and then the 1953 renegotiations with Britain over the Iran share.
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The overthrow of Mosaddegh in 1953 by CIA and UK SIS has had terrible consequences and belies US claims of support for democracy.
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And so we continue to fight the cold war in the middle east. You prefer sunni-shia or east-west confrontation? Yes. You can have it all.
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wow. great quote. in your opinion, what is the best book on the post WW I divisions of the Mideast by the colonial powers?
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Perry Anderson's American Foreign Policy is place to start and then look up its footnotes.
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Bush II era version: 'how did our oil get under their desert?'
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No source of course
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BBC. And if you google, widely cited in scholarly literature. http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/zqgxtfr …
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"All this oil is yours, except Europa's. Attempt no drilling there."
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Ah, imperialism: the writ large of claiming other people's resources cuz Fuck Them + white supremacy.
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