History
in Review
What really happened
to the Shah of Iran!
The
worst case of treason, disloyalty and betrayal in history against Iranian people
Below is excerpts from a book entitled, "A Century Of War : Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order", which was written by William Engdahl, a German historian. This book reveals the conspiracy by the British and American governments endorsing radical Muslim movement for political and economical benefits.
"In
November 1978, President Carter named the Bilderberg group's George Ball,
another member of the Trilateral Commission, to head a special White House
Iran task force under the National Security Council's Brzezinski. Ball
recommended that Washington drop support for the Shah of Iran and support the
fundamentalistic Islamic opposition of Ayatollah Khomeini. Robert Bowie from
the CIA was one of the lead 'case officers' in the new CIA-led coup against
the man their covert actions had placed into power 25 years earlier.
Their
scheme was based on a detailed study of the phenomenon of Islamic
fundamentalism, as presented by British Islamic expert, Dr. Bernard Lewis,
then on assignment at Princeton University in the United States. Lewis's
scheme, which was unveiled at the May 1979 Bilderberg meeting in Austria,
endorsed the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement behind Khomeini, in order to
promote balkanization of the entire Muslim Near East along tribal and
religious lines. Lewis argued that the West should encourage autonomous groups
such as the Kurds, Armenians, Lebanese Maronites, Ethiopian Copts, Azerbaijani
Turks, and so forth. The chaos would spread in what he termed an 'Arc of
Crisis,' which would spill over into Muslim regions of the Soviet Union.
The
coup against the Shah was run by British
and American intelligence, with the bombastic American, Brzezinski, taking
public 'credit' for getting rid of the 'corrupt' Shah, while the British
characteristically remained safely in the background.
During
1978, negotiations were under way between the Shah's government and British
Petroleum for renewal of the 25-year old extraction agreement. By October
1978, the talks had collapsed over a British 'offer' which demanded exclusive
rights to Iran's future oil output, while refusing to guarantee purchase of
the oil. With their dependence on British-controlled export apparently at an
end, Iran appeared on the verge of independence in its oil sales policy for
the first time since 1953, with eager prospective buyers in Germany, France,
Japan and elsewhere. In its lead editorial that September, Iran's Kayhan
International stated:
In
retrospect, the 25-year partnership with the [British Petroleum] consortium
and the 50-year relationship with British Petroleum which preceded it, have
not been satisfactory ones for Iran … Looking to the future, NIOC [National
Iranian Oil Company] should plan to handle all operations by itself.
London
was blackmailing and putting enormous economic pressure on the Shah's regime
by refusing to buy Iranian oil production, taking only 3 million or so barrels
daily of an agreed minimum of 5 million barrels per day. This imposed dramatic
revenue pressures on Iran, which provided the context in which religious
discontent against the Shah could be fanned by trained agitators deployed by
British and U.S. intelligence. In addition, strikes among oil workers at this
critical juncture crippled Iranian oil production.
As
Iran's domestic economic troubles grew, American 'security' advisers to the
Shah's Savak secret police implemented a policy of ever more brutal
repression, in a manner calculated to maximize popular antipathy to the Shah.
At the same time, the Carter administration cynically began protesting abuses
of 'human rights' under the Shah.
British
Petroleum reportedly began to organize capital flight out of Iran, through its
strong influence in Iran's financial and banking community. The British
Broadcasting Corporation's Persian-language broadcasts, with dozens of
Persian-speaking BBC 'correspondents' sent into even the smallest village,
drummed up hysteria against the Shah. The BBC gave Ayatollah Khomeini a full
propaganda platform inside Iran during this time. The British government-owned
broadcasting organization refused to give the Shah's government an equal
chance to reply. Repeated personal appeals from the Shah to the BBC yielded no
result. Anglo-American intelligence was committed to toppling the Shah. The
Shah fled in January, and by February 1979, Khomeini had been flown into
Tehran to proclaim the establishment of his repressive theocratic state to
replace the Shah's government.
