Liberty Minute September 18 2013

A few weeks ago, the US government confessed to something that had long been known, but officially denied: The CIA had organized the 1953 coup that overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh, the elected president of Iran. This led to the installation of Shah Reza Pahlavi, a dictator who ruled through terror for a quarter-century until he was overthrown by the Ayatollah Khomeni.

Some defenders of the CIA?s Iranian coup claim that it was justified because Mossadegh?s government was nationalizing US and British oil companies in Iran. If that action is defensible, why shouldn?t the Iranian government stage a coup to retaliate for the US government?s seizure of an Iranian-owned office building near Rockefeller Center?

The seizure is being carried out under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which supposedly gives the government authority to confiscate terrorism-related assets. 

While the Manhattan office building is owned by the Iranian government, the US government has not demonstrated that it was involved in terrorist activities of any kind. Furthermore, it was built by the Shah ? a dictator who was installed by the CIA and used as Washington?s proxy for decades.

When foreign governments confiscate assets, Washington calls it terrorism. When Washington does the same, it?s called ?American exceptionalism.?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.