{"id":3809,"date":"2020-01-09T21:55:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2020-01-09T21:57:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T01:57:18","slug":"the-sacking-of-iran-from-the-rothschilds-to-the-rockefellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=3809","title":{"rendered":"The Looting of Iran: From the Rothschilds to the Rockefellers"},"content":{"rendered":"

How The Rockefellers Looted Iran<\/strong><\/h1>\n

by Dean Henderson<\/p>\n

\"B79<\/a>(Excerpted from Chapter 1: David Rockefeller & the Shah of Iran:\u00a0Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf<\/a>\u2026)<\/i><\/p>\n

In late December 2012 the US Justice Department charged two men with conspiring with the Iranian government to assassinate Saudi Arabia\u2019s US Ambassador Adel al-Jubeir.<\/span><\/p>\n

A day later Occupy Wall Street protesters announced that they would target JP Morgan Chase. The historical irony of these two seemingly disparate \u00a0events was colossal.<\/p>\n

Under the under-fisted rule of the US puppet Shah of Iran \u2013 who came to power after the BP-sponsored Mossadegh coup \u2013 Chase Manhattan, which later merged with JP Morgan to become JP Morgan Chase, issued letters of credit for all Iranian oil exports and monopolized deposits from the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), even\u00a0after<\/i>\u00a0Iran nationalized Four Horsemen oil interests to create NIOC.<\/p>\n

Chase controlled the Pahlevi Foundation which owned an oil company, twelve Iranian sugar refineries, electronics firms, cemeteries, mines, industrial bakeries, the country\u2019s General Motors franchise, and a slew of banks \u2013 including the Shah\u2019s personal piggy bank \u2013 the Bank Omran.\u00a0 While \u201cOmran\u201d means \u201cdevelopment\u201d, the Pahlevi Foundation focused only on developing the fortunes of both the Shah and Chase Manhattan.<\/p>\n

David Rockefeller, whose family controls majority interest in the bank, chaired Chase. The Rockefellers added to their fortune during the Shah\u2019s reign, taking in far more oil deposits in the country than it made in loans. [1]\u00a0 By 1978 Iran had become the world\u2019s fourth largest oil producer, supplying 18% of both Japan\u2019s and West Germany\u2019s oil, 50% of Israel\u2019s and 100% of the South African apartheid regime\u2019s. [2]\u00a0 Yet the average Iranian worker languished in poverty.<\/p>\n

Other Western banks behaved in similar fashion. This did not go unnoticed by Iran\u2019s Central Bank Governor Al-Reza Nobari, who watched as his country sank deeper into debt while the Shah and his American bankers got filthy rich.\u00a0 Nobari declared, \u201cAll the banks knew that the Bank Omran was the Shah\u2019s personal repository for his pocket money.\u00a0 But they went on lending to Bank Omran.\u00a0 Citibank lent, for example, $55 million to (the Shah\u2019s sister) Princess Ashraf for a housing project.\u00a0 On the site of the housing project she built a palace.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Shah bought a share in Krupps, the huge German arms manufacturer.\u00a0 He owned numerous hotels in Tehran, houses in Beverly Hills, Manhattan, Acapulco and the Swiss Alps.\u00a0 He bought entire islands in the Seychelles and owned a race horse stud on a farm in Surrey, England.\u00a0 The standard of living of the average Iranian continued to head south.<\/p>\n

In late 1978 the same Tudeh Party that launched the 1951 strikes in the British Petroleum oilfields of Khuzistan, initiated an occupation of the offices of Oil Services Company of Iran (OSCO) in the city of Ahwaz.\u00a0 OSCO was a tentacle of the Four Horsemen-controlled Iranian Consortium.\u00a0 Soon afterwards, oilfield workers went out on strike.\u00a0 SAVAK agents were set into motion by the Shah to quell the resistance.\u00a0 Their brutality only inflamed the situation.\u00a0 The workers began to target Four Horsemen executives.\u00a0 Paul Grimm, Texaco\u2019s Assistant General Manager, was gunned down in his car.\u00a0 George Link, Exxon\u2019s General Manager, was nearly killed by a car bomb. [3]<\/p>\n

