The Coup that Ruined US-Iranian Relations
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- For decades, knowledge of America's role in the 1953 Iran coup, which led to the ejection of the country's democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and the installation of a despotic shah, was fragmented and vague. However, when CIA documents were declassified in 2000 about what it called Operation Ajax, it became clear American and British agents played a central role in the Iran coup d'état.
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only America could replace a democracy with a dictatorship and then feel the need to save people from said dictatorship
Feeds the wars machine. Can't find an enemy, create one. Just like Jussie Smollett.
It's disgustingly sad how true this is
There really is a shadow government that works for itself. These people do not love America, they are globetrotting elites working espionage in business and military sectors, ignoring borders. Many of them worship Satan.
In their defense, who could know that a dictatorship would do dicator-y things.
@@janehallowell5886 *That's fake Britain was the one who started all of this because of its oil.*
I don't think there has been enough interest in Iran history. This is nice to see. Gives perspective.
We don’t hear a lot because Western involvement in Iran is a sh*tstain in Western History.
We really f*caked them over
@@rouka120 Yeah, but every country has their past sins.
@@historywatch-4U I appreciate learning about why we had that war. Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas everyone
Quite frankly, I don’t think our history classes go into depths on how much the US influence was in the Cold War to places like the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa
As a retired Marine and combat veteran, I understand how the U.S. has gotten the us in many wars. From my studies, since WWI at least, every conflict we have been involved with was caused by something else. A very deadly domino effect. The Treaty of Versailles was the direct cause of Hitler. The Potsdam Conference led to Korea and Vietnam. All the issues in the Middle East, same way. 9-11 did not begin on 9-11, it goes on and on. Without our help and interference, Muslim extremest wouldn't be as extreme. They were always there to a degree, but more of a fringe element or cult, like a Muslim Jim Jones kind of thing.
Did you ever wonder why you were there when you were deployed?
@@emanmoba honestly, I only cared about the Marines around me. When you see how locals treat their neighbors, gives you a sense of duty. Most people want what we have, put out government makes empty promises, gets bored and pulls out. We never needed to go to Iraq, Adam was a local thug and Turkey, Syria and Iran had to keep an eye on him. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. We took out eyes off of Afghanistan, we see how that went. If our leaders had skin in the game, like lives in the line, wars would be different. I could right a book on it.
@@michaelconran5252 I honestly don't think the people in charge give a damn about the troops or the people abroad. Kissinger famously called soldiers "dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns of foreign policy". I think that speaks volumes about the mentality of the elites in charge.
@@emanmoba give a damn? I don't think even that much. Bush proved that during Operation Vigilant Resolve. First battle of Fallujah 2004. That is when my give a fuck broke. The official report is a lie and the 2nd battle, Phantom Fury should not have been needed. I was 2 years from retirement at that time. Loved the Marines enjoyed my time, not pleased how our government is against winning wars. We win every battle but lose all the wars. Can only be on purpose.
You need to read history more. Ho Chi Minh was kicked out by Woodrow kkk Wilson
US: We accept the deal
UK: We don't
US: What should we do?
UK: Establish a Coup
US: They are blaming us for this problem
UK: Not our problem
How fat do I have to be to make as many comments as yours? What is your diet even consist of? Printed out youtube comments??
Two evil nations, ..they get away with murder!
In 1953 US involvement and manipulation ,meddling in Iran was long time ago!Was it evil?Perhaps.Did it lead to the radical nuclear developing extremist state there now?Ofcourse !But it can be corrected with good military planning by coalition 😃
@@LeonNikkidude they meddled again in the revolution when they sent a certain religious leader from france to Iran to undermine the uprising against the shah, a guy named Khomeini
Hi former verified account.
Please do a episode on Operation Condor the operation that installed some of the most brutal dictators in South America
I second this
@@katieholland4244 thanks if not Condor atleast one on Augusto Pinochet of Chile
Gotta love America exporting it's democracy
@@kiwi6147 it's our main export
@@kiwi6147idk if that was out of pure evil, tho. American foreign policy was lied to by those dictatorships
Nothing pisses off america more then a country that chooses to have an independant thought.
