Fazlollah Zahedi person
also: Zahedi, General Fazola Zahidi, General Zahidi, Zahidi
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Claims (4)
Reza Pahlavi appointed
Fazlollah Zahedi book_quoted
“You're not allowed to do that. This led to President Eisenhower's signing a finding, which basically is the authorization, not that they needed it because he had already approved it. But that's kind of like a promissory note that Mosaddegh'…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 18:30
Kermit Roosevelt recruited
Fazlollah Zahedi host_asserted
“The former Iranian commander by the name of Zahedi, Z-A-H-E-D-I, and he is the one that Kermit ends up working with. And they draft a decree that has the Shah dismissing Mosaddegh, even though technically that wasn't allowed. Minor technica…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 20:23
Fazlollah Zahedi headed
Iran host_asserted
“the, let's see, as the cost to American taxpayers for the foreign aid, Eisenhower approved $45 million. This is in 1952 and three, $45 million. And soon after the Zahedi cabinet took office. And so basically the Shah is going to be the roya…”
▶ The Colonels Corner President’s Secret Wars chapter 6 @ 22:57
CIA covered_up
Fazlollah Zahedi book_quoted
“paid for the article in the New York Times set all those years later. The CIA's agents fabricated an interview with Zahidi as well. Donald Wilber's CIA account notes that Zahidi stayed with agency officers from August 16th on, and the Zahid…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner safe for Democracy Part 9 @ 24:49
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▶ 20:23
The former Iranian commander by the name of Zahedi, Z-A-H-E-D-I, and he is the one that Kermit ends up working with. And they draft a decree that has the Shah dismissing Mosaddegh, even though technically that wasn't allowed. Minor technica…
▶ 22:57
the, let's see, as the cost to American taxpayers for the foreign aid, Eisenhower approved $45 million. This is in 1952 and three, $45 million. And soon after the Zahedi cabinet took office. And so basically the Shah is going to be the roya…
▶ 12:00
Major General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Storm and Norman Schwarzkopf's dad, known to the Shah as a trainer of his police, the Savak, a few years earlier. He had been recruited by the CIA Iranian branch chief, John Waller, at the end of June. T…
▶ 18:30
You're not allowed to do that. This led to President Eisenhower's signing a finding, which basically is the authorization, not that they needed it because he had already approved it. But that's kind of like a promissory note that Mosaddegh'…
▶ 21:02
pronounced it is a good one and told the prince his pin would be worth a lot of money. The document had been the decree appointing General Zahidi as prime minister, the stranger a CIA emissary. The prince then recalls the dinner conversatio…
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By then, Colonel Nasari's Imperial Guard has sent squads to arrest Mosaddegh's supporters, but they missed Rahayi, who had already gone to the headquarters. Nasari was arrested himself when he attempted to serve the decree. In the morning, …
▶ 23:26
having fled to a hideout outside of Tehran, had put himself out of play. The general's son, Zahidi Jr., later a top aide to the Shah, stood beside the general throughout those days and denies that Zahidi was engaged in any foreign intrigue,…
▶ 23:56
When the CIA's history of AJAC was finally opened and the newspaper published a feature article based on it. Not only does the son deny Zahidi's CIA connection, he insists no agency operation put his father into power. That in fact, if ther…
▶ 24:22
in search of Zahidi to contact the general who hid at the estate of a friend. Kim Roosevelt collected the general from his hideaway and brought him to the home of a CIA officer in Tehran. Later, the CIA station compiled a public statement p…
▶ 24:49
paid for the article in the New York Times set all those years later. The CIA's agents fabricated an interview with Zahidi as well. Donald Wilber's CIA account notes that Zahidi stayed with agency officers from August 16th on, and the Zahid…
▶ 25:46
believing that Ajax had failed. For its part, the agency circulated cartoons and leaflets drawn up at headquarters, organized press coverages undermining Mosaddegh's claim. For example, one newspaper publisher who had been advanced a sum of…
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Kenneth Love to an interview with General Zahidi. Joe Goodwin used the CIA station radio to relay a message to the Associated Press in New York that asserted that unofficial reports acknowledged that anti-Mosedec forces were armed with offi…
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Full-scale rioting broke out in Tehran on August 18th and 19th. Several hundred people died because the trained Gladio people are in town. A friendly newspaper published the text of the Shah's announcement appointing Zahidi, probably the sa…
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CIA officers contacted army units throughout Iran to rally them to Zahidi. That would be in addition to the stay behind people. We're going to refer to them as army units. At the end of the second day, pro-Shah tank units informed by report…
▶ 31:50
which defied their declaration of unconditional support for democracy around the globe, because they just overthrew it, supported the Shah. The U.S. also committed itself irrevocably to his regime in a way that blinded Washington later. As …
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So not only did we pay to overthrow the duly elected prime minister of Iran, we paid for the dictator that we installed with our tax dollars. The flow neared a billion dollars by the end of Ike's term in 1960. The losers, of course, were th…