Obama Operating In Line With Eisenhower Doctrine On Iran

Tehran, April 3, IRNA – US President Barack Obama is operating in line with US-engineered military coup in 1953 by signing a new series of sanctions to disrupt everyday life of ordinary people. He outlined a series of anti-Iran measures in the context of the so-called campaign to restore democracy to Iran and bring Iran back to the international community by intensifying economic sanctions and providing Iranians with Internet services. He said at a signing ceremony that the US has decided to talk to Iran, but, the opportunity for diplomacy is dwindling. Suffering from setbacks in domestic politics, President Obama has repeated anti-Iran speech of President George W. Bush in his address to the pro-Israel Aipac lobby. President Obama, whose landslide victory in the presidential elections was due to his criticism of the former government for driving the international community to war and hostility, has made surprising statements against Iran creating questions for the public opinion. Obama's statements are reminiscent of the US military coup in Iran in which the CIA spent dlrs six million to topple the democratically elected government of Mohammad Mossadeq in 1953. Mossadeq had led a national campaign to nationalize Iranian oil industry from monopoly of Britain and the UK was seeking help from Washington to take revenge on Iran for nationalizing oil industry. Observers say that Obama's statements about Iran carry the same sense when US President Eisenhower ordered to topple national government of Mossadeq and reinstate dynasty of the deposed shah. Shah had fled the country and the CIA brought him back to Iran. Iranians remember the US unconditional support for tyrannical regime of Pahlavi for 25 years after the military coup. The US had made the Shah's regime the gendarme of the Persian Gulf and an ally of the Tel Aviv regime during 25-year lifespan of Pahlavi brutal regime. Madelein Albright, secretary of state of former president Bill Clinton, acknowledged the US engineered coup in 1953 had caused irreparable damage to Iranian democracy and that Iranians are annoyed with the US interference in Iran. The US exercised direct influence on the Iranian government until 1979 when Washington dispatched general Robert Hauser to discuss with commanders of Iranian army how to crack down the protests. It is surprising that President Obama is following the same methodology as Eisenhower did in 1953 imposing sanctions on pharmaceuticals, science, passenger planes while saying at the same time that Washington has not targeted the Iranian people by its wide-scale sanctions. The Iranian people are well familiar with the US hostility towards Iran which gained momentum after victory of the Islamic Revolution with Washington encouraging the Iraqi dictator to invade Iran when Iranian defense system had undergone a fundamental change. The US intensified its hostility to the Iranian people by providing Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with satellite pictures to help Iraq target concentration of Iranian soldiers and massacre them./end