Ironically, the strike began at the very site where the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (now BP) had first struck oil back in 1908.\u00a0 The strikes gained momentum, driving oil production down dramatically.\u00a0 Iran\u2019s urban centers became embroiled in mass protests organized by\u00a0Fedayeen<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Mujahadeen<\/i>\u00a0revolutionary groups, which had sprung up in response to two decades of SAVAK (the Shah\u2019s brutal CIA-trained secret police) annihilation of any loyal opposition party critical of the Shah.\u00a0 In this political vacuum the Iranian Revolution was beginning to play out.<\/p>\n

Under orders from William Sullivan, who succeeded former CIA director Richard Helms as US Ambassador to Iran, the Shah installed a military government headed by General Azhari.\u00a0 Sullivan was another CIA \u201cold hand\u201d from Laos.\u00a0 There he had ordered US carpet bombing of Laotian cities even as a Pathet Lao victory became imminent.\u00a0 He had also been instrumental in the CIA effort to prop up the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. [4]<\/p>\n

On September 8th, 1978 3,000 protesters were massacred when Iranian troops under orders from General Azhari opened fire in the streets of Tehran in a macabre scene that became known as Black Friday.\u00a0 Two days later US President Jimmy Carter called the Shah to reaffirm his support.\u00a0 On Christmas Day 1978 Iranian oil exports ground to a halt.\u00a0 On New Year\u2019s Eve, the Shah resigned.\u00a0 The \u201cofficial story\u201d was that his health was failing.<\/p>\n

Oil prices shot up in Western nations, despite the fact that the Saudis had dramatically stepped up production, allowing the Four Horsemen to further stockpile crude.\u00a0 While most of the world\u2019s governments were scrambling to contain wild oil price increases, Carter deregulated oil prices, allowing Big Oil and their investment banker partners to bid up the spot price of crude to record levels. [5]<\/p>\n

Later it became known that despite the induced panic, oil supplies actually\u00a0increased<\/i>\u00a06.6% in 1979.\u00a0 US consumers were overcharged $2 billion, while Big Oil penciled in more record profits.<\/p>\n

As the leftist\u00a0Committee of 60<\/i>\u00a0took control of Iranian oilfields, the Shah was granted exile in Panama.\u00a0 David Rockefeller, along with Chase International Advisory Board Director Henry Kissinger and former Chase Chairman and Warren Commission insider turned Saudi ARAMCO attorney John McCloy, ushered the Shah out of power.\u00a0 They first brought the Shah to the US, where he was \u201ctreated\u201d at Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where David\u2019s brother Lawrence Rockefeller was Chairman.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s interim Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan had attempted to get an independent doctor to examine the Shah, saying the monarch\u2019s health seemed fine. He hinted at a\u00a0coup<\/i>\u00a0orchestrated by Chase.\u00a0 The Shah later said the CIA overthrew him.\u00a0 Few will ever know what type of \u201cmedical assistance\u201d the Shah received at Sloan-Kettering, but he died shortly thereafter.<\/p>\n

In 1978 General Robert Huyser, Deputy Commander of American Forces in Europe, had been dispatched to Tehran.\u00a0 Huyser presided over a council of Iranian generals on the top floor of the Tehran Hilton where a plan was hatched to ease the Shah out and seize power before either the Tudeh\/National Front populists could seize power.\u00a0 The CIA also had a backup plan whereby General Oveisi, one of the Shah\u2019s closest commanders, would seize the Khuzistan oilfields and declare independence. [6]\u00a0 The\u00a0USS Constellation<\/i>\u00a0battle group set sail from Subic Bay in the Philippines, arriving in the Arabian Sea to join other naval vessels.<\/p>\n

In the end, the best-laid US military schemes failed and Ayatollah Khomeini and his\u00a0mullahs<\/i>\u00a0filled the power vacuum before the CIA could.\u00a0 But to the CIA\u2019s mind it could have been much worse.\u00a0 The Company far preferred Islamic fundamentalists to the Arab nationalists represented by the Tudeh,\u00a0Fedayeen<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Mujahadeen<\/i>\u00a0Parties in Iran.<\/p>\n

Within a few years of the Iranian Revolution, the CIA was helping Ayatollah Khomeini identify nationalist leaders so he could target leftists who had formed the\u00a0Committee of 60<\/i>, which led the Iranian revolution.\u00a0 In 1983 the CIA and British MI6 supplied a long list of Tudeh Party members to Khomeini.\u00a0 The Ayatollah unleashed a reign of terror against the left; assassinating, torturing and imprisoning over 10,000 Tudeh members and supporters.\u00a0 In 1989 many of those imprisoned were sentenced to death. [7]<\/p>\n

