The war with Iran started in 1979.

Had Carter done his job, we aren’t dealing Iran today.

We installed the Shah in '53 because the previous guy nationalized the oil fields Britain built. The Brits basically dragged us into it.

It was a very similar situation to what Chavez did in Venezuela (kicking the oil companies out who had spent their own money building the infrastructure).

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So, to be clear, we're in a war now?

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Not according to Pete Hegseth and Mike Johnson, and we’ll lobotomize or kill you if you say otherwise:

BamaCoaster Learn history before posting.

The Shah had ruled since 1941, and his picked man led a coup against him in 1953.

That man was Mohammad Mosaddegh, who the shah picked to be Prime Minister.

Mohammad Mosaddegh then led a coup against the ruler of the country, the Shah,

The agreements of 1941 are still in place, and the Soviet Union was fixing to invade Iran due to Mohammad Mosaddegh nationalizing the oil industry.

The US, Britian and Iran (the Shah) are already in talks to change the agreement, with US siding with Iran against Britian.

The thread of the Soviet invasion is why the US helped Britian.

So is Mohammad Mosaddegh the evil person or the Shah, or Britian (a fallen Empire) or the US?

Mohammad Mosaddegh only led one faction in Iran and was not a national popular figure and he betrayed Iran and the Shah. He had no idea of the mess he started and nearly had Iran taken over by the Soviet Union.


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No it didn't. It started when we pulled a coup in 1953


But it sure is great for us to start off the day lying our asses off as usual on here

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Had Carter done his job, we aren’t dealing Iran today

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The revolution was coming at some point. The Shah was not sustainable.

That's why asking why it will be different this time when we let the "Deep State" run Iran once again is so important.

There are a lot of important dates, but one no one mentions that is important is June 5th 1963. At the time, the Shah was attempting to institute a massive reform program and Ruhollah Khomeini took the almost unprecedented step of stepping out of his clerical role, where clerics historically avoided overt political statements, to criticize the reforms and also insult the Shah directly. That led to his arrest, which caused several riots on June 5th and 6th, 1963. That set the stage for the Islamic Revolution 15 years later.

The White Revolution was an amazingly ambitious project and Iran and everywhere would have been better had the Shah succeeded.

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The Shah had ruled since 1941, and his picked man led a coup against him in 1953. That man was Mohammad Mosaddegh, who the shah picked to be Prime Minister.

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That’s simply not correct.

It was Operation Ajax, led by Kermit Roosevelt.

PBS

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While revealing new details about one of the most famed CIA operations of all times — the spiriting out of six American diplomats who escaped the 1979 U.S. Embassy seizure in Iran — the intelligence agency for the first time has acknowledged something else as well. The CIA now officially describes the 1953 coup it backed in Iran that overthrew its prime minister and cemented the rule of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi as undemocratic.

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Kicking the can down the road is how we got here.

Pallets of cash on cargo planes in the small hours of morning is how we got here.

Pretending not to know isn’t a defense.