This gross interference in Iran’s internal affairs to suit the political ambitions of the West is mirrored today, exactly 60 years later, by the continued manipulation of Middle East politics by the United States acting under the demands of AIPAC, a powerful, unelected lobbying group for Israel, in Washington.

For 30 years, the US kept former president, Hosni Mubarak, in power by the use of massive amounts of American tax monies totalling billions of dollars to ensure that the Egyptian president stayed in bed with Binyamin Netanyahu and his predecessors in Israel’s Knesset.

And today, notwithstanding that such use of US tax dollars is illegal to support a military coup, President Obama unashamedly still bows to the demands of the lobby and is supporting the military regime in Egypt.

When the US,the most powerful state in the world, conspicuously acts in this illegal manner to control another state for the benefit of a third party with vested interests in the political outcome, then the international community loses the last vestige of respect for so-called American democracy.

The world is no better off than 60 years ago, but arguably a lot worse and dangerously so.