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The US nuclear industry used to run magazine ads in US magazines in the 1970s celebrating that Iran was building nuclear power plants - https://www.globalnerdy.
by Convolutional 4y ago
The US nuclear industry used to run magazine ads in US magazines in the 1970s celebrating that Iran was building nuclear power plants - https://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/shah_shills_for_nuclear_power.jpg https://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/200... .
Some Americans don't like the influence of Iran's mullahs, but the UK and US supported the mullahs and Shah in 1953 when the secular prime Minister Mossadegh wanted to nationalize Iran's oil. The US backed the Shah and mullahs and SAVAK's brutal campaign against Iran's secular left into the 1970s. Then Iranians turned against the Shah and US imperial influence and here we are.