We all knew it wouldn’t
take long for a leftist rag to publish an op-ed that would defend Iran and drag
the reputation of the United States through the mud. The News and Observer found their useful
idiot.
Joe Morgan is a retired
southeastern U.S. director of Church World Services. This organization was recently exposed for taking
federal funds and smuggling Muslim refugees into unsuspecting communities. This so-called religious organization then
helps refugees by enrolling them into government housing and welfare programs.
The refugee resettlement program
is a money making machine for Church World Services. The Center for Immigration Studies concluded
the following:
Refugee resettlement has become quite
remunerative for the voluntary agencies that now receive government payment for
this line of business. Some 11 private refugee bureaus received about $37
million in government funding in FY 2011 alone.
The constant focus on amassing taxpayer
money in large quantities seems to compete mightily as motivation for religious
refugee agencies which, before taxpayers could be tapped, appeared truer to the
biblical imperatives to love your neighbor as yourself and to do unto others as
you would have them do unto you. When money becomes an idol, it skews focus and
perspective. The temptation naturally becomes to put preservation of government
funding sources ahead of maintaining pure motives and focusing on the
charitable work.
Volags and their local partner
organizations have a vested financial interest in raising the number of
refugees admitted for resettlement in the United States. The more refugees
taken by this country, the more cases assigned to each volag. The more refugee cases
a volag is assigned, the more money the federal government hands over to the
private agency. In some ways, the model resembles those charities that spend
inordinately on fund raising and administration instead of on actually helping
needy people.
So with that in mind let’s
take a look at Mr. Morgan’s op-ed on U.S. perfidy and Iranian victimhood. Is there any doubt as to what that could
be? You guessed it: operation AJAX and
the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. Here is an excerpt:
Those who contend that
Iran cannot be trusted and “will cheat,” may have forgotten why Iran might have
more reason to mistrust the United States than we have to mistrust it.
In 1953 the United
States’ Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated a coup ousting Iran’s
democratically elected president, Dr. Mossadegh, installing Shah Mohamed Reza
Pahlavi. The Shah’s regime outlawed opposition parties and jailed and tortured
political dissidents.
In 1979 the Iranian
people, fed up with the repression, revolted; the Shah fled (later dying of
cancer in the United States), the U.S. Embassy was overrun, and 66 Americans
were taken hostage.
A year later, Saddam
Hussein’s Iraq invaded Iran.
Mr. Morgan’s contention
is nothing new and factually incorrect.
These are old and worn out talking points by self-loathing
Americas. I refuted these assertions in a blog post dating back to 2010. Here is
an excerpt:
This international crisis led the Shah to dismiss
Mossadegh. However, supporters of the prime minister took to the streets, and
the Shah reinstated the Doctor. Mossadegh became increasingly belligerent. He
eventually dismissed parliament, called for a national referendum in which he
received 99.9% of the vote; a feat reminiscent of Saddam Hussein, and then
established emergency powers circumventing the Constitutional Monarchy. The
Shah again tried to dismiss Mossadegh, but the prime minister had the messenger
arrested. The Shah fled Iran.
Great
Britain convinced the United States that Mossadegh was seeking agency with the
Soviet Union. Iran whose geographic location overlooks the Straits of Hormuz is
a strategic gateway to the Persian Gulf. Eisenhower dispatched a handful of
C.I.A. agents under the leadership of Kermit Roosevelt, and a budget of
$1million dollars of which only $72,000 was used.
Eventually
the blockade along with Mossadegh’s disastrous socialist economic policies,
such as collectivist farms, alienated his supporters. Hundreds of thousands of
citizens took to the streets, where the army joined them to overthrow Mossadegh.
Barack Obama’s Iranian deal is a disaster in the
making. The West will rue the day they
enabled this apocalyptic regime. When
WWIII breaks out, we can expect leftist rags like the News and Observer to
blame the United States and their fictional narrative of the overthrow of Mossadegh
as the catalyst.
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