Attack Iran? Part 2

In 1951, democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh, who held the quaint notion that a country's natural resources should benefit the country's population rather than foreigners, proceeded to nationalize the oil industry. As a result, the US and British secret services orchestrated a coup, overthrowing Mossadegh and replacing him with Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi. The Shah was a pro-Israeli/Western puppet famous for his murderous security service Savak with its gruesome torture techniques. As Robert Fisk points out ("The Great War For Civilisation" p. 99), "A permanent secret US mission was attached to Savak headquarters." By 1979, the Iranians had had enough and overthrew the Shah, seizing the US Embassy, and taking American hostages. Fisk writes (p. 127-128) that 2300 documents, shredded by the Americans, were pasted back together over six years revealing much incriminating information, such as associations between Savak and Mossad, Israel's secret service. The next year, the US supported Saddam Hussein's invasion of Iran. Fisk notes, "Iraq was already using gas to kill thousands of Iranian soldiers when Donald Rumsfeld made his notorious 1983 visit to Baghdad to shake Saddam's hand and ask him for permission to reopen the US embassy." (p. 166) Fisk also documents the fact that the US supplied Saddam with materials for both chemical and biological WMD. (p. 211-212) It would appear that instead of invading Iran, we should apologize to them.