BP Oil used to be Called Anglo Iranian Oil Company

from Jeff Hendrickson - https://membercentre.cbc.ca/ViewMember.aspx?u=7650633

January 12, 2012 cbc comment

Upstate NY Writer Here: From the "Democracy Now Website": "In 1953, the CIA and British intelligence orchestrated a coup d'etat that toppled the democratically elected government of Iran. The government of Mohammad Mossadegh. The aftershocks of the coup are still being felt.

In 1951 Prime Minister Mossadegh roused Britain's ire when he nationalized the oil industry. Mossadegh argued that Iran should begin profiting from its vast oil reserves which had been exclusively controlled by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The company later became known as British Petroleum (BP).

After considering military action, Britain opted for a coup d'état. President Harry Truman rejected the idea, but when Dwight Eisenhower took over the White House, he ordered the CIA to embark on one of its first covert operations against a foreign government."

And here we are now, not many talk about 1951-1953 and what happened after we installed the Shah as Dictator of Iran but in a way the Iranians have grievance against us that has led, most likely, to today's problems. The U.S. just can't resist intefering with others and on and on and on it goes without true redress.


Merge this commment from another CBC reader:

The "Anglo - Soviet Invasion of Iran ( 1941 )"

Goal: steal Iranian oil, seize Iranian sovereignty in an illegal suprise attack to force it to kick out the German Embassy and force it out of Neutrality and into servicing Britain and the USSR.

"Operation AJAX" ( 1953 )"

Goal: steal Iranian oil again, because a pro-western, western educated, progressive anti-communist named Dr. Mohammed Mossadeq wants more of Iran's own oil wealth ( Iran's property ) going to --- Iranians !

Tactical Project AJAX was hatched by Kermit Rooseveldt, the CIA and MI-6...
they bombed popular religious leaders homes, etc and
handed out notices saying that Mossadeq had done it-
paid people to stage fake street protests-
This is called a " False Flag operation.
Result: Mossadeq imprisoned, the Shah gave the west what they wanted---until the 1979 Revolution.

Under the Shah, The Gestapo-esque SAVAK terrorized the people---trained by Israel and the CIA.