Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan: U.S. Addicted to Oil and Power

Louis Farrakhan: "It's All About Oil and Power"

Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on U.S. Oil Junkies

Louis Farrakhan (born May 11, 1933), the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, is an outspoken critic of US foreign and domestic policy. A protégé of the late civil rights icon Malcolm X, Minister Farrakhan is well known of for his scathing critiques of white racism and domination of African Americans throughout U.S. history.

Farrakhan opposes the Iraq war and supports the candidacy of Barack Obama for President.

October 19, 1998:

During a news conference at the National Press Club in 1998, Farrakhan lambasted U.S. Middle East policy

"...that was allowing you to get the oil wealth at the expense of the development of the people of Libya. You overthrew Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran and placed your man on the throne so that you could suck the blood of Iran at the expense of the people of Iran..."

February 17, 2002:

Shortly before Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq, Farrakhan gave a speech in Los Angeles, California in which he reviewed America's history of addiction to foreign oil:

"Iraq has a lot of oil, and next door is Iran which has lots of oil. In Iran, there was a man by the name of Mohammad Mossadegh and he nationalized the oil. He wanted to use the oil to raise the standard of living of the Iranian people.

What’s wrong with that? There’s nothing wrong with that to our eyes, but something was wrong with that to the eyes of the rich and the powerful. So they organized a coup and overthrew him and placed a man on the throne called the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. As that was their man in Iran, they gave him weapons, modern planes, but he was a Muslim, but he was not deep in the religion. So under him, the religion suffered. So the people that wanted their religion to come back to purity started organizing. The leader of that was Imam Khomeini."