By: Kayhan International

 

Today on the 71st anniversary of the Anglo-American coup that overthrew Iran’s elected government and restored the rootless Pahlavi potentate to the Peacock Throne in Tehran, the Islamic Republic has begun legal proceedings against the US regime and officials involved in the toppling of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq.

The first session of the trial held yesterday at the 55th branch of the court dealing with international affairs in Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Judicial Complex, will hear a lawsuit filed by some 402,000 Iranians against six US nationals over their role in the 19th August 1953 coup staged through traitors in the Iranian military and bribed street gangs.

Although in 2013 the US formally admitted its role in the coup, it refuses to compensate Iran for the extensive damage done to national interests, the terrorizing of the Iranian people for over 25 years, and the looting of their natural resources, especially oil – to the tune of hundreds of trillion dollars or even much more.

Washington, however, does not have any guilty conscience for the untold harm caused to the Iranian people over the quarter century of its hegemony over Iran, and still has no sympathy for their sufferings, as is evident by its unending plots of the past 45 years including the imposing of wars, terrorism, and economic sanctions.

The reason US analysts have come to view the 1953 coup as a blunder for American interests in Iran, is their surmise (totally wrong) that the Islamic Revolution would not have occurred if they had not overthrown the elected government 71 years ago.

They fail to understand that the grassroots movement of the Iranian Muslims that triumphed under the leadership of that Sage of the Age, Imam Khomeini (RA), was not a spontaneous occurrence or a reaction movement to the Anglo-American coup.

It was simmering since the late Qajar period throughout the Constitutional Movement and during the bleak era of the illiterate soldier of obscure origin, Reza Khan, and his son Mohammad Reza, as the British-installed kings of Iran.

It surfaced for the first time in 1963 and triumphed sixteen years later in a grand manner by solidifying the religious/national bonds between the ulema and the people – the key factor for Iran’s invincibility that was sorely missing in 1953 because of Mosaddeq’s unwise move to rupture ties with Ayatollah Seyyed Abu’l-Qassim Kashani.

As is fully evident, so firm are the ties between the leadership and the masses today, Iran has continued to defeat since 1979 far more dangerous plots than the 1953 coup to try to topple the popular system of Islamic governance, or to undermine Iran’s progress.

To the frustration of the US, Britain, and certain West European regimes that criminally direct the genocide in Gaza by the illegal Zionist entity, the Islamic Republic of Iran is not just the paramount power of West Asia, but inspires peoples and governments of the entire region and beyond to develop the spirit of resistance for nullifying hegemonic plots.