEWSWEEK. Rumsfeld "conveyed the President's greetings and expressed his pleasure at being in Baghdad," wrote the notetaker. Then the two men got down to business, talking about the need to improve relations between their two countries.
Like most foreign-policy insiders, Rumsfeld was aware that Saddam was a murderous thug who supported terrorists and was trying to build a nuclear weapon. (The Israelis had already bombed Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak.) But at the time, America's big worry was Iran, not Iraq. The Reagan administration feared that the Iranian revolutionaries who had overthrown the shah (and taken hostage American diplomats for 444 days in 1979-81) would overrun the Middle East and its vital oilfields. On the-theory that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, the Reaganites were seeking to support Iraq in a long and bloody war against Iran. The meeting between Rumsfeld and Saddam was consequential: for the next five years, until Iran finally capitulated, the United States backed Saddam's armies with military intelligence, economic aid and covert supplies of munitions. Source.
Have you ever heard the general Wesley Clark video?
"General Wesley Clark: Wars Were Planned - Seven Countries In Five Years"..........
From that interview it clearly shows that war decisions are taken many years in advance, and it matters not which puppet will be in power at the time, as the military made up its mind a long time before.
Which raises the question regarding to who "they are" the people Wesley was referring to in the video, that made the decision for 7 countries in 5 years.
I hope you take the 2 minutes to watch that video, it explains a lot, though at the same time raises some serious questions.
"We are going to war against Iraq, I said why, he said I don't know"
Is at the start of the interview, and I do not think hundreds of thousands of dead Iraq citizens should be mocked and laughed about, when the answer of a top military commander is "I do not know"...........
Once again it proves that there is a hidden network behind any and all governments. In this tangled web of deceit and lies, are people that have no interest in peace, only in bombs. It is time they went and fought these battles themselves, and send their own children off to battle to play tin soldiers.
There is no doubt that Iran will be demonized again and again, while there are resources to be had, and bombs to be dropped - Iran will always have a target upon it's back.
CIA-assisted coup overthrows government of Iran. source
US Government Has Meddled in the Elections of Foreign Countries 81 Times.
Good reporting; I'm familiar with that Wesley Clark video...it's as disturbing to re-watch as it was the first time.
Who are these mystery "people" he speaks of, is what interests me, cheers my friend.