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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 14) November 1987 Last| Contents| Next Issue 14 Irangate and Secret Arms-for-Hostage Deal FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RE: MAJOR MEDIA RELEASES STORY ON ORIGINS OF IRANGATE IN SECRET ARMS-FOR-HOSTAGE-DELAY DEAL BETWEEN IRAN AND THE 1980 REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN THE NATION (June 20, 1987& July 4, 1987); IN THESE TIMES (June 24-July 7, 1987); MIAMI HERALD (April 12, 1987); SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER (April 12& 25 (from LONDON OBSERVER)& July 15,1987); L.A. WEEKLY, March 27-APRIL 2,1987; HAVE JUST PUBLISHED ARTICLES DOCUMENTING THE SECRET DEAL BETWEEN IRAN AND THE 1980 REAGAN-BUSH PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 343 - 01 Nov 1987 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue14/lob14-01.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 53) Summer 2007 Last| Contents| Next Issue 12 Iran on the brink: Rising workers and threats of war Andreas Malm, and Shora Esmailian London: Pluto Press, 2007, P/b £17.99 Reviewed by Richard Alexander At a time when Iran is in the news on a daily basis, when war and rumours of war are being constantly circulated and global warming and peak oil are finally filtering into the public consciousness, the release of this book could not have been timed better. It brings together an historical background to the present crisis (which goes back 100 years), on-the-ground research done by the two authors on behalf ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 333 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-44.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 30) December 1995 Last| Contents| Next Issue 30 A 'great venture': overthrowing the government of Iran Mark Curtis This is a slightly abridged version of part of chapter four of Mark Curtis's book The Ambiguities of Power: British Foreign Policy since 1945 (Zed Press, 1995) reviewed below. In August 1953 a coup overthrew Iran's nationalist government of Mohammed Musaddiq and installed the Shah in power. The Shah subsequently used widespread repression and torture in a dictatorship that lasted until the 1979 Islamic revolution. The 1953 coup is conventionally regarded primarily as a CIA operation, yet the planning record reveals not only that Britain was the prime mover in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 183 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-01.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 35) Summer 1998 Last| Contents| Next Issue 35 The 1953 Coup in Iran: an Iranian insider's view Extracts from the memoirs of the late General Fardust on the Iranian Pahlavi dynasty, published in 1978. Translated from the Farsi and introduced by Armen Victorian. Hossein Fardust was perhaps the closest person to the late Shah of Iran, Muhammad Reza Pahlavi. They went to school together and Fardust became the Shah's closest friend-- perhaps his only trusted friend. As the Shah himself wrote in his book A Mission for My Homeland: 'During that time [school days] my closest friend was a boy called Hossein Fardust, the son ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 181 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-02.htm
... intelligence agency that served his needs. As a pre-revolution informant for the Shah's secret police, SAVAK, Ghorbanifar enjoyed 'access to Iranian underworld characters of various illicit hues', according to a CIA report.(3) A preliminary study of Irangate issued in 1987 by the Senate Intelligence Committee observed that Ghorbanifar had once offered to swap intelligence on Iran for protection of the 'drug smuggling activities' of several of his close associates.(4) Although George protested to CIA Director William Casey that he was 'not going to run this guy', North liked Ghorbanifar's 'neat idea' of diverting arms profits to the contras via Switzerland. And so the deals continued, supervised by only a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 98 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-03.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 32) December 1996 Last| Contents| Next Issue 32 Export or Die: Britain's Defence Trade with Iran and Iraq Davina Miller Cassell, London, 1996, £11.50 Scott Newton Dr Miller's books uses the plethora of information uncovered during the course of the Scott Inquiry, as well as plenty not used during its long sessions and deliberations, to provide detailed analyses of government policy towards the sale of defence-related and dual-use equipment to Iran and Iraq during and after the Gulf War. The argument rests on five propositions. First, British defence-related exports are driven by a general desire to export what is produced. Second, government support for the export ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 94 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-12.htm
... what SMG called a 'backboard shot': if one can't feed a story to state-controlled media, play it off the international media, knowing the local press will feel honour bound to report the coverage. 'Our one access to daylight was the US media and its knock on to the Filipino media It was a huge, huge stitch-up.’ 1 6 Iran 2009 H arding's description of the events of Manila 1986 may shed some light on the still under-explored Iranian elections of 2009 and on the uncertainty in the days and weeks which followed.1 7 The re-elected Iranian President( 'no gays in Iran') Ahmadinejad1 8 has – since his success in holding power in disputedly 'democratic' elections1 9 – ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 65 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-033.pdf
... U.S. arms sales abroad which had averaged $2 billion a year through most of the 1960s leapt to $3.9 billion in 1973, then to $8.3 billion in 1974, after the oil price increases of 1973 put new dollar surpluses in the hands of the OPEC countries- including three of the four new U.S. superclient states (Iran, Nigeria and Indonesia). This swelling of the international arms trade also pumped new resources into the hands of the international sales and payoff system which had grown up to market such sales. Most of these arms traffickers were recruited from the international right-wing and/or intelligence community. Not surprisingly, many of the key contacts for illicit ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 59 - 01 Sep 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue12/lob12-24.htm
... Pinkerton agency, or U-1, a post-WW1 section of the State Department, or H.O. Yardley. But as he reaches the post WW2 world, ideology begins to dominate. He writes (p 167): 'The essential idea behind U.S. foreign policy in the 1950s was the defence of democracy. But in order to "save" Iran and Guatemala from the tendentious threat of communism, the CIA conspired to over-throw the democratic government in those two countries, condemning local people to decades of autocratic misrule.' I wonder how long it took him to come up with 'autocratic misrule' as a description of the fate of the peoples of Guatemala and Iran after the Americans installed ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 39 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-46.htm
... in the Middle East had begun to embarrass sections of the London media, normally cheerleaders for 'the special relationship'. Patience Wheatcroft wrote of 'the craven kow-towing of the British Government to the Americans' in MI6's house journal, The Sunday Telegraph (9 July 2006). What that 'kow-towing' looks like was illustrated in 'Blair beefed up his Iran speech to please Bush' (Sunday Telegraph 28 May 2006) in which Toby Harnden and Patrick Hennessy reported: 'Tony Blair made significant changes to one of his most important foreign policy speeches after bowing to American objections....The Prime Minister changed key passages on possible action against Iran, climate change, and a proposed shake-up of the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 38 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-16.htm
