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UK Coup Plots In 19-20th Centuries by autofreak2020(m): 7:55pm On Jul 06, 2013
Britain’s spying agencies have plotted several
coups around the world, including Iran’s coup
d'état of 1921, through which former dictator
Reza Pahlavi came to power, and the 1953
coup which resulted in the toppling of the
democratically elected government of Iran
under Mohammad Mosaddegh.
After World War I, Britain decided to plot a
coup to bring an end to the Bolsheviks'
penetration of Iran for the threat it imposed
on British possessions in India.
Therefore in February 1921, British officials
who were dismayed by the Qajar Dynasty in
Iran, put Reza Pahlavi on the throne by
providing his troops with ammunition, supplies
and pay to help them seize control of the
capital city of Tehran in the coup they plotted
themselves.
Moreover, in 1953 Britain’s secret intelligence
agency MI6 and the United States’ Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) organized a coup to
remove the then elected Prime Minister
Mohammad Mossadegh. British officials then
propped up the increasingly brutal regime of
the Shah [Mohammad Reza Pahlavi] until its
collapse in 1979.
Not surprisingly, in a documentary aired on
August 18, 2011 on the anniversary of the
1953 coup d'état, Britain's state-run
broadcasting cooperation BBC admitted to the
role of the BBC Persian radio as the
propaganda arm of the British government in
Iran.
The BBC program entitled Cinematograph
detailed for the first time how the radio
network broadcast anti-Mosaddegh programs
to undermine his government.
“The British government used the BBC Persian
radio for advancing its propaganda against
Mosaddegh and anti-Mosaddegh material were
repeatedly aired on the radio channel to the
extent that Iranian staff at the BBC Persian
radio went on strike to protest the move,” the
Cinematograph narrator said.
But that is not all, as there is no end to
Britain’s decades of subversive activities and
imperialistic interests.
In 1939, the cooperation between Yugoslav
Intelligence Service and British spying agencies
was intensified after the occupation of Austria
and annexation into Nazi Germany. But the two
countries’ combined intelligence operations did
not last too long as Britain’s policy towards
the government of Yugoslavia had shifted from
acceptance of its neutrality to pressuring the
country for support in the war against
Germany.
It was then in March 1941 when Britain
planned and directed the Yugoslav coup d’état
with British intelligence services supporting
the coup plotters. The 1941 Yugoslav coup led
to the overthrow of Prince Paul and brought to
power the 17-year-old King Peter II.
There are also reports that Mark Thatcher, the
son of former British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher, pleaded guilty in relation to the 2004
Equatorial Guinea coup d'état attempt
organized by his friend, Simon Mann.
The charges were related to "possible funding
and logistical assistance” in relation to the
attempted coup, aimed at toppling President
Obiang. Thatcher was then fined 3,000,000
South African rand (£215000), and received a
four-year suspended jail sentence.
Moreover, earlier in June, London-based daily
Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported that British Prime
Minister David Cameron is encouraging
members of Syrian Army and security forces to
launch a coup against legitimate government
of President Bashar al-Assad.
This comes after Cameron's government failed
as the host of the recent summit of Group of
Eight (G8) leaders to rally support for attempts
to oust Bashar al-Assad through providing
heavy weapons to foreign terrorists fighting
the Syrian Army or get involved directly in the
conflict militarily.
But Britain’s coup plots have not been just
against other nations as in 1968, at the time of
former PM Harold Wilson, a number of
Britain's secret internal security service (MI5)
officers plotted a military coup in Britain.
According to reports, Lord Louis Mountbatten,
Admiral of the Fleet and a cousin of the
Queen, was asked to serve at the head of an
alternative government once Wilson had been
ousted.
British officials, however, seem not to be
pleased when it comes to Egypt coup with
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague
calling the recent overthrow of Egyptian
President Mohamed Morsi a "dangeous thing".
"We will always be clear that we don't support
military intervention," Hague said.
However, he later tempered his condemnation
of the army's role in Egyptian politics, saying it
was a "popular intervention."
Egypt underwent several decades of British rule
until independence in 1922, while Britain
invaded Egypt along with France and Israel in
the 1956 Suez crisis.
Re: UK Coup Plots In 19-20th Centuries by gunuvi(m): 8:25pm On Jul 06, 2013
Are u a learner??
Re: UK Coup Plots In 19-20th Centuries by autofreak2020(m): 9:20pm On Jul 06, 2013
gunuvi: Are u a learner??
Yes pal, it sounds like you have known it all.
It was pride that changed angels into
devils; humility elevated men above him, learning is a continuos process and i am urging you to swallow your pride so that you will be elevated above that level where you are. LEARN!!!!!!

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