US and Israel tried to organize a Military Coup in Iran

Horhey · Apr 20, 2012

The US and Israel worked to organize a military coup in Iran immediately after Washington's puppet regime (installed by the CIA in 1953) was overthrown by an internal revolt in 1979.

The Boston Globe: ISRAEL PLAN WAS AIMED AT TOPPLING KHOMEINI

Israel provided military equipment to the Iranian regime of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini during the Iran-Iraq war "in coordination with the US government . . . at almost the highest of levels," Israeli ambassador Moshe Arens said yesterday. The "objective," Arens said, "was to see if we could not find some areas of contact with the Iranian military, to bring down the Khomeini regime."
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The Los Angeles Times: Israel-Iran Arms Flow Reportedly Began in '79 : Said to Have Included at Least 7 Shiploads of Ammunition in Addition to U.S.-Sponsored Sales

Israeli arms dealers, with the acquiescence of the government, have maintained a nearly continuous supply of weaponry to Iran since 1979, including at least seven shiploads dispatched independently of a U.S.-sponsored Iranian arms program over the last 14 months, according to informed sources [in Israel]....

Pleased initially that revelation of the Reagan program [of clandestine weapons shipments to Iran] made Israel appear as a loyal strategic ally aiding an effort to free U.S. hostages held by pro-Iranian elements in Lebanon, Israeli policy-makers have watched with growing discomfort as Washington news reports seem increasingly to depict Jerusalem as a villain in the affair. . . . "The State of Israel has never sold American arms or weapons containing American components without having received authorization from the U.S.," Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin told an Israeli Army Radio interviewer last week. . . . [T]hen-Israeli Defense Minister . . . [Ariel] Sharon argued that arms shipments would help keep channels open to "moderate" or "pragmatic" elements in Iran, particularly in the military, who would one day overthrow or at least inherit the reins of power from Khomeini.
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Carter National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski's endorsement of General Robert E. Huyser's book, "Mission to Tehran" about his dispatch to Iran to organize the Iranian military to carry out a coup:

A dramatic account which confirms my strong feeling that procrastination and bureaucratic sabotage prevented the US sponsored military coup that might have saved Iran from Khomeini and the masses.
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See, this the kind of stuff you find by letting the footnotes guide your research: The Footnotes for the Book:
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