Embassy of the United States, Tehran

A brief list of America's wrongs and crimes in its 73-year history.

history of meddling in iran the den of espionage the war that the u s initiated on february twenty eighth twenty twenty six by blatantly killing iran's supreme leader which any historian would tell you is an unprecedented act of aggression was not the beginning of hostilities between iran and the united states this war is only the latest chapter in a well-documented history of wrongs and crimes that stretch back seventy-three years the beginning of america's hostility towards iranians was in nineteen fifty three the year in which the cia aided and abetted the shah's regime to stage a coup and topple the legitimate and popular government of iran headed by the americanophile prime minister mohammed mozadegh as a result of this coup the shah who has cowardly fled the country returned with a restored sense of confidence ruling for the next several decades with an iron fist.

The Shah's newly formed security agency, SAVAK, which the CIA and Mossad helped shape, brutally tortured and murdered anyone who dared to raise a dissenting voice.

The 1953 coup marked the beginning of America's involvement in Iran, and over the decades, the US government exploited Iran's natural resources and utilized its strategic geopolitical position to exert greater control over the entire region meanwhile american officials and military personnel numbering in the tens of thousands roamed iran freely denigrating iranians sense of national pride by shamelessly committing blatant crimes with absolute impunity frustrated with the oppression and corruption iranians overthrew the shah in the 1979 islamic revolution ending 25 years of US-backed brutality.

When the Iranian people undertook the revolution, they had no animus towards any other nation, not even the US.

They simply wanted to be free, to control their own resources, to preserve and practice their national and religious values.

But immediately after the fall of the Shah's dictatorship, the US embassy in Tehran, which historical records show housed a large CIA station, and thus came to be known in iran as the den of espionage actively undertook efforts to undermine and overthrow the newly formed islamic republic utilizing its embassy as a command and control center the u s government armed and organized insurgent factions within Iran's numerous minority ethnic groups, which are generally concentrated along the border, encouraging them to fight Iran's fledgling government by stirring up unrest and perpetrating heinous mass killings.

Simultaneously, the US embassy was coordinating with monarchist elements within Iran's military ranks to stage a military coup.