As Iran’s economy teeters on the brink of collapse under the tough sanctions regime imposed by the Trump administration, the Islamic Republic’s authoritarian leadership has spent its limited cash reserves to bolster terror groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas, as well as militant terrorists in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen. Iran has spent more than $16 billion during the past several years to fund militant terrorists across the Middle East, cash that was repatriated to the Islamic Republic under the terms of the landmark nuclear deal, according to new disclosures. The nuclear deal inked with the Obama administration was estimated to provide Iran with as much as $100 billion in cash windfalls. This is in addition to $1.7 billion in hard currency that was given to Iran as part of an Obama-era prisoner swap with Tehran.
Chronological History of Iran and Related Events
The Iran Contra Affair First Revealed when Pilot Eugene Hasenfus is Shot Down Over Nicaragua While Delivering Arms & Cocaine to the Contras
The (Iran) Contra affair is first revealed on this date when pilot Eugene Hasenfus is shot down over Nicaragua while delivering arms to the Contras (and quite likely cocaine if it had made its way back to the U.S.). Hasenfus admits to being CIA, a claim immediately publicly refuted by CIA insiders as General John Singlaub of the American Security Council and Elliott Abrams of the State Department. On March 16, 1986, ...
Beirut Marine Bombing, a Mossad False Flag Operation to create US Animosity Towards the Arab World
“I reported that Marine had been sent there to become the focus of a major incident. The Mossad is to arrange for a number of our Marines to be killed in an incident that will be blamed on Arabs! This will be used to inflame American public opinion to help us lead into war including ultimately nuclear war,” – Dr. Beter, a Pentagon analyst, November 3, 1982. One ...
The October Surprise Of 1980 – news of the pending release of the 50 American hostages in Tehran
Ever since the 1972 election when Henry Kissinger announced that "peace is at hand" during a press conference on October 26, 1972, with reference to the Vietnam War, thus boosting Nixon's re-election, The October Surprise has been synonymous with election campaigns. And in 1980 the October Surprise came in the form of a rumored pending release of the 50 American hostages held in Iran the better part of a ...
Iranian Hostage Crisis: A Covert CIA Operation to Stall the Iranian Revolution & Spearhead the Political Demise of Jimmy Carter
The following article first published in 1995 is based on extensive documentation collected by Fara Mansoor, a prominent Iranian intellectual. The Real Iranian Hostage Story from the Files of Fara Mansoor By Harry V. Martin | Free America, 1995 Fara Mansoor is a fugitive. No, he hasn’t broken any laws in the United States. His crime is the truth. What he has to say and the documents he ...
OPEC Enacted an Oil Embargo in Response to US Aid to Israel in the Yom Kippur War. Was it a Planned Crisis to Raise Oil Prices by Henry Kissinger?
The fake US Oil Crisis?: The OPEC oil embargo was a response to American involvement in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Six days after Egypt and Syria launched a surprise military campaign against Israel to regain territories lost in the June 1967 Six-Day War, the US supplied Israel with arms. In response to this, OAPEC announced an oil embargo against Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the US. Kissinger, knowing at least 2 days prior ...
Operation Ajax: The CIA / MI6 Coup to Overthrow the Democratically-Elected Government of Iran and Replace It with a Controlled Dictatorship
Operation Ajax (Declassified in 2013 / censored in 2012?) was a covert operation by the US and British intelligence agencies to topple Iran's first democratically-elected government and replace it with a controlled dictatorship by posing as communists to plant bombs and threaten Iranians opposed to democratically elected people who didn’t support Mohammad Mossadegh. It was also retaliation for the 1951 strike and revolt of the Iranians against BP ...
The Sykes-Picot Agreement is Ratified: The Secret Agreement that divided the Oil-Rich Spoils of the Ottoman Empire following WWI
Officially known as the Asia Minor Agreement, the Sykes-Picot Agreement was a secret 1916 agreement between the United Kingdom and France, to which the Russian Empire assented. The agreement defined their mutually agreed spoils of war and control in Southwestern Asia. In 1919, the British and French implemented the 1916 agreement and divided the Arab world into nation states. The Sykes-Picot Treaty divided the Ottoman Empire into Turkey, ...
The Persian Constitutional Revolution Results in the Establishment of the Constitutional Monarchy
August 5 is the anniversary of Iran’s 1905 Constitutional Revolution, although 1905 was the beginning of a process that led to the revolution’s victory in 1911. It was the outcome of Europe’s multifaceted ascendance in the 19th century that motivated Iranian intellectuals to demand freedom and justice. Justice was the main demand, and many thought “Constitution” meant justice and a process that would eventually lead to the establishment of ...
The House of Wisdom was Destroyed by Hulagu’s Army During the Siege of Baghdad
On February 13, 1258, the Mongols entered the city of the caliphs, starting a full week of pillage and destruction. Along with all other libraries in Baghdad, the House of Wisdom was destroyed by Hulagu's army during the Siege of Baghdad. The books from Baghdad's libraries were thrown into the Tigris River in such quantities that the river was said to have run black with the ink from their pages. According a16th century chronicle ...
