Posted on Feb 24, 2017
Declassified: Washington’s hesitant plans for a military coup in pre-revolution Iran
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"The Huyser cable is part of a trove of declassified US government documents that relate to the so-called Huyser mission, undertaken by the Carter administration at the height of the Iranian revolution. Thirty-six years later, many Iranians still believe Huyser was sent to Tehran to neutralise the Iranian army as part of a deal to put Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in power. The Americans, they say, naively thought Khomeini, an anti-communist, would protect their interests in the Persian Gulf after the Shah’s departure."
@SN Greg Wright @SP5 Mark Kuzinski COL Mikel J. Burroughs SFC William Farrell PVT James Strait GySgt Melissa Gravila MSgt George Cater SFC George Smith Maj Marty Hogan Capt Jeff S. Capt Seid Waddell PO3 Donald Murphy CPL Crystal Pettway, MBA Sgt Kelli Mays CPT Gabe Snell SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint Cpl Mark A. Morris CSM Charles Hayden LTC Trent Klug Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
@SN Greg Wright @SP5 Mark Kuzinski COL Mikel J. Burroughs SFC William Farrell PVT James Strait GySgt Melissa Gravila MSgt George Cater SFC George Smith Maj Marty Hogan Capt Jeff S. Capt Seid Waddell PO3 Donald Murphy CPL Crystal Pettway, MBA Sgt Kelli Mays CPT Gabe Snell SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint Cpl Mark A. Morris CSM Charles Hayden LTC Trent Klug Maj Kevin "Mac" McLaughlin
Declassified: Washington’s hesitant plans for a military coup in pre-revolution Iran
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Iran
Civil War
World History
Military History
American History
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This was a weird time and the wrong President to handle the situation. You can't always try to find the best things about people when their ideology is not your own. One of my friends in junior high was from Iran and his father was an aide for the Shah. He ended up here because their lives were in danger and relatives were already established here. He always said this would not end well and we did not understand.
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I agree on the wrong President Sir. And no, we did not and still don't understand. Well at least some of us get it now. But we live or lived it through the war.
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PO3 Donald Murphy
Well, what doesn't help is when the President has no support and gets false information and suffers from collusion. Huh? You do realize a certain George H. W. Bush is in Tehran at the moment, right? Gee...wonder why?
Carter is a submariner. So he approached things intelligently. In a way that people didn't want. What was the one thing Carter was killing? The military complex. So every single company hammered their shareholder senators and shareholder generals to do everything in their power to kill Jimmy The Peanut. Carter also wants to start pumping American gas which - drum roll - the Walker (Bush) family doesn't want.
Carter also is not a JFK democrat. He's an FDR democrat ("I'll put a chicken in your pot, but you're going to work for it"), so like Trump and Hilary today, he did not have 100% of his party's love.
Carter is a submariner. So he approached things intelligently. In a way that people didn't want. What was the one thing Carter was killing? The military complex. So every single company hammered their shareholder senators and shareholder generals to do everything in their power to kill Jimmy The Peanut. Carter also wants to start pumping American gas which - drum roll - the Walker (Bush) family doesn't want.
Carter also is not a JFK democrat. He's an FDR democrat ("I'll put a chicken in your pot, but you're going to work for it"), so like Trump and Hilary today, he did not have 100% of his party's love.
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It always works out for the best when we trust Iran to do the right thing...........Right? doesn't it? For sure it does?.........
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