{"id":313803,"date":"2026-03-02T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T12:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=313803"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T15:44:58","slug":"iran-100-years-of-foreign-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2026\/03\/iran-100-years-of-foreign-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran: 100 Years of Foreign Interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_313804\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pahlavi-netanyahu-jerusalem-2023.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313804\" class=\"wp-image-313804\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pahlavi-netanyahu-jerusalem-2023.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pahlavi-netanyahu-jerusalem-2023.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pahlavi-netanyahu-jerusalem-2023-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/pahlavi-netanyahu-jerusalem-2023-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-313804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reza Pahlavi in Israel (April 2023)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From the <strong>British invasion<\/strong> of neutral Persia <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\/iran-british-soviet-invasion-1941:8?lid=14af696270d1cb5ca932394bd46690cc8c0c6e87\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">during<\/a> both WWI and WWII; to the CIA-directed <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\/cia-iran-coup-1953:1?lid=14af696270d1cb5ca932394bd46690cc8c0c6e87\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overthrow<\/a> of the first democratically elected Iranian <strong>Prime Minister<\/strong> in 1953 due to oil interests; to the equally <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\/scott-horton-us-israeli-geopolitics-middle-east-2025:7?lid=14af696270d1cb5ca932394bd46690cc8c0c6e87\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIA-backed<\/a> installation of <strong>Ayatollah Khomeini<\/strong> in 1979 (to prevent a Communist takeover, as had happened in neighboring Afghanistan); to the Israeli-directed <strong>\u201cOctober Surprise\u201d<\/strong> to <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\/ronald-reagan-custom-made-president-2015:8?lid=3fd146926c21ac4467aca461a384a26ea0fcab40\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replace<\/a> Carter with compliant Hollywood actor Reagan as US President in 1980; to the <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/playlist\/3fd146926c21ac4467aca461a384a26ea0fcab40\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sinister <\/a><strong>Iran-Contra affair<\/strong> and the covert Israeli <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\/scott-horton-us-israeli-geopolitics-middle-east-2025:7?lid=14af696270d1cb5ca932394bd46690cc8c0c6e87\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arms supplies<\/a> to Iran during the Iraq-Iran War of the 1980s (initiated by <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\/saddam-hussein-americas-best-enemy-2005:c?lid=3fd146926c21ac4467aca461a384a26ea0fcab40\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US asset<\/a> Saddam Hussein); to the post-9\/11 <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\/wesley-clark-seven-countries-five-years-2007:0?lid=14af696270d1cb5ca932394bd46690cc8c0c6e87\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zionist strategy<\/a> of taking out<strong> \u201cseven countries in five years\u201d<\/strong> (\u201cfinishing off with Iran\u201d) that destabilized the entire region from Libya to Afghanistan and flooded Europe with millions of African and Arab refugees; to the failed January 2026 CIA and Mossad-backed <strong>neo-monarchist insurgency<\/strong> that <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/@swprs:3\/iran-riots-operation-day-13-2026:3?lid=14af696270d1cb5ca932394bd46690cc8c0c6e87\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killed<\/a> over 3,000 Iranian civilians and security forces; to the current <strong>Israeli-American military attack<\/strong>: over 100 years of foreign interference in Iran.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video collections<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/playlist\/14af696270d1cb5ca932394bd46690cc8c0c6e87\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran\/Persia<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/playlist\/f1a56f268883ce207377db5cb6d4eba02b5bfccf\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel &amp; Mossad<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/playlist\/dfeedf3583511de321cde4990725ea2068c13b28\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Color Revolutions<\/a> \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/playlist\/3fd146926c21ac4467aca461a384a26ea0fcab40\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran-Contra Affair<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/playlist\/9e40bef6993f7a2867e9b179028383d75d9e1001\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AQ &amp; ISIS Deception<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/playlist\/e9ac25b1c7085a73a48ae6eb5a23ded6058b95f2\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump Deception<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/playlist\/c8ac68e424d661145a60674726eaa4d48f0f4aae\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 7, 2023 (Israel)<\/a> \u2013\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/odysee.com\/$\/playlist\/3e16883cdbaefcde2b370851a656756346356558\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Empire<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Articles<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/us-foreign-policy\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Logic of US Foreign Policy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/the-israel-lobby-facts-and-myths\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Israel Lobby<\/a><\/p>\n<p>__________________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-161314\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/swiss-policy-research-logo-300.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> Swiss Policy Research<em>, founded in 2016, is an independent, nonpartisan and nonprofit research group investigating geopolitical propaganda in Swiss and international media. SPR is composed of independent academics that for personal and professional reasons prefer to protect their identities, and receives no external funding; there are no financial sponsors or backers. Our articles have been published or shared by numerous independent media outlets and journalists, among them <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/assange-tweet.png\" ><em>Julian Assange<\/em><\/a><em>, and have been translated into more than two dozen languages.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/swprs.org\/2026\/02\/28\/iran-100-years-of-foreign-interference\/\" >Go to Original &#8211; swprs.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the British invasion of neutral Persia during both WWI and WWII; to the CIA-directed overthrow of the first democratically elected Iranian Prime Minister in 1953 due to oil interests&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":313804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[260,742,639,2200,172],"class_list":["post-313803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spotlight","tag-history","tag-iran","tag-uk","tag-us-empire","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313805,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313803\/revisions\/313805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}