Reflecting
on his downfall months later, shortly before his death, the Shah noted from
exile,
I
did not know it then – perhaps I did not want to know – but it is clear to
me now that the Americans wanted me out. Clearly this is what the human rights
advocates in the State Department wanted … What was I to make of the
Administration's sudden decision to call former Under Secretary of State
George Ball to the White House as an adviser on Iran? … Ball was among those
Americans who wanted to abandon me and ultimately my country.[1]
With
the fall of the Shah and the coming to power of the fanatical Khomeini
adherents in Iran, chaos was unleashed. By May 1979, the new Khomeini regime
had singled out the country's nuclear power development plans and announced
cancellation of the entire program for French and German nuclear reactor
construction.
Iran's
oil exports to the world were suddenly cut off, some 3 million barrels per
day. Curiously, Saudi Arabian production in the critical days of January 1979
was also cut by some 2 million barrels per day. To add to the pressures on
world oil supply, British Petroleum declared force majeure and cancelled major
contracts for oil supply. Prices on the Rotterdam spot market, heavily
influenced by BP and Royal Cutch Shell as the largest oil traders, soared in
early 1979 as a result. The second oil shock of the 1970s was fully under way.
Indications
are that the actual planners of the Iranian Khomeini coup in London and within
the senior ranks of the U.S. liberal establishment decided to keep President
Carter largely ignorant of the policy and its ultimate objectives. The ensuing
energy crisis in the United States was a major factor in bringing about
Carter's defeat a year later.
There
was never a real shortage in the world supply of petroleum. Existing Saudi and
Kuwaiti production capacities could at any time have met the 5-6 million
barrels per day temporary shortfall, as a U.S. congressional investigation by
the General Accounting Office months later confirmed.
Unusually
low reserve stocks of oil held by the Seven Sisters oil multinationals
contributed to creating a devastating world oil price shock, with prices for
crude oil soaring from a level of some $14 per barrel in 1978 towards the
astronomical heights of $40 per barrel for some grades of crude on the spot
market. Long gasoline lines across America contributed to a general sense of
panic, and Carter energy secretary and former CIA director, James R.
Schlesinger, did not help calm matters when he told Congress and the media in
February 1979 that the Iranian oil shortfall was 'prospectively more serious'
than the 1973 Arab oil embargo.[2][2]
The
Carter administration's Trilateral Commission foreign policy further ensured
that any European effort from Germany and France to develop more cooperative
trade, economic and diplomatic relations with their Soviet neighbor, under the
umbrella of détente and various Soviet-west European energy agreements, was
also thrown into disarray.
Carter's
security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, and secretary of state, Cyrus Vance,
implemented their 'Arc of Crisis' policy, spreading the instability of the
Iranian revolution throughout the perimeter around the Soviet Union.
Throughout the Islamic perimeter from Pakistan to Iran, U.S. initiatives
created instability or worse."
--
William Engdahl, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New
World Order, © 1992, 2004. Pluto Press Ltd. Pages 171-174.
[1]
In 1978, the Iranian Ettelaat published an article accusing Khomeini of being
a British agent. The clerics organized violent demonstrations in response,
which led to the flight of the Shah months later. See U.S. Library of Congress
Country Studies, Iran. The Coming of the Revolution. December 1987. The role
of BBC Persian broadcasts in the ousting of the Shah is detailed in Hossein
Shahidi. 'BBC Persian Service 60 years on.' The Iranian. September 24, 2001.
The BBC was so much identified with Khomeini that it won the name 'Ayatollah
BBC.'
[2]
Comptroller General of the United States. 'Iranian Oil Cutoff: Reduced
Petroleum Supplies and Inadequate U.S. Government Response.' Report
to Congress by General Accounting Office. 1979.
Jimmy Carter's catastrophic doctrine and treason against Iran, created the most barbaric Islamic terrorist militants ever!
