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by Mr. Allen for the Saker blog Over the last few years, we hear leaders from both Russia and China pronouncing that they have formed a relationship where there are

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offsite link Why Are Footballers Being Forced to Promote Pride? Wed Jun 25, 2025 11:09 | Will Jones
Free expression is under attack in football as an increasing number of players are punished for refusing to wear the rainbow symbol. Why are footballers being forced to promote Pride, asks Freddie Attenborough in Spiked.
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offsite link Trees Get Bigger Around the World Thanks to Higher CO2 Levels Wed Jun 25, 2025 09:00 | Chris Morrison
Trees are getting bigger around the world thanks to higher CO2 levels, scientists have found. Little wonder, says Chris Morrison: they evolved to thrive in CO2 levels three times higher than they are today.
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offsite link Why Are We Importing the Democrats? ?Sanctuary Cities?? Wed Jun 25, 2025 07:00 | Charlotte Gill
Join the dots, follow the money. Sadiq Khan is Co-Chair of C40 Cities. Mike Bloomberg is President of the Board, and also UN climate envoy. The UN partners with C40 Cities. It's all making sense, says Charlotte Gill.
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offsite link News Round-Up Wed Jun 25, 2025 01:12 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
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offsite link Electric Cars Crash in Value With Some Worth Just a Third of Original Price After One Year Tue Jun 24, 2025 19:00 | Will Jones
Electric cars are crashing in value with some worth as little as a third of their original price after just 12 months.
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Iran coup: Tudeh’s inglorious role

category international | anti-war / imperialism | other press author Friday December 07, 2012 13:46author by Elric Report this post to the editors

Torab Saleth reviews: Ervand Abrahamian, 'The coup: 1953, the CIA and the roots of modern US-Iranian relations', New Press, 2013, pp304, £16.84. Instead of physically opposing the Coup the Tudeh were out distributing leaflets and getting people to sign petitions. Remind you of anyone? Full text at link.

With the continuing efforts made by the self-proclaimed global imperial power, the USA, to achieve ‘regime change’ in Iran, it is timely that a book about the 1953 coup - in which the US, with the help of the British government, carried out exactly such regime change - has been published. The coup was aimed against Mohammad Mosaddegh’s National Front1 government, which had nationalised the British-controlled Iranian oil industries.

If Los Angeles-based Iranian TV stations or Facebook campaigns have given the imperialists a false impression that a nation is waiting to be liberated by the US and its allies, this book should remind them why there is in fact still a deep and widespread hostility in Iran towards the USA and Britain: precisely because of this event.
Mohamed Mossadegh: took wind out of sails of opportunist ‘official communists’
Mohamed Mossadegh: took wind out of sails of opportunist ‘official communists’

The historical irony is that the forefathers of the current dictators in Tehran were indeed part of the very same ‘pro-democracy’ coalition of forces that helped the US in its 1953 coup. The Shi’ite hierarchy was instrumental in it. Indeed the coup succeeded at the second attempt because of the help accorded by Shi’ite rent-a-crowd mullahs. The same rabble-rousers who were instrumental in helping the CIA save the shah in 1953 organised riots two decades later in support of ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Indeed, the whole calamity called the ‘Islamic Republic of Iran’ would not have come into existence if it had not been for that coup. ...

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