1:18 For those curious, Kermit Roosevelt was part of the Theodore branch of the Roosevelt family, he was Teddy's grandson and child of the former president's second son, Kermit Roosevelt Sr.
I can’t believe that this channel is even touching this subject. I’m used to this channel omitting key facts about western governments. Good job! 👏
Glad to see Iran’s history highlighted. My late husband and I escaped Iran with our lives in the 1979 revolution; such a pity that the country has been decimated by outside forces. Nice job on this video. Thanks so much!
Sorry about that
The CIA and French intelligence agency also helped Khomeini's coup against Shah Pahlavi. Khomeini lived in exile in Paris at the time and the US and France wanted the Shah gone because he sided with the OPEC oil embargo. They aided in anti Shah protest and flew Khomeini back to Iran to lead the revolution. The US has a history of backing muslim extremists like the Muslim Brotherhood they supported in their fight against Nasser.
A few years back when my son was in graduate school he asked me to read a book called overthrow and it’s about instances in a modern American history starting with Hawaii where we did things like this and he started off his reasoning by saying 9/11 would never of happened if we hadn’t put the Shah in power. I thought wow I didn’t know we put him in power because I was never taught that. So if you want a good book it’s not about things that other countries havent necessarily done it’s just things that haven’t been taught that we should probably know about. This particular episode is the one that didn’t work that is still haunting us today.
Whenever Americans complain about repressive and undemocratic regimes in other countries save a few (i.e. China and Turkey) all they have to do is look at Washington DC.
You don’t know what you’re talking about. Erdogan is a modern day Mossadegh, and his presidency is a direct result of the decades of coups that the US implemented in Turkey by its military. Erdogan’s goal is to get out from under the American boot. Nothing wrong with that.
America #1 🇺🇸
I lived under Erdoğan so I will complain about him all I want, thanks.
@@uansari1 no Erdoğan is religious fanatic busy converting churches into mosques Erdoğan and mossadeq shouldn't even be compared one is a visionary other is fanatic loser
@@paulshaju2806 Mossadegh was a good man and a pragmatist. With him, you can only say "what if" or "what might have been."
A video on Rasputin and ancient Hawaiians would be awesome. Thanks as always for the awesome content!
This is why the “news” always starts Iranian history in 1979, the year when the Iranian people had the nerve to take their country back.
Well that was a big event in which shaped Iranian history drastically to this day plus it was a big deal in the US during the Cold War era. Especially with the hostage crises and oil embargos and all the other crap going on during the 70's.
The problem is that ideology is very Anti-West plus Iran has a lot of proxy groups and allies in the Middle East like in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen etc.
The US spent a lot of money and blood in Iraq overthrowing Saddam but the country is now run by a Shia lead government with close to the US' enemy(Iran).
My god, for a country that preach democracy n freedom surely have countless innocent blood on her hand...
“They were too busy trying to figure out if they could, to stop and think if they should.” The short term gains do not outweigh the long term consequences… that is now abundantly clear.
Life finds a way.
The U. S. engages in too much shortsigtedness and that's not only the government.
America meddle in others countries democracy...never! 🤣
But yet cry when someone tries to meddle in ours. Then use the media as their propaganda arm to lie to the American people and undermine a dully elected president.
Same happened in Egypt in 2013 and Ukraine in 2014
Any body else catch a 4:48 the German copy of a 2007 article of the New York Times at 10 euro's in a video about something that happened in the 1950's. Just say'n
What goes around comes around... and the USA is already experiencing a spoon of its own medicine
Can you do a video about the flying beavers 🦫 in the 1940’s?
Thanks for this! 🌐
Really nice video! Do more like this, like politic and the consequences some actions lead to
Please do a video on Mata Hari.
3:10 Heh, liked the backspacing to fit with the audio haha.
Less than 10 years after WW2 and they were like hey let's support this group mini Natz!s. WTF guys? Anything for oil hey.
Always trust the American government.
I mean, they are so trustworthy and have never done anything wrong.
Let’s trust them with our healthcare, safety, and children.
Come on….**sweats** what’s wrong with that?
