Iran
Newsweek Lies about US and Iranian History
On May 18, 2010, Newsweek produced an infomercial thinly cloaked as serious news. Among other insults to the intelligence of its viewers, Newsweek includes a very selective reading of history designed to convince the uninformed that Iran=Evil and the United States=Good. Unfortunately, real history is more complex.
All the Shah's Men
Kinzer reconstructs the U.S. CIA's 1953 overthrow of the elected leader of
Iran, Mohammad Mossadegh, who was wildly popular for having nationalized his
country's oil industry. The coup ushered in the long and brutal dictatorship
of Mohammad Reza Shah, widely seen as a U.S. puppet. A veteran New York Times
foreign correspondent, he shows that until early in 1953, Great Britain and
the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company were imperialist baddies.
