The Plot to Attack Iran
How the CIA and the Deep State Have Conspired to Vilify Iran
Published on 9. May 2018
224 pages
978-1-5107-3935-2 (ISBN)
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* "Spectacular!" * ?Oliver Stone
The world has a lot of questions about the current state of affairs between the United States and Iran…
- How has the US undermined democracy in Iran?
- Is Iran really trying to develop nuclear weapons?
- How has US waged a terror campaign against Iran for years?
- How is it that the US and Israel, rather than Iran, are destabilizing the Middle East?
- How has Iran helped the US in the war on terror? In The Plot to Attack Iran, critically acclaimed author Dan Kovalik exposes what Americans have known about the Islamic Republic is largely based on propaganda. The 1953 coup that deposed the democratically-elected prime minister for a US-selected shah? Sold to average American citizens as a necessity to protect democracy and guard against communism. In truth, it was America's lust for Iranian oil and power that installed the tyrannical shah. The Iranian hostage crisis that miraculously ended with Ronald Reagan's inauguration as president? Evidence shows that Reagan negotiated with the hostage-takers to hold the hostages until his inauguration. Iran, once known as Persia, is one of the oldest nations on earth. It has a rich history and a unique culture, and is bordered by seven countries, the Caspian Sea, and the Persian Gulf. It is literally the intersection of many countries and many worlds. It has a population of eighty million people and occupies a space nearly the size of Alaska, the largest US state; it is the seventeenth largest country in the world. Over the past century, Iran's greatest resource, and at the same time its greatest curse, has been its oil. For it is oil that has caused the United States and other world powers to systematically attempt to destroy Iran. After a greedy Iranian monarch sold all of Iran's oil and natural gas reserves to a British financier in 1901, the West started just one of its many invasions and exploitations of the country. Using recently declassified documents and memos, as well as first-hand experience of the country, critically-acclaimed author Dan Kovalik will change the way you think about Iran, and especially what you think of US interference there. Learn how the United States vilifies its enemies, and accuses them of unspeakable horror to mask its own terrible crimes. Not only does the illuminating and important The Plot to Attack Iran delve into the current incendiary situation, but it also predicts what could happen next, and what needs to be done before it is too late.
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Daniel Kovalik has been a labor and human rights lawyer since graduating from Columbia Law School in 1993. He has represented plaintiffs in ATS cases arising out of egregious human rights abuses in Colombia. He received the David W. Mills Mentoring Fellowship from Stanford Law School, has written extensively for the Huffington Post and Counterpunch, and has lectured throughout the world.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Target: Iran
- 2 The West's Not-So-Creative Destruction of the Middle East
- 3 The United States and United Kingdom Destroy Iranian Democracy
- 4 Installing a King in the Name of Democracy
- 5 The CIA and the SAVAK
- 6 Jimmy Carter and the Human Rights Double Standard
- 7 The Shah's Reign Begins to Crumble
- 8 US Foreign Policy and the Rise of the Ayatollah
- 9 A Tale of Two Revolutions-Iran and Nicaragua
- 10 The Iran-Iraq War-Playing Both Sides Against Each Other
- 11 The United States, Iran, and the Taliban
- 12 The United States, Saudi Arabia, and the War on Yemen
- 13 Avoiding a War with Iran
- Conclusion
- Notes
