In 1953, the CIA walked the streets of Tehran; today, they walk with Mossad and MI6

The humidity of an Iranian summer is heavy stuff indeed, but in August 1953, the air in Tehran seemed to vibrate with something far more explosive than heat and moisture. It was the scent of a manufactured revolution. Kermit Roosevelt, a man whose bloodline carried a president of the United States and whose hand carried a briefcase full of roughly $1 million in cash, was the funding of what can only be termed today as “The Original Sin” of American Intervention in the Middle East. Kermit sat in the shadows of the American Embassy in Tehran. History is no longer a footnote; it’s a blueprint. Today, as the 2026 geopolitical landscape shudders and convulses on the world stage, the Original […]