The Israelis courted the\u00a0mullahs<\/i>\u00a0as well.\u00a0 Throughout the 1980\u2019s Israeli pilots trained their Iranian counterparts on F-4 Phantom fighter planes at secret bases in Germany.\u00a0 Mossad continued to fund and arm Mustafa Barzani\u2019s PUK Kurd faction in their covert war against Iraq.\u00a0 As recently as 2002 German Customs officials seized an Israeli shipment of weapons bound for Iran.<\/p>\n

As the\u00a0mullahs\u00a0<\/i>took power, Chase Manhattan called in a $500 million loan to Iran, claiming the country had defaulted. Interim Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan had offered to repay the loan. He met with Carter NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski seeking a\u00a0rapprochement<\/i>.\u00a0 But Brzezinski \u2013 a Rockefeller\u00a0prot\u00e9g\u00e9\u00a0<\/i>\u2013\u00a0<\/i>had other plans for Iran.\u00a0 US Ambassador to Iran William Sullivan accused Brzezinski of trying to sabotage US\/Iran relations following the Shah\u2019s departure.\u00a0 Sullivan complained, \u201cBy November 1978, Brzezinski began to make his own policy and establish his own embassy in Iran.\u201d[8]<\/p>\n

While President Carter tried to calm the situation, Chase froze $10 billion in Iranian assets, so Iran could not repay the $500 million loan. In addition, according to Iran\u2019s Central Bank Markazi Governor Ali Nobari, Chase whisked all of the Shah\u2019s assets out of Iran.\u00a0 Nobari later found that Chase had swindled Iran on interest payments for years. [9]\u00a0 Chase later seized the $10 billion it froze, while Swiss authorities refused to return $25 billion, which the Shah had stolen from the Iranian Treasury over the years.\u00a0 To add insult to injury the Shah departed the country with an additional $4 billion in Iranian Treasury assets.<\/p>\n

Wealthy Shah-loyalists converted their\u00a0rials<\/i>\u00a0into heroin before fleeing the 1979 Iranian Revolution.\u00a0 The US State Department confirmed this fact after the 1980 trial of SAVAK agent Sharokh Bakhtiar, whose father had founded the Shah\u2019s brutal secret police.\u00a0 Bakhtiar spilled the beans on this scheme and revealed SAVAK\u2019s use of heroin money to later finance counter-revolution in Iran.\u00a0 He said the CIA allowed wealthy Iranians to smuggle their heroin into the US using diplomatic pouches. [10]\u00a0 Iranian revolutionaries cracked down on the heroin trade, which had thrived under the Shah.<\/p>\n

In 1978 the IMF bailed out the neighboring Turkish government where the Gray Wolves, the terrorist arm of the Turkish fascist movement, had long curried Iranian heroin to Europe through Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and to the Middle East through Syria and Lebanon.\u00a0 The Milan, Italy-based Stibam Corporation played a big role in the weapons for smack trade from its headquarters in the\u00a0Banco Ambrosiano<\/i>\u00a0building.\u00a0 Stibam worked closely with the CIA and sent Company arms to Somalia, Taiwan and the Philippines.\u00a0 Both Stibam and\u00a0Banco Ambrosiano<\/i>\u00a0are connected to the Italian P-2 Freemason Lodge which funds fascist terror networks worldwide. [11]<\/p>\n

The Gray Wolves also worked with Sikh separatists in India who grew poppies in Khalistan to fund their CIA-backed war on the socialist Indian government of Jawaharlal Nehru, whose spiritual adviser was Mahatma Ghandi.\u00a0 Sikh leader Jagjit Singh Chanhan was a British intelligence asset and a member of the Lausanne, Switzerland-based Nazi International, which Allen Dulles helped bolster through his Saudi-backed Banque Commercial Arabe.\u00a0 It was Chanhan who assassinated Mahatma Ghandi. [12]<\/p>\n

