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The Duran: Episode 2452

My fellow Duranians
as I promised on Thursday, I would try and cover a few more topics but sadly have not had the time to do a live.
I still hope you can get some information from this and we can discuss any questions on my next live stream.

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IRANIAN Advisor to Former Commander Confirms The "U.S. Asked Iran to Go Easy".

He said Israel and the U.S. sent Iran Messages: Both were rejected.

Take this with a BIG grain of salt, but if you add up all the stories from Israeli, Iranian, and Arab Media, it adds up to something close to this.

Mostafa Najafi:

"In the past two weeks, two important messages were sent to Iran, both of which were rejected by Iran.

One was from the US and the other from Israel. Washington's message to Tehran was that a limited attack would be carried out, and that it must be accepted or face only a symbolic response. Tehran, while rejecting this request, announced that it has redefined its war rules and red lines and considers any attack as a full-scale war.

Israel's message to one of the intermediaries was that it would not participate in the US attack, and Iran was asked not to target Israel. This request was also met with a negative response from Iran, which explicitly stated...

WHY THE US HATES IRAN

"It's the hostages stupid"
"Ohh and the Oil"

First a little bit of background.

During WWII and after IT, the British were obsessed with controlling the Anglo Iranian oil company, because it supplied the Britsh Navy with "Bunker C" used in British Navy Steam ships. Most of it was refined along with other products by the Anglo Iranian Abadan refinery. The refinery and oil fields used Iranian peasants on poor wages and unpleasant and dangerous conditions to operate the plant. The British repatriated the profits to their share holders, the British Navy got their oil and the Iranians got fuck all. The Iranians eventually got sick of this and when Mohammad Mosaddegh was elected to lead the country he tried to nationalise the Anglo Iranian Oil company to even out the benefits. The British were broke and couldn't stop Mosaddegh, but they recruited the CIA to do the dirty work in Operation Ajax.

The US used the CIA to overthrow the first secular ...