The United States, England and Iran: Oil
President George Bush often states that Iran is threatening the interests of the Unites States in Persian Gulf ! What are the interests of England and the United States in Persian Gulf, the Persian front door to Iran? A primer for discussion of these issues must start with review of British and the United States policies relative to the Persian Gulf region. Stephen Kinzer , a veteran New York Times correspondent, in his book “All the Shah’s Men, an American coup and the roots of Middle East Terror”, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003, brilliantly reconstructs the events leading to the present dilemma of the United States in the Middle East. The events described in this marvelous book are not fiction, it actually happened during the summer of 1953 in Tehran, Iran. The United States Central Intelligence Agency operation Ajax staged coup d’état in 1953 against democratically elected Prime Minister Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh. Democracy was substituted with the despotic regime of Mo...