American journalist and political commentator Sherwood Ross believes that CIA is the world’s foremost criminal organisation and that the anti-Iranian sanctions of the United States and its European allies are contrary to the principles of human rights.
“Iran is one of the world’s most peaceful nations. It has not made war on a neighbour in modern times. Its crime is oil. The U.S. overthrow of the elected government of Iran in 1953 came about at the behest of the UK, whose British Petroleum antecedent was driven from the country for cheating the Iranians out of their fair share of the proceeds from the sale of oil,” Ross said in an interview with an Iranian journalist Kourosh Ziabari.
Sherwood Ross is an award-winning journalist who formerly worked for the City News Bureau of Chicago, the Chicago Daily News, and for several wire services. He is the author of “Gruening of Alaska”(Best Books) and several produced plays. He was active in the U.S. civil rights movement and was press coordinator for James Meredith’s “March Against Fear” in Mississippi.