"The American press played an important supporting role in Operation Ajax, as the Iran coup was code-named. A few newspapers and magazines published favorable articles about Mossadegh, but they were the exceptions. The New York Times regularly referred to him as a dictator. Other papers compared him to Hitler and Stalin."
Overthrow, Stephen Kinzer, str. 124
"Using a network of Iranian agents and spending lavish amounts of money, he created an entirely artificial wave of anti-Mossadegh protest. Members of parliament withdrew their support from Mossadegh and denounced him with wild charges. Religious leaders gave sermons calling him an atheist, a Jew, and an infidel."
"Newspapers were filled with articles and cartoons depicting him as everything from a homosexual to an agent of British imperialism."
Ibid
I'm not claiming that situation is 100% same as in Iran 1953, but it resembles. And as always useful idiots are at work. "Liberal" interventionists included 🙂
"The American press played an important supporting role in Operation Ajax, as the Iran coup was code-named. A few newspapers and magazines published favorable articles about Mossadegh, but they were the exceptions. The New York Times regularly referred to him as a dictator. Other papers compared him to Hitler and Stalin."
Overthrow, Stephen Kinzer, str. 124
"Using a network of Iranian agents and spending lavish amounts of money, he created an entirely artificial wave of anti-Mossadegh protest. Members of parliament withdrew their support from Mossadegh and denounced him with wild charges. Religious leaders gave sermons calling him an atheist, a Jew, and an infidel."
"Newspapers were filled with articles and cartoons depicting him as everything from a homosexual to an agent of British imperialism."
Ibid
I'm not claiming that situation is 100% same as in Iran 1953, but it resembles. And as always useful idiots are at work. "Liberal" interventionists included 🙂