Banco Ambrosiano<\/i>\u00a0was headed by Michele Sindona, who was close to the Gambino crime family and offered $1 million for President Nixon\u2019s re-election campaign.\u00a0 The Vatican Bank owned a big chunk of\u00a0Banco Ambosiano<\/i>\u00a0and held a large stake in Nixon Treasury Secretary David Kennedy\u2019s Continental Bank of Illinois.\u00a0 Kennedy and Sindona were good friends and Kennedy served as director at Sindona\u2019s Luxemborg-based FASCO International, which was a conduit for CIA aid to P-2 and the Italian far right.\u00a0 In 1974 the US Ambassador to Italy awarded Michelle Sindona with \u201cMan of the Year\u201d honors at a Rome ceremony. [13]<\/p>\n

Another of Sindona\u2019s close confidants was Robert Armao, who was President of the Vatican Foundation of St. Benedict, Cyril and Methodius.\u00a0 Armao was a long-time Rockefeller lieutenant. He served as Chief of Protocol for Chase Manhattan\u2019s most important depositor, the Shah of Iran. In 1978 Kennedy\u2019s well-looted Continental Bank went under, costing US taxpayers billions. Bank of America bought its remains for a pittance.\u00a0\u00a0 When\u00a0Banco Ambrosiano<\/i>\u00a0failed in 1982 Armao organized a rescue of the shady bank.<\/p>\n

The financial deceptions of Rockefeller\u2019s Chase Manhattan combined with Carter\u2019s refusal to return the Shah to Iran to face justice precipitated the Iranian hostage crisis at the US Embassy in Tehran, which lasted a year and a half.\u00a0 It was Stibam Corporation that facilitated the secret arms-for-oil deal between Israel and Iran that, along with the agreement by a Chase-led consortium of banks to unfreeze Iranian assets, ended the hostage crisis.<\/p>\n

Royal Dutch\/Shell and BP delivered oil to Israel, the CIA delivered arms to the Ayatollah and\u00a0Banco Amrosiano<\/i>\u00a0financed the transaction. [14]\u00a0 In November 2001, the Iranian government reopened the mothballed US Embassy that once housed Richard Helms & Company\u00a0 The new tenant is a history museum aptly named\u00a0Den of Spies<\/i>.<\/p>\n

[1]\u00a0Hot Money and the Politics of Debt<\/i>. R. T. Naylor. The Linden Press\/Simon &Schuster. New York. 1987. p.372<\/p>\n

[2]\u00a0Tell the American People: Perspectives on the Iranian Revolution<\/i>. David Albert. Movement for a Free Society. Philadelphia. 1980. p.2<\/p>\n

[3]\u00a0The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power<\/i>. Daniel Yergin. Simon & Schuster. New York. 1991. p.678<\/p>\n

[4] Albert. p.8<\/p>\n

[5] Yergin. p.689<\/p>\n

[6]\u00a0Iraq and Kuwait: A History Suppressed<\/i>. Ralph Schoenman. Veritas Press. Santa Barbara, CA. 1990. p.16<\/p>\n

[7] \u201cWar Criminals, Real and Imagined\u201d. Gregory Elich.\u00a0Covert Action Quarterly<\/i>. Winter 2001. p.21<\/p>\n

[8]\u00a0Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History that Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons and the Great Pyramids<\/i>. Jim Marrs. Harper-Collins Publishers. New York. 2000. p.28<\/p>\n

[9]\u00a0Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World<\/i>. Jonathan Kwitney. Penguin Books. New York. 1986. p.199<\/p>\n

[10]\u00a0The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence and International Fascism<\/i>. Henrik Kruger. South End Press. Boston. 1980. p.223<\/p>\n

[11] Naylor. p.94<\/p>\n

[12]\u00a0Dope Inc.: The Book That Drove Kissinger Crazy<\/i>. Editors of\u00a0Executive Intelligence Review<\/i>. Washington, DC. 1992. p.367<\/p>\n

[13] Kruger. p.224<\/p>\n

[14] Editors of\u00a0Executive Intelligence Review<\/i>. p.504<\/p>\n

Dean Henderson<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of five books:\u00a0Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network<\/a>,\u00a0The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries<\/a>,Das Kartell der Federal Reserve,\u00a0Stickin\u2019 it to the Matrix<\/a>\u00a0&\u00a0The Federal Reserve Cartel<\/a>.\u00a0 You can subscribe free to his weekly\u00a0Left Hook<\/b>\u00a0column @www.hendersonlefthook.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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