T. F. Kelley | October 1, 2009
A first brief meeting (September 30) between our diplomat William Burns and the Iranian official Saeed Jalili in Geneva marks a good time to review the troubled relationship between our two countries. With Iran, once valued as an ally and best friend we have gone from meddling to shunning, from friendship to hostility. Why, what [...]
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Tags: British, Burns, Cheney, Churchill, CIA, Eisenhower, ElBaradei, Iran, Jalili, Kissinger, MI6, Mossadegh, nuclear, Rumsfeld, Shah, WMD, Wolfowitz, Zinni
T. F. Kelley | March 10, 2006
Iran: déjà vu all over again? Wherever we went in the Middle East we left footprints and some of those were missteps that produced drastic and undesired political changes. The Pahlavi dynasty ruled Iran, once called Persia, since 1925 with a major interruption in 1951 when Mohammad Mossadegh an ultra nationalist was elected Prime Minister [...]
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Tags: Albright, Cheney, Churchill, CIA, Eisenhower, IAEA, Iran, Khomeini, MiddleEast, Mossadegh, NPT, nuclear, Pahlavi, reactor, Rumsfeld, Shah, Shi'ite, UN