They acted in their national interest, like most governments should. Granted it backfired, but in the grand scheme of things I can understand why they did it.
Evil country!
One of the best examples that capitalsm is more important for the USA then democracy. Imagine what a beautiful place the world could be if it would be the other way...
One government intervening in another government's oil industry is not capitalism, sweetie. That's pretty much the antithesis of free market capitalism.
@@Hiphop618 exactly.
@@Hiphop618 gouverments "securing" the freedom of the market for big companies is exactly capitalism
Good job, brother.
11:04 views on the coups
The Shaw may not have been a nice guy, but I've talked to any number of Iranians, most calling themselves Persians, who say that life for the average person was much better under the Shah than under the Ayatollahs.
Please ignore those people...They live off of their dad's money or they were the elites who were somehow connected to Shah, directly or indirectly...Ask the people INSIDE of Iran but not those extreme religious people or not those extreme wealthy people because they will give a bias answer base off of their influence of extreme wealth or extreme religion
I love when americans talk about how anti democratic the us is. Although such talks are interpreted as evidence of existence of democracy by some... The matter is all the supporters of the us installed dictators could have provided the same amount of proof of existence of demicracy in their respective counties.
Oh Kermie…..
Do the Kennedy Papers
As an iranian I'm pissed tbh
Thank You Weird History For This Great Video ! Yes, It Will Piss Off The Oil & Defense Lobbyists In McLean, Virginia. They Deserve It !
Tim Weiner wrote CIA: Legacy Of Ashes. It covers this and many other CIA failures.
And here I was wondering when I'd see a video about the Shah of Iran or the Persepolis celebrations of 1971. Close enough!
What does the photo at 06:50 have to do with a 1953 coup? If I'm not mistaken, it depicts President Ford and Vice President Rockefeller. That would place it in the mid-1970s.
They where paying a certain religious leader that time,
The 1979 hostage crisis was a response to the 1953 Iran coup. Although, I do not agree with hostage crisis that happened in Iran. Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan was against the idea, as well. The Iranians should have informed the U.S. embassy to evacuate with 72 hours instead of hostage taking.
And they are trying it again today in Iran
There used to be good relationships between Israel and Iran.Once the Mullars took over,destroyed the country,more for their own thats why so many Iranians left there 😪Persian people friendly and great food!
Same thing happened in Bangladesh in 1982 too I think. The CIA helped the Bangladesh military overthrow the democratically elected government and establish a west friendly military dictatorship.........Correct me if I am wrong though. I am Indian so have only heard the Indian perspective , which is negative mostly as the Ershad government that took over Bangladesh was hostile towards India.
Perhaps this topic also deserves a video offering an unbiased perspective.
It’s hard for me to imagine that the CIA could organize a school fire drill.
An eerie semblance to current states of affairs no ?
American hostages during the Carter/Reagan presidential transition.
Gas lines in America.
When FDR had to ask the 2 wealthiest men in American to bail it out financially, and then went off the gold standard to ensure no private person would ever have more money than the government again ( hahah).
The one financial review of Ft. Knox back in the 70s, and how that audit has been reused every year since, even though no one else have ever been allowed into the Fort to audit it again.
Why cia such a busybody?
0:45 shows a photo of Barrack Obama with Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of INDIA. Why???
I wonder what kind of coup' you do when you leave weapons in another country 🤐😬🤔
And Iran has been a Mecca for human rights ever since…wait. Nope.
I miss the hood o’l days when we used to screw with Iran. We still do but all the fun had been taken out.
So US created its own monster but learned no lesson.
I remember being spoon head propaganda growing up thinking we are the Good guys but we are the baddies whole time :(
What in the world is the point of “silent letters” coup is pronounced “coo” so then what in the world is the point of the letter p? This goes out to all words with silent letters.
I mean, it is French. And it’s actually coup d'é·tat, so more silent letters. They have tons of silent letters: Bordeaux, rendezvous, mirepoix, Pinot noir, etc. Thank the Gauls I guess. 🤷🏻♀️Or learn Turkish, there’s only one silent letter, the ğ, and all it does is elongate the vowels in front of it. But rendezvous is spelled randevu in Turkish so that should feed your soul. Have fun with the agglutination though.
