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(10,998 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)We are ignorant of the fact that our government deposed a Democratically elected government and replaced it with a brutal dictator at BRITISH Petroleum (BP) and the British government's request, all to maintain cheap oil. The Iranians remember!
Hopefully, by opening up the country again, the Iranians will chafe even more at their repressive government and decide to open even further.
mountain grammy
(26,650 posts)in the Middle East right now and it's imperative to make peace with them. They mistrust America for good reasons.
dpatbrown
(368 posts)Absolutely. The GOP, when talking about how "bad" Iran is, never discusses what happened in 1953. The U.S. overthrew their elected president and put a puppet in charge. And many folks in this country refuse to see this as a reason for Iran's anti-American feelings and a lack of trust for America.
erronis
(15,330 posts)And we want to deny it to Iran because they don't like us (wonder why).
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)"In 1955 construction began on India's first reactor, the 1 MW Apsara research reactor, with British assistance. And in September 1955, after more than a year of negotiation, Canada agreed to supply India with a powerful research reactor - the 40 MW Canada-India Reactor (CIR). Under the Eisenhower Administration's "Atoms for Peace" program the US agreed to supply 21 tons of heavy water for this reactor in Februrary 1956, and the reactor was dubbed the Canada-India Reactor, U.S. or CIRUS (now commonly written as Cirus).
The acquisition of Cirus was a watershed event in nuclear proliferation. Although the sale was made with the understanding that the reactor would only be used for peaceful purposes (the heavy water contract at least made this explicit), it occurred before any international policies were in place to regulate such technology transfers and no provision for inspections were made. And in fact India was careful to ensure that no effective regulation would accompany the reactor. India refusing to accept fuel from Canada for the reactor and set up a program to manufacture the natural uranium fuel for Cirus indigeneously so as to keep complete control of the plutonium produced there. This program, led by metallurgist Brahm Prakash, succeeded in developing the techniques for producing the precisely manufactured, high purity material demanded by the reactor."
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)and 1/3 were Navy bootstrap students.
The Persians were supported by their gov't, but some didn't seem all that comfortable about it. Many of them got in trouble in the States for wearing masks while protesting the Shah's regime.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts). . . the idea of thinking we can ultimately prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon if it is really intent on doing so (note: I said "if" , is absurd on its face. And it is why we had damn well better come to terms on an agreement that provides incentive for Iran NOT to develop such weapons!
dpatbrown
(368 posts)The Reagan lovers, have for thirty years, tried to sweep under the rug that their hero was actually a traitor. They hate it when anyone brings this fact up.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)Then traded arms while in office.
Quid Pro Quo much?
Then gave Saddam chem weapons to attack Iran.
They hate us for our freedom?
Scruffy Rumbler
(961 posts)keep the hostages in Iran until the election was over and Carter was out of office were traitors! With the assassinations during the '60's and pardoning Nixon for Watergate, the republicans have been committing treason for as long as I have been alive. And you can go back farther to my grandparents time with Hitler's Bush buddy and the Smedley Butler Plot!
stage left
(2,966 posts)Talk about undermining a sitting president. Reagan was the champ. Or whoever was pulling his strings.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)FairWinds
(1,717 posts)and protected him from his own people for close to 25 years.
If some nation did to the US what we did to Iran we would turn
that country into a parking lot at the first opportunity.
Here is a recent article I wrote about Iran and the US "Memory Hole."
http://www.juancole.com/2015/03/americas-memory-hole.html
NoMoreRepugs
(9,459 posts)I just cant wait for info to pour out of Iraq about Raygun/PoppyBush and the arms for hostages deal and most of all the delay negotiated 4 the hostage release to insure Rayguns victory over Carter - crank up that popcorn machine!
That is great.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)and we all suffer because of it.
If it is not in their "version" of history it did not happen and does not mean anything.