Chomsky slams 60-year US policy of tormenting Iranians
Prominent American academic Noam Chomsky has lashed out at the United States for its continued policy of ‘torturing’ the Iranian nation over the past six decades.
“For the past 60 years, not a day has passed in which the US has not been torturing Iranians,” Chomsky said in a Wednesday interview with Democracy Now. “That’s 60 years, right now, began with a military coup, which overthrew the parliamentary regime in 1953, installed the Shah, a brutal dictator,” he added. In late August, the CIA spy agency for the first time published a document that confirms Washington’s role in the 1953 coup d’état against the democratically-elected Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq. The explicit acknowledgment by the US intelligence community comes some six decades after the British- and American-backed military overthrow.