Well i did not know that....not cool america...and brits but doing like they did is'nt better
Interesting this popped up , especially considering Iran's current state .. history returns ?🤔
History repeats itself
Fucked up
Are you doing please tell me creating problems for the future we need to make amends so that some kid who lost his parents between because of you guys I’m not going to be working somewhere in a nuclear power station in America and then getting revenge you know
?
Damn usa always meddling
Did you mean: The 2020 Presidential Election?
No
Back to who controls Middle Eastern oil… again… and again… (fun fact: for about 2 seconds the mission to invade Iraq in 2003 was “Operation Iraqi Liberty” whoops, that acronym would have bad optics!)
Time to break the oil addiction and invest in better battery tech for electric cars.
there's nothing WEIRD about this history! hahaha.
2:27
GAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYY
Iran I thought it was called Iraq?
Iraq is next door
@@331coolguy I saw that thank you
@@magicalswimmer2021 Wow just ....wow
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Made by an Iranian channel
At 0:47 they are showing indian prime minister not Iranian 🥴
Western ideal values n humanity.
The root cause for all this ........ Greed!
Same thing happened in Bangladesh in 1982 too I think. The CIA helped the Bangladesh military overthrow the democratically elected government and establish a west friendly military dictatorship.........Correct me if I am wrong though. I am Indian so have only heard the Indian perspective , which is negative mostly as the Ershad government that took over Bangladesh was hostile towards India.
It is not really weird history. It is American business as usual.
Sounds very familiar to what the US is trying to do with Maduro. The only problem is that there are enough educated people knowledgable of modern politics in the world people to know to expect the US to attempt coupes to overthrow governments.
@@EatMyShortsAU The main difference being that Maduro is a monster who's suffocating his own people, whereas the leader of Iran at the time was actually a decent human being.
@@AeneasGemini Is that is what your government and media sources is telling you?
Do they ever mention the crippling US sanctions and the drop in oil prices?
Yeah, and now it's happening internally.
Exactly😒
This isn't "weird" history, it's tragic and shameful. It's good that you're pushing awareness of America's complicity in destroying a democracy and creating its own bogeyman. Most living Americans grew up with Iran as a convenient threat to justify "patriotic" militant jingoism, from John McCain singing Bomb Iran to Trump trying to start a war after he lost the election.
I always hear how we stage Coups and taken advantage of others but never in a way as educational informative as this video. We need more
@@RandomGuy-jo8ky not what I meant 😅 but I wouldn’t mind a Chinese or Russian coup lolololol
@@RandomGuy-jo8ky troof. That’s probably why is hasn’t been tried yet. Or at least what we know
Let's be clear ! This was not so much American foreign policy, but Israeli foreign policy. Look at the name of the American foreign minister for a clue. American politics and especially their foreign policy has been driven by Zionist Jews for decades. Look at PNAC for instance to see a group of neo Conservatives headed by Pearl, Bush Wolfavic and others. Intent on removing officially elected leaders in seven middle east countries. All in the hope of destabilizing them and suplanting their leaders with pro American Israeli puppet leaders.
@@SpaceOutlaw_ You think an American coup would be better for these countries? If anything the US would turn them into ashes since they’re major super powers threatening it’s power over the world, specially China who is increasingly becoming more powerful.
Just think of the lives destroyed over the past 70 years because of this ridiculous coup. Never a thought for the future, just the treasure.
Yes, I wish we could make them pay.
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It's what the US has been about since day one overc2 centuries ago.
do a video on the US military using depleted uranium bullets.
it's illegal, but they do it.
I am not too sure about the "Illegal" part. Heaps of countries use immoral weapons like land mines, cluster munitions, white phosphorus, depleted uranium etc.
Look at recent conflicts like the Syrian War. Assad dropped barrel bombs from helicopters in to residential areas. Armenia and Azerbaijan were both accused of using cluster munitions(In which I am pretty certain BOTH sides did use since there is video evidence).
Despite the fact that most politicians are corrupt, there is still so many people that trust them wholeheartedly, without caution.
Yep! Let's go Brandon!!!
