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Look, as much as I despise most of what Chomsky says -- his position on Ukraine is downright embarrassing -- he's the broken clock who happens to be right. US
by qsort 4y ago
Look, as much as I despise most of what Chomsky says -- his position on Ukraine is downright embarrassing -- he's the broken clock who happens to be right.
US foreign policy after the Korean War has been terrible, and Iran is the epitome of everything that's wrong with it. Iran is a country full of people of culture that could have been basically a Western country in the Middle East. It's only a dystopian religious hellhole because America went "lmao xd communism". Some of it is just basically racism: "they're arabs, they're all the same", ignoring that Iran in the 70s was on its way to become a modern society.
- googlryas 4y agoThe fundamentalists were already extremely powerful before the coup. In fact, they formed a huge base of support for Mossadegh(strange bedfellows, since he was largely secular, but whatever gets you in power right?). And before the coup, they had already broken with him. If Mossadegh remained in power, why do you think the fundamentalists would not have just performed the coup themselves, leading Iran to a fundamentalist regime just a few years earlier than they did against the Shah? I find these analyses strange, as if Iranian people lack autonomy, and are merely passive victims to the vicissitudes of Western will.