In 1953, the US and the UK staged a coup in Iran that deposed Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, the first democratically elected leader of a major Muslim country. The intervention, staged to regain control over Iranian oil, was a milestone in the transition from colonialism to neocolonialism. The recent US-Israeli killing by bombing of Iran’s […]The post Khamenei’s killing is neocolonialism’s final gambit appeared first on Asia Times.