جفری اولمن

Question: Why did the CIA depose Mossadegh in 1953?

Answer: As I understand it, Mossadegh nationalized the oil resources that had been developed by US and other Western oil companies. It is an interesting question whether natural resources should belong to the people who accidentally built homes on top of it, or to the people whose technology made it possible to extract those resources. I suspect that in 1953 the answer was clearly the latter, but as time went on, political philosophy went toward the former. Thus, seeing the events of 1953 through modern eyes, it looks different from what it was in its time. Regardless, if a country wants to import technology, as every developing nation should, it has to acknowledge the rule of law and respect its agreements with the companies that supply the technology. The penalty for not doing so is that the country will not have access to technology, and it appears that Iran is suffering from exactly that problem today.

جفری اولمن استاد معروف دانشکده‌ی علم کامپیوتر دانشگاه استنفورد و مولف کتاب‌های متعددی در این رشته‌ در این صفحه به تعدادی از سوالات اغلب سیاسی‌ای که از ایرانیان از طریق ایمیل دریافت کرده جواب داده است.