Reply #26: To induce fear in others to gain power over them and their resources [View All]

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Just a guess, was I close? I was thinking why do Democracies over throw other democracies in clandestine and cryptic coups like they did in Chile and Iran.
Maybe there is somebody trying to hide the truth from the majority of the population of them countries?




http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB21/index.html
National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 21

20 Years after the Hostages:
Declassified Documents on
Iran and the United States
Edited By Malcolm Byrne
Director, Project on U.S.-Iran Relations
November 5, 1999


The shocking seizure of the American embassy and its staff in Tehran on November 4, 1979, placed U.S.-Iran relations firmly in the deep freeze. Whatever hopes existed on either side for a rapprochement after the Shah’s departure at the start of the year were quickly doused. Twenty years later, the controversy over reestablishing ties rages on in both countries. Serious differences exist on strategic matters and regional policy, while public discourse is complicated by lingering images of blind-folded hostages and rhetorical invocations against "Global Arrogance".

In the last two years, however, Iran’s political scene has become far more fluid. President Mohammad Khatemi’s surprise landslide victory in May 1997 reflected strong grassroots demands to rejuvenate Iran’s post-revolutionary policies, and the new moderate leader has responded, even reaching out to the United States with a compelling call for a "dialogue of civilizations". Gingerly as yet, the White House has endorsed the idea, but neither side seems ready to take the official plunge. Instead, both President Khatemi and President Clinton have promoted private, non-governmental contacts as a way to crack the ice that has shrouded the two countries’ interactions for the past two decades.
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