"Nosratollah Amini; Iranian lawyer, politician" by Adam Bernstein, Washington Post | May 3, 2009
WASHINGTON - Nosratollah Amini, 94, an Iranian lawyer and politician who became the personal attorney of Mohammad Mossadegh, the nationalist prime minister deposed in a US-backed coup in 1953, died April 20 at Potomac Hospital in Woodbridge, Va. He had pneumonia.
Related: Operation Ajax
For those that say the Iranians should get over it, are we over Pearl Harbor, America? Are we really?
Mr. Amini lived through many turbulent periods of Iranian rule: as mayor of the capital city of Tehran during Mossadegh's rule from 1951 to 1953; then as a private lawyer under the autocratic shah through the 1970s; and briefly as a provincial governor under the Muslim religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Mr. Amini had been married in 1945 by Khomeini, then a young cleric. They shared an interest in Persian poems, which Mr. Amini memorized by the hundreds. After settling in the Washington area in 1979, Mr. Amini opened his home in McLean, Va., to Iranians across the political spectrum.
He was a U.S. agent, readers!
British and American clandestine services helped overthrow Mossadegh and reinstalled the exiled, prowestern shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The shah remained in charge of the country until Khomeini mounted an Islamic revolution in 1979.
The only thing the DEMOCRATICALLY-ELECTED Mossadegh did was nationalize the oil companies -- pissing off BP and U.S. oil firms.
Of course, for that he had to be removed.
Mr. Amini and other leading National Front figures were jailed after the 1953 coup, but Mr. Amini soon returned to a private practice specializing in family law. Among his clients was Mossadegh, who was confined to a country home near Tehran. Mossadegh died in 1967.
In early 1979, Mr. Amini was invited to serve the new Islamic regime as governor of Fars Province, a region in southwestern Iran that included the ruins of Persepolis. After one month in the job, he became disenchanted with the revolutionary government and left the country, returning only for short visits to handle family affairs.
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More indications of being a U.S. agent.
Think the cover-up paper would tell us if he were?
