Prominent American academician 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 open acknowledgment by the US intelligence community comes some six decades after the British- and American-backed military overthrow.

On August 15, 1953, the British and US intelligence agencies initiated a coup by the Iranian military, setting off a chain of events, including riots on the streets of Iran’s capital, Tehran, which led to the overthrow and arrest of Mosaddeq four days later.

Chomsky also alluded to the US support for the eight-year imposed war by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein against Iran, in which hundreds of thousands of Iranians were killed, and Washington’s harsh economic sanctions against Tehran as other instances of Washington’s continued hostility toward the country.

The renowned analyst reaffirmed support for Iran’s right to nuclear energy and argued that as a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Tehran is entitled to enrich uranium.

The United States, the Israel regime and some of their allies falsely claim that Iran is pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program. Tehran strongly rejects the claim and says as a committed signatory to the NPT and a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) it has the right to use nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

By Press TV

 

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