@@RandomGuy-jo8ky + I'm not sure I get your meaning there fella. I know I passed my ASVAB with damn good scores in the mechanical section. I had an opportunity to go to Embry Riddle Aeronautical university but decided to go into the oil field instead. Second worst decision I ever made.
The corruption no one is paying attention to is Israhell and AIPAC!!
@@marvinheemeyer6660the worst I made was staying in the US 80 yrs.
The lesson is leave other cultures alone. You don't have to agree you can even vehemently oppose what they do but unless they are hurting anyone besides your political interest you don't do anything. If they are hurting people send aid to the victims and do not make a relationship with them.
Really appreciate you making this video. This information is out there, but not a lot of people will go out of their way to learn about it without it being essentially spoon-fed to them, and unfortunately it's worth knowing what kind of maneuvering powerful governments are capable of when trying to promote the interests of the wealthy.
I'm so thankful that society seems to be waking up to this. On the other hand it's depressing we don't seem to know what to do to change things now we know about this kind of common corruption in western democracies.
Yup the usa school system really sugar coated out country’s history lol but tbh what super successful country doesn’t some blood on their hands
Too many people are willing to believe that “they hate us because of our freedom”. There’s always a reason, and it’s never the freedom nonsense.
@@JM1993951 freedom nonsense?! In Iran, you'd be stoned to death for saying that about them. You are the problem, freedom is and always will be the answer. I know which way you vote. Spoiled is what you are. Sad
@@JoshuaMcTackett western democracy is definitely the only place w/corruption 🙄. Corruption is everywhere bc a bunch of "smart" ppl vote for words and ignore actions. Hate rather then actually see.
We've also been meddling in South America for over 100 years!
Monroe was president right? Isn’t that what the Monroe Doctrine was about?
Operation PBSuccess is a great example! 😃👍🏿
And Africa over HUNDREDS!!
@@martell203 Yes. The idea of Latin America being USA's bitch - I mean, their own personal backyard to do as they please - was already present before James Monroe became president, though. American neocolonialism was never hidden since its inception after the independence from UK: be the only ones to subjugate Latin America so no European country could.
Yeah currently trying to get Maduro ousted. They even paid for private mercenaries to try to over the government with Operation Gideon (2020)
This is truly a lesson to never meddle in the affairs of countries that you have no business with.
No. America has the right to stop the expansion of Soviet influence as much as possible.
The US and UK do have business there. They needs the oil supply for the development of their economy and to kick soviet influence out of middle east, so this is what happened. The number 1 rule in nation building is pragmatism, not humanism, faith, or ideals.
@@КолзакМикхаылов
Where does that right come from?
@@BBWahoo the right to fight Socialism
@@КолзакМикхаылов
Lmfao, why? So they can replace it with half assed nationalism for their own corporate practices? Socialism is used as thin veil to make it OK to attack those who hold interests different from Americans. To what point will you allow that kind of meddling to happen? You have similar people accusing Russia and country in the far east of socialism and communism, and for what? More senseless fighting for American interests, to me it sounds like you don't know the tree you're barking up
They release all of these spicy documents years later, but I'm still holding out for the documents telling us what really went down at the JFK assassination.
Same!!
Spoiler alert: The Comedian from Watchmen shot JFK.
Oh man, why don't you f*ckin' stop it? Sh*t, this is too f*ckin' big for you, you know that?! Who did the president, who killed Kennedy, f*ck man! It's a mystery! It's a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma! The f*ckin' shooters don't even know! Don't you get it?!
(Please don't think I'm seriously berating you! Lol! It's from the movie JFK. Just a joke!)
well, i can tell you one thing about the assassination: he was shot in the head and he died
"The moral aspect of oil nationalization is more important than its economic aspect"
- Mohammad Mosaddegh
I haven't watched it all yet, but I'm willing to bet that is the reason for the coup right there
Wow. Very true, yet no way the US would ever respect that
BOOM! Thats why nationalism, nativism etc are so bad these days. They're bad for bussiness
What people say is very different from what they think, sometimes.
