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Patricia Ryan Green's avatar

If Mohammad Mossadegh’s children are alive, they have more legitimacy of replacing the Ayatollah than the son of the U.S. and UK puppet who was put in place by the coup.

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Lenny Cavallaro's avatar

I wish there were some way to teach ignorant Americans -- MAGAts, Trumpistas, but even a fair number of so-called "liberals" -- the tragic history of the CIA coup and the Shah's brutal regime, installed not in the interest of "democracy," but rather to support the oil industry. Anyone aware of the coup and its consequences would understand why the Iranians expressed so much hostility toward Americans after the Islamic Revolution (1979). Somehow, most Americans believe they are the victims of unprovoked hostility...

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