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Iran 1953: How Britain and the CIA Use Covert Operations to Overthrew a Country to Keep Its Oil Kwabena Ofori Osei 2 Views • 9 hours ago

In 1953, Britain and the CIA orchestrated one of the most consequential covert operations in modern history — the overthrow of Iran's democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. His crime? Nationalizing Iran's oil industry and demanding that his country's most valuable resource belong to its own people.
What followed was a masterclass in imperial manipulation: economic warfare, naval blockades, propaganda campaigns, bribed journalists, paid mobs, and a rogue CIA operative who ignored direct orders to abort the mission. The operation destroyed Iran's democracy, installed an authoritarian monarch backed by a brutal secret police, and set in motion a chain of events that led directly to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the hostage crisis, and decades of hostility between Iran and the West that continues to this day.
This is the full story — from the exploitative oil concession of 1901 that handed nearly half a million square miles of Persian territory to a single British financier, to the boardrooms of BP and the backrooms of the CIA, to the tanks rolling through the streets of Tehran. It's a story about oil, power, and what happens when a nation's sovereignty stands in the way of corporate profits.
The CIA didn't publicly acknowledge its role for 60 years. This video explains why.
Sources and further reading:
— "All the Shah's Men" by Stephen Kinzer
— Declassified CIA documents on Operation TPAJAX (National Security Archive, George Washington University)
— "Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran" by Mark Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne
— Britannica: 1953 Coup in Iran
— Council on Foreign Relations: U.S. Relations with Iran Timeline
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Sankofa Journey 2023 Look back Nataki Kambon 13 Views • 16 hours ago

Nana Mawiyah and Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé Kambon welcoming sojourners of the Sankofa Journey 2023 to Ghana at the welcome feast catered by Nkwa Dua. Nana acknowledges Baba Kamau Kambon who attended what would be his last Sankofa journey and first and last Abibitumi conference we're here received a Black power award.

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AES: French Media Reports 30 Malian Soldiers Killed in Mali... But What About The Terrorist Losses? Kwabena Ofori Osei 4 Views • 17 hours ago

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Inside the Secret Network Fueling Sudan's War: The UAE Support and Backing of RSF Crimes Kwabena Ofori Osei 2 Views • 18 hours ago

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A new investigation has uncovered how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) supports a secret network of military training camps for the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) that enables them to continue their deadly war in Sudan.

"This war, which is often categorized in international media as a civil war, is really a proxy war," says award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker Julia Steers. "We're talking about a really extensive network of logistics and training and financial backing from the UAE."

The investigation is a collaboration between Lighthouse Reports, Evident and Sudan War Monitor.

Meanwhile, as the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warns another humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding the North Kordofan state capital of El Obeid, where the RSF and the Sudanese army are fighting for control, "there's no question that the RSF would not be able to have gotten as far as they have, to have claimed nearly as much territory as they have, without the really robust support of the UAE," says Steers.

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