Iranian Revolution event
also: 1979 Islamic Revolution, 1979 revolution, fall of Iran, fall of the Shah, islamic revolution, new government, Shari theme fell in 1979, the revolution, when the Shah fell
Explore in graph → Export claims (CSV) ↓
Related entities (most co-mentioned)
Irancountry · 4Reza Pahlaviperson · 2Von Marburgperson · 2United Kingdomcountry · 2British withdrawal from Persian Gulfevent · 2Gamal Abdel Nasserperson · 1Mohammad Mosaddeghperson · 1Jimmy Carterperson · 1Suez Canalplace · 11953 Iranian coup d'étatevent · 1Fall of Saigonevent · 1Persian Gulfplace · 1Suez Crisisevent · 1Zbigniew Brzezinskiperson · 1Afghanistancountry · 1Francecountry · 1West Germanycountry · 1Egyptcountry · 1
Claims (1)
CIA involved_in
Iranian Revolution host_asserted
“You've got Jimmy Carter basically gutting the covert. And then what happens? And we know now that the CIA was involved in the fall of Iran, just like they were back in 1953. So it looks very suspicious that, and that's what caused me to dig…”
▶ OPERATION GLADIO Exposed by COLONEL TOWNER in Presidents' Secret Wars Chapter 16 cont @ 1:03:15
Mentions (7)
▶ 1:31:31
Yeah, but of course, they want something in return for it. Oh, really? So why did we cut them off? I agree with you. I mean, for example, the situation with Iran, when I watched what was going on in Iran, I was pretty livid over the whole s…
▶ 1:21:36
are actually any indication of him being a Zionist at all. As a matter of fact, it makes the exact opposite argument. So you can take that for whatever you want. Anybody else have anything? Sylvia, did you want to ask a question? Yes, thank…
▶ 6:41
This replaced the Nixon doctrine of relying on regional superpowers to maintain order, which had collapsed in the region with the fall of the Shah in Iran, which the CIA in the U.S. controlled. Seen from this perspective, Brzezinski's conce…
▶ 7:09
Persian Gulf. And they didn't actually withdraw. They were kicked out. They were kicked out of almost all of the countries to include Iran when they tried to overthrow Mosaddegh in 1953. They later got back in when they reinstalled the Shah…
▶ 17:18
He had the reputation of being a courageous and imaginative government official. He had personally supervised much of the U.S. retreat from South Vietnam when the Saigon government fell. He had gotten Iran's deputy minister of defense to gi…
▶ 17:50
he was still making a lot of those deals. This gave President Carter some leverage over the revolutionary regime, but more of the Reagan administration. Von Marburg had friends in high places. He was cautious and very smooth in social setti…
▶ 1:19:30
And honestly, I think that's exactly what happened when the Shah fell. The fact that the Ayatollah was in France and the complicity of the intelligence structure, and I know all about the hostage thing, and I have my own opinion about that …