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It all went so badly, Kermit Roosevelt had to undergo full body felting and restart his life as a variety show host.
hahahahaha I would not be surprised if Kermit the Frog is inspired by him.
kermit 😂🐸
@@EatMyShortsAU lol
i wish we failed so bad..
If US didn't throw Mossadegh away and let Iran alone, Iran would be secular democratic country, one of the largest economic powerhouses in Middle East as well as South Asia which means it would be stable geopolitical situation at the same time.
Which is exactly why they didn't want that to happen.
I will not rest until you release the 1970s series
I want that too
Oh America, we really can't just mind our own goddamn business huh?
Socialism shall be burned down to hell
@@КолзакМикхаылов
that happened 100 years ago.
....when Eugene Debs was thrown in prison for speaking out against war.
an American was thrown in prison for being anti-war.
that doesn't shake you, because you are a trashy, far-right fascist.
@@donHooligan the last time I checked, debs was a fucking socialist. He is also a fucking traitor to his own country.
I hate socialism to the heart. Some of my relatives were victims of socialism. Call me right winger but it ain't making me consume socialist propaganda.
@@КолзакМикхаылов
no, they were not victims of "socialism."
the concept of caring for others has never harmed anyone you know.
a dictator is not "socialism" child.
you believe state capitalism is socialism/communism.
that is the problem....you hate the right wing so you become far right wing...as planned by the empire.
good puppet.
@@КолзакМикхаылов
how much are you getting paid to comment, fash-boy?
Self-interest is the only reason why the superpowers will do anything to remain in power.
Christ, the CIA sure has done a lot of bad in its lifetime
As an iranian I have to mention PLEASE do not let people over here that know farsi or maybe live in iran TRY to represent for the whole nation. Take into consideration that youtube is unaccessible for most Iraninans and the youtube commenters claiming they are giving perspective are an isolated ultra westernized upper middle class and richer and they have no idea what's on the mind of the majority of iranian population
CIA wants to know your location
These politics videos are so oddly addicting
I absolutely agree. I have a burning curiosity to keep delving into the secrets of Linux, but this video and videos like it, are very very distracting. Because they are very very interesting!
Karma. Russia is going to get the last laugh in all of this.
Weird History about to get Vince Foster'd
As an Iranian just wanted to add that people in my country were never invested in politics (some people still aren’t) . We are mostly poetic and artistic. Many so called educated people had/have no idea how to be political. What I’m getting at is people were steered to the “koodeta” and 1979’s Islamic revolution. By living in a middle eastern country neither you nor your country have anything to say comparing to first world countries and that’s a fact. People here are being played with. Most of the people like if not love America (even Israel) and there’s no feud in people’s eyes but government chose to play it this way for obvious purposes. I can speak for my generation and want to say we learned how to see the world as we should without believing all what schools/government or older people say. It’s the bittersweet experience of being an Iranian teen you learn way too much so early in life :).
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The corrupt elites in all governments push the hatred. Ordinary people everywhere are just trying to survive.
It’s strange learning about Russia, China, Iran and so on.
Americans are very proud and we don’t trust the government, state or even unions to act on our behalf. Letting the head of state do as he likes is unbelievable to us.
Iranians might like the american people/culture, but I wouldn't say that most iranians likes the governments of USA and Israel.
@@matthewtymczyszyn8948 It’s sad how we don’t care about history (at least i know people in Iran don’t as much as they should). History is the key to many of the misunderstandings.
Again, invaded and failed for oil
Patiently Waiting for Timeline to come back
I have pretty much watch every single 1 of your episodes but this 1 Really shocked and surprise me Where is this in our history books?
I recommend reading/listening to “The Devils Chessboard”, by David Talbot. It covered it pretty throughly, along with other CIA actions during the Cold War era.
This is exactly why I don’t blame Iran one bit for hating the U.S. The U.S brought it on themselves.
@Aroko 76 Actually, we do. And we are right to.
Imagine no coups in Guatemala Chile Iran no dictators coming into power
Iran: *Sends weapons and men to Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine*
"What? We learned from the best!"
Yh the us is a teacher in human right abuses
Yes they do,these religious mullars,hypocrisy support terrorists in the Mid East..Hizbollah🤔
Just another episode of "Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of our actions."