# Operation Ajax, the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2118235022453031248
- Source account: [@Fidias0](https://x.com/Fidias0)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:50
- Published: 2026-11-05
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war) Iran was part of the American Empire for twenty-six years because in 1953, Iran had a democratically elected Prime Minister, Mosaddegh, who had the mistaken idea the oil in this country belongs to Iran.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=17) And the British MI6 said to the CIA, "Did you hear what he said?

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=22) That that's Iranian oil, not British oil.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=25) What a naive man." So the guy made a huge mistake, and MI6 and the CIA overthrew Mosaddegh, and is known in history as Operation Ajax, and they put in a police state which controlled the oil and divvied it up between British Petroleum,

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=42) other big majors, and the US got its bite of the action as well.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=47) But in 1979, there was the Iranian Revolution, and the Iranians overthrew the Shah, the front of this police state, and that's when the current government was created.

[0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=59) But the United States hates that. Who do you think you are to get out of our empire?

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=64) And one year into the Iranian Revolution, the United States starts talking to Saddam Hussein, who was an instrument of American power till America turned on him.

[1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=75) "Why don't you go invade Iran? It's your next-door neighbor. We'll fund you.

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=79) We'll give you the weapons to do that." What happened afterwards was Saddam started to attack the Iranian facilities, and there was an eight-year war in which hundreds of thousands of Iranians died, and the US funded that.

[1:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=92) So the war against Iran, it didn't just start in February 28th 2026.

[1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/WdwufiRIOy6k/en/operation-ajax-the-iranian-revolution-and-the-iran-iraq-war?t=98) It started immediately in 1979, and it's been America's project to bring Iran back into the fold because it escaped the American Empire, and we're not gonna let that happen again