Ahmadinejad Demands Apology From Obama

[devgupt]

Well Madeline Albright had expressed regret for US role in 1953 coup.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=99995428

[Traxus]

Why would the US apologize for the "coup" of 1953? The "coup" wasn't an outside attempt for the US to gain power or influence it was the constitutional monarch of the country, Mohammad Reza dissolving the legislature and reorganizing as allowed by the 1925 Council that made his father Reza Khan Pahlavi shah at that time setting up a new Monarchy. A monarch in power can hardly hold a coup against himself.

How is assisting the titular head of the Government maintain order in his own country by outside support something to apologize for? If afterwards that same head of state wants to buy his military equipment from you instead of from the Soviets who had untill the decade before had troops occupying parts of his country thats hardly a bad thing either.


Yes the US military supported the Constitutional Monarchy chosen by the Iranians in the 20's, following the second world war does anyone think the people of Iran have prefered being a client state of the USSR like the northern 'stans, Yugoslavia, or Albania?

What is there to apologize for?

You don't seriously believe this do you? That by spinning these justifications you just flush away an responsibility on the part of the US for the actions of the Shah against the people of Iran?

Because you can believe this reasoning all you choose. They do not, which is the entire point.