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Twelfth Friday Senno11 Feb 08, 1991 them to channelize their tax revenues to Iran. He further advised that Iran can have a simpler solution to this problem if it borrowed the needed funds from the Anglo Iranian Oil Company which was prepared to extend such loans. This response left Dr. Mossadeq in no doubt as to the ill intentions of the U. S. but he could not do much about it. A few days prior to this reply by the U. S. President, he had already given approval to a plan worked out by the CIA and the British ISi for conducting a punitive operation against the government of Iran. It was quite a comprehensive plan but, to be brief, they conspired to win the support of the Iranian police and army, as is the usual modus-operand of these powers for staging a coup d'etat. This operation was supervised by Kim Roosevelt of the CIA. For this service, he was decorated with a distinguished medal of honour that is reserved only for national heros. The resulting disturbances caused a rift between the Shah of Iran and the Iranian Prime Minister each vying with the other for gaining greater administrative powers. The Iranian Prime Minister, Dr. Mossadeq, assumed the post of the Commander in Chief of the armed forces and announced the name of the person whom he was going to appoint as Police Chief among his confidants. The newly appointed Police Chief bragged about having a complete list of all the British agents in Iran. The following day he too was assassinated. The Shah later dismissed Dr. Mossadeq as Prime Minister, sparking off large scale demonstrations in support of the deposed Prime Minister. In order to quell these demonstrations the Shah raised a civilian force of 6000 persons. This force was well trained and properly armed to control such demonstrations. But the riots and protests were so severe and wide-spread that the Shah had to bring in 200,000 army soldiers to crush the agitation. According to a well-tailored plan, the Shah of Iran, who was a classic picture of perfect humility and subservience to the U. S. and Britain was again imposed upon Iran as an autocratic ruler. The role played by these external powers in the Iranian affairs must be kept in perspective ifwe want to understand the current crisis in the Gulf region. PREMEDITATED ACTION AGAINST EGYPT An analogous situation was created in 1956 when President Gemal Abdul Nasser of Egypt decided to nationalize the Suez Canal. 218