In 1953, the CIA walked the streets of Tehran; today, they walk with Mossad and MI6 |
The humidity of an Iranian summer is heavy stuff indeed, but in August 1953, the air in Tehran seemed to vibrate with something far more explosive than heat and moisture. It was the scent of a manufactured revolution. Kermit Roosevelt, a man whose bloodline carried a president of the United States and whose hand carried a briefcase full of roughly $1 million in cash, was the funding of what can only be termed today as “The Original Sin” of American Intervention in the Middle East. Kermit sat in the shadows of the American Embassy in Tehran.
History is no longer a footnote; it’s a blueprint. Today, as the 2026 geopolitical landscape shudders and convulses on the world stage, the Original Sin has come full circle. With allegations that the CIA, MI6, and Mossad agents are stirring the current unrest in Iran, and Mike Pompeo wishing every Mossad agent walking beside the protesters a “Happy New Year” on social media, the Original Sin has indeed come full circle. This time, the Original Sin isn’t about an oil contract in the colonial era; it’s about the global energy balance.
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The architect and the nationalist
In 1953, the target was Mohammad Mossadegh, who was a secular nationalist who had the temerity to propose the view that the oil of Iran belonged to the Iranians. To the British, who had developed the wells from as far back as 1908 but were only paying the Iranians a “pittance” as royalties, this was sacrilege. Winston Churchill, the self-appointed champion of........