re: #133 Justanotherhuman

You implied by saying that Moscow provided arms and other materiel to the rebels, thereby having some control over the situation and undue influence.

Our own govt actively worked to overthrow regimes they didn’t like, such as that of Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran.

Did you ever wonder how Iran might have turned out otherwise, if the Shah had not ruled as an autocrat with his dreaded SAVAK and Mossadegh, democratically elected, had stayed in place instead of being deposed through Operation Ajax? Khomeini would probably have never come to power and Iran might have evolved into a functioning democracy.

Fucking over generations of Iranians and making enemies for ourselves and Iran’s neighbors, all over the Almighty Oil.

Definitely not Eisenhower and Churchill’s finest hour, by a damn sight.